Excellent Norm M. meme from October 1994

If you really wanted to scare the neighborhood, buy one of those and assemble it to look like the Dark Souls giant skeleton dogs

There is no guarantee unless you could personally audit their facilities and inspect what they did with your account etc. But I would still choose one that states they have a good policy versus one that says nothing on the subject.

My personal best guess based on philosophy, spirituality, and recent scientific discoveries is that consciousness occurs in some kind of quantum field that is connected to the human brain using quantum effects inside microtubules in neurons. (See this article for some info https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8393322/ )

There may even be a quantum collective consciousness (like Jung’s collective unconscious) that our brains have a quantum link integration with.

So it might just depend on whether or not your personal quantum consciousness field could interface with the new stuff or not.

I don’t believe that a copy of someone’s consciousness, even if a perfect copy, would ever “be” that person. That is, unless you could perform some kind of live-transfer where the live person’s sentient persona could intentionally traverse the gap between their original body into the new destination. Otherwise, the original person is just dead and you made a copy.

Edit: The same thing goes for teleportation. If they disassemble the molecules and reassemble the person at the destination, that’s probably a copy and the original person died.

What about logging policies? Seems like that would be an important category to visit - which providers store logs or don’t etc. I’ve heard of some that use RAM-only logging that allegedly never gets stored on disk.

Same here, as I only use open-source clients on the phone. It’s been obvious for many years that the apps made by the social media companies are spyware, so I’ve stayed away from them.

But also I use the web mostly, and “switching” on the web just means closing one tab and opening another to visit a different URL. It’s sad that many folks who use the Internet don’t understand how or try to avoid the hellscape of app lock-in. The web is here for our open usage just as it has been for decades.

Nah many people don’t live in their cars. I have 2 cars and never use Android Auto even when I could. I’m usually busy with driving instead of fooling with phone bullshit when I’m in the car anyway.

Congress is the branch of the government that can declare war, not the President.

What yer sposed to do is prune whole limbs at their bases (or start of fork if trimming a forked limb), to trim these back when needed. Amputating the limbs in the middle causes lots of little sprout limbs to come out of the stump, and makes it look shitty.

Of course today we see that he is in the Epstein files, new ones released by Congress.

This guy being the puppet master behind Vance and others, makes sense how they went so stupidly hard into the Epstein cover-up.

I laughed my ass off at first sight of his pic in the thumbnail image. Wow, is this rock bottom? Are we there yet?

The stupidity has never been more off the charts in my lifetime.

Who yeah baby!! Attack on Honcho SMACKED down by bigass Bombshell Receipts! Honcho Man bounces back with Atomic Elbow Drop from the corner ropes! Sting swoops down a rope to the ring and throws off his trenchcoat…

Bessent is also the guy who stopped Ron Wyden’s investigation’s access to Treasury Dept data on Epstein’s wire transfers. He’s a core member of the Epstein cover up

Well what you’re deciding to believe about that is just wrong. Members of the Biden administration did assist (D) senator Wyden’s investigation into wire transfers of billions of dollars to Epstein, which is still ongoing and he has published a list of dozens of names that he found records of financial involvement with Epstein. That investigation which Biden staff cooperated with is being blocked by Trump’s staff currently.

Self-hosters are probably the type of people who are interested in getting away from “big tech” corporate solutions for everything, so it makes sense that they would prefer Fediverse versions

You don’t have to host your whole family’s library though. You can start with whatever you want and be on the road to improving your setup.

That is correct

What is this strawman doing here?

Those owners can tell them to fuck off too, since they’re not in US jurisdiction.