I can't answer this without a clarification of what you mean by dangerous. Are illegal drugs presumed to be more dangerous because of the substances themselves or because of the dangers imposed on users by law enforcement? Statistically speaking, alcohol is the most lethal drug on this list. Why are synthetic opioids grouped in two different categories depending on whether or not they're prescribed? A lot of unexamined biases showing up here.
The closest I've ever been to unfixable injury from a drug was on a psychedelic, so that's the one I'm marking as most dangerous. Statistically alcohol is pretty lethal to the average person, but I've never used it in a way that put me in any significant danger.
COVID shots were given away for free because they saved lives other than the life of the customer and the life of the seller. It was a textbook Pigouvian subsidy for behavior with positive externalities. The same sort of argument would support government funded sick leave (if you stay home when sick you won't infect other people) but not government funded insulin (nobody will catch your untreated diabetes from spending time near you).
I'm for socialized healthcare in general, but socialized infection prevention measures ought to appeal even to people who love neoclassical economics a lot more than I do.
an author was just found guilty of child abuse for writing a fictional book about age play and will be sentenced in april.
if you agree with this, youâre agreeing and siding with fascism. there is literal no other way to put it. itâs not about your moral fucking code or your own feelings towards the content. people are being persecuted for fucking FICTIONAL books.
This is why it's so important to clearly distinguish actual recordings of the sexual abuse of physically existing children from the broader category of erotic material about kids.
The thing that's bad is hurting an actual human child. Using the excuse of that to criminalize other stuff you think is gross and evil and weird but which is not actually harmful to any actual human is profoundly illiberal and positively regressive for the actual defense of actual children.
I can see a decent argument for criminalizing very convincing imitations of recorded child abuse, based on similar reasoning to why California tried to criminalize selling Alligator mississippiensis leather (until the law got struck down in Federal court) under a state Endangered Species Act even though A. mississippiensis isn't endangered. California thought there shouldn't be a market for the products of killing endangered crocodiles and A. sinensis. But it also recognized that a police officer usually can't tell at a glance which species of crocodilian a piece of leather came from. So to eliminate any market for killing endangered crocodilian species, California thought the best method was banning all crocodilian leather, whether or not it's from an endangered species.
So the argument would be that we should ban photorealistic AI fake videos that look like they record child abuse because if a cop sees what seems to be a recording of child abuse on someone's phone we want them to act on it promptly rather than waiting to figure out whether it's real or fake. That's not to say that a free society should ever have laws against harmless obscenity on the basis of "gross and evil and weird." But sometimes the best way to prevent harm involves casting a net of criminalization slightly wider than the actually harmful conduct it's trying to stop.
TL;DR: Australia is clearly in the wrong here, but I think you may have slightly overstated the case against it.
I just discovered that there was a person who was afab and ended up joining the russian army by the name of Alexander Durov in 1806.
Born a woman, Nadezhda Durova (birth name) ran away from home and joined a light cavallery regiment dressed as a man.
After his identity was uncovered, the russian tsar summoned him to the palace at St. Petersburg, where he impressed the tsar so much that he awarded Durov the Cross of St. George and promoted him to lieutenant in a hussar unit.
He always referred to himself as a man and was upset when people called him a woman.
He signed letters with his male last name.
He expressed feelings of disgust towards his sex and how that worried him a lot.
He never married willingly and adopted many dogs and cats.
He only danced with women when attending a ball.
He asked to be buried under his male name Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov but the church did not agree to that.
I never saw him in "historical transmasculine people" compilations and only discovered his story coincidentally.
Unfortunately, historians still adress him with female pronouns, although he did not want that.
Let's remember him together. We won't allow him to be forgotten.
I'll probably add onto this post later or make a better one but you can read a lot on this wikipedia article:
god the poor man. being more or less "out" to many people during his lifetime got him misgendered almost constantly, he made his feelings on the matter clear...and scholars still won't stop doing it
Aleksandrov was irate, writing to Pushkin âthe name which you called me [his deadname], dear sir Aleksandr Sergeevich, in the preface haunts me! Is there no remedy for my grief? You called me by that name that makes me shudder, and soon 20,000 people will read it and call me by it too!â
pronouns and name expressed in life are the person's correct pronouns and name! respect them!
Because if you try to save the habitable planet we live on using terraforming techniques rather than environmentalism, it's called geoengineering, and everyone already knows all the terraforming enthusiasts are willing to try geoengineering. But the environmentalists aren't willing to sign on for geoengineering because it could cause environmental disruption, and the billionaire terraforming enthusiasts won't sign on for any environmentalism that impedes what they want to do, so we end up doing approximately nothing.
âGeneral Organa Solo! Admiral! I â thereâs something you need to know!â
âWhat is it?â Leia replied, frowning for a moment at the Duros in front of her. âYaral, correct?â
âYes, General,â Yaral confirmed. âGeneral, Iâve been going over the implications of the operation that took place on Starkiller Base, and⊠I think Iâve got it.â
â...got what?â Holdo asked. âYouâre not making sense.â
âI â ah, sorry,â Yaral mumbled, and put down his datapad. âItâs⊠so, ah, one of the extant problems in Hyperspace theoretics for the last several decades at least is that we canât predict what routes will work and what routes wonât. It should be a settled science, but the fact that it only semi-reliably produced results matching empirical observations is a major clue that what weâre working with is actually an approximation⊠and not a good one. Thereâs plenty of models that were supposed to solve this, but none of them were⊠ah⊠they didnât properly allow for the psuedovelocity-hypervelocity transition, for example, or they produced results that seemed to indicate that actual hyperspace travel was impossible, or they werenât reliable with results.â
âIs this important?â Leia asked. âI mean you no insult, Yaral, but we are currently being pursued by a First Order ship capable of tracking us through-â
She stopped.
â...is that relevant to this?â she asked.
âIt might be,â Yaral said. âAt least â it might be if theyâve got a general solution to hyperspatial field theory, if itâs the same as â so, Iâve been working from the way that the Millennium Falcon jumped under the Starkiller Base shield. That indicates that the former understandings about mass shadows were not correct and could not be correct, and that gave me a hint so I tried using a different model on the way that mass impacts hyperspace. Specifically, itâs not the mass itself that impacts hyperspace, itâs the energy of the gravity that impacts hyperspace. The very energy bound up in the gravitational field, the, the warped space time is what is causing the impact, and normally thatâs essentially the same but it becomes different under certain circumstances. Frame dragging around black holes, especially multiple black holes, is one of the places where it becomes particularly noticeable, but itâs not the only one â and Starkiller Base was suppressing the mass that it contained as it charged up, which changed the calculations!â
The duros sounded terribly excited, and he flicked through several pages of notes. âAnd this results in â it all falls out of equations from the seven-fifties, one of the old models that was rejected for improper agreement with evidence, but if I plug in the new corrections then it fits all known observations. And the effect of firing a large bolus of energy through hyperspace has the same impact!â
He showed them the next page. âSee?â
Admiral Holdo and General Organa Solo exchanged glances.
â...we⊠donât have qualifications in theoretical hypermetrics,â Holdo said. âWhat are we looking at, exactly?â
âThis is what happens if you fire a large beam of pure energy through hyperspace,â Yaral explained. âSee this term here? Because the pure energy beam has energy, and that energy is the same kind of mass-energy that impacts hyperspace, then in addition to exiting hyperspace at the target location it suffers superluminal bleed â the normal scattering that you get with light moving through a medium, it still happens, only the light moves outwards at faster than light speeds. Thatâs why the beam could be seen while it was in transit!â
His voice was full of passion. âYou see? This must be correct, because it exactly replicated observations I wasnât even trying to explain. Itâs the grand unified theory of hypermetrics!â
âMarvellous,â Holdo said, sounding slightly frustrated. âBut what does this mean on a practical level? What can we do with it?â
Yaral looked at his notes, then at Admiral Holdo.
Then back at his notes.
â...well, this means that itâs possible to predict the exact moment at which the superluminal transition takes place,â he said. âAnd, in fact, to demonstrate that the hyper velocity generated by the hyperdrive does not have to take place only after transition. It would in fact be possible to tune a hyperdrive so that it makes a very good approximation of hitting lightspeed while still in normal space, though the downside is that the whole ship would be converted to an energy packet in so doing while still in normal space instead of tachyonic space. It would completely destroy the ship if it hit anything, and itâd make a mess of whatever it hitâŠâ
He flicked forwards another page. âAnd it would make it possible to hit hyperspace anywhere! Without restriction, in fact â once the calibrations were done to more correctly align a hyper envelope with the energy structure of the ship, you wouldnât even need to take off. You could jump to hyperspace while standing on the ground.â
âAnd tracking through hyperspace?â Leia asked.
â...possibly, butâŠâ Yaral said, flicking back, then tapped out a few more calculations.
âI think I can see how theyâre doing it,â he said, eventually. âItâs something about the energy signature of a specific ship, theyâre tracking the vector and energy levels on hyperspace transition and they can then simply follow it until it stops. But thatâs a branch conclusion of the theory, it doesnât require the full unified theory.â
Holdo nodded.
âThank you,â she said, catching Leiaâs eye. âGeneral. This is our answer â we retune the hyperdrive of the Raddus to do that superluminal transition in realspace. Iâll stay on board to drive it in, but the rest of you need to evacuate to transports⊠thereâs a world not far away. We can get in range of it, then everyone else evacuates and I ram the Raddus right down Snokeâs throat.â
âYouâd die,â Leia pointed out, which was an understatement.
âI did not join the Resistance because it was safe, General,â Holdo replied. âAnd we need to get Yaralâs knowledge off this ship and to the New Republic. We need the Resistance to survive. That is the highest priority.â
As noted in other reblogs, it really doesn't fucking matter, bc Whisper (the most common note-taking AI in medical spaces) is prone to the exact same massive hallucinations as ChatGPT, and we genuinely don't know where the data goes, bc it's all black-box shit.
Yes they're different companies.
They have the exact same problems, and if you give a fuck about your privacy, you really should not let them touch your medical records.
The sad thing is that I've met doctors who reason at a level comparable to AI. They'll imagine that I said something I didn't say but that shares some words with what I said and would make sense for me to say in context. It'll be difficult to get them to reason about certain topics without using the right keywords to bring up the subject. And there's a simple endocrinology question several doctors have gotten wrong at me that ChatGPT gets right.
There's all these news stories about LLMs being better at (some cognitive task) than humans that seem implausible when you've seen the mistakes LLMs make. And then you meet the humans who should be outperforming LLMs and the news stories start to seem plausible again. Man, people suck. Experts should be way better than a random autistic person with a decent education who's watched a few relevant youtube videos.
The privacy stuff is still concerning. I'd rather give my personal information to a person who could face consequences for misconduct than to Someone Else's Computer (which can never be held accountable), if they're both going to do mediocre reasoning.
Does anyone else notice how the word "unaltered" is doing a lot of heavy lifting? Anabolic steroids lower testosterone and improve athletic performance. If you meet a cis man with no LH or FSH to speak of, less testosterone than a typical healthy woman, no HDL-C, no symptoms of hypogonadism, and large amounts of muscle, you can safely infer that he is now or was recently on testosterone-mimicking PEDs that don't show up on your testosterone test. And that's the case whether or not he admits to the killjoys at WADA and the local police department that he altered his testosterone level.
Elite athlete with all the biomarkers of cheating at sports claims not to have cheated at sports. News at 11.
You don't have to pretend you don't know doping exists. We can all see that kicking a few unlucky women out of women's sports is a bad policy, and you don't have to trick us into agreeing.
That sounds kinda like an experience I've had a number of times. I'll be thinking about two things, and then something disrupts my thought process (e.g., nearly fall asleep, stand up too fast, experience a drug effect, ...), and I'll find myself concentrating on a thought composed of random pieces of both precursor thoughts mashed up into one mass. And it seems normal for a second or two, until I try to reason based on it and the pieces fall apart at the seams.
So for example:
thinking about a story with betrayal in it
also thinking about what ice cream to get at the store
stand up too fast and get lightheaded and momentarily lose track of what I was doing
find myself thinking about how ice cream will respond to betrayal
a few seconds later, the thought falls apart at the seams and I'm left thinking WTF was that
Or is this the object personification "my teddy bear will be sad that I didn't play with it" thing? IMO that's not nearly spicy enough to deserve talking about "deeper insanities."
"a sufficient degree of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" sounds a lot nicer than "if you're enough of a failure it makes you a bad person"
It sounds nicer because it means something different. Notice how the saying isn't "a sufficient degree of incompetence implies malice" or "a sufficient degree of incompetence transforms into malice."
What it's saying is that if you had a competent bad person strategically pretending to be a failure to avoid blame for their misconduct, they'd look exactly like a failure. If someone causes you problems and says "oops" you can't tell whether they meant to cause you problems or not, because bad people and failures can both say "oops."
See also: ethidium bromide and the alternatives to it
Ethidium bromide is a dye that sticks to DNA and then turns orange. Scientists use it to help them see where DNA is. A bunch of people are nervous about using it because it might be mutagenic in living animals, even though it doesn't mutate bacteria in a dish. So instead they use supposedly safe alternatives that actually do mutate bacteria in a dish.
children heed my warning. one day your bodyâs check engine light will come on and demand that you start eating so many vegetables and whole grains. do not ignore it.
I want to explain this a bit more since 'health' and 'biology' are loosely speaking, special interests of mine and also what I went to school for.
People SAY that your health 'suddenly' starts to decline in your 30s but that's not really a good way to put it A) bc that's not really accurate and B) bc it frames this decline as something inherent and unavoidable, which does nothing to convince you that you have some agency about this.
So I'm going to explain this in LOOSE NON-SCIENTIFIC language:
When you are an infant or child, you are actively growing. Nature is throwing tons of new cells into you bc your body needs to BUILD BUILD BUILD. What you're able to do, eat and heal from is all largely dictated by this-- for example little kids often LOVE sweet foods or dairy-like foods and are relatively less interested in anything else. This is bc their body is running on HIGH all the time since building body parts is very energetically intensive. They can eat a fistful of sugarcubes and burn them off in an hour. Ask me how I know.
When you are a YOUNG ADULT you are actually still developing to a secondary extent, but your bones and such are fused and now that development goes into solidifying the structure and also finetuning its reproductive capabilities and features-- these, too, are HIGHLY energy consumptive when they first come online. Nature is STILL, thus, throwing tons of energy and new cells your way hoping you'll do something cool with them. You regenerate very quickly, and recover from harm rapidly-- But please note: swift recovery from harm is not absence of harm. This most relates to the consumption of 'junk food' and alcohol-- many people say they could 'eat whatever they wanted and nothing would happen' when they're in their 20s or that they could go out drinking and 'not be affected'. You were affected. You didn't notice.
Once everything has come online you go into maintenance mode. Nature stops throwing excess cells and energy your way bc you don't need that-- your body is yours and you are now responsible for maintaining it...hopefully with what you learned by experience in your 20s. IF YOU WERE NOT PAYING ATTENTION, you did not learn this, and are in for a surprise in your 30s bc your 'free recovery' subscription has ended. Recovery and maintenance- processes that are constant in the human body- now cost MINERALS & ELECTRICITY. You can go into DEBT now, and that debt will come in the form of joints that pop, inability to recover well, lowered immune function, and feeling like shit.
This debt accrues interest RAPIDLY once you hit 36-- the age of around 36 to 46 or so is a kind of reckoning stage where Nature assesses how well you've managed your body and you will be SWIFTLY downgraded if the result is you were just winging it.
So how do you build this account? 2 main things ( LOOSELY SPEAKING this is so not 100% scientific but I have to be general here): MINERALS -- you get these from eating well, mostly. You might want to take supplements based on your unique needs. But you need Minerals & Vitamins (i'm lumping these two together) bc they are the chemical building blocks (currency) your body uses to rebuild and fix up cells. ELECTRICITY is- again loosely speaking- having the proper chemical voltage throughout your body. This 'voltage' drops when you don't move enough, or when you're dehydrated. The building and repairing process your body wants to do may have the materials (minerals and vitamins) but there's not enough power in the factory, or the AC isn't working and the workers are overheating and can't work well. To fix this, drink lots of water and MOVE AND STRETCH your body. The action within your muscles and bones GENERATES ENERGY and it keeps your cells happy.
So the thing is, it's not that you suddenly find yourself taking damage after 30+. You were taking damage the whole time. You're just kept from really feeling it bc you're young and full of extra juice and given time to figure things out.
But at some point Nature expects you to do that, and you will pay if you don't.
Best to start out giving a shit, even if none of your friends think you're cool, even if you get called a 'health nut' bc you will still be able to frolick at 45, 50, probably so on while everyone who said it was dumb to have 'balanced meals' shares memes about how they wake up feeling like shit every day.
Sidenote don't let our shitty fatphobic society obscure the fact that it's okay to care about what you eat. Counting calories or being preoccupied with physical perfection is a sad way to relate to your body BUT that doesn't mean that paying attention to your diet AT ALL is bad. Baby, bath water, etc.
Btw, this also goes for things like ergonomics. You may have never needed good sitting posture, or lumbar support, or proper typing technique, or a monitor riser, or good shoe insoles, or... but the thing is, you did, though. You were taking damage the whole time, you were just healing so fast that you didn't notice. Back problems and repetitive strain injuries aren't inevitable in your 30s â but they're pretty inevitable if you go on treating your body as badly as you could get away with treating it in your 20s.
You know the "throwing tons of energy and new cells your way hoping you'll do something cool with them" thing? That's HGH. If you've ever wondered what athletes are doing with HGH when they use it to cheat at sports, they're using it to extend their rapid recovery subscription beyond childhood and young adulthood. It'll burn your life force as fuel if you use too much, and it'll make any cancer you have worse, and it'll worsen your insulin sensitivity, so fuck around and find out. But that's what that is.
Things that probably don't boost your immune system but are still worth getting:
Covid-19 vaccine
Hepatitis B vaccine
IPV vaccine
most vaccines, actually
If you get a live-attenuated vaccine it can actually boost your innate immune system so it works better against unrelated diseases for a while. For example, kids who've had OPV have less childhood mortality than unvaccinated kids in the same community even when you subtract out the polio deaths. It's called trained immunity and it's really cool. But otherwise vaccines are more like a lesson or practice session than a boost.
The idea that air conditioning is decadent while heating is normal is one of the most common and interesting instances of the "appeal to tradition" fallacy
In "Nudge" Sunstein and Thaler called for a privatization of marriage. Get government's nose out of people's personal lives, and let people define marriage however they please. If the government needs to do something marriage-like, it should use a term without all the cultural and religious significance, like "civil union." Why not privatize gender in the same way?
You canât just tell people to âget a VPN (Virtual Private Network)â. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. Itâs very very important. Having no VPN or having a âwrongâ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect.Â
Letâs start with a simple test.
Click this link here:Â https://whatismyipaddress.com/
It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, itâs just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!
So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesnât support the open internet. Itâs scary but maybe in the future you canât get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on âhow to deal with depressionâ or anythings else thatâs supposed to be private because itâs your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. Youâre dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?
A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can âcrack the codeâ and damage your privacy.Â
Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer â-> ISP (ââ> keeps data ââ> sells it)
But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer ââ> VPN (encrypts data)ââ> ISP (ISP canât see shit)
Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want). Â
Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey. The ISP  still canât see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US.Â
I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers donât buy false security.
There is still more danger!Â
Who says your VPN provider isnât selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesnât keep logs
More about lawÂ
The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):Â Â
The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)
There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better).Â
You donât want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries.Â
If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country thatâs part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isnât part of any program!Â
I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now itâs time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the âwrongâ FB-page. Â
Go to this website:Â https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/
Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging.Â
I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright.Â
Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also, Â there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)
Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called âThe Bestâ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)
This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.
EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research!Â
I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of itâs most important features. It protects you when you are using someone elseâs Wi-Fi.
If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it.Â
Wait, whatâs going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Whereâs the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?
He hasnât yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.
@elvesfromthedeepâ just brought the current situation in the US to my attention (March 30, 2017).Â
Sources
Anger as US internet privacy law scrappedÂ
Congress just voted to let internet providers sell your browsing historyÂ
To all my friends in the US, please read this entire post. Making everyone aware of VPNs is going to be my mission. Your privacy matters. Please reblog this post.
Donât tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Donât you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! âAmerica, the best FREE country in the worldâ my ass.
With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do.
You are going to read the whole thing and before you think âthis is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-â NO! Donât reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see âdifficultâ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that.
VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally canât or you could start Netflixâs one month free trial over and over again- forever. And itâs legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,)
Donât tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isnât going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it. Donât let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.
Privacy is not a privilege, itâs a fundamental human right
Hey is thatoneprivacysite still good? The link works and it does take me to an article about vpns, but it just looks like an ad for expressvpn with extra steps.
I had Trust.Zone when this post first started making the rounds on Tumblr and I forgot about it after Biden took office. I recently sent them an email asking why my subscription wasnât automatically renewed and why their website hasnât changed since 2017(?). Their answer:
Shady people, good people, this company only cares about privacy and doesnât care who it serves. But now with Trump and Musk this is the only VPN Iâll use.
I understand some people might not want to use this VPN on moral grounds, but itâs genuinely one of the very few VPNs set up in a way that no authority can touch you. ExpressVPN and other âpopularâ options operate in jurisdictions favorable for profits but their privacy is just a band-aid our government can easily rip off if it demands information. Iâm a trans man, Iâm afraid of our government, and at this point, I simply donât care anymore.
For a second I was like noooooo, not this long post again! Havenât seen it in years and I always thought it was a bit extreme and exaggerated. Now that we are in 2025, I am like, nahh, these people knew what they were talking about all along. First time I am reblogging this.
The argument against VPNs has always been, âbut I have nothing to hide.â Now that an unpredictable lunatic is in charge, purging based on whatever whim strikes him, that sentiment is quickly fading. VPNs arenât just about hiding personal secrets; theyâre about protecting freedom, autonomy, and your basic right to live without unjust scrutiny or arbitrary persecution.
If you aren't deliberately weakening the security of your web browser and the sites you're interacting with are competently run, your ISP can't read your passwords, religion, etc. in transit. Of course any website can sell the information you tell them, including to your ISP. But a VPN won't stop you from spilling every one of the beans to every shady shady website on the internet if you so desire.
This'd be a cool idea for a fantasy setting. If your culture wants access to more gods, you gotta have babies and then not teach them the dominant religion for a while, and once they can speak they can tell you the correct rituals to worship some gods you didn't know about before.
