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Knowing them and their political affiliations, they likely would have refused to get the shot regardless. To them it was nothing worse than the flu and everyone was overreacting.

I can see the "Задание выполнено" banners now

I prefer the tactic "I signed a non-disclosure agreement" - I can't talk about it because of that NDA

Ever heard of Molten salt reactors? They're much safer than traditional reactors in many ways

Back in 2019 I was having a campfire in my backyard with some friends including a retired couple in their late 60's. He had just retired from IBM. We got on the subject of climate change and how terrible it will be for future generations.

"I mean, not like it's going to affect us" he said as they both chuckled uttering that classic line (my wife nor I could believe they said it out loud).

Fast forward a year. He caught Covid from one of their out of state friends who stayed with them for a weekend. And guess who caught covid. He died December 30th 2020 from a disease he very much could have prevented. The irony was undeniable, as he succumbed to Covid-19, a cruel twist of fate potentially amplified by the very climate change he dismissed

Yeah I think that's the key piece most people are really missing.

They've lost their reputation. Their actions over the past few weeks have soured at least a portion of their most die-hard users who generate the content for the site.

I myself was an avid user visiting daily and contributing/helping newbies multiple times a day answering the same questions and guiding them in the right direction. That all stopped - I haven't been on the site since the blackout started. I even blocked reddit at the router level so I don't accidentally visit the site.

I've since found two other social media platforms (kbin social and squabbles) to scratch my itch for social interactions. I won't miss reddit - it's not the old reddit it used to be a decade ago.

Maybe when the dust settles I'll return to lurk reddit and laugh at the sh!t show it's become, but I won't return in the capacity I did before

Except more than once recently he's been caught in a lie about the developers of Apollo and RIF and his communications with them. He's not honest and he's proven that multiple times

Yeah, that's the whole secret - just keep active to keep the groups and threads interesting

Lol yeah I've been avoiding paid software for a while - and I agree, Photopea is awesome, I've been switching over to that as well. I've purposely stuck with open source alternatives for years, including for my CAD and 3D modelling needs. And I've toyed with the live-DVD of LinuxMint a few months back and it's a slick looking OS. Once windows pisses me off enough, I'll go dual-boot and default to linux mint

My Windows10 start menu broke when they added news & interests to the taskbar - typing to find an app stopped working and I could never fix it.

Finally I installed open-shell menu which replaces my start menu and restores it back to a more classic start menu with the ability to find apps by typing.

I'm honestly getting tired of Windows and all of my productivity apps are available for linux these days so I don't know why I'm still running it aside from convenience. Once it's no longer convenient, off I go to another platform. If only Spez from Reddit would get that concept.

I miss the internet before iphones existed - 2008 seems to be a delineation when suddenly any idiot could easily access the "internet". Before that the net was a different place