Yes, and Americans know this is true but they forget how it might change their perspective of the world.

Its like that old joke: two fish meet in the ocean. The first fish says “hey how are ya, how’s the water?” And the second fish says, “what’s water?”

Most of the people I know are working class and can’t travel overseas for vacation (if they even can afford to have one). Seeing it on TV is completely different than experiencing it.

There exists cities where the streets are older than America itself.

The locals feel pressure to allow automobile traffic down these roads, and where space allows they generally do. It feels out of place.

I have been to cities like this. I have driven cars in places like this (i lived internationally for a while) and it doesn’t feel right. I don’t have money to travel now, but if I did, I would just walk.

There are cities that people still live in that predate the concept of street addresses and post offices and I have met them, and have had no idea what to put down on the bullshit forms at my bullshit job for their address.

The world is large.

Your sentence is much longer than the average sentence, but your total comment is short and to the point. Your word choice is somewhat unusual (more classic English than internet comment).

Thats three indicators that stick out to me that your comment is human.

All I hear at work is complaints about the gas prices.

When coworkers or customers bring up the topic, I point out the school we bombed. Everyone agrees its evil. I wonder if complaining about gas prices is just the professional way to complain about the “war” in Iran. I probably missed that little social cue. I hope that’s the case; that most people are self-censoring and not just completely selfish.

But, have we Americans become such cowards we can’t just openly talk about how fucked it is? It feels like it.

Oh. I misunderstood. “Learn to swim” didn’t read as a survival thing to me, I assumed it meant “swim quickly for sport” not “avoid drowning”. I took it for granted not everyone knows how to do this.

The down votes are still funny.

I love that two people felt the need to down vote you for this.

They need someone to review and tag the recorded footage to train AI models.

No moment is private when wearing these glasses. I’m glad they haven’t caught on where I live.

I’d like to expand on this thought. Its been bothering me.

Even when we “lose” wars we Americans do not experience the destruction we impart on other nations.

We bombed a school. No american school children will die in this war, but Iranian children already have.

Americans will disapprove of this war but it will only affect them in limited ways, making large protests feel foolish when many are trying to scrape by to make rent, and we live under a dictator.

I don’t know what there is to be done. It makes me sick.

Mine doesn’t talk at all, did u get the premium model or something? Is there like a manual?

This happened in Australia

On selling services to law enforcement: I disagree. You would want your E2E encryption platform to be respected and recognized by law enforcement, so they don’t just think “oink oink, only criminals use this service, this guy must be a criminal!”

I recommend this defcon talk if you haven’t watched it (I think its the right one, TOR developer talks about why he teaches federal agencies how to use TOR)

He doesn’t actually give a shit, he’s just forced to say something because Bondi was so sloppy there’s photographs of the search history in her binder.

Notice he says he assumes this is an oversight, and not “how dare u” or that he’ll do anything.

Getting caught was an oversight.

IMHO, the scale is too large for a cover up like that. There’s too many individuals, companies (many of these email addresses are gmail, yahoo… private email servers) and foreign governments involved.

Many of these emails are in an evidence room already from the 2008 (edit: I guess I’m assuming here for 2008) and 2019 court cases. If you mess with them too much, just for example, some random federal or state level DOJ employee could leak stuff, personal risk be damned. Or, another example, some foreign government might decide causing societal chaos in the USA is worth more than protecting Lord Toucheskids and release what they have.

The only reason they’re releasing anything at all is because they have to maintain the illusion of a working DOJ and congress. Too much of the American public is truly mad about this stuff to just ignore an act of congress about it. They released the files in the most optimum way for their goals IMHO: literally everything, an unorganized firehose full of duplicates, random redactions, and a few FBI tip-line interviews that are provably untrue, along with the true ones, and the indeterminate. It’ll take forever to sort through it all, and Trump/others implicated are banking on it.

1. Bill Gates doesn’t work for Microsoft anymore.

2. I’m not comfortable giving my money to companies run by pedophiles. I think most people don’t like doing that. This isn’t a court of law - we’re not sending them to prison. You’re allowed to say “where there’s smoke there’s fire” and do something else with your dollars.

This shit is so prevalent its going to be hard, but I can act on the information I do have, so can you.

It was completely accidental, but it was my partner’s fault. He couldn’t understand why I didn’t want him in the bathroom (he is a clumsy giant) and felt really bad about it

I had a mascara wand scratch my eye and it did not heal for six months. I needed an optometrist to scrape the damaged tissue from my cornea so my eye could heal properly. He didn’t warn me how painful it would be and I spent the next two days in bed.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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I always just assumed I was too weird to effectively algorithmicly advertise to. I’m far away from the average American by a lot of measures and my interests are very niche.

When I get suggestions or ads they feel like they are for someone else a lot (I like your blowjob machine example, many ads assume I’m male and lonely even though I’m a woman. Maybe that demographic is so lucrative and I’m so hard to sell to that I get those ads)

hold on homie I have a meme for this already

I’m going to take a different stance to a lot of the posters here.

Your friend may be showing signs of undiagnosed mental illness.

If you value him, listen to him and confront him when he has broken away from reality. But don’t argue with him. Be firm in your disagreements but don’t argue.

Be supportive of him if you can. Make sure he has a support network (parents siblings others)

Sometimes mental illness does not manifest until early adulthood.

Know your limits. Care for yourself.