Ah, I see. Never mind.

Walled gardens are most of the problem, and they’re only getting more walled over time as companies move from expanding their platform to exploiting it for returns. CloudFlare is kind of an exception, as it’s still giving away a lot of free services. Once it starts being evil it’s going to really suck.

Closed-down hardware is the biggest emerging threat. You can leave the proprietary software ecosystem if you want, but a SoC is DIY-resistant.

The surveillance is more of a surprise tool for when shit gets really ugly. Which is super bad, but not directly about the internet.

I mean, it’s recommended to. Diversification, right?

But that’s besides the point. I’m just not sure what you mean by shareholders here. They really come in those two types: individuals, and funds that issue their own shares which you can then buy. If you’re fine with individuals holding shares, I don’t really see why you’d have a problem with the funds.

Depends on the source. Some older lady I met? Yeah, there’s a high probability they just believe everything in their feed. Bellingcat, on the other hand, is going to make absolutely sure.

Relevant XKCD.

Basically, we’re going to go back to the days assessing likely truth by how much you trust the source. Unfakeable photographic evidence was the irreplaceable thing, and it was nice to have for a while, but it’s definitely not the first time we’ve been without it. AI slop isn’t fundamentally different from human made tall tales.

To a degree I’ve already made the shift, and tend to click more on websites I’m familiar with, while I used to just go by relevance.

Generally they’re by type of good, IIRC. So, a grocery store can still sell eating apples, but not computers or phones called that.

I only buy mint-type candies. Junior mints until the trade war; something local now.

I need something to crush sweets cravings, but I also want to limit how much I’m actually going to eat. With the strong flavour, I find those work pretty well.

I ignore the results until they’re all in as well. The time to worry and do things is before the ballots are cast.

My alarm is across the room from my bed. It’s been a long time now, but I definitely felt better after I started doing it.

So who do you mean by shareholders? The ETF that I buy so I don’t have to manually buy the whole market, or a pension fund? Funds are the only other thing I can think of that I’d describe that way.

(It amazes me that people can think ‘influencer’ is not a creepy ominous title)

Now that you point it out, it definitely is.

By the same token, you can save a lot not ordering rice at places where that’s the carb on the side.

Hand soap. Dish soap works better and you can use it on dishes in addition to your hands.

I was always told it would fuck up your hands. Does it?

This guy frugals.

To this day, I’ve never been tempted to buy a nice display, I’m right there with you. Like, I go to electronics stores for whatever and am dazzled by the bright colours on the modern ones, but not enough to need it when I’m posting on Lemmy, let alone pay an arm and a leg for it.

How so? I’d expect two monitors showing the same thing at the same brightness would be physiologically identical.

By that criteria, 10. Like, if a Nazi wanted to seriously talk with me, I’d be fine with that. Glad, even. The thing is, they don’t usually do a whole lot of thinking or analysing, or they would have stopped being a Nazi pretty quickly.

It’s usually more about psychoanalysis - trying to figure out how their irrationality works. I spend a shit ton of time trying to get inside the head of the people who maintain the world’s problems. So, still 10.

In the US, there’s Adult Protective Services that might be able to help you.

Yeah, you should. What country are you in?

You’re absolutely not saving your kids this way.

Yikes, that’s a long time to be stuck in what sounds like an abusive family dynamic. I’m so sorry.

I’m guessing you’ve looked into any possible alternative routes to an ID?