Hm… I’ve always been introverted. However as a teen I’ve gone to high school parties with my friends, gotten drunk, smoked weed, hung out with friends, talked to girls… I’ve gone to night clubs, bars, theaters, and restaurants… the way I see it is if I’m with a crowd of people I personally know, I’ve grown up with, or simply my family members, I don’t feel introverted. My energy is focused on them not everyone else outside of my crowd. But put me into an environment where I don’t know a single person and I’m expected to have dialogue with them? Eh… that’s a different story. That environment will definitely spend away my mental energy - UNLESS we’re all having a conversation on a subject I can definitely relate to. If it’s an enjoyable dialogue, then I walk out of that environment feeling just fine.

That… doesn’t sound right. I don’t think that’s associated with introvertism/introversion. I’m an introvert, I’ll be damned if someone hands me food that was not ordered by me and me not say something. Especially if I’m craving a specific food before I even show up to the restaurant.

The blame falls on the receiving end of money.

They should have known better than to accept money that will override the will of its people/constituents.

Technically, inflation is just another form of taxation.

Milton Friedman, an economist from the Chicago School of Monetarism, coined the phrase “inflation is taxation without legislation” to explain how inflation and rising prices can reduce the value of money and purchasing power, similar to higher taxes. Friedman believed that inflation could be managed by keeping the volume of moving liquidity in line with the amount of products in circulation. Inflation is when the price of goods and services increases across the economy, which can reduce the value of assets and a currency’s purchasing power. This can make taxpayers less well-off due to higher costs and “bracket creep”, while also increasing the government’s spending power. Some say that inflation is a “hidden tax” that can be especially harmful to people who have the least ability to pay. Inflation and money creation are closely linked, and the government can create money through taxing, borrowing, or printing it. Printing money to finance a deficit is sometimes called an “inflation tax”.

I just LOVE how you marxists/commies/leftists/progressives can only blame capitalism. When are you going to look at your government and blame your government for its spending? How the hell do you and your ilk function while ignoring the abuses of your government toward you and everyone around you, every single citizen of your nation? Instead lmao… you want to blame capitalism and only capitalism, not corrupt politicians, not their policies, not their agendas.

Amaaaaaaaazing. Purely awestruck.

Well the government simply went rogue. It gave its people the middle finger and decided to do whatever the fk it wants to do whether we like it or not.

Can’t wait til people figure out that the sham that is democracy that we force up the angus of all other nations, is the same sham that is democracy in this country. It’s all an illusion, to make you feel like you and I have power. Like our ballots count. But it doesn’t and we don’t. <3

It’s okay, OP.

Per my understanding of Kamala’s price control policy (refer to Maduro), she’s a communist. So if she takes power, it won’t be the capitalist boot, it’ll be the communist boot instead.

Enjoy while it lasts <3

I’m a millennial myself, quite frankly after so many years of receiving robo-marketing calls, attempted warranty scams, collections agencies (not for me, for other people who had my number previously, I assume), etc… etc… in the last 15-ish years I don’t answer a call if I don’t recognize the number.

You leave the country. Simple as that.

Sadly, I don’t think any of us, at least in the U.S. can avoid it and we’ve already been infiltrated by it, possibly even our offspring (due to microplastic found alongside sperm in testes), have been conceived with microplastics flowing in their systems.

For other health related concerns regarding food/ingredients

I almost aimlessly did. I have a Surface Pro 6. So I searched specifically for Ubuntu on that model, at the time (2021) and someone had experienced quite a few issues on the hardware side - compatibility. One of the issues was the touch screen, that pretty much stopped me in my tracks. The other issues were not too significant for me.

I just decided to search again to see if Ubuntu will install without issue… 22.04 still lacks touch screen capability. I want my child (5yo) to start learning how to use a computer - linux based. But I also know she loves to “finger paint” - she does so on an iPad mini, and her educational curriculum (arts and craft) will require her to create drawings and paint stuff (I’m a paper nazi, if I can avoid paper and keep it digital, I will 100%) so without touch screen (including the Surface Pen) it’s somewhat pointless.

As soon as ANY user friendly (especially for a child) Linux distro can fully support the Surface Pro 6, I will be more than happy to slap it onto it and hand it over to my child.

Edit: Wow… so many people own the SP6.

lmao title threw me into a damn near loop.

We shouldn’t think this way. As individual consumers, those of us who buy Microsoft products for personal use, if we were to stop buying their products, even though businesses will continue, it will still make its mark.

Just like I deny COVID was naturally occurring, jumped from animal to human.

You’re right, I don’t trust the scientific consensus. I’m an independent thinker, I seek knowledge rather than let it be fed to me like a mindless drone.

The problem, imo is two.

1. Technological ignorance
2. Money

The solution?

1. Educate ourselves about privacy.
2. Boycott/divest against all those who wants to exploit our privacy and make money from it.

Microsoft sharing your information? Stop buying Microsoft products. Your car - Ford, sharing your information? Stop buying Ford products. Streaming services sharing your information? Stop using their service.

We have the power. But we’re divided, we are so categorized and siloed. Without unity on specific issues we will not win. If we share an issue that we agree on, leave it at that and tackle the issue. Do not bring in other beliefs or ideas that will drive each other apart, that’s what they want.

The narrative cannot change. That is, climate change is the fault of humans and animals.

However, the link I provided rebuts your claim that climate change is accelerating because of human activities. Since the 1930s, we were told that because of humans we have climate change and if we don’t limit human activities that cause climate change, we will see an acceleration of climate change so severe the world will end.

For example:

August 10, 1969, Erlich in the New York Times: “We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”

April 1970, Erlich in Mademoiselle: “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”

Harvard biologist and Nobel Prize winner George Wald, speaking at the University of Rhode Island in November 1970: “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

Dennis Hayes, key organizer of Earth Day, in The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970: “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”

Kenneth Watt, UC Davis ecologist: “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”

We were even warned that because of climate change millions of people will starve to death… a claim made in the late 60’s, yet from that time to today, the world population grew exponentially and for the most part are sustaining. Humanity is thriving far better than before, while climate change has been getting worse, to the point of all living things going extinct because of man made climate change.

Simply put, the math isn’t mathing. The goal is to limit the freedoms of human activities.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-accelerating-record-hot-deadly-434881547b4585a32fa906cf5495d3f0#:~:text=climate change accelerating-,New study finds Earth warming at record rate%2C but,evidence of climate change accelerating&text=June 4%2C 2024-,The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high,by humans%2C top scientists calculated.

The illusion is that YOU and I are to blame for climate change. And we have to face the consequences by making sacrifices for the sake of mother earth… when in reality, we nor any other living creature is the blame for changes in climate. It’s not accelerating like it’s supposed to have been since what? The 1930s? The world should have burned down to the groun… to nothingness 10 times over according to all the specialists/scientists. 🙄

Ha… you pretty much asked the question. Visually nice, but have no idea what’s so special about it.

Hm… just looked it up. It does look nice. Guess I’ll have to read into it and see what benefits it provides.