Certainly a argument can be made for this. For me it is the extended family and contacts from hobbies /sports. Without FB they would have completely faded out of my life. This low level method maintains a loose family connections once maintained by the senior family members that have long since passed. As for the others yes completely disappear from your life…

I’ve found the same thing with the IG and FB apps which is why I don’t use them. I stick to the mobile web versions but they have made it difficult to message from the android mobile web without extra steps like desktop mode. Even then there can be missing functionality.

There was also an article earlier this year where they were purposely “testing” the apps that forcibly drained some user batteries quickly without a care for the actual users affected. Since I’m often using my phone for navigation in the woods I want as much battery life as possible please.

Anyways if it wasn’t for older friends and family members I would no longer be using FB.

It’s become worse dealing with Google over these play cards since covid. They shut down all phone support. I made 13 attempts to get a $100 card deemed with them and I got all kinds of reasons why I couldn’t redeem the card by email despite providing the receipt, card and codes and my utility bills. I even called other departments within google to try to get it fixed. Nothing.

I wasted way more of my time on principle. It happens quite often I read online for many people.

I think Google should be barred from selling these cards. There’s no recourse and they keep the money. It’s a racket and there’s no way to recover the money unless you pay by credit card with a charge back. Those that used cash or debit are out the money as there are no refunds from the store.

Some would say Love is always the answer for everything. I think that would be a higher state for many. At the very least kindness.

I watched a South Park movie for the first time in years. In this one they traveled into the future. Everything had Max or Plus added to the name. It seemed pretty spot on with where we are going

Most Vegetable and seed oils. They are a silent killer and they are in everything now including French fries to replace beef tallow.

There’s hardly a processed food that does not contain them and they are terrible for cardiovascular health.

Along with the fake sugars and sugar substitutes they will be among the things we will look back on and ask why.

I’ve not really played with Linux Distros much in the past several years due to windows ERP software at work. It’s it still Wine or are there better solutions now for those windows only programs?