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There’s an outdoor public pool in the park near my home, and in the ‘kids section’ there is one of these. Very popular this time of year.

Heads UP!

Mmmm, smokey goat gouda.

I’m Jeff, and I want my crematorium back!

Thing is you probably put that table right where it’s located. :-(

Not Yet.

CoMaps lists Lake Ontario

Generally that’s not been my experience. Person to Person it’s been pretty easy for the most part. I can think of one exception from the past decade, one of those “I just can’t start using another app” sorts. YMMV. Persistence furthers.

All the more motivation to encourage your friends to get on signal. I’ve had a discussion this week with someone, on fedi, who just can’t conceive of getting off Meta products, like WhatSapp, because it has so much usage in Europe. Our work isn’t done; not yet.

Aye

It’s a pallindrome! Yay!

Let’s keep posting and upvoting All Things Dolly! For two reasons: 1. Dolly Parton is awesome. and 2. It will piss off #47 that Ms. Parton is getting more attention.

The net effect of WhatsApp is the sum of each individual’s decision to use the app, or not. The app has not always existed, and it is my sincere hope that it will some day cease to be relevant. You appear to be making the “nothing I can do” argument for using a tool which has alternatives, which you and others are free to adopt. If you decide that there is nothing you can do, then Meta profits from your choice, and continues to do harm.

Have you come across this substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-212401946 It’s a blog post titled The Banality of Facebook’ Evil. subtitled: Popular conceptions of ‘evil’ fall down when confronting systemic moral failure

"Mark Zuckerberg is an especially egregious example of a tech lord who has created untold misery around the world. And I’m not just talking about creating products specifically designed to addict children so they will compulsively use his social media products. Although that’s pretty bad in itself.

To really understand the depth of Meta’s depravity it helped me to read a ‘tell-all’ book by someone who once worked at the highest level of the company. I’m referring to Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book Careless People. "

Have you heard of Signal? This is the same argument. Meta has made people think that it is indispensable. They are not, as soon as we all realize they are not indispensable.

Aneurysms prevent can brain only you.

Decades ago, I had two toaster macs connected by 2 X 4 conductor telephone wire over a distance of about 20 feet. A SysOp that I know, at the time, called it a TAN, a tiny area network, as compared to a LAN. lol

a TLM.

This IS kidnapping/abduction and human trafficking. It is illegal in the US, internationally.

https://www.justice.gov/humantrafficking

https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF11942/IF11942.6.pdf

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/protocol.html

https://www.ohchr.org/en/trafficking-in-persons

And yet, people still use FB, IG and What’Sap. I just don’t get it. Of course that’s why I’m here, and not there. smh