Part of the issue is a long history of human exceptionalism, leading to a general misunderstanding by the general populace of how evolution actually works (thinking humans are "more/most evolved") and a propensity for understanding "survival of the fittest" to mean "brutality wins out in the end."

one can hope

I hate idiot old people

deskmat is from StarSalts on Etsy if you wanna see what they have - awesome selection!!

I work as a cafeteria attendant at a school and the kid going off about the moon and then coughing grossly is so completely accurate to the listening-to-a-child experience lol

poor darling look so tired.. :c

when I ate at a diner for breakfast last week there was a surplus of orange marmalade compared to the other jellies and I remarked that Paddington would have been more than happy to level the playing field

fuck you

gotta recruit tea and game enjoyers at the library. I tell ya, going to libraries will have to be the replacement internet one day. I hope communities will keep their local library in mind in these trying times

it's better to abandon the internet than cough up identifying information just to be here. info you give them will be sold eventually, or leaked if not. we all know this information can and will be used against people in a worst case scenario, and we are circling the worst-case-scenario-drain rn.

VPN for now, but I sure hope everyone here knows by now that verifying WILL NOT BE WORTH IT. they will eventually sell your information, and if they actually are telling the truth about not selling, it will leak one day anyways. this information WILL be used against people under a fascist regime.

of course not. not even the company, KWS, per their terms, can assure you your data is safe. your data can and will be sold, or leaked if they aren't lying about not selling your information (which is probably a lie.)

and then they bent over and let the govt dick them in the prostate