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Unpopular opinion: degrees are a scam.

Not saying higher education is a scam, just degrees. I have three reasons for saying this:

1. Not all four year degrees are equal
2. On average, a bachelor's degree costs 40% of a family's income
2. Academic inflation means the earning potential of a degree is falling while its expenses rise

This doesn't even get into the fact most employers don't care what you study—they just want to ensure whoever they hire is from a certain socio-economic strata.

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Big ironies:
1. Alt tech is so anti-big tech, they all use CuckFlare, which is big tech and even more evil than Fakebook.
2. Cryptobro's are so anti-centralization, most of them use CuckFlare, which has already centralized the internet more than Goolag and Amazon could have ever dreamed of.
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Remember if shit gets too bad you can run a gasoline vehicle on ethanol and a diesel vehicle on biodiesel you can make at home.
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Once again, if you rely on a centralized platform, you might have easier access to an audience, but you'll be forced to throw them all under the bus at some point, or the platform owner will throw YOU under the bus.
Yet another reminder that you should make your own everything.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/06/08/patreon-begins-to-purge-fan-art-of-characters-below-a-certain-height-and-bust-size/
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Websoyte UI elements make no sense.
There's always a "back" button embedded into the webpage, even though every single browser ever made has its own "back" button already.
This is perfectly fine if it's something like "go from the details page to the overview page", but often times the reason it's there is because soydevs do everything in their power to break the browser's back button.

Another useless UI element is the copy button.
Every PC OS with the exception of macOS has a "CTRL + C" hotkey, because in macOS it's "CMD + C".
And with the exception of iPhone OS 2.0 and earlier (Crapple themselves called iOS like that back in the day!), every single smartphone OS has a built in "tap and hold text on the screen to select and then copy that shit" feature, even Phosh and Plasma Mobile can do this!

But apparently, a dedicated "copy" button is needed, which can eventually be abused to do malicious things, because Javascript.

Another pointless button has to be the "share" button.
How difficult is it to simply copy and paste the URL of the current page!?

What's next?
Make a "right click menu" button?
Make a button that will click the hyperlink right next to it for you?

If we continue on like that, someday we will find ourselves in a situation when trends change and all these useless buttons disappear, and the normies will have no idea how the hell they have to copy text, share a URL with their friends, or go back in the browsing history.

And the freaky part about it is, the first 2 of those is already happening, when I asked my grandma (who's using an iPad, because of course) to share me the website she was viewing, she told me "How am I supposed to do that!? There's not even a share button on that page!!", or my mother complaining that she can't copy the URL of a webpage to XMPP, because she only knows how to do so to LINE.
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ARCTIC SEA-ICE –Polar Solar Controller–
A fun read wandering about looking at the climate here and there.
https://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2022/06/10/arctic-sea-ice-polar-solar-controller/
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Added CuckCuckGo(ne) (DuckDuckGo) and Opussy (Odysee) to the list.
https://ryocafe.site/glossary
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dns.toys/

dns.toys is a DNS server that takes creative liberties with the DNS protocol to offer handy utilities and services that are easily accessible via the command line.

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A Gyro is just a taco for white people
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