I tried. I was an activist for years. Donated money. Knocked on doors. But when you're battling willful ignorance, heartfelt bigotry, and an entrenched oligarchy, and everything only backslides against you... You eventually feel like you want to just live life and escape it.
I tried to make the US better for my kid, but it's unfixable in my opinion. So we moved to a better place.
Google and the Open Web
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <-- we're here
Switch to a Fairphone with /e/os. Ethically sourced components, replaceable parts. Privacy focused OS. No built-in Google dependencies.
And the homescreen looks and behaves much like iOS.
It's what I'm using right now.
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform
LOL, just as I started using an /e/os phone
Signal is flawless on my Fairphone with /e/os
Double win for right wing thinking: fill the pockets of techbros while white washing the underclass labor force.
This is literally what the Panama Papers were about. Rich people and shell companies headquartered in Panama to dodge taxes.
Two decades. We're old
If the penalty for criminal conduct is a fine, and the fine isn't sufficiently punitive to radically alter the company's conduct, then crime is just a cost of doing business.
Congresswoman from the Dallas area, yeah
I put my little blog behind Cloudflare because I was tired of it going down due to scrapers overwhelming my little VPS.