Quote from: 18hammers on Oct 07, 2023, 01:23 PMI prefer not to be specific as I know data collection/profilling is a thing on these here interwebs, I will just say greater than 60, I get the seniors discount everywhere. I just could not spring away fast enough when I seen things going pear shaped. Now in retrospective I should have seen that this tree would be more problematic being bent much like a banana.
Although I sympathize with your attempt to avoid data collection and profiling, as long as you pay your ISP with a credit card to provide your internet service, your data and profile is already in the Google database,Amazon has it, the NSA has it, MI6 has it, the Mossad has it, the KGB has it, the Chinese MSS has it...
The horse left the barn quite some time back. Compared to the people you really have to worry about, a bunch of aging net addicts and kollapsniks pose very little threat to your security. I hope I don't scare you off, but if you post on any website, the Admin can find out who you are and where you are posting from. Your IP address is attached to every post you make. Anonymity on the net is a total fiction. Both K-Dog and myself are quite well known by the aforementioned state security and data collection agencies, both our websites have been subjected to endless disinformation by paid trolls, and we in turn have nailed them down and routed them out. And we know what we are doing on the net, I am a long time user going back to the early days of the arpanet before the internet, world wide web, www address prefix,and K-Dog is a code jockey, an electrical engineer with even more capability than me to find this information out. I just ask out of courtesy, and only ever try to ascertain someone's true identity if he/she poses a threat or disrupts my website, which you do not.
Just to let you know my real name is John Litter, my birthdate is 8/31/1957, I live in Anchorage, Alaska and I recently turned 66 years old. ;D Miraculously I might add, when I began writing on collapse and founded the original Doomstead Diner, I never thought I would stay above ground anywhere near this long, I figured to be dead before I turned 60. My RE is Dying threads go back to I think 2013 maybe earlier. I even had my own Tombstone custom carved from granite sourced in quarries as far away as India & China, and planted in a Springfield, MO cemetery as a monument to the Collapse of Industrial Civilization. It waits for my meat package to be shipped back there when I buy my ticket to the Great Beyond, if there is still a plane or boat that will ship it there at a price I still have left in my estate to pay, which is unlikely at this point. Even if my corpse doesn't get there, the stones do have embedded in them copies of my DNA, photographs and short biography on paper, and many of the articles I had written prior to final assembly of the monument. 8)
You can visit the monument after I join my ancestors around the campfire of my people, and I bestow on K-Dog the job of organizing the Wake, if not IRL at the gravesite, at least in cyberspace if the net is still functioning.
Below are videos I made, featuring the monument completion and placement a few years back.
Here's a bonus video featuring K-Dog and myself with Kollapsnik pals Profs Ugo Bardi and George Mobus discussing the Coronavirus problem at its peak.
Many more great vids still up on the Doomstead Diner YouTube Channel, FREE so it's still available.
https://www.youtube.com/@DoomsteadDiner
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