There are people out there losing family members, many of them forever, over politics
There are millions of people who don't feel safe leaving their house right now due to politics
Millions more worried about straight up losing their house and everything they own over politics
People worried about where their next meal is coming from
People worried if they're gonna be able to afford to continue to fucking live
Others wondering if there's even going to be much of a world left to live in
Many people thinking about politics are doing so because they do not get a choice. No one wants to think about any of that, they're being forced to by the reality unfolding around them.
A good VPN that values privacy is a pretty easy answer
Random one, but I get a lot of use out of a boardgamesarena premium membership. I've got a few mates that I can't see IRL as much any more, so it's nice to be able to jump on a video call and play some board games. Only one in the group needs a membership to unlock all the games and it's about £30 for the year. Easily better value than a few hours in a pub
I have other subscriptions I find varying levels of useful for me, but hard to argue for many of them being particularly good value.
Wow, so I thought having an explicit 4chan block was kinda silly enough, but finding out it works by running OCR on every uploaded image and looking for the words "Anonymous" and "No" is absurdly silly.
Most people [...] write [...] comments [...] and hope AI picks them up
Really quite sad if there's even one person out there doing that.
This is also as much of a grift as any SEO that claims to have cracked the code of getting to the top of results. Even if they have figured something reproducible, it will get fixed. If someone can manipulate a search engine to provide results different to what it would otherwise do, that's a bug they will fix
I'm already expecting it to come out that Farage is one of the names they've been redacting