There is a lot of risk when it comes to investing. The stock market is a lot of guesswork and sheer gambling in of itself.

$15k to me would be a great savings foundation that will grow overtime.

So long as corporate and greedy interests exist, we can’t have preservation efforts such as this.

Try archiving and preserving old games not being sold? Nintendo and other video game companies will have a problem. Try archiving and preserving old text books, old books in general? Publishing firms will have a problem. Try archiving and preserving old movies and shows? Hollywood and other networking studios will have a problem. Try archiving and preserving old music? Recording labels will have a problem.

Manties.

Bad:

1. The spread of anti-intellectualism and religious priority on top of crippling free speech will be quite a mess
2. LGBTQ will be the minority of target for where the jews were in the 1930s/1940s. Expecting a 2015 Supreme Court overturn.
3. If the Republicans, any or all of them, lose mid-terms, there will be a wave of “RECOUNT” or “RIGGED” rally cries from their voterbases i.e more riots on their behalf, while proclaiming it was caused by the left.

No.

Because history remembers people or groups who have made astounding and monumental moments that change the course of history.

They aren’t going to remember a dude who spent most of their time jerking off and doing the average lifestyle.

And why 600 years?

Religion is just marketable propaganda in what to believe, another example of this.

They are also inserting AI shit into Notepad too.

Like, good luck getting me off from LibreOffice and Notepad++ assholes.

To keep track of groceries? Just I don’t know, LOOK inside the fridge. Oh the cabinets and drawers don’t have screens, just slap a few of them on there to keep track of that shit too! Why stop at the fridge?

Little bit of a pointer but you can edit your post and title.

Anyways, digressing there. But, I am always willing to hear some alternative takes from different people with different perspectives. The dealbreaker is in the approach. If you cannot come into a discussion, a conversation, a debate or anything without feeling the need to put down someone to prove a point or be self-righteous? You can go fuck yourself and be placed in the blocked bin.

And even so, there is only so much irrational and wild things people do and say that just upsets the vibe with someone or groups to where, blocking can be seen as a way to filter that out.

I value my time, patience and sanity. There had been too many instances where I’ve poured way too much investment into things or people that just were not worth a single minute. The moment I feel someone gives me a snarky remark, wants to be a prick, wants to gaslight and whatever petty and bitter levels of engagement they want to bother me with. Fuck them, they’ll be blocked.

It does not make you weak or petty, that’s just them making up bullshit to excuse themselves when they knowingly were the problem.

Now in some cases it can be a little stupid to block people, like knowing you’re the one starting shit or deciding to get into debates you aren’t fitted to handle. Why would you do that to yourself? If you can’t handle it, don’t do anything. Lesson learned.

Damn if there was a function in real life where I can block someone and their existence disappears where other people can see them and I can’t? Fuck, dude, sign me up.

Well, maybe tell Microsoft and others to stop sucking in these technological advances they treat as shiny misunderstood toys that are forced down everyone’s throats and make everyone’s lives a lot harder than they’re supposedly making easier.

I am not arguing against the idea of upgrading at all or avoiding security at all. What I am always tired of, is just seeing the direction Microsoft takes and then telling people to shove off into their shitty new ecosystem for the sake of security. Like no, you’re watering down your OS and dumbing down everything while telling millions of users like “well, uh, like it because we’re Microsoft so fuck you”.

And nothing is improving or giving people the strong urge to immediately upgrade because of said directions and choices.

Which is why we have this delayed lapse in people just stretching out these support cycles who’re not interested in hopping to the next OS, because they aren’t liking what they see and sometimes experience on another’s computer that has that latest OS version.

By the time Windows 10 is truly done, Windows 11 has its announcement for the last of its updates and by the time Microsoft moves to 12 in however they handle it, maybe then.

Yeah, same. I sometimes would like to engage but Reddit is shadow-ban happy anymore. I know the Fediverse has a long way to go, but christ, it’ll probably be after we’re mostly dead at this point.

So you’re saying you like to systematically waste your time and effort?

Nothing is truly deleted from the internet, so long as there are archival tools and systems in place that just carts off your “deleted” content somewhere where only companies like Reddit and Facebook know.

These sites are huge data harbors, you’ve already done your job to them, which was posting and using the site in the first place.

Google and Privacy can’t exist in the same sentence.

Yeah. I mean, I remembered seeing someone named awkwardturtle on there and they moderated like some 30+ subreddits? That’s ridiculous.

Users like that should not have that much power.

Judging by how they want Jim Crow-era laws back, we can assume they want the 1870 ~ 1959 period back.

But honestly, they are fascists. They want do what the Nazis did except more Amercianized. Sure we won’t have dedicated labor camps or extermination camps in our country. But, we’ll happily blitz through laws to be passed that’ll make it harder and harder for LGBTQ people to have rights. Don’t like middle-class? No problem! We’ll just orchestrate a system with our trusty friend, Capitalism, that’ll make it harder for things to be affordable for them.

Laws? What laws? lol, only for those who can’t afford to break them. Rules and Accountability? Lol, what’s that? That’s only for those people who’re tied to this silly concept called morals and karma.

That’s America for you.

My firm belief on technology is that it is in the hands of the wrong people who don’t care and in some cases it is in the hands of the right people, but wasted on a generation that don’t fully embrace it. It’s a double-edged sword matter.