Body armor is totally unnecessary unless maybe you’re an on-duty cop or similar. I’ve witnessed several mass shootings and I can’t imagine a situation where I’d wear body armor.

Be aware of your surroundings and try to avoid situations where you’re more likely to get shot. Know where the exits are in a crowded building, and stay near the edges of any outdoor crowd so you can make a quick escape. Always trust your instincts if you get a bad feeling or someone seems suspicious. Take some self defense classes. With enough training you can even learn how to disarm an attacker, but don’t try it without extensive training.

I chose it because it’s the biggest Swedish instance, even if there are only ~100 active users.

Red '89 Civic hatchback. It lacked power steering so I had to turn the wheel a hundred times to make it turn. It felt ancient to me and it was manual transmission. My dad wanted me to learn manual even though most cars are automatic in the US. No power steering absolutely sucked, but it turns out knowing how to drive manual can be pretty useful.

Crazy: Years ago I sent a girl from one of those “meet people here” subreddits like 10 photos of myself because she seemed interesting from her bio and promised me photos in return. In the photos I was doing stuff like hiking and exploring abandoned buildings, and there was a badass one of me posing triumphantly on a massive rock in front of a glacier lake. What did she do? Wrote me back a nasty message accusing me of being hideous or having a horrible disfigurement because none of the photos were close-up clear shots of my face and she couldn’t figure out how to zoom in on my face with her phone. I guess my hobbies and interests weren’t relevant, not to mention my face was totally visible if she’d zoomed in.

I sent those same pics to another girl a few months later and six years later we’re still together.

I didn’t downvote your comment, but I’ll explain why I don’t agree with it.

We should upvote and downvote based on whether a comment contributes or doesn’t contribute to the discussion. If I disagree with a comment but still find it thought provoking or worth reading, then I’ll probably upvote. If I agree with a comment that adds nothing worthwhile to the discussion then I won’t upvote and might even downvote. If a comment adds no value to the discussion then there’s nothing to be gained by replying to it.

Last year I deleted almost 50 accounts, including:

• Meetup.com
• 23andme
• Microsoft
• Intuit
• Coinbase
• Venmo
• Monster.com
• ChatGPT
• GoDaddy
• StubHub
• RentCafe

I’m in the US and unfortunately deleting data/accounts isn’t always easy with US companies, and a few of them have told me it’s not even possible.

The amount of AI slop on Reddit these days is insane. A decade ago I could spend hours a day browsing interesting discussions, now I spend 5-10 minutes and I’m done.