If you use a VPN for official or login services, access those services from the same VPN endpoint.

If you use it for anonymous stuff, go nuts.

Oh fair. I guess Google peeked into a suspicious account, saw messages, and alerted the police. Yeah dark.

You try to login to your google account with the right credentials from several different locations? Yeah that’s suspicious.

1-3 regular locations per account is a bit more normal

Completely agree. The people I found online in those early days were just random people without any motive or incentive to sell me on an ideology. There was a trust back then, because opinions weren’t really worth anything and no one could access your wallet.

Finding that some community now is a total minefield for users, young or old. So much of the internet has been gamified for a profit/scam at any cost.

I wish that kids could just connect with other random kids across the world like I did, but I think those days are likely done.

I developed an inner life, it was the only peace I could find from the daily assault that was my outer life. Sure in the past it was more visible habits like reading a book, but letting kids have some autonomy over their lives is important I feel

They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,

Uh…

It’s your soul trying rush out, but saying"God Bless You" crams it back in.

I mean, that’s every human that I know

Fallen from grace, because I’ve been away too long

Still, a template can be immensely useful

Lemmy’s finger up the butt

Fourth tool: I make hundreds of tiny identical little pebbles and start handing them out to people to reward them for behavior that I agree with. Soon after, the tribe is divided into people with the little pebbles and people without.

With the sharpest and shiniest axe I can make, and then I’ll reflect the sun’s beams onto people’s butts

Second tool: that same rock someone else found. But it’s mine now.

Inventing tools to invent other tools is not hard. I can make an axe and then use that to make a tanning station in a day.

Reproducibility and scale is the issue. Making the SAME axe at volume is difficult. You need to heavily standardise your source materials and there just aren’t that many flat-shaped rocks out there.

I do beam with pride though knowing that our stone-age ancestors figured out how to reliably mix metals to elevate them to bronze-age status, and then they took that and started casting motherfucking iron of all things.

Sure, it was done mostly out of warfare and dominion over others, but their scientist/engineers at the time must have taken some pride in knowing they eased the burden for farmers and carpenters with better tools.

Ah rectangle dude. Invented the triangle and revolutionised art from the 1930s onwards until Picasso made minecraft

What’s a mondrian

*Watching 17th century* “oh man, this July season of France is going to be epic!”

surprisingly beautiful

ouch, that is a hell that may one day await us all.

I wonder if the boss will be replaced by the machine entirely by then