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I recall a comment from Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, saying to "aim low" when starting from a difficult perspective, and slowly increasing from there.

This is an interesting approach - you're going out of your comfort zone yet making it productive for yourself and helpful for others. I've recently started something similar to push bad moods away - decided to work as a nurse in an isolated community. I won't do it for long, but I feel good useful.

I've been doing it for while. For me, "degoogling" was (and still is) a long process. I literally went service by service, testing a new solution online for a while, and when satisfied, I switched. Obviously, I can't reproduce the way everything was integrated to work together, but my other options are still comparable and functional. I feel I've taken back control of my data and how I manage it.

Another aspect is that I have much less trust in any online services - free or not, open source or not. I'm more sensitive of where my data is hosted (politics and privacy), who owns the service, and their reputation. I now have a plan B for those solutions I've switched to, just in case.

For things like backups, passwords, file storage, calendar, I use different systems on a Raspberry Pi that I can access online. When picking an online service, I made an effort to read the EUA and the privacy policy to find out how my data would be used and if/how I would be tracked. In the end, it's very possible to move away from Google and it's working for me, but this will always be an ongoing issue, since companies, like people, will "adjust" their ethics to fit their needs.

1. Clean air most of the time. 2. Clean water available. 3. Enough food to thrive. 4. A safe place to properly rest and live. 5. A fair job that gives enough to save/invest money. 6. Having friends you can depend on. 7. Respect from authorities (health, equity, privacy, etc would come into this?)

Now imagine the many important concepts these points require to reach.

They are pointing to a study. Should we question the pointer or the study?

It's good to know which banks will be willing to accept my sizable money transfer in case the authorities are after me.

After being open for so long, it's not a position nor a job. It's just publicity. Might as well get a Chief Morale Officer.

It's very clean hydrogen indeed.

(Implying most articles are giving factual data) Define crazy. Now consider his IQ.

If LibreOffice is offering a paid version for extra features / services, considering what they are already offering, I would certainly paid, or at least have a strong interest.

Some IBM ThinkPads have physical cover for camera. I wonder why.

"Why doesn’t the tilde key work properly?

The tilde ~ key is a dead key, used to type characters like ñ."

They are probably using keybase ;)

Where is the study?

Umberto Eco had quite a library of unread books.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilib...

You're right, and it brings controversy. Many times discoveries were made because of unethical approaches: they save time, resources, and debates. But sometimes there can be a moral price to pay.

Overall, and depending on context, I think this is a moot point. Inaction is as important as action and can be considered a different action in itself. What some call inaction is not necessary a state of being inactive, but simply observing and analyzing the outcome longer, while focusing efforts elsewhere.

Maybe "being on the fence" or staying in a frame of doubt and uncertainty for too long, without developing future steps for a given plan could really be considered disruptive inaction.

- Support small/local/regional cyber organizations that respect users online and motivate them build dynamic online communities instead of mass aggregates of UIDs. - Use open source softwares that respect my rights and privacy. - Decentralize my financial and technological options. - Randomly support a small but empowering online project that someone started. - Wear an N95 mask when browsing online. - Reconsider gopher as a healthy and viable way to access data :-)

"This question is locked and replying has been disabled."

Does anyone know about other censored phrases or expressions?

On a completely different note, wouldn't it be possible to create a free (as in freedom), open-source, decentralized search engine?

c==8

"Are the people I'm following going where I wanna go?" Earl Nightingale

Digital's search engine. I miss Veronica very much too (to early I guess to count). Also, do you recall something like paranoia.net or similar?

Nurse here. As the epidemic started to get international, I went online and bought a couple boxes of N95 masks, gloves, glasses, and Tyveks. I went to the store and got a few litres of grain alcohol. I told my friends and family this would become a pandemic. They did not believe me.

These items were still easy to find two months ago. What I cannot comprehend is why was I preparing for this when most institutions were not taking this opportunity to do the same.

"That mother-fucker!"

This sounds more like an opinion paper than a study.

Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections among the General Population. Marianne van der Sande. 2008. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002618

I've been preparing for weeks. Meanwhile, I explain to others what is coming (I live in a rural area in Canada). People laugh at me or simply don't care.

This requires such a strong shift in paradigm that they will need to see things falling apart or people dying close to them until they act.

Not directly, but they are stating they are not recommended, when in fact, they help a bit: - wearing something on your face will help you remember not to touch your face. It's not much, but it's something to reduce spread by hand to mouth contact. - if the mask has good filtration (N95+, sealed on the side), it still offers some protection against dropplet. - if the person wearing it is infected but asymptomatic, they will reduce, at least a bit, the spread (e.g. when sneezing), as long as they're not wearing one with a valve.

So, some protection is better than no protection. Consequently, It's difficult for me to understand why discouraging people from using face masks is a good idea.

Use it properly and keep social distancing, while regularly cleaning your hands.

Quitting.