Sure. But those statements are also true if you replace "VPN services" with "ISPs".
The point of VPN services is obfuscating your ISP-assigned IP address. And hiding your traffic from your ISP, which both knows who you are, and is generally vulnerable to your government. With VPN services, conversely, you can pick ones that are less vulnerable to your government. And if you use nested VPN chains, you can fully obfuscate the relationship between your meatspace identity and your site traffic.
So as long as you don't reveal your meatspace identity through your online activity, you can be at least somewhat anonymous online. And if you add Tor to the mix, you can be even more anonymous. And by hitting Tor through nested VPN chains, you're less vulnerable to deanonymization through Tor compromise. Such as the relay early vulnerability that CMU researchers exploited to deanonymize Tor users and onion sites.
> But I’ve witnessed the false promises of these companies. I’ve spoken to someone who flew to that beach clinic, only to return home and discover that her tumor was inoperable. The evidence is clear: Death rates are much higher for people with cancer who choose alternative therapies instead of standard care.
I wondered if Facebook etc might have any liability here. But no, they don't, under US law.[0] Maybe they should, however.
I think that I understand your point about bidirectional teledildonics. Or at least, here's my projection ;)
OK, so in sex, we do and are done to. Initially the doing is all consciously intentional. But at some point, we and our partners go into automatic mode. And then stuff just happens. That was the whole point of good sex, for me.
Masturbating each other is cool. But it isn't really sex. So arguably teledildonics won't really be sex until it's bidirectional .
I've always assumed that everything I install tracks me through some unique ID. That's arguably wrong for typical Linux packages, but being right just once is enough to justify the assumption.
And for Google, it's arguably foolish to think that they don't.
But I had a steady high-volume supplier, and bought for resale. So I'd carefully test stuff before buying. I'd start with half the recommended dose. Then, a week later, a full dose. And then, a week later, 2-3 doses.
So what gave me a "standard trip" I considered 0.1-0.2 mg. And when I say 0.5 mg, I mean 3-4 times that.
I worked in a biochem lab, and so stored my LSD under vacuum at -70 deg C.
Basically, lamotrigine (100 mg/day) seems to keep my mood even. I mostly complain about depression. And I've never experienced hypomania. Except when some idiot GP put me on Paxil.
But with lamotrigine alone, I'm too "flat". I have no interest in doing anything. No energy. Not depressed, but just sort of "dead". So I take that at night.
And the modafinil (usually 100 mg/day) makes me interested in doing stuff. Mentally alive, full of ideas and solutions. So I take that in the morning.
The point of VPN services is obfuscating your ISP-assigned IP address. And hiding your traffic from your ISP, which both knows who you are, and is generally vulnerable to your government. With VPN services, conversely, you can pick ones that are less vulnerable to your government. And if you use nested VPN chains, you can fully obfuscate the relationship between your meatspace identity and your site traffic.
So as long as you don't reveal your meatspace identity through your online activity, you can be at least somewhat anonymous online. And if you add Tor to the mix, you can be even more anonymous. And by hitting Tor through nested VPN chains, you're less vulnerable to deanonymization through Tor compromise. Such as the relay early vulnerability that CMU researchers exploited to deanonymize Tor users and onion sites.