1. You should use a VPN or an tracker blocker like DuckduckGo. This is the only way to slow down the information you are sending out. You might not be able to completely stop Google and Samsung from tracking you, but there’s no reason to share yourself with all other data harvesting services.

2. You have to obfuscate the info that makes it through by using multiple, unlinked Google accounts that let you put separate components of your life into separate silos.

You are best friends with all the dominos drivers?

That’s what 3 days worth of unhealthy hot food, delivered to your door should cost. It’s an extravagant service; it should be an extravagant price.

The real problem is that all those extra fees and expenses just go straight into owner pockets/shareholder value instead of providing the employees with medical care, proper insurance and a real retirement.

If you want to save money, teach your daughter how to safely cook a frozen pizza. If she’s old enough to be home alone and answer the door when strangers show up, why can’t she fed herself?

It’s just that they have no idea how to answer the question

Tires are generaly made from a kind of rubber, not plastic

Both are made of polymers.

Rubber, also known as latex, is naturally occurring polymer from the sap of a specific species of tree.

“Synthetic rubber”, is in fact, plastic.

Po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to

Ancient Levant, including ancient Israel, was obsessed with being hospitable hosts to visitors. This was an important cultural marker left over from when proto-Israelite culture was bedouin and on the fringes of society in the Levant.

This practice had become slightly more hostile during Roman occupation, but Jesus’s teachings on the matter were profoundly conservative–instructing his followers to never waiver from their ancient obligations.

Important note about Apple:

Apple is making a living by being a gatekeeper to your data. They do not keep it private to only you, they do not keep it to themselves.

However they do not share it for free with other companies. Make no mistake: they are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

I have no idea what "camping " means to you, but I can tow a pop up camper with my Impreza.

Do you know what the word for “accused” is in German?

They’re trying their best to speak to you in your language because it’s the only one you know.

Cut them some slack.

These days, as in…Now?

Today?

This is the era of boomer shooters…

We haven’t had a new stand alone Uncharted game for…7 years.

So, restaurants might do this to avoid the cost of printing new menus with new prices.

Much easier and cheaper to just put signs at the table or print inserts, especially if you think prices will go up again soon.

But this honestly just looks like they’re trying to screw you.

I just know this n***a eatin beans.

You just do it like 3 weeks later. They’ll have no idea.

We live in an unprecedented time of compromising pluralistic societies and international cooperation.

This guy: “lets go back to tribalism”

But Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014

The biggest difference is that starbucks via doesn’t start with awful coffee.

Starbucks isn’t good coffee compared to some fancy pants third wave coffee, but It’s not nescafe either.

Freeze drying and rehydrating might not do anything to hurt coffee flavor, but it’s not going to make bad coffee suddenly taste good.

Sounds like a good idea for a wikipedia page. Put Elon’s picture on it.

I know this is pedantic, but that’s just not right. Amish and Mennonites are generally distinct.

Well, Jakob Ammann, who the Amish are named after, was a member of a Swiss Brethren church (now called Mennonite) who didn’t think his Mennonite brethren did enough shunning (a core principle of the Swiss Brethren).

So he formed his own church. Eventually members in his church (surprise!), shunned him over some different differences, as it happens when you join a group with all the cantankerous people. And it continued so on and so forth.

The distinctions might be in practical matters that arise over time–like fabrics used in their dress, use of buttons vs hook fasteners, or use of technology, or use of English vs German, but theologically they’re pretty much identical and these differences are just natural things that happen over time.

An Amish church split is really just two groups mass shunning each other. There’s no real difference.

And I’m aware it probably doesn’t seem like that closer up, because I’m speaking very abstractly. But I can’t see how anything you’ve said disagrees with what I’ve said.

And, I want to say I do appreciate hearing your experiences. For the record: I have a degree in Bible, did some post-grad study on church history, have some family members who are Mennonite, and grew up pretty close to a large Amish community.

Yeah…wifi.

Good luck!

Correct. Amish are Mennonites who shun other Mennonites. The elders of their church decide for the local congregation what is and isn’t appropriate conduct. If you disagree, you are shunned.

If the congregation down the road disagrees, those folks are shunned.

So you get very customized, local, specific lists about what is and isn’t allowable.

Really, it looks more extreme, but it’s no different than independent baptist churches or churches of christ ‘disfellowship’-ing with other congregations over doctrinal minutia.

In all cases you will get a few congregations thinking that only their congregation of 20-50 folks are the only ones in the world who “go to heaven”. 😂

So, all Amish might not agree what technologies are worth shunning over, but they all agree that some technologies are worth restricting their members access to, upon penalty of shunning.