What’s plan B?

Depends on the hit. There’s not much blood so it might just be a graze.

And the Democrats that let Republicans get away with it.

Total Harshit move.

Whoops, somehow managed to typo it. Fixed now.

I’m very lucky in that regard. Not only do we have a local ISP and mobile service from a national carrier, but the electric co-op that provides our power just ran 2.5Gb/s fiber through the neighborhood and lets members use 200Mb/s on it for free.

I’m a weird sort of person. 😺

I did too! Turns out there’s a lot of weirdness and jargon that gets built into the system after 44 years of continuous operation, and of course the CC companies wanted to be able to bill separately for issuing new cards and printing replacements. XD

You can have more than one dumb pipe to push bits through, but if the ISP can read your network traffic then you have bigger problems than a single-point-of-failure.

Unless you build your own, you have to trust your ISP to move packets, but you don’t have to rely on any third party services or give them your personal info to use social media.

Fully decentralized, open-source, and encrypted social networks exist. The only servers needed are your computer and the computers of the friends you communicate with. (See: Retroshare )

They’re just never going to get big because small, personal friend-to-friend networks can’t compete with the network effects of centralized media and a never-ending torrent of dopamine on tap.

That’s technically not a card issuance, which in CC terms only happens when the bank associates an account on their end with a new card profile from the CC company. No actual card needs to be issued either, a token in a digital wallet works the same way.

Deactivating a lost card and activating a replacement (temporary or otherwise) are just maintenance activities on an existing card profile. They get recorded to the original profile both for record-keeping and so that the bank doesn’t get billed extra for issuing a new one.

Lockpicking

Using Linux

Media piracy

Feeding the homeless

Wheatpasting / graffiti

Political theory

Shoplifting from corporate chains

First Aid

Legal observation

Black bloc tactics

Guerilla gardening

Spotting plainclothes cops / informants

Dialectical Materialism

Can confirm.

In fact, furries went out and improved upon the design of military cooling vests to try and beat the heat:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-cooling-vest-invented-by-a-furry-made-its-way-into-the-us-military

Credit card companies don’t issue credit cards, they’re middlemen for the banks and take a cut from every transaction processed.

Oh, it’s true. Even without any unlawful computer access, the amount of personal info your average IT furry can access is pretty astounding. There’s furries quietly keeping things running in the background across tech, finance, industry, science, and just about everywhere.

Our Bacon numbers are tiny, too. It might be six degrees for any two random humans, but in the furry community you rarely have to go farther than friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend.

So; if you’ve got a problem, if nobody else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… A Furry.

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At some point you have to ask yourself if it would be less hassle to switch now or to try and tough it out until Windows becomes unbearable.

It’s always been more broad than that, the sexual aspects are just a lot more apparent than they are in the wider culture.

Talk to the staff at a convention hotel sometime and they’ll tell you that the kinkiest group they serve are Dentists. They might look more professional at first, but they’ve got disposable income and nothing else to live for, so their room parties get wild.

Not in its current form, no.

There definitely were furries, but we didn’t form a cohesive subculture until we started getting online in the late 80’s.

They’re kinda like anime fans, but their self-insert characters are all animal people.

The subculture traces back to a series of room parties at scifi conventions in the 80’s, but didn’t grow into its own until the internet got more common.