That there is. It’s going to be an… interesting 4 years. And an even more interesting time clean up the mess afterwards.

Too bad they won’t ship it to Alabama. We could use it here too. 😳😂

Well, that is certainly one way to vax a community against most contagious diseases. And I will admit that it’s better than not vaccinating at all. But not by much. The standard vaccine protocol would be cheaper and more effective.

Damned fool of an idiot.

If it’s actual art (digital or no), yes. Each person is distinct even if they are faking someone else. With enough data, a profile can be built. It’s how the real artist behind fake original paintings can be Identified.

People are just really bad at random, and are not precise enough to physically copy someone else.

Digital copies are another matter, but might still be traceable with a large enough dataset.

Kinda, but not really. And only if you are creating and logging into these accounts via a method that conceals your personal IP address. Without that, at best, you are simply obscuring your identity.

And even if you are properly concealing your ip address, If you interact with the rest of us enough, a profile could still be built up using writing or art styles as the identifier, eventually becoming detailed enough to identify the user.

Jk Rowling and Steven King both had alts that were linked to them that way. And it wasn’t a government that did so, but their fans.

And your just now figuring this out. 🤨

“Meta has us in a chokehold. They make money off our presence in order to continue to be in business and yet it’s too difficult for people to leave,” Makichen wrote.

Difficult? How? I’m pretty sure I still have an account on Facebook from it’s early days, but I haven’t logged in to it in more than a decade. Friends and family can reach me in other ways, like email or better yet a phone call.

You’re not wrong about schools, but also it’s not hard to get into the trades. I’m in the trucking industry so easiest example for me, but any of the big trucking companies will (usually) train you with the only cost being to work for them for a set period of time. Others will reimburse your trucking school costs. I make $70k. Could make more, but I like sleeping at home.

My father in law was a Boilermaker and the union offered on the job training. He was making in the $100k+ range before he passed.

May not be able to get a head start in the trades while in high school anymore, but it’s not difficult to join them. All of the trades are short on bodies to do the work, and as a result, are often quite happy to teach you.

A semi-curated website directory sorted by language, topic, subtopic. I haven’t seen anything like it for a long time.

Excite and Yahoo both had directories like it back in the day, when boolean was needed for productive web search, and natural language web searches were not yet a thing.