i think the key is to have a certain balance. Stay positive in certain aspects of your life activities, have principles and interests. Be true to them. Cherish those that mean a lot to you and appreciate them everyday.

But to quote a rage against the machine lyric “if ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face”

so those scam popups that scare people by saying their webcam was hacked and took pictures of them while looking at porn is getting state sanction!

I don’t think many even know what a communist is or what communism is about. it just makes them feel upset when they hear the word because of constant corporate mass media conditioning.

If in the future i’m ever forced to drop smart phones because of further proprietary/removal of open source option then i’m definitely going this route.

have a dumb phone and just rely on a good laptop.

On second thought… maybe this is the way.

being overworked is bs and shit. on the other hand I rather have work/tasks that I can do well and gets me engaged and is not boring than be given boring BS jobs and tasks.

ah yes the basic ‘but arabs rejected the partition!’ argument?

is this similar to the terrible ‘all palestinians are just arabs’ angle so they should just just leave and give it to colonial settlers, just because?

Using rsync in a bash script to backup my files.

I have no idea but hopefully the ‘Proprietary’ branch of human technology is discontinued.

Not OP but Detroit picture is in Edward Burtynsky’s ‘Oil’ photograph collection: https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/oil