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If you do the waffle house night shift for 20 years you deserve to be retired on a full pension.

"Imagine if we committed a genocide."

These people aren't even self-aware enough for the "are we the baddies?" joke.

Just do a search for "China balloon [nytimes, washington post, wsj, etc]" and go look at the feverishly stupid coverage from just February of this year. And aside from just the regular shitty media, think back to how furious the reactionaries were whipped into becoming by blaming Biden for just not shooting it down instantly over some country bumpkin's head, but instead allowing it to float off over the Atlantic before shooting it.

Do you have an example of what this entails or looks like?

None of the "good policy choices" were retrospective about colonialism, or about ceasing modern interventionism. The idea can't even begin to formulate in their pathetic minds.

There is a lot more to say about Firefox, which is probably the most important component here. There are so many settings to be configured for a pleasant and private experience, depending on what is trying to be achieved.

• Firefox's extension Multi-account containers
• (Disabling) sponsored shortcuts
• Disabling search suggestions so that not every letter you type is sent to google immediately
• Considering alternative default search engines
• Changing the Firefox tracking protection policy from Standard to Strict, or even Custom with more cookies blocked.
• Disable Firefox Suggest (web suggestions)
• Disable or enable Firefox Data Collection and Use
• "Block dangerous and deceptive content" (can use Google's safe browsing service api)
• DNS settings (too much to say)
• privacy.resistFingerprinting (and the numerous caveats this advanced setting has https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting)
• Consider disabling serviceworkers until someone explains a legitimate real life active use case that isn't just some vector to track a user

Most of what I listed above are simple options that can be found and checked or unchecked in Firefox's settings. Some of them are more advanced and require more awareness of what you're doing. But to any user who is using Firefox, many of these options I think are obvious such as disabling sponsored shortcuts, and disabling search suggestions. IMO if you want search suggestions (as in, letting Google see everything you type in the search bar even if it isn't meant for them) just go to google.com and use their page directly.

I think some of most interesting things around 9/11 are the extremely stupid side stories. Consider real estate developer Larry Silverstein who argued that the WTC attacks were two separate attacks, and therefore he was entitled to two payouts on his insurance claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Silverstein#Insurance_dispute

It's mundane shit like this that really gives a unique glimpse into the depravity of capitalism. The uninteresting part of this is the casually anti-Semitic implication that the insurance policy was taken because a Jewish man knew what was going to happen. That's part is just stupid antisemitism and I do think it's worth making that point clear.

I think it contributed to my fear of flying. I have flown plenty of times, but I hate it.

The implication is that Mossad may have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks. It just goes on the pile of unusual things and fun facts. As we don't have more details, there isn't more to say

Just remembering these Israeli guys (Definitely not Mossad!) who were arrested after the towers collapsed. From 2002: https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1

Maria says she saw three young men kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building. "They seemed to be taking a movie," Maria said.

The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck Maria were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said.

We need to FOIA these recordings.

It is still wild to me that the port authority did not immediately order the evacuation of the south tower after an explosion in the north one.

I believe that's correct but I would not have been old enough to pay attention to that, specifically. But the coverage of 9/11 did not end on 9/11, of course.