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mopenstein
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Mine came on when I was about 12 years old and I'm convinced it was brought on by severe anxiety.

At the time my life had changed dramatically. My parents split. Moved to an area adjacent to government housing projects, through which I had to travel everyday to school, and I was, by virtue of unfortunately being wrong color, beaten daily by gangs of hooligans. I ended up sneaking through a slightly wooded area like a South American guerilla until they caught me there.

I couldn't handle it as I was already a sensitive kid and, the parent I ended up with, the other having gone to jail, was compassionless due to their own horrific upbringing. So I had no way of coping which led to total breakdowns and anxiety attacks.

Tinnitus reared it's ugly head soon after which further exacerbated the anxiety.

But the correlation is all speculation on my part because my parent only took me to the doctor a year or so later after much complaining. And only for the tinnitus, not the crippling anxiety.
mopenstein
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You assume that it will be a foreign enemy and not your own government bricking your car on the eve of revolution.
mopenstein
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
They don't have to do this. The cheap materials in the compressor or cheap capacitors used on the power supply board will just silently fall. And the cost to repair the problem, for the average person, will be slightly less than just buying a newer version of the crap that just broke.
mopenstein
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Why bother tracking just the cars? Just track every person. When you're born some government agent can implant a tracker in your sphincter. When a car is stolen, they arrest everyone in the area where the crime occurred and then sort it out downtown.

If you've got nothing to hide, then you shouldn't object to having a sphincter implant to track your every movement. And if you happen to be in an area during a crime, you'll certainly be vindicated, so just a little inconvenience in order to ensure that no car will ever be stolen again.

And just think how environmentally friendly that'll be. Maybe people will stop having so many babies to protect their sphincters from being implanted. That'll be super good for the environment.
mopenstein
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I agree. If it only exists so that a select few can actually experience, it might as well not exist at all.

And don't kid yourself, those keepers and creators get full access as well as anyone they deem worthy enough. The rest of us will never be granted that access.

If it's privately funded, good. It affects me nil. But if they take public funds and lock up history or nature just so it can remain pristine for the wealthy or elite to enjoy, then I don't want to have to pay for it. Not that I have a choice in the matter either way.
mopenstein
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Freedom of speech existed before almost everything. Before the wheel, before the airplane, before newspapers, before radio and TV, and even before pen and paper. I wonder how much less free we'd feel if those things were banned as well?
mopenstein
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Deaf?
mopenstein
·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Not sure what you're using but I found that Google streaming devices hard code their 8.8.8.8 and .4.4 DNS addresses into their products. Blocking those IP addresses at the router forces the device to default to your router's DNS.
mopenstein
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
>If they figure out how to only stream with unblockable ads, I will never visit the site again

That's their goal. If you're not earning them money, they don't want you. You don't exist to them and you not watching their ads/videos is no threat at all.
mopenstein
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
>As if the person who said the thing being quoted doesn't know what they meant.

What they meant at the time they said it and what they want it to mean later upon reflection, certainly could be two completely different things and should be scrutinized.