“Read this document. Was it made with Ai?”

“Yes, it sure was! Great catch!”

“You’re wrong, I just wrote it myself 15 minutes ago.”

“Teeheehee oopsie! Silly me! I’ll try to do better next time then! Is there anything else I can help with?”

Excellent point.

Furthermore, especially in the U.S, ballistic tactical eyewear is readily available at a ton of surpluses. Civilians have access to protective equipment that they should be taking advantage of.

Paintballers and airsofters wear them all the time because the extra price for real-world protection (edit: as in tactical vs. ‘recreational gear’) is worthwhile when it comes to your vision and freakishly chaotic ballistics.

Protests are a form of combat. Come dressed for the occasion.

Well, they didn’t drop a bunch of leaflets threatening residents to evacuate a chunk of L.A before firebombing hospitals and schools and doing target practice on ambulances yet…

But that could be where it’s heading if we don’t put a stop to it yesterday.

Speaking truth when it could get your life ruined or sometimes even taken by the wicked and powerful will always be an act of bravery.

But I agree with you as well. It’s terrifying to be surprised when journalists speak the truth, and to see the suppression of truth become “normal” before our very eyes.

Whatever weapons and money everyone is sending Ukraine, double it.

Freaking truth.

Side thought purely as a hypothetical from a civilian standpoint: I’m wondering if it’s too paranoid to consider figuring out how to smoothly use Monero for sending donations.

I’m wondering if records of sending aid to Ukraine will be the newest excuse to get disappeared by goons in the US, the same way they’ve been crushing the Constitutional rights of anyone who prominently voices anti-zionist dissent.

Like all the hidden Saddam diagram memes but even better. Lol!

He said quite possibly the cringiest string of words of all time

I dunno there’s quite some contenders in the running, like “Amen, and a-women.” 😂

But it’s up there!

“And butter sauce!”

–Iraq Lobster

I’m feeling the same way. I’ve been mostly “stuck” in wherever I just ended up. Part of me really does fantasize about fleeing somewhere better, especially being in a part of the US with an absolutely abysmal education record (and it shows. Oh boy.)

But besides the resources, I don’t have some ultra compelling reason for a non-volatile nation to bother letting me in.

There’s cool people here, and I try to get along with whomever, but forming relationships feels really high stakes these days since contested politics and tribalism is infecting every facet of peoples’ lives.