Got mine yesterday too. Feeling not great today, but some DayQuil is helping a lot.

I’m not following the question? Can you elaborate?

I agree, but there is a difference in states that are passing laws and the federal government ruling via executive order. One can change quickly depending on the sitting president, one is unlikely to change as certain states slip further into fascistic behavior.

At this point, why would anyone choose a school in a state actively censoring itself to capitulate to political actors?

It usually is one or the other with these things. My comforting thought is that dictator type people usually fall just as spectacularly as they rise. Eventually they run out of people to support them. Eventually.

he caveat is that Threads is a Meta (Facebook) product and comes with all of the gross things they do with your data.

The closest ones as far as functionality and aesthetics are Bluesky and Threads.

The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis

The full quote is more powerful:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.”
― Jean Rostand

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

This guy definitely doesn’t understand the words coming out of his mouth.