they should be deleted to make sure we dont have this problem anymore

I dont wanna go to Japan how do I get it inside me

oh my God man

edit: for real though, stop and imagine a team of Chinese researchers trying to do something. they succeed.

how do you read about this without lumping it into whatever weird idea you have about the Chinese government is and saying its fake and gay

like genuinely, and I really mean for you to think about this- if you weren’t racist, why can Chinese people not accomplish anything

just for further thought - how many miracle advancements in cancers, dementia, and autoimmune diseases have I read about, only to have these things continue to exist? science journalism is always going to sell bs to us, and science is always gonna be slow as hell

double edit: why bother trying to appeal to these people jesus

I was going to say “living well” but I guess everyone else has put it better when they say no contact

Thanks for this post!

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What I’m picking up is that it’s not a fully formed set of ideals agreed upon by everyone

Oh yeah absolutely. I think I was vaguely thinking this in one of my other responses. Fwiw I can imagine seeing basically exactly what you described as some kind of bad doomsday prepper negativist solarpunk, but I couldn’t get over the sense of it being a strawman, or, less dramatically, just the opposite of what a lot of people seem to think they’re joining.

I was going to respond elsewhere - I don’t think you have to be sold on these solarpunks and their ideas. Not in a mocking way – but I would say my encounters with solarpunks are like my encounters with squirrels. I see them very occasionally, we don’t interact, I take pleasure in the encounter, maybe appreciate something I didn’t before, and then I move on. Based on that you could imagine how little data I have on them

Without trying to treat you combatively, I am reading a lot of the same things in the way you talk about things.

I’ll say again that its possible you and I have seen different solarpunks, but I think you may have waded into a personally difficult topic, since solarpunk as a concept is supposed to be instilled with an awareness that certain kinds of collapse are certain, but that there are things people can do to make life worth living.

When you are dealing with people trying to find hope and talk about what they can do to live well and not contribute to the worlds problems, and you talk negatively, you are going to find responses like these.

Hope that didn’t feel like a pile on

I am not one of these types, but I did want to ask you if people wanting to grow their own crop always brings up these critical views for you.

I personally think “self-sufficiency” (may be the wrong term) in vegetable gardening is a great way for people to increase resilience against famine.

Others have pointed out the anti-consumerism angle - for small scale food gardeners, non-chemical pest deterrance becomes viable in a way impossible for manufacturers of scale, while they can still benefit from any increases in health of the food stock through both traditional selection and genetics research. Very not-Luddites, in that example.

I would also say - and it is possible that I just haven’t checked in on solarpunks recently enough, and I am missing something - but I always thought it was supposed to be the positive answer to doomerism, and to systemic or social collapse, and to the endless barrage of climate collapse news many of us have grown up with. With that in mind, I would question how much the aesthetics and how much individual examples may distort the overall perception of a movement or community.

Overall, is it an obsession with primitivism? I don’t think you are completely wrong. Aesthetics have a major impact on people, so it seems reasonable to me that you are reacting to a dizzying mix of politics and motivations, a lot of c/collapse -grade “this stuff is all gonna fall apart”, and maybe seeing some false positives based on your past experiences having to deal with fringe politics.

Hopefully all of that made any sort of sense

Yes! (I assume that it is an option regardless of country)

I thought I would still want to use my YouTube account because I didn’t know how to troubleshoot Piped Video yet, but in the end it has still been useful because I am still hosting some stuff on Google Drive for other people.

Dig around the data/privacy part of myaccount.google.com and you should find it. It asks you to enter a new email address, and once you have confirmed it, it will delete the Gmail.

edit: I guess YMMV - I did this a while back, so please pay attention to whatever warnings it gives you when you elect to delete the Gmail, because I feel like there might be some non-mail interactions that might be involved, or that it may have changed since I did it. also, obviously, I did this step after I was comfortable completely losing access to my email, and had stopped using the app store (what OP was inquiring about)

Fantastic comment that speaks to so many of the contradictions of the current political line in the west. This one goes in my special little tankie book that I read at night under the covers

I’m sorry if I am confusing things, but is this tied to Gmail? I am currently a “deleted Gmail service off of Google account”-type user, and I can still browse and resubscribe to app store subscriptions.

(Could be I am not looking at the right set of purchases.)

This is a great system too!

I know I shouldn’t be disappointed it hasn’t already been said, but uh… rap music really came into its own in the 90s. Also, you know… was probably the peak as well.

Seriously?

Regardless of whether you decide on self-hosting, or ProtonMail/Tutanota as has been suggested, make sure your choice gives you good freedom to roam. If you’re picking a webmail provider, consider prioritizing arbitrary email clients (Thunderbird, etc). Being able to click-drag your entire email backlog to a hard disk folder might be something you want down the road. Similarly - do some research about data portability options they may offer like XML backups. If we decide ProtonMail and Tutanota suck in ten years, you would probably feel pretty defeated – like you ended up with Gmail 2.0.

I just keep telling people to basically “know their rights” and figure out what options they will have to the new service they are signing up to.

Like others said, definitely a slow process. Sign up your new, necessary accounts to your new address and port your old existing accounts over a day at a time.

Once you have ported an account over you can mass delete emails relevant to that service. You could also keep a log of everything you have ported. Or both.

You can also straight up delete the accounts you don’t need anymore, if thats part of your goal, or something you would find satisfying. Same thing - deleting all of the emails relevant to it afterwards. Eventually you will be able to scroll through years of email without seeing anything you are worried about losing.

Doing this passively, with little time investment over the course of a few years… one day you’re done and ready to cut the cord.

mega “I really don’t care, do u?” energy

ghouls

If you are using Tor or Librewolf, it is probably “letterboxing”, a part of ResistFingerprinting, which you should find in about:config or in the settings.

… but like the other person implied, its not a great idea to disable this. I would like to recommend checking out the EFF’s page on the topic – https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

But you are an adult, presumably, so I will leave you the information and let you decide. Be safe out there

didn’t click, still depressed