I do want to take this time to emphasize protective gear during actions. Protective gear may not have helped Linda, I'm not victim blaming. The blame lies with cops and their enablers, for whom I have unlimited hatred. But it does help on average to be cautious. Spaces that seems safe often are not. Wear ballistic goggles and helmets. Bring a respirator that can handle organics, i.e. P100.
Consider deleting all your stuff in your account and using every "delete all my shit, Facebook" process there is. Then delete the account. If Facebook actually complies this will do an even better job of wiping your presence.
People become landlords so they can pay their own mortgage with other people's money. It's a pretty reliable way to turn money into more money with no work. Even easier than owning the means of production. Just grift off of rent. There are also big tax incentives for buying a second or third home. You can definitely do better than the stock market being a petty landlord.
It could just go back and forth because they're disease friends now.
COVID making people more susceptible to infection so they get H5N1. H5N1 making people more likely to get COVID. If H5N1 mutates fast enough they can get a cycle going.
Yeah guns are already hard enough to securely handle and this makes it even worse.
People using bump stocks usually try to start the rapid firing gingerly because they trying to hit just the right balance between "out of control" and "actually holding the gun", since that is what makes the stock do it's thing. It's actually a very simple device, it just let's the rest of the gun move forward and back within the stock. When the gun fires, it is pushed back into the stock. When it bounces forward again off your shoulder (within the stock itself, as if the stock is a sheath), it will come back into contact with your finger on the trigger and fire again.
You can actually do this without a bump stock with the right technique (even more dangerous than with a bump stock).
Don't overthink it you're probably fine. If you then suggest an alternative way to keep in touch the other person will probably stop thinking about the no social media thing basically immediately.
Sorry people are treating you like that. A lot of people seem to think that socializing means getting in each other's business and making comments, usually presumptuous ones. Your experience reminds me of people whose family or friends keep asking them about when they're having kids even though the person is obviously unhappy with being asked. Normative nonsense being foisted on a person just being themselves and having an otherwise decent time.
PS freeform dreads are cool and I'm glad you're happy with them!
This is the "plant-based" version of incremental electoralism. It sounds nice at first because the "direction" is right but it rarely actually gets the job done.
More and more I'm starting to think Americans require political education starting at a much more basic level known as, "how to not be an asshole to each other for no reason all the time". It seems to be deeply ingrained in the majority of people that disagreement requires being shitty and likely racist to one another.
Hey! I've met some of those!