Is it by smashing stuff together until they break something fundamental, and the universe goes dark?

One of my friends once called me pedantic, and I got to correct his pronunciation of it - he stressed the first syllable. One of the high points of my life.

Salty popcorn

Why did Italy ban lab-grown meat from Arizona in the first place?

Can’t be diluting’ them pure genes if you only fuck family members

Behold, the master race! In all their glorious, unmisogynated genetic purity

Came here to say pretty much exactly that! Great minds etc

Andrew Huberman is a neurologist who covers this in depth, with citations and references, if you’re actually interested. It’s pretty well established

That has no right to be that good

Wait, are we supposed to think of influencers as humans?

Arctic prison, not gulag, honest

Mine is a Casio I’ve had for about 30 years, I’m pretty sure it’s mine by now

I’ve got a digital watch

If that’s not a reason to write your dates in a less unhinged format, I don’t know what is.

Yeah, back in the dark ages I watched his videos, along with Michel Gondry’s, pretty religiously. They both had a really visionary approach to film making

It really is one of the finest things committed to digital celluloid substitute. Rubber Johnny is an exceptional bit of work too

I have the Flint, I think I paid about $80 for an open box one, it’s easy for a pleb like me to set up. Running Mullvad on it is definitely quicker than on my devices

I’ve been fairly parsimonious with my information for a fair while - I don’t use my real name online except when unavoidable for payment etc, don’t put photos of me anywhere, use social media (other than Lemmy, and I’m not very social on here really!) and I think I have fairly good habits to keep information and habits separated. I alternate between using FF, Librewolf and Mullvad browser for different things, don’t reuse usernames/id’s, use a VPN router at home and have VPNs on my mobile devices, email masks and relays, and where possible pay with virtual cards etc. I think my most unique identifier, last time I checked with the EFF site, was the size and resolution of my screens. I’m not really sure how much data there is to collect about me past the mundane, as I don’t really associate with anyone in the real world online, and almost exclusively use signal in the real world.

I have a VPN router, and will either use Mullvad browser with no other tabs open (and obviously all cookies freshly cleared etc) or maybe a vanilla FF on a VM. With all my details being nonsense, a unique relayed email, and the browser essentially completely resetting after every use, I doubt they can find out much useful about me

I figure that if I can keep it pretty isolated, they’ll only get “scrolls marketplace in SE uk” out of it - I’m never going to look at the feed or have “friends”.