I didn’t say it’s perfect or even good, I don’t like it either, but we’re talking rights. Here, the product has a right to take our data as long as we consent to it - and you’re wrong, we are told when they take our data, most of us just don’t read the print, and click accept.

Not sure why you’re so bitter about it, or why you’re so consistently wrong about absolute rights we do or don’t have.

We have the right to privacy too, though the tech version you lay out here are more robust. Our right is to not purchase the products that require us to give access to our data. There are ways to keep private online, but it is much more difficult.

We’ve gotten a ton of change with trump. That’s why it’s felt so disruptive. Might not be the kind of change you were hoping for, but it’s certainly change.

What rights do you have in Europe that we don’t have in the US?

In Europe we get more rights, and in the US you loose your right to abortion entirely.

That’s not true at all. In fact, lots of states give access to abortion much longer than Europe does. And before anyone says healthcare, we do have universal healthcare, it’s just used as a safety net rather than a default. Every American has access to it as long as they meet financial requirements. I spent 4 years on it myself and it was great.

The US is not trying to take anything, we’re negotiating prices for territorial strategies.

I think whatever news you watch or listen to is fear mongering.

Creative writing.

So fun to both reach and practice, and grading homework would be far more fun and interesting.

Literally closing escrow next weekend.

I’m grateful she took such good care of the house. When I stepped inside I immediately knew it had good bones. Built in the early 80’s, I had a very thorough inspection done, and that guy was blown away. So I feel good about my purchase.

For whatever reason, we were the only offer after she was on market for 90 days. No idea why, and I spoke to a lot of people about the area, the land, just everything.

To self-study for the FE exam. It’s what freshly-graduated engineering students have to take to officially be “in-training” as an engineer.

Welp, I do not have a bachelors degree in engineering, but I’m coming up on 3 years of working in the field as a designer and next year I can also take the exam. So, I’m going to spend the next year teaching myself everything I’ll need to know.

Where my Sync peeps at??

What’s broken about Sync? I use it all the time with no issues.

Oh, most of them.

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Spend the few thousand I have saved up, take a first-class flight to Portugal and spend the day hiking the mountains and then swimming in the ocean.

I started seeing this guy in my friend group, and then I heard from someone else he’d started seeing another girl in our friend group. When I questioned him about it he got this stupid grin on his face and made a comment about the two of us fighting over him. I said: " I’m not fighting over you," and stopped dating him.

That’s as close as I ever got.

When I was young I had the bright idea to take a copyrighted, published book and only change the names of the characters to an anime I liked and post it up on fanfiction.net. Totally knew what plagiarism was then. Didn’t think I’d get caught.

No idea why I thought that, either… People who like reading books also like reading fanfiction. Up until then I’d had a small following, so it was traumatic when all those people immediately - and very rightly so - got mad at me. My whole ffn account got wiped clean.

However, that was back when doxxing wasn’t really a big thing and everyone was satisfied with my account being wiped. No one tried to hunt me down or call my school or whatever. I just sulked around the house a lot and then made a new account with only my original fanfiction writing. I can’t imagine what it’d be like trying to do that today, even if I was young like I was back then.

This has the basic shape of a substation transformer and I’m here for it.

Haha, same thought.

Hey man, please, PLEASE reach out to them again. It doesn’t matter what you say. They will be so happy to hear from you.

Interesting. Must be newish because that wasn’t a requirement when I signed up a few years back.

Barcelona was nice to see, but I probably will never go back. The tourism is so heavy that even when there on the off season and being incredibly nice and respectful, the locals don’t like you. Worth it to see the more famous sites, but when I go back to Spain, I won’t be going there.

Agreed. Get the heck away from Denspar and don’t even step foot in Kuta Beach, it’s not worth it.

Bali was amazing.