Make America Go Apeshit

In The Netherlands, within my social circles, it's mostly seen as overly informal and quite intimate to take off your shoes.

You can do it at friends, but certainly not by default at acquaintances (unless they ask), as it might even be a little disrespectful considering taking off your shoes could smell a bit after some hours. Like you force your bodily odours or sweaty feet on to someone's house.

I totally get the opposite and am noticing a slow shift (also in my own house) to dropping the shoes. But it's interesting to see that both stances are based on some form of respect, and perhaps also some pragmatism on our side.

Why mix up all the numbers, but not numbers 9, 5 and 6?

I mean the viewers of the video.

I know, but as a physical, mobile object as a camera is involved I imagine it's much more vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks than today's TLS certificates for sites. There are more moving parts / physical steps and the camera is probably not always online.

But in essence you are right, operating the camera the same way as a server should be possible of course. We need some basic trusted authorities that are as trusted as we have for our current TLS certificates.

What it will prove, is whether the video is actually of a specific camera certificate. Not who owns the camera, if it has been swapped or if the video footage is real.

But if you don't actually check the physical camera and prove that key for yourself, then it can easily be faked by generating a key that is not coming from the camera and is used for the "proof" video and the fake video.

But how would one simple member of the audience easily determine if this whole chain of events is valid, when they don't even get how it works or what to look out for?

You'd have to have a public key of trusted sources that people automatically check with their browser, but all the steps in between need to be trusted too. I can imagine it is too much of a hassle for most.

But then again, that has always been the case for most.

But you get rusty in moist environments; when you urinate you slowly rot away your urethra.

It's tough, respect for holding on as you do.

Life's not fair, not everyone has the mental stability that is required for a happy life. But we can hope to lessen the pain a bit.

Headspace is indeed an app, with a subscription (not sure what the free plan is, but it helped me so I didn't care). You can also meditate yourself or with free YT videos of course, but this app worked better for me.

Take care, hope you find some relief.

ERASED is about a guy reliving his life as a young school kid, with awkward moments around romantic feelings. While I do think it kind of fits the story, I think it does not go well with the requirements.

With this classy response of his it's almost better for his perceived character than when he didn't say it.

After 25 years of suicidal thoughts I've finally taken antidepressants, Zoloft was what worked for me.

In a couple of months the black thoughts became more rare and now in a year or so they are almost gone. I don't feel the active need to kill myself any longer. Which feels.. a bit uncanny almost. Not all in life is good, but this specific lack of despair is nice; still really bizarre to not have this endless dread any longer. I try to enjoy that while it lasts.

I did a lot of meditation as well with Headspace, can recommend that too.

Hope you find your way.