This is anecdotal but, I used to know somebody with schizophrenia. This person regularly took care of their teeth but had pretty bad dental problems. Lots of cavities and gum disease and such. Apparently they were even told by a dentist at one point they just had 'bad bacteria' in their mouth and would likely have tooth problems for the rest of their life.
There's always going to be tradeoffs when you're dealing with online anonymity.
On the far anonymous end you've got 4Chan style anonymity, no permanent or any ID at all. Keeping track of individual people is nearly impossible. Conversations are chaotic and hard to follow. Pretty solid privacy.
I guess the next step up would be per conversation/thread/group whatever ID, you trade a small amount of privacy for improved conversation, privacy is still pretty good, a poor choice in username or username reuse could prove to be privacy risks.
I guess next up from that would be something like forum style usernames, like hn or reddit where it's persistent across the entire platform, but still doesn't have to be linked to anything permanent or 'real'. It increases the privacy risk again because now, your conversation history can be tracked across time. This does make it easier for more permanent connections to be made between users but does make it easier for sensitive details to be leaked depending on the user's behaviour.
Up from there you start getting into IDs that are linked to real world information about a user. This provides some pretty obvious privacy risks.
Ids linked to phone numbers are a strange case of trying to take an ephemeral ID that in todays world can change quite regularly and use it as a source of info for an ID based on real world information.
I really love the world of reggae and dancehall. The way riddims are covered and updated and repurposed and remade over and over in different styles by different artists.
It feels natural and organic. Human creativity building on and growing what came before.
Most electric hand tools are usually available for cheaper in a corded variety. The only electric hand tool I haven't seen come corded are impact drivers and most impact drivers I've used will last a day or two using it 8 hours a day even off a 2aH battery.
For me, I like air powered tools because of their power and reliability. They'll almost always have more torque and power than similar electric tools.
So basically "Why it's ok and you should be happy about Microsoft's hardware controlling the software on your PC".
I'm so unbelievably sick of this 'security by corporation, it's what's best for you so accept it bullshit.' I really am.
No I don't want proprietary internet enabled hardware on my PC monitoring my software, no it does not make me feel safe and secure, actually, go fuck yourself and whatever marketing bullshit you spew to make this desirable for consumers. I'm honestly so fucking done with this kind of shit.
I worked with bats years ago. I remember when I went for my pre-exposure rabies shots, the nurse who gave me the shots was very concerned about the work I was going into. Apparently, her first ever patient was a man who ended up dying of rabies. A bat had flown into his tent while he was camping somewhere up north and landed on his head. He had a small bite but never went into the doctors or anything until the rabies symptoms started. By the time he went in to get checked out, it was too late, he ended up dying slowly over a month.
Even the pre-exposure rabies shots are only good for a year or two, at least when I got them. If I'd continued working with bats I would have needed yearly titer shots just to keep my immunity up enough to be safe around bats.
The problem with bats and rabies is, bats can be carriers without showing any symptoms until they're near death. The only way to know for sure if a bat that bites you has rabies or not is to take it in to be tested.
This hit me the other day. I dropped my phone and smashed both the screen and display making it essentially unusable. I needed to get into my email. I had no WiFi but I had access to an older phone with data. Tried to sign in on the other phone. It said I needed to confirm the login on my device, I obviously could not, it gave me an option saying 'can't access phone' so I clicked it, it took me to a page saying too bad sorry no signing in for you and that was it, I was locked out of email until I bought a new phone and set it up.
Why would something people find fun enough to do as a hobby now not have been fun 500 years ago?
Compare it to say a modern profession like software engineering. Despite it being work, there's plenty of programmers who also enjoy programming and do it for fun on their own time as well as work.
>Music and dance
Music and dance is as old as humanity itself.
The peasantry could not afford to pay professional musicians but plenty of people knew how to dance and sing and enough people knew how to play instruments to have a jolly good time.
Occasionally, actors might come to town and put on plays and dramas.
>Decorative Arts
Decorative arts were applied to clothing, housing, religiously symbolic objects, etc.
Embroidery, pottery, basket weaving, carpentry, leatherwork and woodcarving were common skills, often with division of labor by sex.
>Sports
Sports, including martial arts were also practiced commonly.
There were many medieval tournaments allowing people to compete and demonstrate their physical skill in sports like running, log-tossing, or stick-fighting.
There were also team events such as kicking a stuffed leather ball.
>seems to be a broad generalization trying to say we should at least consider any nutjob theory to be legitimate. Lizard people? Flat earth? GTFO!
This issue is something that seems odd to me. Why are blatantly ridiculous theories lumped in with things that have some possibility of truth under one big 'conspiracy theory' label? Things like flat earth and lizard people are so obviously ridiculous yet the media seems to treat theories like that the same as theories that question government or corporate motives or other such things as equivalent.
And those hosts often are not using up to date packages and don't even have up to date security fixes at times.
I recently moved a wordpress site I was working on from a local dev setup onto a live bluehost server and was immediately hit with a bunch of out of date package warnings. As the customer was using some cheap shared hosting service, there wasn't much I could really do about it.
Every piece of IKEA furniture I've owned has collapsed or fallen apart within 5 years. I've got an old coffee table I carried in on a skateboard when I was like 13 or something that I found during spring cleanup. It's solid and made of real wood. It's been going strong for 20 years now of heavy use and who knows how long it was used before I got it. I can see it lasting another 20 years easily.
I understand the firearm issue is a touchy subject, especially in America. I've always been taught to understand a firearm is a tool, an especially dangerous one designed to kill things. Unless you're target shooting or something, if you pull a gun out and point it at something your intentions are to kill whatever you're pointing that gun at.
It's not something that should be taken lightly and it's not something you should do unless it's a last resort.
That being said, i went through the firearms safety courses and did all the necessary steps to be able to acquire a firearm here, it was through school, there was a chance we'd be working in remote areas with grizzlies and cougars, in many cases a firearm would have been necessary for protection. I chose not to get the license because there was not a situation where I'd need it.
I've met many gun owners in my life. Most of them were quite responsible and understood exactly what the consequences of wielding a firearm is.
Then there's those people who acquired them illegally who had zero regard for any safety when it came to their firearms and used them irresponsibly. I won't be around those people if they have their gun around.
As far as the protection aspect goes, if you live in a relatively stable country and area in the country low on things like home invasion and crime, sure it's probably not necessary.
Then, there's places like some areas in south Africa, where someone I know's brother lives in a fortified compound with automated machine gun turrets and guns stashed in every drawer because when the thieves come, they'll show up in a group armed with automatic rifles, cut your phone lines, and murder you and your whole family for whatever money or anything valuable you have.
Yeah, that's pretty much how it was. I remember not wanting to rollerblade much after my friends started getting into skateboarding for that reason. That and they were inconvenient because you had to carry your shoes around with you or the rollerblades once you changed to your shoes. It was easier, and cooler looking, to carry a skateboard. I do remember enjoying them though. They were fun to rip around on.
I did grow out of skateboarding though, then that longboarding craze came out and I never really got into it.
Funny enough, these days, I'd probably be more willing to go rollerblading somewhere than skateboarding if I had the chance.
With a stock, store bought android rom with google play services and such?
It might help anonymize your device.
If you sign into a network regularly that you use with devices you sign into google with, or a network google associates you.with, they might correlate you with the device.
If you follow your normal routine of locations, browsing or other behaviour google is aware of, google may associate the device with what it knows about you.
It's kind of hard to say though, Google's data collection is somewhat opaque in regards to things it collects to associate you to other things.
I have noticed a few occasions where google has given me suggestions or ads based on searches i've made or on devices that I'm not signed into or associated me with data available only from such devices, other times not.
This is just anecdotal though so make of it what you will.