My marriage is approaching 30 years now.

A lot of this goes without saying or as some would say common sense. Only there is no common sense as it is too subjective of a term. Look at me, I am already digressing and I haven’t even started.

Everything you know about life and love will change in your lifetime. Everything you have learned is a half truth. You sometimes find happiness when you can find the whole truth for yourself. This often means you may end up in conflict with culture, society, or even family. This is normal.

If you love and care about yourself, you can truly love and care about someone else. Although there may be sacrifice in relationships, the factor that makes them work is how you build each other up. A marriage or any partnership should always be about helping each other achieve more.

Be grateful for your life and everything you have and everyone you know everyday. Say it out loud, tell it to the people in your family, in your friendships, in your workplace, and most importantly in your close relationships.

Not only is it important to say it, it is important to show it through your actions. A common trope is actions are louder than words. Both are actually important, although I do have a preference for people showing it because it validates what they say.

Treat people how they want to be treated. This blows the golden rule out of the water. Don’t know how they want to be treated? This is normal. You ask them. Asking someone how they want to be treated and treating them that way is the surest way to gain respect.

Unless you save you are not paying yourself anything. If you spend everything you make you are literally stealing from your future. Always save everything you can and invest it if you want it to grow. Think twice about purchases, especially if they are major. Being a little thrifty in life is way better than living paycheck to paycheck.

Usually a couple hundred. This year maybe $40-60. Budget is beyond tight.

Sue them out of existence. They are not going to stop.

This did not make it better.

Let’s try this again.

Wait, what is this about who beat the fascists?

Answer: No one, they are the dominate form of government in the world.

Swimming rama for sure.

You can instantly stop yourself from hiccuping.

Pretty sure fascist already broke off the UK. While I will agree the US is ahead, it is everywhere already.

This is a worldwide problem unfortunately.

Corporations can and do fight for their users. Proton is not one of these companies. I think that says all we need to know about their commitments to their users. You are welcome to continue leading people to a business that have shown that they are not willing to do what is right because profit is their primary motivation.

Proton claimed there was no way to appeal, but Swiss law is not bound by Interpol. I think what it really amounts to is they are not going to protect their users. This is why you don’t pay for let alone use a corporation’s services unless you willing to give up your privacy.

Proton is not your friend, they have and will continue to betray their users. Do not trust them or any corporation that is not willing to fight for their users.

If you have conservative reps you could try calling and writing their office and demand they compromise on health care. With enough pressure they will cave.

If you have progressive reps call and congratulate them and tell them not to stop until the conservatives start participating in governance

Many of your later questions would rely on too much conjecture to answer. The simple truth is this unprecedented and we don’t know what is going to happen.

I share many of your concerns as many people here do.

For sure, Hitler admired how we committed genocide against the Native Americans and modeled the final solution after it.

The fantasy of destroying fascism is just that, a fantasy. The reality was by the time World War II hit the US was already a fascist state itself. I would definitely argue that even our founding fathers were proto-fascists as well.

Employers won’t hire her!

That is the propaganda. The truth is it is about control. Whoever gets on top of this will literally be able to rewrite our society.

Stop othering people.

I was wondering what they planned on doing with these increasingly fast processors. Apparently, it will be used to spy on you while providing training data to their AI. Why the hell this is acceptable I don’t know. It reminds me of those bad actors who use to mine Bitcoin covertly on other people’s computers with compromised software or web pages.

When it became the dominate OS run by a greedy corporation.

This is a well reasoned response. For sure the problem is just exacerbated by AI. The real problem is Intellectual Property in the first place.

There is no theft period. There is perhaps copyright infringement for commercial entities. This is a civil legal matter and has almost no bearing on anything you are discussing.

You must also consider all art is iterative. This means all art is based off art that came before it. You cannot create art in a vacuum and every artist borrows heavily from our culture

We are not here to judge what is or isn’t art either. This is a treacherous road where people can deny art like a collage because it doesn’t fit their definition of art. Everyone is actually an artist by definition unless they have literally never spoken, written, sang, or drawn.

There is definitely a worthy discussion around AI art. Right now we don’t really have AI so it is not really creating anything. It is more of fill in the blank taking the best guesses based on prior work.

I believe, as other posters have stated, that Intellectual Property is actually anti-art, anti-science, and anti-technology. The problems we face with AI pale in comparison to a broken system beset by capitalists hell bent on controlling our culture and extracting as much money as they can through doing so.