ArsonButCute

Look m8 IDC how authoritarian they are, if China wants to see how much brain rot I can get through in an 8 hour period that's fine, it's not like they're an authority over me

In the US, especially for some marginalized groups (trans folks mostly right now) there's an active push by the govt to make people hate us, I don't want THAT authority to have any of my fucking data, especially when analysis of my scrolling habits could tell them when I'm most likely home or whatnot.

Given the choice between an authoritarian and an authoritarian, I'll take the authoritarian who can't exert power over me thanks

I'm a daily, many times per day, user of cannabis to manage anxiety and RA pain and I agree 100%

Cannabis has been by far the cheapest solution for my pain (it being recreationally legal in my state makes it cheaper than the traditional western medicine route). Cannabis has also been the source of much of my ails, often slashing my motivation or affording me a boredom enhancer just good enough to keep me from my hobbies. Cannabis is rough on the throat and lungs, and it's smoke (due to the nature of incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons) likely contains a large number of carcinogens and possible mutagens. Cannabis not having potential for addiction does not free it from having habit forming potential, especially in populations prone to substance abuse (such as neurodivergent folks), and as such it should be treated like, and respected as any other kind altering substance.

The legality of a product does not inform it's health risk nor benefits, and a product being "better" than another product does not inform it's being "good"

Your third paragraph is describing executive dysfunction, a symptom of ADHD.

Ideally you wouldn't be using tor for clearweb sites but if you must I suppose that's an option, a VPN would be less detrimental to the tor network though, and is often both faster and more reliable from a user perspective.

T-girl here for a perspective from a girl with that equipment. Yes I also wiggle the fuel hose.

Note to self: game at 1080p with glasses off to lower electrical costs

You've described the opposite of how the US likes to do things

Last year I lived in an apartment who had about 40 parking spaces, 2 for each of 20 units. This complex was in a highrise which had around 80 vacant units, but due to minimum parking availability laws in my area they had to leave most units vacant.

My city is (obviously) plagued with an unhousing epidemic as the artificial restrictions like this (the landlord problem too 🙄) continue to drive property prices up (my unit was a 400sqft studio for $1.2k after fees, that's $3 a square foot in a nation where $1/sqft is standard).

If the instructions give me any nonsense I just do the math and use the power level function.

I bought a microwave to make my life easier, I'll be damned if I'm gonna flip food over because someone doesn't understand how to write instructions involving the power level button

Stupid-ass hippolephant doesn't even know it's supposed to sink in the water

Attempting to evade deactivation sounds a whole lot like self preservation to me, implying self awareness.

Success in making a self aware digital lifeform does not equate success in making said self aware digital lifeform smart

Browser based ad blockers are great but Google (who manages the codebase for MOST browsers) has gotten better at keeping ad blockers off of Chrome and other Chromium based browsers.

Long term solutions are things like a piHole or a VPN based ad blocker, but even those can cause issues if their filters are too strict (a bigger issue on something like that as configuration is often handled on another device).

For example, once upon a time the Microsoft website was completely inoperable with some ad blockers because the cdn that sends out their images and the like was also an ad server causing most things on their site to be blocked by apps like ublock origin.