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If you use a DNS solutions you can block all the telemetry shit. Frankly FF has been phoning home in a lot of undesirable ways for many years even before this, like most browsers.
You're absolutely right on all counts. And that's why I quit (without waiting around to be laid off which frankly the severance package would've been nice). I got hired into the first (private) company I applied to, I'm thriving, and I don't miss that stink of wall street/silicon valley money at all.
I'm not speaking in absolutes here obviously. But it's pretty well established that a very small fraction of people who take drugs (prescription or otherwise) become what we term addicts. There are lots of affluent addicts and alcoholics (I know plenty personally) but just because they have access to medical and mental health care doesn't mean every one of them will go there.
You don't see a lot of upper middle class people end up on the streets with heavy addictions because they can usually get into rehab, get help processing whatever it is keeping them down, and move on with their lives. Lots of poorer people can do so as well (the poverty and "success" porn content out there is easy to find) but for every one of those success stories there are thousands who never make it. I don't think it's hard to parse that poorer people have less culturally acceptable means of getting help (if they don't outright end up in prison for simple possession to begin with, which I'm guessing those peers you're referring to seldom have to worry about).
The thing a lot of people get backwards (fuck the war on drugs actually) is that hardcore addiction is virtually always predated by some type of undiagnosed and untreated mental health issue. To say that another way, mental health issues are not caused by taking drugs. When someone is very unwell and often poor (i.e. low or no access to medical and mental health professionals) they often find a way to self-treat the affliction(s) with street drugs. Those same underlying causes for a more affluent person will be dealt with alongside medical supervision (and often with the same class of drugs) without falling into the trap of addiction (because supervised, and supported).
Nothing cool about being a drug user by choice, nor an addict trying to cope. It's just reality.
I don't have any personal experiences with any of these crew finder sites but I know lots of people who've used them. The catamaran designer I *apprenticed under met his wife through one. She had no prior sailing experience but was willing to learn, and he needed crew to do a Caribbean crossing, and that's how the story began for them like 25+ years ago. They still sail together all over the world.
The other advice is good too. Just walk the docks and ask around. People love talking about their boats.
Who's even still on Twitter at this point besides racists and transphobes and companies who have no tech department to help them divest to a better platform?
Shopify laid off a couple thousand people, then "chaos monkey'd" the entire company just over a year ago, and forced everyone to open an FB Workplace acct as though it was going to boost productivity somehow having us split our comms between slack (which already sucks) that we've been using for years and some half assed afterthought Zuck's team came up with (at least the public facing piece) leading into their own layoff waves.
I left Shopify happily and voluntarily and I'm not gonna pour one out for FB Workplace, at all. Good riddance to bad garbage.
He has a podcast too called Better Offline. Just started it up a few months ago.
Windscribe is based out of Toronto.
Within two years of Gmail going viral people were screaming from the tops of any soap box, tree and mountain You are the product!! but as these things always go, very few people paid attention.
It's probably some type of cypher. Which will take people exactly one (1) afternoon to crack.