ArcaneSlime

Even jungle drums, you'd need your own drum-language. If the rest of the tribe knows it..

You could book cypher all of your comms, I guess.

Good luck, dumb phone means no encryption, SMS and MMS are stored plaintext and freely shared with US three letters and phone convos have been spied on en masse since the 80s.

For that to be effective you'd have to give up phones, smart, dumb, even carphones and landlines. Not only that, you'd have to reliably know your contacts are never contacting you through their phones, windows PCs, etc, that all themselves have that compromised HW as well. Realistically you'd need to fall back on the postal service, but people can steam open letters, so you'll need directly employed couriers, but can you really trust anyone else? So you need to hand deliver it, but can you really trust your contact to burn after reading? Better say it face to face, if you can be sure they (or third parties) aren't recording, but then Flock knows they were with you and they could be tortured later.

Even deeper, they claim to be able to read "pet tags," which would mean they can read ANY RFID, they know your gym code, if you have a fob for your apartment they can clone it and get in like a kid with a Flipper 0.

Idk how it's physically possible so hopefully they're lying, they should have to be basically touching the tag, but they claim they can. I'd believe they can read UHF RFID but that isn't what they claimed, they specified "pet tags" (which again, would mean they can do all tags.) And that would mean they can add NFC and read your cards in your wallet, if they wanted, because that isn't far off from RFID. Now ostensibly they'd have to perform the handshake with your card so they'd only have the same partial info a Flipper could pull, but like, still not a fan of that personally.

Tbf, this paints the picture that the issue isn't "the guns." If we also have more knife attacks, "guns" can't be "the reason" Americans are more violent than their oft compared counterparts. I'd wager it's something in the absolutely well known cocktail of economic disparity, general hopelessness, social isolation, instability abound, the pollution from chemical plants that led to our past serial killer problem (no really), and all the other factors that we know can contribute to more violence in a region.

It's also more helpful to compare a country to itself, it's possible factors other than "guns" can be the real reason. For instance, Japan may be less violent because they don't have guns, or they may be less violent because they're quietly an authoritarian police state that has police in your district inspect your house once a year "just in case" and they can hold you indefinitely if you're simply suspected and can force confessions leading to a suspiciously high conviction rate (spoiler: false convictions). Without being able to force people to confess to crimes they didn't do (legally, it does happen but it isn't allowed), who knows how that'd work here.

So with that in mind, comparing America now to America then, violent crime in the US has dropped steadily since 1993; and gun ownership has only gone up in that same time, in 2004 our "assault weapons ban" expired and violent crime is still falling, despite public perceptions fueled by 24/7 news media and their "if it bleeds it leads" scaremongering for ad revenue, of course.

That's not being neurotypical. That's just having poor communication skills.

I won't even bother replying to him, that's what I'd have said, thank you.

Based on the actual women in my life, "blame partner for own communication failures" is the divergence rather than the norm.

YMMV. In mine it's about a 50/50 split, probably edging on the "blame others" side. I do also know guys that expect you to read their minds too though, mostly middle managers, and plenty men and women who can't take responsibility for any of their faults/actions (which is in essence the same issue, just broadened), it's not really a gendered issue, it seems like there's a general accountability problem these days.

Nope.

That's what "nope" means? I thought it just meant "nope."

I figure something like "No I just want to cuddle with you and have a nice chat" would be a more descriptive way to say "nope," maybe we should look into that.

If "she wants to talk to me" then she should use more than one word.

Then she should tell me that, ironically, because I'm neurodivergent and can't read my own mind sometimes, let alone hers.

I don't want an attack dog, I'll protect the cats just fine.

The cats won't run down range and get in my way.

I have to be in, but I'm not gonna take the time to find out.

Just in case,

HEY TESSERACT GUY:

YOU A WHOLE ASS BITCH FR

Good.

That's legal, fuck you. It's my data, and I want it (gone) now!

That isn't a hallucination, that's Scribbles! He's chill.