I don't know, the only thing stopping me from getting 150 billion is the threat of having to pay an 800 million fine on it.

If it weren't for that

I was going to say, it's starting to sound more like the EU is just taking kickbacks in a circuitous legal manner rather than via a shady under the table deal with men and trench coats exchanging packages of unmarked bills.

I mean, in the last 5 months how many times has the EU fined meta or google?

If you really want to make a message that sticks, you ban the danger sites from operating in your collective and then fine them for their past misdeeds.

If you want to be seen as lenient, you then set down a list of objectives that the site must adhere to in order to be reinstated in the collective.

Anything short of that is just lining your pockets. I mean, what is the money being used for?

This is more like a parfait because everybody likes parfait

Remember, the rule is "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

Threads is doing this. Kicking them to the curb regardless of the cost is the only solution.

Narcissisism isn't a bad thing as long as it is known and controlled for.

You feel good because you say good things about yourself? Rock on.

Others feel bad because you say good things about yourself? What is their problem?

That is not a normal reaction.

Friends should lift up friends at least in equal amounts to how much they are lifted by said friend.

As long as you are being a good friend to your friends it should not negatively affect them when you say good things about yourself. Of course, it would not hurt if you tempered that by saying good things about them as well.

Lift up all the homies

I don't know what normal people do but people like me don't see ads because they use the appropriate protections from the invasiveness of the internet.

Pihole. Firefox. ublock origin, privacy badger, decentraleyes...

It also helps if you don't participate in systems that attempt to intrusively shove ads down your throat, but you do you.

If you are not already in the cult you will never be in the cult

I kind of disagree with that being not caring about you. It's kind of more like they are helpless to help you, but they still want you to be better because they want you to be happy.

So, a lot of people default to giving useless advice. It is still an expression of care and love and support, just an ineffective one that is insulting and annoying to someone who's currently going through it.

I would much rather have somebody whom I've known for years tell me to try doing things that improve their mental health than to have nobody or for everyone to just look the other way while I am suffering.

Run

That calculation is based on location.

If you check yours, it would be free shipping.

Paul giamatti is right behind you

Cumin can add a cinnamonesque flavor to chilis, I wonder if that is where the idea of putting cinnamon in chili comes from.

What I would do is get a lot of experience with a lot of different systems.

If you're enjoying self hosting and setting stuff up, go to something like TurnKey Linux and download a handful of applications that you're interested in using.

Spin up virtual servers on a proxmox server, install the turnkey Linux systems, and then learn how they work. Get ldap running on your home network. Set up an nginx reverse proxy and get a certificate so that you can go to a duckdns internal name spaces instead of IP addresses.

Find use cases for your home network system and then find how to make the systems you have available work for those use cases.

And for the love of god, find yourself a cheap Windows server license and virtualize one of those and integrate it into the mix.

Host a WordPress or Joomla on IIS, set up a pihole for your home DNS on Ubuntu server.

Run a jellyfin server and download a bunch of public domain movies to it.

Hello, find yourself some Kiwix images that you like and figure out how to get https and nginx names running on them.

The more you play around with the technology, the more you'll find out what you like doing and what you don't like doing and what you're good at and what you're not good at and that will help you understand where you fit and wear your talents lie.

Once you know that I'm sure you can put those talents to use for gainful employment.