I put "conversations" in scare quotes because I'm obviously not referring to actual conversations. I don't know what word I should use to describe what I'm talking about, but I'm using this one since I've often seen it used in this context. What I actually mean is some dumb controversy that by rights no one should give a fuck about becomes a hot topic in the media/on social media, and then some retard journalist announces that there's a "conversation" happening around the topic or that the topic has "entered the national conversation". Sometimes it's obviously astroturfed (anything having to do with masculinity is a prime example of this) but it often legitimately goes viral thanks to the general population's room temperature IQ. Just to give an idea of what I'm talking about, here are some particularly vapid examples:

• The leggings "conversation" that popped up several times over the last decade in various forms.

• A few years back some social media addicted losers questioned if a gift some celebrity bought her granddaughter was age appropriate, and retards in the media decided to report on the "controversy" since "it's between her and the parents so we should leave it alone" was too sane of a stance.

• There was apparently a retarded crew vs ankle socks debate that I didn't know or care to know about until my local radio station's idiot host announced that Gen Z "resolved it" and that he was disappointed that his side "lost". For a dude in his 30's or 40s he takes this crap awfully seriously.

I know I should just file this under "stupid normie shit", but don't people have anything more interesting to focus on? Why does anyone give a fuck about any of this? I at least understand the obsession with political stuff since it actually affects people's lives (or it will if the commies get their way). But leggings? Socks? I was going to ask why our culture is so fucking vapid, but I know it's because we let women and their stupid drama poison it. The whole thing needs to be burned to the ground.

I've been listening to this station for about 5 years, and while the music quality is mediocre (too recent, female, and pop) it hasn't really changed, and it's still better than most of the other stations. What has changed is the quality of the ads. I know they believe the audience is conservative, because they used to run ads for gun stuff all the time. Note that I say used to. It's been months if not longer since I've heard a gun ad. I'm not aware of any offical policy change, but the absence of gun ads is conspicuous. They advertise vaxtard shit, and while all the stations do that this station seems to do it more, though I may be biased since I listen to this one the most.

What really got me thinking about this is their ads pushing shit like mental health, self care, and of course therapy. There's nothing wrong with mental health and self care of course, but self care in particular is used by leftists to justify lazy and shitty behavior, and of course therapy in current year is nothing more than feminist brainwashing. It's interesting that all this "wellness" stuff never includes eating better, exercising, or making life improvements that solve the root cause of any mental health problems. Nope, just stay miserable and allow commie grifters to profit from it.

The game has been an anti-consumer dumpster fire from the beginning. I didn't buy it due to it lacking an open world, and EA has gone out of their way to repeatedly validate that decision. It wasn't enough to add faggots and trannies. Now they're adding polytard shit. They're also fucking up a romance system that worked perfectly fine in 3:

One of the new features in The Sims 4: Lovestruck is that Sims may not necessarily be attracted to your character in return and will very clearly inform you if they prefer to remain friends.

Just fucking perfect. There goes the story telling aspect. Now the game is hard coding whether two Sims can be attracted, and combined with the sexual orientation nonsense it will be easier to create a faggot with 10 different butt buddies than make a straight male and find him a wife to start a family. They'll probably make the straight male Sim an incel and push him towards dating a troon or getting spitroasted by other dudes. Fuck this game and fuck EA. They almost got me to reconsider this dumpster fire with their farming EP, but I just couldn't justify it with all the fag and tranny shit the game is infested with. My instincts were sadly correct.

Also here's a bonus article where a retard games urinalist confirms what we've all known for a decade: TS3 blows TS4 out of the water. The grifting hacks have added so much DLC to 4 that they've wiped out the performance advantage it had over 3.

Can someone explain to me what this guy is/was about and if he's changed? I haven't followed him very closely, but I don't remember him being a complete and utter retard until recently. Starting out he seemed pretty reasonable if milquetoast: Opposing compelled speech wrt tranny pronouns, wrecking Cathy Newman in that interview, etc. But he's also some cock carousel rider's betabux and raised a whore daughter who fucked Andrew Tate. He succumbed to a benzo addiction at some point, and now he posts stupid tradcuck shit all the time. Am I missing something?

I know that Signal is the normie tier "privacy" app, but it's a nonstarter for me because it requires a phone number. I've been using SimpleX, but for some reason my messages are taking forever to get through. I think it's an issue with their servers. Regardless, I need a privacy oriented app that actually works. Does anyone have any recommendations?

My use case is pretty unusual, but I don't think that should matter. I'm looking to use my laptop to remote into my gaming desktop so I can run LLLMs from my couch. My ideal is free and open source, but I'd consider something proprietary or costing a one time fee. My only deal breakers are ongoing subscriptions and anything that sends data through their servers.