A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    Doing just fine. smartphone is app lite, social media is the plague, streaming services all fucking blow.

    use open source.

    avoid social media.

    pirate.

    use encryption.

    be a ghost.

    your participation in modernity is entirely self-driven.

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      You’re delusional if you think you’re a “ghost” online. You can make it harder to track you, but you’re never, ever invisible.

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        You don’t have to be - all you must do is have the value of selling your data be lower than the cost of acquiring it.

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          A lot of jobs ask you for social media contacts. They also advertise via LinkedIn and Indeed, which require personal data. So you don’t have to be, but you’ll be lucky if you get one. And, like I said, once you get one, the company could easily just sell the data you give them. Are you going to refuse to give them your information too? Why would they hire you? Why would they keep you?

          This is the same “everyone can do what I did” nonsense I get from rich libertarians.

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        Im a system engineer pulling in about 130k a year. I barely even have a cellphone. It’s not hard to reject netflix and facebook.