I do like some intellectual stimulation and will hold contrarian views just to test the waters of my own understanding or to test yours. I don’t always believe the things I say online. I want you, AND me to understand the world around us better.

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  • thantik@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlbuilt different
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    This is a great feel good phrase, but in a real world, doesn’t really hold any water. We’re a tribalistic species, and your usefulness to other people is directly related to your value as a person within the tribe. Worthless people are tossed to the side.

    Also, it’s “Your”.







  • thantik@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPSA: Twitch Shadowbans Users on VPN + Linux
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    Twitch shadowbans public VPNs due to abuse/bots. The most common method for people to get around bans is to use a VPN – now assume millions of viewers, and you’ve got an easy recipe for needing to stop that activity.

    You’re not punished for being privacy conscious; you’re being punished for being roughly in the same realm as harassers, etc.

    If you don’t want to be banned, rent a VPS and set up your own private VPN for only you. The problem is that using Nord, Windscribe, etc etc is that you’re sharing that VPN tunnel with hundreds, maybe thousands of people at a time.












  • Landlords aren’t profiting off of scarcity. They’re profiting off of having the means to do something that renters won’t: Buy a house with a 30yr mortgage, and leverage that money for something useful.

    You too can buy a house. But everyone who shits on landlords, always spits out excuses why buying a house isn’t “feasible” or would “lock them down too much”, etc etc.

    If you can buy 30k worth of tractor equipment, you can run it and make the money back you spent on it. That’s all landlords are doing - they’re buying when you won’t (not can’t…won’t) and then selling it back to you in trade for your “economic freedom” to move every 1-2 years and bitch about it.

    Then we have the whole “fuckcars” movement, who wants everyone crammed into a shared-wall sardine can and nobody to own a house of their own ever; for the sake of population density so they can bike everywhere.