The next version of windows and the next iphone won't have local storage AT ALL. Cloud storage only.
You wake up one day and poof, all your memes are gone. You'll never be able to prove they ever existed. Then they'll make offline storage illegal because it might have pizza with walnut sauce on it.

my CrossFit instructor (Jaxx Powerz)

it's short for jaxxwell

cavemen ate whatever they could find, so when i'm devouring an entire chocolate cake like a beligerent opossum it's actually paleo

what if we frosted those flakes

Because they don't wanna admit how little control over their lives they have so they do stuff like this to imitate control. The material reason is because institutions in America like healthcare and education have failed and so people escape into alternatives no matter how ineffective.

If you wanna be a bit more positive about it, I think this could be labeled benign superstition. The male equivalent of healing crystals. In the age of the internet, what used to be believing in evil spirits or demons has been replaced with this kind of crackpot science for a lot of people.

This is admittedly a rather generous interpretation but this isn't much sillier to me than hanging a dreamcatcher above your kid's bed. It doesn't actually protect them from anything but it shows the dad cares, kinda.

All it takes is to double down when wrong, and it'll spiral from there. It would start by something very small but wrong and they get defensive when challenged on it. They do their own research and ~~confirmation bias~~ present it as proof they were correct. Counter-proof sends them further into the spiral with even more energy. All of this is magnified once it becomes part of their identity.

being amongst all these flaghumpers, American nationalism seems like the most pathetic substitute for self-esteem. like being super into how cool your unborn choice was to be born in the hegemon. they see America bullying other countries and think they get to feel strong and powerful because they put up a flag in their bedroom which makes them part of it, I guess?

i worship the nation that's blasting my brain with 5g waves that give me cancer or whatever!

I bought a faraday cage wallet for my phone. Any time I want to have a private conversation I put my phone in it. No signal. I got two, one for mine and one for the person I’m talking to.

That sounds useful for the scenario where malicious software on your phone wants to exfiltrate audio and the software isn't sophisticated enough to store data when there is no signal and then transmit it later? 🤔

(I don't think faraday bags are completely useless - if it actually blocks cellular and GPS, wifi, and bluetooth (which many/most actually don't completely), then they can be helpful for preventing location tracking by phones or other devices with malware which makes them appear to be off when they're actually still on. But, if you're worried about the phone listening to you then a faraday bag is insufficient to stop it from doing so - and so are ovens, refrigerators, and various other things people assume will stop sound - if you do some experiments you'll quickly find that modern phones have surprisingly sensitive microphones.)

SPONGE-BOB SQUARE-ASS !!

But the head part, bottom part, wall part and top part are open. It's not a Faraday cage at all. It's just some mesh on two sides of the bed. Charge needs to be able to flow all around to cancel out outside fields. So it would need both more mesh and good conductive connection between the sides to "work" (not that there's any point to it anyway).