It’s a little bizarre that the Netherlands, or especially Spain, are in the time zone centered on basically Berlin. Damn WW2. The sun doesn’t set until nearly 23:00 this time of year, and during winter isn’t up until nearly 08:00.

My blog used to receive direct traffic to various articles from search engines.

Now, 90% of hits are on the homepage with no search engine referral. I’ve blocked the bots in multiple ways, but they keep coming.

I put my little blog behind Cloudflare because I was tired of it going down due to scrapers overwhelming my little VPS.

I tried. I was an activist for years. Donated money. Knocked on doors. But when you’re battling willful ignorance, heartfelt bigotry, and an entrenched oligarchy, and everything only backslides against you… You eventually feel like you want to just live life and escape it.

I tried to make the US better for my kid, but it’s unfixable in my opinion. So we moved to a better place.

Google and the Open Web

1. Embrace

2. Extend

3. Extinguish <-- we’re here

Switch to a Fairphone with /e/os. Ethically sourced components, replaceable parts. Privacy focused OS. No built-in Google dependencies.

And the homescreen looks and behaves much like iOS.

It’s what I’m using right now.

Embrace

Extend

Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform

LOL, just as I started using an /e/os phone

Signal is flawless on my Fairphone with /e/os

Double win for right wing thinking: fill the pockets of techbros while white washing the underclass labor force.

This is literally what the Panama Papers were about. Rich people and shell companies headquartered in Panama to dodge taxes.

Two decades. We’re old

If the penalty for criminal conduct is a fine, and the fine isn’t sufficiently punitive to radically alter the company’s conduct, then crime is just a cost of doing business.

Congresswoman from the Dallas area, yeah

I used to live in Arkansas. Most people are morons.

25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago

Everything else is more of a soft jazz rock. But this song is such a high energy banger

It should be categorized as a drug for being harmful to humans brains, and the techbro CEOs who push it should be jailed as manufacturers and dealers.

Flanders (and Brussels) join the Netherlands.

Sorry, best America can ever do is corporate handouts.

Nobody asked for this