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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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tchyp

Reblogging again. Firefox is an excellent, safe and fast browser and everyone should consider using it.

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Don’t just consider it. If you have the ability to switch to Firefox, this is your official notice to do it.

Stop everything you’re doing and go download and install Firefox.

If you’re saying, “well, I need Chrome because I need such-and-such extension for my job”, the computer will not explode if you install another browser. Use Chrome ONLY for work tasks and use Firefox for everything else. If you’re concerned about losing your bookmarks, Firefox can import your Chrome bookmarks.

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[ID: Firefox Library window. The “Import and Backup” panel is expanded, displaying the option, “Import Data from Another Browser”, which is also circled with a red MS Paint ellipse. ID end.]

And, don’t forget to install uBlock Origin while you’re at it.

badgraph1csghost

Forgot a thing. Subscribe to Mozilla VPN for bonus points. It’s basically the only truly secure VPN service in the world right now.

For $5 a month, you can completely conceal your online activities from your ISP in a manner that isn’t just immediately monetised or turned over to the cops. No, it’s not free, it does cost money, but the money doesn’t go to line a billionaire’s pockets.

katy-l-wood

I wonder how much of this is because of work/school from home forcing people to use Chrome so all their stupid monitoring softwares and platforms can work.

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please consider switching to Firefox

cesnakai
cesnakai

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WELL I guess the power issues in Texas are not isolated and the source of the problem is worse and more widespread than we thought.

[TikTok user jules.su video transcript: If you’re looking at Texas right now and thinking, “It seems pretty bad that a state’s electrical grid can fail over night from a snowstorm.” I have news for you. It’s so much worse than you could ever imagine! Don’t be a heartless idiot and blame “red state voters,” it’s red states, blue states, purple states, green states, everywhere is in crisis.

In 2017, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave our energy grid a D+, because almost all of it was built in the 1950s and 60s with a 50-year life expectancy. And we’re 10 to 20 years past that. Across the country 640,000 miles of high-voltage lines run at full capacity at almost all times. Which is way more than the grid is designed to handle, and Texas in particular has one of the worst ratios between planned and real capacity.

It’s SO bad that the U.S. government has said that if just nine of America’s 55,000 electrical substations are brought down, it could cause a coast-to-coast blackout lasting 18 months or more!

And testimony from the Executive Director of Task Force on National and Homeland Security has said “a prolonged collapse of the electrical grid could result in the death of up to 90% of the American population.”

Today the U.S. has more power outages than any other developed country. And that’s because 68% of the electricity in the U.S. is managed by investor-owned privatized utility companies, and updating their system cuts into their profits. So they don’t do anything until something fails. And when things do fail, and, for example, start massive wildfires in California, guess who pays for it? Mostly taxpayers!

There’s no good news and that’s just the tip of the iceberg because all of America’s infrastructure is failing so I’m gonna keep doing videos about it. /end transcript]

cesnakai
cesnakai

This has definitely been said before and probably makes me sound ~uncool~, but it actually terrifies and sickens me the extreme radicalization that happens online, on both sides, and especially worsening as people interact less with their community (and the diverse ideologies within it) now during the pandemic. Idk what the long term consequences will be. I just didn't think it was that prevalent until I stumbled on some appalling blogs here. I've been on tumblr for like a decade and managed to evade them somehow.

Mostly I'm concerned about impressionable children and teenagers who are consuming themselves with hatred. Hatred of other groups and themselves. It happens on the left and right. Heck, I'm not immune either. If you find yourself doing that, please remember that people are still people.

And don't get it twisted, I'm not asking everyone to be complacent. But be critical when someone says "____ are evil people." It is an opinion, not a fact. And maybe you'll choose to share that opinion for whatever reason, but at least don't let it overtake you and overshadow the fact that they are capable of good. Just something to keep in the back of your head.