I had a forklift certification and got a job at an ewaste recycling facility moving pallets of equipment meant for refurbishment and resale. That job had a lot of down time so when I wasn’t moving the equipment I took up working on the computers, then the laptops, then the servers. I got so good at it that they gave me an ITAD client to handle. It was military servers that had been decommissioned. My job was to identify and sanitize/destroy any data storage before refurbishing the equipment to be resold at a profit share with the organizations I was working with.

IT is a super broad field. Many IT jobs just want you to have some certification level to get into (no degree required) or some number of years in similar work. My first “IT” adjacent position, I secured because I had a forklift license. Some IT positions want you to have bachelor’s or higher in a specific IT niche.

I like to tell some of my clients, that I’m like a general physician, I can tell you what’s wrong, fix quite a few things, prescribe fixes for the bigger issues, and refer you to specialists for things I have no business touching.

It was a social norm to call black people the N word for generations… Social norms do not define good or bad behavior. They define what people find acceptable. Socially, the word you wish to be acceptable has made more and more people uncomfortable and has in fact become less and less socially acceptable to use casually. Many words you used to use are weird now. Growing up we used to say “frick” unironically. These days it would be a little strange to toss that in as a filler word. It’s the same concept except for the fact that the word has not become a slur, it’s just been outdated in its use.

Language evolves and words become acceptable and others become unacceptable. It’s the way it goes and is not a sign of sensitivity, instead a positive sign of progression of language. You are fighting against the nature of how language develops.

The phone makers want your data just as much as the government does. Data is money and power.

I think they intend to IPO this year and need to slow the hemorrhaging funds quickly to be more appealing to the stock market.

Move it to precious metals or assets that historically average flatter value through crashes. The dollar is highly volatile in economic crisis.

And even the pittance is more than 3x your AdSense view. As far as I’m concerned, premium is paying creators i watch while providing me with a more than serviceable music app and an ad free experience on both.

That’s just not true… When you have YouTube premium, you pay the creators you watch proportionally to your watch time of their content out of your subscription. You are giving them more of your money the more you watch that specific channel.

America had a king before too… Kinda why we are the way we are.

Might be able to sandbox those in android VMs. I can run my banking app in WSL surprisingly. It’s useless there but it does run.

PostmarketOS is an Alpine distro packaged as a mobile OS. Full phat Linux on a smart phone.

*an execution

Im just here to read all the complaints about the name.

Well obviously it’s the opposite of a gay

It’s not a strawman unless you can prove that there is no single person that believes chatgpt would wonder what happened to them.

Only takes one Karen to make the news in the South

If you’re confused about the down votes, it’s probably the way you worded this thought. Saying it’s a man identifying as a woman, implies you believe they are a man not a woman and are only treating them as a woman because that’s what they want. In reality they are a woman who identifies as a woman.

I think you being downvoted and not getting an explanation as to why might leave you to continue the same line of thinking without correction.

It’s not a bad question to ask how this will affect trans women though. I live in a place where there are a lot of TERF women who might want to take advantage of this service and would be offended to be picked up by a trans woman.

Majority vote 2 years ago is vastly different from what the current poles show.

That’s different because they had possession of the current files. What OP is saying is that whoever worked for/with/funded Epstein’s escapades has very likely gone to this place and cleaned it out in the last 7 years.

I don’t feel this way about discord communities I’m in. Maybe you should join smaller discord communities and actually make friends there. Hoping into a small group chat every once in a while to chat and make jokes or plan a dnd session or whatever. Does t need to be more than 10ish people to be enjoyable.