Cool

I know it’s a meme but can somebody set me straight? I swear I read somewhere that this narrative started with the research community saying, essentially, “we know a number of ways in which they might have achieved this feat but we aren’t sure which one they used,” but the entertainment/conspiracy communities heard “there is no explanation for how these people were able to achieve this feat.”

Source??1?

You have shown me the truth

Thanks, this is the first explanation that’s actually clicked for me.

So I am uninterested in them, but we are disinterested in each other? Do I have that more or less right?

May I ask where this is from?

So be it, I guess. If that turns out to be unrealistic I would just have to be careful about the content of the messages I send. Discord and WhatsApp have to go, obviously, but I think I could convince most of my friends and family to download Signal if push came to shove. Maybe I could look into hosting a small Matrix instance if I felt comfortable with whatever risks would come with that.

I don’t think a second Trump administration is going to force me into complete anonymity, at least not overnight. I do want to commit to keeping my finger on the pulse so to speak, and staying a step ahead of whatever threats to my rights may be introduced. I have friends that would be much more threatened by Trump 2 than myself so if I can familiarize myself with these tools then I think I can help them feel safer.

First I’ll do whatever I can to be sure my communications and whereabouts aren’t trackable, tell my friends how to contact me, and recommend they use the same channels anyway.

Then I’ll find protests to go to and local campaigns to support however I see fit, and I’ll do that right up to the point where I feel unsafe, at which point I don’t know how I procede.

Thanks, I’ll have a look at both.

Could you recommend something to read?

Eh, I’m trying to travel. Don’t get me wrong I give my best effort to PC’s missions but we’re not really set up to do that which the general public might imagine we do.

Meanwhile I have about 7 months before I return to the US and the idea of finding a real job is so terrifying I thought to turn to askLemmy for inspiration lol

I really appreciate this take. Sounds like you’ve found a good situation. I’m sure there’s not really a perfect job so you’ll always have to compromise on something.

May I ask what you do? Or at least what industry you’re working in?

Sort of? I’m on Peace Corps service for now and in some ways it’s really awesome, but at the end of the day the actual work is with the government and it feels like actually doing anything out here is like trying to run with a ball and chain.

I like to give it a good drizzle but it doesn’t use a significant amount of the ketchup. Nowhere near half the bottle.

Depends on the amount of mac, surely? Are we talking an aluminum pan for a party, or just a bowl for one person?

Either way if you can get your hands on some Whataburger Spicy Ketchup you should try using that.

It’s not the wild west anymore. The politics are bad, but people are mostly the same as anywhere else. Maybe you should visit.

Haven’t seen many tate defenders on the fediverse. Am I misunderstanding you?

Edit: lemmy -> fediverse

Racism. I play pickup soccer.