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I'm playing into their hands?!?! What the fuck am I doing that plays into their hands? What should I do that's different? You're not offering any solutions. You're the one here just giving the hopeless vibes. If anyone is playing into anybody's hands to undermine democracy, you'll find them in the mirror. До свидания.

True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they're charging people to build websites, they're own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

Doesn't fucking matter. It's not a perfect system, but it's the system we have, so I WILL participate in it, and I will fight to improve it. People like you working to demoralize people out of participating in and improving the system are the enemy... foreign or domestic.

They both have the same goals

Absolutely unadulterated bullshit. You either have no clue what you're talking about or you are a foreign operative here intentionally trying to undermine democracy. GTFO!

While I agree with you for the most part, I don't think it could make it any worse, and it could rescue some people that aren't brainwashed yet.

AKA, Welfare States.

This was my initial thought as well. It would be relatively easy to put up some text explaining what happened to try and undo some of the damage.

I seem to have isolated the problem to using a link to the website on the phone's home screen (created from FF using the "Add to Home screen" option in the three dots menu next to the address bar.

Starting that way seems to give any session cookies a very short life and they disappear quickly (logging me out). I created a bookmark within FF and have been using that and haven't been logged out since.

In fact, if I use the home screen link to programming.dev, FF doesn't think I'm logged in, but then if I use the bookmark from within that same instance of FF, it instantly sees me as already logged in.

Very strange.

However, Joe Lonsdale, the founder of 8VC, did comment, considering it a response to an attack by left-wing media for "supporting Trump." Lonsdale was referring to an article published by Forbes magazine describing his fund's connections with the sons of Russian oligarchs.

Forbes is "left-wing media" now?

That's a rough 30 year old.

Be a goldfish table.

Totally underated comment.

Good Christian

I have bad news for them if they think accepting people running from "Western liberal ideals" is going to help with that somehow.

Please give them free plane tickets

Great idea.

Announcement: I pledge to buy a one way plane ticket from any US airport to Moscow for the first two US citizens that can prove to me that they A) have a social media history demonstrating rejection of Western liberal ideals, and B) have had their Russian immigration visa accepted.

If they return to the US at any point in my lifetime, the offer is rescinded and they must refund me the cost of the ticket.

snail mail then my own terms and if they don’t react, I assume that my terms were accepted.

I'm pretty sure you haven't run this strategy by a lawyer. If you've actively agreed to their terms and they haven't responded to your counter terms.... How do you imagine a court is going to interpret that?

No, it just prevents banks, etc from checking your credit score/rating, which prevents anyone from opening a new account under your name. When YOU want to open an account, you temporarily unfreeze it for a couple days so that the institution you're opening an account at can check, and then refreeze it.

The credit agencies will continue monitoring how much credit you have and how well you pay your bills and adjust your score accordingly. Freezing has no effect on that.

The best time to have frozen your credit reports at all three agencies was many many years ago. The second best time is right now. Not tomorrow. Now.

Have you looked at the cost of day care? And diapers? Or just having a place to live with the extra necessary bedrooms? Pre pandemic I read some article that (as I vaguely remember) estimated it costs at least $100k to raise a child to 18 in the US. I imagine it's closer to $150k or more by now. Probably way more.

who went on to earn a master’s degree in divinity.

That doesn't sound like, "becoming less religious" to me.