Mfw I see spotted lantern flies

Not disagreeing with you, but it’s a double edged sword inherent to any privacy-focused system. Tor grants journalists and political dissidents access to the broader world anonymously, but is also used by darknet markets to sell CP and illicit drugs.

Privacy coins like monero allow people to spend money anonymously to purchase VPNs or prepaid phones without state actors knowing, but also enables money launderers to do what they do.

And of course there’s the pollution problem you mention with any proof of work cryptocurrency, but at least Monero’s is more efficient that Bitcoin.

Again not defending cryptocurrencies or discounting your thoughts just wanted to tack on to it.

I miss seeing these everywhere in the summer as a kid. Guess I just aged myself lol, but I did see some in the park last night. Nowhere near as many as years ago though.

Meanwhile my colorblind ass:

He just like me fr

Tell this to my fiancee, who scrolls reels for an hour before falling asleep in minutes every night.

Meanwhile, if I have 0.001mg too much caffeine I’m not sleeping til Friday

They mentioned they’re running GrapheneOS, so most likely a Pixel of some kind. GrapheneOS has the strictest requirements I’ve seen of alternative phone OSes, but for good reason.