Vivaldi is a Chormium browser, but with most of its Google guts removed, and the devs have taken a very aggressive anti-AI stance. I've since switched to Zen, a Firefox fork, but Vivaldi is very good and I obnoxiously recommend it any time I see a discussion about browsers.

*margin of error ope

The Pew survey cited there specifically refers to the NYC metro area which has like 20 million people. So with the margin of area a million Muslims isn't an outlandish claim. Regardless, find something better to be outraged over.

:o Does he play nice with the Christmas tree?

anyone who likes bread and butter pickles is a threat to humanity

I held my tongue but it was striking and incredibly depressing that the first night of hope I'd had in like 5 years was mortifying to them, and that odds are they'll never change for the rest of their lives.

I can think of a handful but they're def not a staple of game's formula yeah. It's all about luring you into a false sense of security with cozy computers and cleaning before making you obscenely paranoid with random events, cause it's hard to parse real threats from guests or curiosities sometimes.

It's wild this game is still free. So much content, presented in a refreshing way, and basically every actual jumpscare I've suffered in it has been a result of my own imagination and/or hubris.

There's a really good program called Affinity that used to be a one-time payment but then got bought by Canva and is now free, for now. I still use the old version but the new, free version is, like, fine.

www.affinity.studio

Fresh out of college in early-mid 2020, with the mobilization against COVID and then the George Floyd uprisings, was the most hopeful I had ever been that good things were possible, only for all of that possibility to be resolutely vaporized and memory-holed seemingly permanently...

This guy may have the widest gulf between “would like to read his dissertation” and “would trust him with a loaded firearm at a shopping mall” of anyone since the Unabomber.

then how come she visits me every time i see an aspirin commercial

Because it's the only way their worldview makes any sort of sense.

Fresh out of college in early-mid 2020, with the mobilization against COVID and then the George Floyd uprisings, was the most hopeful I had ever been that good things were possible, only for all of that possibility to be resolutely vaporized and memory-holed seemingly permanently...

This is a very specific and pivotal part of the culture war I've long tried to tease out but never quite managed to crystalize.