I procrastinated on buying the lifetime pass the last time they jacked prices. They worded the email weird and made it sound like the deadline was a day later than it really was.

Whatever kinda on me. But I emailed them and admitted my mistake, said if they could extend a bit of grace I’d buy a lifetime pass right here and now at $120. They said no, but then on Reddit tons of other people got the old price honored when they asked.

So I switched to Enby, which is cleaner and just as easy, and then I joined a class action against Plex for giving data to Facebook and I got, ironically, $120 bucks from them.

Yandex is really good at images. Maybe the best. Haven’t been as wowed by the web search.

I don’t like it because it feels like it allows people to stop thinking further beyond “I’m not a drab and lame liberal, I’m something a little cooler and more radical” and they don’t really think farther than that. They stop examining their beliefs and worldviews and analyzing the world. They were chill with Bernie and want something a little more than the DNC has to offer (what that is, who knows) and that’s good enough. Often, they’re still a little scared of bandying about the “socialism” s-word.

This isn’t to say that I think every person with politics to the left Elizabeth Warren needs to become a scholar of theory and pinpoint their tendency like “oh yes, I’m a MLM-Gonzaloist Thought.” I do wish people would be less skittish around the s-word though, and maybe just a super high-level overview of what Marx was laying down, like a brief idea of the labor theory of value. Or even a “socialism isn’t just the government doing things” type of understanding.

So yes, I also feel the yuck and do whatever I can to avoid saying “leftism” and identify as a socialist/Marxist/communist to try to be an example of that change I’d like to see.

I have no experience or advice to give you, just want to say good luck. This war isn’t worth losing your life over.