Human life, human endeavors, human ambitions, are all inherently political. Politics is literally humans disagreeing on something. Technology is politics. Lemmy itself, the Fediverse, the software it’s built on, is inherently a political act of rebellion against corporate controll of discourse. Shitposting was literally invented through political discourse, for political purposes. That’s what it’s always been about.

Wanting to avoid politics is a political choice. It’s Chooseing to be ignorant of the world shaping forces that effect your life and the lives of everyone else.

I’ve got no advice for you.
You do you. But whatever you may do, will be political. There’s no way around that.

I’m on board with anything Mupets.
But Ms. Piggy always just annoyed me. I think it might have been the voice. That fake caricature of an annoying woman’s voice is so grating to me.

Yes. True. Never Nov 1st.

US elections are held every year on the first Tuesday in November. Exactly which offices, national or local is variable.

Occasionally there are runoff or special elections that might happen outside that. But they tend to be pretty random, and local.

In odd numbered years it’s only local positions, like the NYC mayor. In even numbered years, it’s also the federal (national) government races. So those will be next year.

He’s not even mayor yet.
And his stated initial goals are all about affordability.

He can replace the police chief whenever he gets around to reforming the police. Until then, it’s politically better to maintain stability in one area, while overhauling another. Don’t fight wars on multiple fronts if you don’t have to.

Does it seem plausible that someone would forget about the shitty situation, in a discussion about the least bad option in said shitty situation?

Do we really always need to point out the obvious thing we’re already talking about?

I certainly hope not.

Sure it can. Just like one can mean anything between 27 and 7649.

Several years ago? That was barely 2.5 years ago. And nobody really cared. It was just a story for one news cycle. And they didn’t about the moon replacement. They cared about the lie, claiming that it was still their actual picture. As long as the company is honest about lying people are fine with it. They’ll even believe it’s real. Rump taught us that.

Non-Denominational Polythism would be the term, I think.

Of course they do. Just ask any random person if you can look at everything on their phone.

It’s a combination of ignorance, convenience, social pressure. They prioritize those over some amount of privacy violations.

No idea. Never occurred to me to try to publicly live stream myself, while maintaining my privacy. Just seemed counter productive.

Well yah. I mentioned not using YouTube anymore. That’s a viable option.
So is moving to the wilderness somewhere, and living off the grid.
Or to a poor country where it’s isn’t financially worthwhile to for companies to track everyone.

That’s an idea. It might. I don’t know

There is software to do that kind of thing. Putting a black box over your face, altering your voice. All that kind of stuff.

Or you could go low tech. Wear a mask while holding up cards with what you want to say. That’d be cool.

And you want to have some unidentifiable background.

That’s one of the restrictions. If they try to do that, you just call Visa and cancel the charge. Then Visa will fight with Google to get their money back.

Compromise is always the game.
You either comprise by not using YouTube anymore, or you compromise by giving them the most tightly restricted information they’ll accept.

You’ll never have perfect privacy. I guarentee Google already has a supressing amount of info on you. At least this is officially protected. Once you give the card as proof, you can probably delete it from their saved data. And they have to honor that, both by law and contracts with Visa etc.

Credit card is the best of the options. There are all sorts of strict rules and restrictions about how companies store and use credit card information. Those rules don’t exist for the other options.

Wrong community.

But again Luke’s father dying didn’t happen in episode 4. At that point it was just a story Luke was told. Turns out Luke was lied to. That’s completely reasonable.

Maybe I have a different idea of what a retcon is.
Those are just new things. They don’t roll back and change anything from the first movie. Luke was always an orphan who didn’t know anything about his original family, so filling in that gap with new information isn’t a retcon.