In addition to A/I, other groups have also been designated as “global far-left terrorists”, like the UK-based Palestine Action (who are against supplying arms to Israel and their genocide in Gaza)

In Australia, I would definitely say Victoria is the best state. I’m from Melbourne though, so I’m a bit biased. Tasmania is also really neat as well. I haven’t visited any of the others, but realistically it’s hard to find the “worst” state in Australia, since they are mostly just big coastal cities with a lot of desert inland. The only exception is the Australian Capital Territory, which is just Canberra and the surrounding area, so unless you really like Canberra there is not much to do (none of the national parks, sightseeing, etc. that Australia is known for)

I checked the Cadenza and it looks like they use resin nozzles too! I’ll keep those in mind then!

Well, for one, it’s a protocol, so it would be like saying email is spyware. Of course Gmail, Outlook, etc. do lots of spying, but it will depend on the provider. If you go with something like mailbox or posteo, where you have stronger GDPR protections and no logging policies, then there will be less spying (not none, as people who receive your emails will likely still be using Gmail or similar)

If you are claiming that Element or some other client is spyware, you would need to have solid evidence for that, which is pretty easy since it’s all open-source!

A lot of people have already mentioned neutron bombs, which are more immediate, but things like infected hoards of mosquitoes, rats, etc. would be devastating, especially for urban populations. One of the main reasons why the native peoples in the Americas and Australia didn’t put up much of a resistance against European colonialism was due to the spread of foreign diseases killing the majority of the population, and in many cases, the idea of deliberate infections has been brought up (whether this was implemented is pretty controversial and still an open question). The Black Death is another example, and aside from how many people died from it across Eurasia, the corpses of those who died from the plague were used as a weapon.

And of course, you have all the chemical and bioweapons of the 20th century developed by the Germans, the Japanese, the Americans, the Soviets, etc., all of which have been used for mass killings, warfare, and terrorism.

Basically, wired in-ear buds. IEM stands for “in-ear monitor”, since they are often used to monitor audio in the music and film industry. They are really neat actually for general use too!

I don’t know the specifics, but ActivityPub has been around longer, so there are larger, stronger communities around compared to the newer kid on the block. You have lots of different services that use the ActivityPub protocol (Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, Frendica, etc.), all of which have had a lot of time to mature and fix issues, add features, etc. Nostr almost certainly doesn’t have the same yet.

For that reason alone, I would rather use ActivityPub services for now!

lumberjack isn’t a merchant

Oop yeah I might have worded that wrong. Yes, a lumberjack is a person who cuts down trees (my brain was thinking “dealing with” as in getting rid of, cutting something down, and of course lumber is the wood not the tree!)

Wait, so somebody called Jack is basically the equivalent of “dude”? Interesting. So a lumberjack is just a person who deals with lumber*, that makes a lot of sense!

edit: Correction, a person who cuts down trees and produces lumber (not a merchant)

Since it’s a laptop, I would set up something like NextDNS (what I often use, but you can also use Cloudflare, ControlD, etc.) in order to block advertisements and unwanted content. Ideally use a Firefox-based browser as then you can use uBlock Origin (+ they are often less memory intensive!) to block additional stuff. Others have already suggested supervision and setting a different user account with fewer privileges. I would highly encourage using a solid Linux distro, as those break less often (especially when the kid becomes / is older and starts going to sketchier websites), and in the modern era they tend to work better too, particularly on older hardware! KDE Plasma and GNOME are both solid desktops available in a variety of distros, or you could go with the reliable Mint w/ Cinnamon.

One interesting note, some planets like Jupiter and Saturn spin so fast they bulge in the equator, making them a little less spherical than normal!

edit: All the planets spin and have this bulge, but Jupiter and Saturn have the most noticeable bulges of the Solar System planets due to spinning the quickest

A planetary mass disc would collapse into a sphere. Gravity works towards the centre of mass, so it makes sense that it becomes a sphere once the force is great enough, where the distance from said centre of mass is nearly equal from all points on the surface. it’s the reason why smaller objects are usually oblong and weird shaped (e.g. asteroids) while larger objects are close to spherical (e.g. Pluto!)

And what do you mean by “uniform gravity”? If you mean for a theoretical person on the planet, it would not be uniform on the edges as you have an imbalance of forces towards either side, while in the centre it is symmetrical, an equal amount of mass on either side. On a perfectly spherical planet, it would all add up to a downward force on any point on the surface