You didn’t, somebody else did. Or maybe you didn’t know it. Or maybe you have such a metabolism. Whatever.

But I always put an effort into separating my clean clothes from my room stink, and making sure I always showered before I left the house.

There is a huge space called depression, in some parts of it people can shower, in some other parts of it people can’t leave the bed.

But I also have the high masking flavor of autism, so maybe that’s why that level of effort has come naturally.

“Masking” and “natural” kinda contradict each other.

There are guys whose parents have spoiled them, but impressed it upon them that they are not spoiled. Behaving like that.

There are also ones like me, whose parents … not neglected them, rather didn’t understand shit about parenting and didn’t really try and were very arrogant, but did that with enough effort to instill the feeling of being spoiled and the shame for it indefinitely.

Nose blindness is terrible when you’re autistic. Or when you just had a vacation with no plans and just spent it all inside killing time being depressed.

I think that other guy was joking and the problem was, I dunno, fearing to stumble when standing up.

How does being so particular in body wash and demanding for accommodations from another guy become compatible with manliness? Especially the latter.

It’s also a bit funny to read “I ain’t no bitch” with caps and punctuation and all that, as if intentionally spelled out. Produces the impression opposite of what they were trying to make.

I think all those movies and series, say, with Jon Snow not cutting his hair (shaving and doing a haircut are not very technologically demanding processes, and starting with Iron Age they were norm in most places), looking greased in shit and wearing an animal skin, and talking in that perpetually hysterical “roaring/whining” voice, and similar portrayals of “real man” as what would be called “gay sex symbol” 50 years ago, have given sprouts.

No, I meant reduce distractions in the UI. Using all the same applications with native look. And reduce epilepsy-inducing elements in that native look.

I meant normal use.

I don’t mean that. I mean using a PC normally, but with a level of UI appearance adequacy approaching that of a DOS prompt.

BTW, I’m not OP, but just interested, about the general feel of the UI and solutions - how much of the 3d\blur\other effects can be turned off? Same with choosing a purely monochrome color scheme. These cause nausea for me every time I even look at MacOS screenshots.

And another question, about window management and solutions to that and the desktop and dock and launcher, - how simplified can that be? In addition to nausea, have anxiety from most things there, and every time touching a Mac wasn’t pleasant. Can one have a keyboard-controlled environment without rounded corners, without animations, without scrolled screens with icons to launch something? And how well can one hide the functionality of virtual desktop overview or whatever that is, to just forget it was there?

Suppose my ideal of tranquility would be a DOS prompt, gray on black. How close can one get to that?

Hypothetically.

It’s not from ground zero.

And it can be effective. It won’t be experienced and will have to live through a lot of massacres and shame, similarly to what Russia did in 2022 or many other forces which hadn’t been properly tested for long. But it will be effective most likely.

But yes, 5 years to blitzing Russia again is something born by my short memory while typing.

You wouldn’t believe me.

Worse is better. You need to have all sorts of delusions existent in the society, for the immunity to be preserved.

Honestly I’ve had different experience, too much Russia-sympathy from Germans. But maybe that just came out of fashion.

Germans are quickly rearming, BTW.

And if we look at the numbers, their planned military budget is going to be the size of Russia’s. The efficiency of its use, despite all the jokes about German military bureaucracy, is going to be better too.

So I’d say it’s a huge question who’s being cornered, them or everybody around. Considering the size of Germany’s economy, its dependent economies and allied states. Considering that France, Poland, obviously Ukraine are interested in participating, so there’s bigger total scale of the system achievable.

Even for the old-fashioned kind of militarism they have sufficient population.

And about Putin - one of that regime’s worst unseen qualities is that not only it’s sadistic and barbaric and generally evil, it’s also incompetent. Well, competent in killing people, preserving power and all kinds of sadism, incompetent in strategy. In 5 years when Germany rearms well enough, they might, to optimize expenses, do something huge for old times’ sake after solving the immediate problem, and for this kind of aggression Putin’s Russia will not be ready, not even on the level of 1941.

But also Putin&co have that common for Soviet nomenclature fetish for the German empire. And they are psychopaths. They might be bringing this about because they want this to happen. They will all be in European countries, after all, living just fine, and nobody will put them in jail or take away their stolen riches.

Russophobic nazi supremacism still kosher though.

I’ve noticed that pro-Israel Germans are usually not that much against Russia.

Guilt Pride

Thank you for this term.

Better than what the headline seems though.

The description reads almost like malicious compliance.

Still. There are people advocating for similar measures against statements not as normal as the listed.

I hope these people can see how their wishes being fulfilled might lead to similar regrettable results. It’s better not to walk the preceding steps.

One set of basics a decent human being should always remember - “I am not wise, I am not righteous, and I don’t know what is right and what is wrong, I can only try not to multiply evil and to avoid lying to myself and others, and when I make a decision, I know it’ll harm people”.

But, it sounds to me like more reason to want to self-host.

So do that. You can do that with Signal.

I don’t see any point to rehashing the other stuff. Non-TLS websites mostly went away once DNS spoofing at wifi hotspots became widespread.

Maybe I wasn’t clear, someone said that back in the day registration on a website was a new and bad thing, connecting it with privacy and comparing to Signal asking for phone number. I answered with the idea that not much commonly thought from that time about privacy has aged well. You wouldn’t register on websites, but you would communicate with them over plaintext. I hope that makes it clearer.

Server code openness doesn’t matter other than functioning at all. For a system acceptable in a privacy community.

Normal people don’t anyway.

Well, some of the stuff they wrote, not said, wasn’t stupid and wrong.

1. People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on.
2. A sequence of digits.
3. OK, what are your “simple heuristics” for a bunch of pieces of ciphertext with unknown sender (except for IP addresses) in your storage to pick spammers from that?