this sub is about conspiracies?

well while that's true for the default setup one can use a number of methods to avoid this

1. run your own dns resolver and only query the tld root servers

2. use DNS over HTTPS from providers like Cloudflare

3. use DNS via TLS from providers like Cloudflare

4. Use a VPN provider for your DNS queries e.g. ProtonVPN DNS

5. Use Tor

6. Use Tailscale

7. Use a VPN provider

or it was the only thing he didn't sign

As you know blockchain is not anonymous, every transaction is traced and present forever.

When you wallet is tied to you, not only your transactions but who you transacted with.

CBDC is the totalitarian dream. "No, you can't transact with that wallet"

They care so much they couldn't even be bothered to come up with 140 chracters of their own.

Just turn the water hoses on them, how hard could it be.

24 more hours

crisis or crash - weird

prices are set by the buyer, not the seller

OK, I've done DMT (and other psychedelics) and would say it is not an "insight to reality medication".

actual influenza is rarely disgnosed

it is estimated from hospitalizations from pneumonia, among other metrics

https://www.ispor.org/docs/default-source/intl2024/ispor24parkeph101poster135189-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=796e1cd3_0

Enshittiification is not about software quality, and neither are dark patterns - that is anti-user product design and requires skilled practitioners.

I guess you are young and/or don't hang out in the right places to hear.

All software sucks. Some software sucks less.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/

http://suckless.org/sucks/

Except you only really start to appreciate the limit once it starts to squeeze.

text regurgitation program regurgitates text it was given

film at 11

people never seem to have read Utopia

see: The Seven Basic Plots

predicted by who?

Hillary Clinton was the US face on the Eastern Front

Grifter #1 in fact

sounds like model trains from the time before computers

or wargaming on a tabletop

or a myriad of other pre-internet hobbies

you'd think he might have mentioned it while people spent years in jil

When I encountered them at Uni the Chinese were lazy copiers and cheats (along with the Saudis / Qataris) and the Indians learned by rote and were devoid of creativity.

When I lived in India it was filth and stupidity. Reading the newspaper was a daily round astonishment.

and how is being Japanese working out?

now the economy is picking up they are being pressured to take jeets and nogs which they managed to resist for decades

now they do, not in the 90s