Whatever it is, it sounds sinister AF

Agreed. “Losing” Reddit was and is still painful, but I’m more and more convinced that it was necessary. Both in general and for me as a person. I’m going to try to get back into reading and other oldschool, ‘slower’ stuff. Modern internet has been poisoning our brains for like half a decade at the very least.

Thanks - I have the entire Stephen King catalog and I think I stopped somewhere around 2017 or so, so I’ve got a good bit of backlog to catch up to.

At this point I’m convinced that ALL of Reddit had become compromised. It’s been that way for at least three years, possibly longer.

Let’s face it: whenever there’s a point (online or irl) where millions upon millions of people would congregate to exchange ideas and discourse - ESPECIALLY anti-establishment rethoric - that point was going to be a frontline for the clash of ideologies.

And we all know which ideology has all the capital and elects to co-op everything, including criticism against itself.

They’ve had the ability to match Tor Exit node traffic to specific users since 2013 at the very least (snowden leaks talked about how they were able to crossreference certain metadata even without direct access to the exit node itself).

Thanks! I don’t really mind either way, but I already have a roo (his/her father) so I’m kinda hoping for a hen, that way I’m more sure they’ll get along. If it does turn out to be a roo though, he’ll go live with my parents who are currently roosterless.

I reared my current roo by hand as well and he’s an absolute sweetheart.

Yes, Lettit!

The wait was about 9 months.

I’m currently waiting for one (appointment is made) but I’m honestly not sure I’ll survive that long.

Cheer

I own both cats and snakes and people never believe me when I say the cats do much more damage to me than the snakes (even though they do bite from time to time).

Still happy to let them sleep in my bed (the cats, not the snakes).