For anyone on iOS or MacOS, there’s Hide My EMail built into iCloud services. It generates an email address and automatically sets up forwarding to your iCloud account. You can add notes to remind you what it’s for. You can disable an address at anytime in the iCloud settings.

Also, check out:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americana_music

Stuff in that genre has elements of the old, good country.

Just don’t take a patent license anything that isn’t perpetual. The new owner can’t unilaterally change the contract.

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea but it’s interesting how similar that is to cable TV.

Of course, cable TV was largely ad-free at first then you ended up paying for it and getting ads.

Too high of a nitrogen content is bad for plants, too. You’d likely have to mix it with something. Possibly, a lot of something.

JD Vance is the tech bro VC candidate. There’s a huge difference between Tim Cook and 90s boom era tech bros. Apple’s success doesn’t give a fuck about middle-school mentality masculinity. Not every tech company is so insecure.

In the US a psychiatrist would be needed for a formal diagnosis. Psychologists can evaluate and treat with therapy but you need a psychiatrist for the formal diagnosis and medication.

Psychologists could watch the movies and give an opinion as well as a psychiatrist but it wouldn’t be necessary. An actual person with psychopathic traits would likely end up in the care of a psychiatrist.

Why would psychologists be better?

Might have something to do with the fact that, in Europe, they had to live alongside other people. In America they had their little bubbles where the crazy could echo and become stronger. Combine that with the amount of opportunistic grifters that came to and were bred in America. The “land of opportunity” inspired an individualistic greed that was more than happy to use religion to feed itself. The Mormons are the classic example.

Catholics in America were a minority and there was bigotry directed at them. They were more inclined to keep separate—not so much now. In my town, the catholic school kids would have Catholic slurs shouted at them by the public school kids. These days the conservative Catholics are more or less allied with the evangelical Protestants.

It’s an effect of the crazy religiosity that Europe shipped over before the country was even founded. So much nutty Protestant fervor has rippled through American society since then. It infected secular institutions over time.

And do the same for the national anthem before every fucking sporting event. I’ll be damned if I’m standing and praying to a flag at every summer swim meet that is already going to take 4 hours to get done.

What’s interesting is what you’re describing of your rich acquaintances sounds solidly middle-class to me.

There’s a whole other level of rich out there that make your rich friends look practically frugal.

Evangelicals right now:

Here are my walking distances:

• To the nearest convenience store (gas station): 800m
• To the nearest chain supermarket: 1600m
• To the bus stop: 640m
• To the nearest park: 213m
• To the nearest *big* supermarket: 4.3km
• To the nearest library: 2.7km
• To the nearest train station: 1.4km

Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 5890km

You don’t have to deny that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization to call these attacks terrorism.

• Hezbollah is a terrorist organization
• Israel is committing acts of terrorism in Lebanon

Both of these statements can be true.

How is setting off little bombs amongst a civilian population not terrorism?

Same coat, different color.

It’s the exact same mental illness that makes people espouse far right views. It is, currently, still more common on the right.

It’s a way to get attention. It’s a way to feel empowered. Arguing with them is feeding their coping mechanism. Either don’t engage or state your position in a positive way that doesn’t attack theirs.

So, their AI is going to spread Russian propaganda, too?

The only conspiracy that I or people I know may have given credence to is the idea that people high up in the House of Saud knew about, condoned and/or funded the attacks.

And there’s actual evidence that it’s not just a theory.

Same. And eggplants scared the hell out of me after seeing that. I guess they looked enough like the things the aliens came out of.