Your right, but most people who would like to leave google services are already embedded in their ecosystem. Google does have their mits in everything, but they tend to put their name on it. There are thankfully alternatives to most products, many better than what google offers. My issue is migrating off their platforms when you built your digital presense on their platform before they were cartoonishly evil.

It is not a simple process and in my case, Im making a valiant attempt, but its futile. Effort would be better spent preventing new accounts rather than trying to resuce those already stuck in the tarpit.

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And as a side, De-googling yourself is hard, ive used Gmail since it launched and am slowly switching to Proton, but im likely never going to be able to uncouple the forwarded email addresses. Throw android on top of that and what you are asking requires an amount of effort most are not willing to undertake.

The "just delete your account" is unhelpful, its like saying "just dont buy things from Nestle", good luck with that.

Well you see, the Vikings discovered Iceland and Greenland and named them accordingly.

My dream is that if the nordic league ever develops a space program and creates a colony on mars, they should name it Blueland just to keep up with the bit.

Abstaining is the pinical of lazyness, it is my opinion that those who do not participate give up their right to complain about politics until the next election. If you like none of the candidates write in Batman, spoil your ballot by drawing dicks on it, I dont care, you showed up and that alone is the important part.

And before you what-about-ism areas where voter supression is happening or heavily gerrymandered districts? Yes, this is a problem that must be fixed, but not participating also dosent help that either.

That is one way to stop junk mail...

They used to be contained, every village has their idiot. Now that the internet is the global village, all the formerly isolated idiots have a place to chat.

Because when the Republicans are in power they fall in line, when Democrats are in power they fall in love.

To explain that last bit, Democrat candidates tend to have more direct goals, more local or state policies or projects they would like to enact. So everyone of them arrives in DC with something they are trying to do, and nothing usually happens as it requires the party to agree on it. Gathering the will to collectivly push past the GOP is usually too high of a barrier for most modest bills, especially when they are being extra obstructionist.

The games are a sequle, CDPR got the rights to make a game based on the IP in the early 2000s and just did their own thing.

W1 was a bit rough, plot wise it tried to incorporate a lot of the existing world but played the amnesia card so everyone had to explain shit to Geralt (and by extension the player).

W2 is a direct follow up to W1 and put CDPR on the world stage by being the high water mark for graphics requirements around 2010. Still a very good game, a bit on rails for modern standards, but still fantastic for how it handles branching paths.

W3 + DLC won all the awards in their respective release years for a reason, they are magnificent and with CDPR spending 15 years in the IP they make tons of call backs to the books without the players feeling like they are missing something if you didnt read them.

There are 2 (ok... 4) TV shows.

The netflix shows starring Henry Cavil, king of the nerds, (who is being recast by the least hot hemsworth because netlfix pissed off the books biggest fan) and what ever that second one was that we dont talk about (There is also an anime, which is pretty good) and the Hexer, a made-for-TV low budget show that loosly follows the plot of the early books, it in polish and I dont think it was ever dubbed (I managed to find it with subtitles years ago).

I know this is more than you asked for but, enjoy the games, enjoy the books, be aware of the fan opinions of the shows.

Death of the Author is tricky...

Atleast I have chicken...

Oh... So thats where that who-hash came from. One of my co-workers mentioned that yesterday, and I had to pause "That isnt how FEMA works. Where did that come from?". It makes depressing sense now...

Im upgrading my rook to a hotel.

Dont forget the DLCs, both won awards independently of the base game.

The problem is almost never that the wind it blowing, its what the wind is blowing.

No officer, its "Hi, how are you".

[Internet High-Five] Yah, tony's is great.

EvE expert here, in addition to this, safe spots are created by warping between two points and using the "save bookmark" feature to drop a pin mid-warp. You then turn the ship around to warp to the empty location you saved. Making multiple safe spots and warping between them will drag you away from common warp vectors and celestial object allowing for some truly remote locations. This is important for being able to run and hide until your aggression or log-off timers expire (without a cloaking device).

Back in the day there were exploits that would allow people to throw themselves more than ~14 AU away from objects you could warp to and make safe spots. Most of these have been removed from the game but the ones that remain are golden tactical tools for Fleet Commanders and are worth a ton to keep secret.

Florida... Give him back his stapler, like right now.

I enjoy finding this post at the end of the week. Thanks.

The issue is that in conversation its hard for theists to tell the difference between the two. To them it dosen't matter if I say "I think your wrong" or "I simply dont care", a lot of them will see someone who needs to be "saved". A non-zero number of them will be very annoying about that or be obstructive because of it, so its best to handle all religion based conversations with kid-gloves.