EMPRESS the batshit insane DRM cracker ?
TheCaconym
joined 5 years ago
Chrome is now - and has been for a while - actively a threat towards its users (on top of being one towards the web itself). Here is a recent list of hostile moves, for example.
In terms of threat towards users Windows 10/11 is even worse, by a large margin - it actively and very aggressively spies on you.
Use firefox and switch to Linux (I suggest Debian), comrade 
It's indeed pretty long; there's an audio version at the top you can listen in as an alternative
Mind you it's real doomer content; not reading it all in one go might actually be a good idea
This is the result of their expectations being much higher due to the nazi child-in-command sending five-figures payouts to some of the most insanely racist, transphobic and antisemitic accounts on his awful platform and encouraging those recipients (which included the rapist Tate IIRC) to widely publish how much they received
lmao, he did that then posted about it online afterwards, but before getting shot
Said he "thought he had a way through bullet proof glass" (presumably the nail gun), amazing
I'm not the author though I came to the same conclusions as him after years of reading climate publications (I might not be as absolute in terms of timeline, mind you).
He has also posted this follow-up article.
Smuggling Korean pine nuts into Russia might now result in 12 years in prison
Smuggling Korean pine nuts out of Russia, not in; it also sounds like a very good thing:
...that they also form an important food base for animals in the region. The governor noted that at the top of the local food chain sits the endangered Amur tiger species. According to Kozhemyako, the volume of pine nuts harvested in the region is consistently close to the limits of its cedar forests. He pointed out that due to gaps in the current legislation, the forests are subjected to virtually uncontrolled industrial harvesting. Additionally, those collecting the nuts often do so using “predatory methods” without waiting for the cones to properly ripen, and often cause damage to the crowns and trunks of trees while harvesting.
Imaginary Property in general
Learning sign language sounds pretty cool but I'd be afraid to lose it even faster than an unused spoken-language if not actively using it
Also you'd be able to communicate semi-secretly like a fucking Bene Gesserit so there is also that incentive
None of us here are likely to "retire" anyway as climate-change-induced agricultural yields collapse will in turn destroy our modern societies before that
Are foreign languages classes in general not mandatory in US schools ?
Here in 
every kid will have classes for at least two languages (one for four years, one for two IIRC), sometimes three. Depending on where they go to school the kids will sometimes have a lot of choices (Chinese, Polish, regional languages, etc.) or sometimes only either English, Italian, German, or Spanish.
The name is cool but the Tessier-Ashpool were bourgeois pigs