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All of the responses to this story seem to emphasize the legality of the court order, but that highlights the risk of the modern era: governments acting unethically, immorally, and leveraging the law to forward those goal. And if business will always capitulate, then ultimately they are an extension of that state authority - not a servant of the customer.

In the end, privacy becomes a brand, but not a reality.

Increase in detection due to more awareness and testing?

I like Fedora for my desktop. Close enough to upstream to get the latest features, but not so bleeding edge that it’s unstable.

Completely changed rock music

I moved in 2025. Moved to the Netherlands. No downsides besides having to file (but not pay) US taxes, and how FATCA discourages European banks from taking US citizen customers.

It has nothing to do with AI.

They bet big on crypto and it hasn’t paid off for years. They continued hiring. Their stock has been flat or lowering for the past five years. They continued hiring.

Give them a week. They’ll fall in line.

Potatoes only last a few days in my house. Boil’m, mash’m, stick them in a stew. Bake them. Fry them.

Netherlands

My kid is 11 and gets to bike to school, or walk to music lessons or the store whenever. It’s pretty cool

🙋‍♂️ I left in 2025. It’s great! Walkable and bikeable cities, affordable groceries, my health insurance actually pays for stuff, there’s public transit, the food is safer, and not absolutely every I do funnels into only 12 companies.

I moved my family. When my kid needs higher education, it won’t cost more than our home. I can send him out in the streets without worrying he’ll be hit by a truck going 80. Active shooter or intruder drills aren’t a phenomenon in his school.

I only wish we could have done it sooner.

Netherlands

Trump Administration: takes notes

🙋‍♂️ I left in 2025. It’s great! Walkable and bikeable cities, affordable groceries, my health insurance actually pays for stuff, there’s public transit, the food is safer, and not absolutely every I do funnels into only 12 companies.

I moved my family. When my kid needs higher education, it won’t cost more than our home. I can send him out in the streets without worrying he’ll be hit by a truck going 80. Active shooter or intruder drills aren’t a phenomenon in his school.

I only wish we could have done it sooner.

He’ll announce something superficially positive and they’ll come back to him. The American “independent” voter is a gullible fool - they always have been.

So now we have to assume that anything being blogged about on Substack means that the blogger has a stake in whatever topic they’re blogging about.

I use nzb360 for remote management, but handle the tunnel/VPN component myself

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kevinforeman.nzb360

I drink ground chicory coffee (but not like New Orleans, mine has zero real coffee in it). It’s dark and bitter, just like the way I like my coffee. And it has no caffeine! Which is good because caffeine gives me tremors and panic attacks.

My fam and I are all O. Like you, they don’t like me. They’ll go for anyone else. I also find that they will land on me and not try to bite - or if they do, they don’t put in a lot of effort and don’t pierce the skin. Even if they do bite, my skin doesn’t appear to react and they seem to quit quickly.

Meanwhile, my poor spouse and kid are delicious. And they have soft, sensitive skin. It’s ok, I always remember the repellent just for them.

His loyal paramilitary goon squad