A Privacy Schizo’s Guide to the Internet, Part V: Video Sharing

by | Dec 5, 2022 | Privacy, Technology | 173 comments

 

Previously: Part Zero, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV.

 

Part V: Video Sharing

 

The 800 pound gorilla in the video sharing room is, of course, Google’s YouTube, although TikTok is giving them a run for their money among zoomers, whose attention spans top out at around 40 seconds. Like every other Google product and service, YouTube is designed to mine your data and show you ads, and is abysmal from a privacy standpoint. There are numerous alternatives to YouTube for hosting and watching video content, which we will get to shortly. But since YouTube has such a colossal repository of existing content, some of which is not available elsewhere, it is difficult to avoid entirely. That being the case, let’s look at some ways to interact with YouTube while preserving more of our privacy.

The best way to access YouTube is through an alternative front-end rather than the default web front-end you see when visiting YouTube.com or the default app you install on your mobile device. Invidious accomplishes precisely this. You can access Invidious from a web browser through any number of instances, or host an instance yourself, but there are also several stand alone desktop and mobile apps that use the Invidious API to present an alternative to the YouTube app or web interface. On the desktop, I use the FreeTube client. Essentially, this client can use the Invidious backend, or render the YouTube page directly in a sandboxed window, and includes ad blocking as well as the SponsorBlock extension, which uses crowdsourced data to skip over those obnoxious sponsored segments in YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is not enabled by default, but can be toggled on in the settings panel. While you are in the settings panel, make sure to examine the Privacy Settings menu and ensure it is to your liking. If you so choose, you can subscribe to channels or keep your watch history, and those subscriptions and history are only stored locally on your machine – no YouTube account required, no information being exchanged with Google. On mobile, I use LibreTube, although NewPipe is also a serviceable alternative. Both are available through F-Droid and operate similarly to the FreeTube desktop client, just on your phone instead of a desktop machine. For consuming content, I find these alternatives much more pleasant than the official YouTube site or app.

That said, it is obviously preferable to avoid YouTube altogether, and there are at least dozens of alternatives and copycats. We’ll focus on just a few of the more privacy-respecting alternatives here, beginning with LBRY (pronounced “library”). LBRY is a protocol and blockchain-based content distribution network. There are desktop and mobile clients that allow you to search the platform and consume content. Interestingly, Jeremy Kauffman, one of the co-founders of LBRY, is a Free State Project member and libertarian shit-disturber affiliated with the Mises Caucus within the Libertarian Party, and is at least partially responsible for helping the Mises Caucus gain a majority position within the LP. Because LBRY is only a protocol and the clients are peer-to-peer, you may run into some filthy content on there if you have the NSFW filter disabled (it is enabled by default). Realizing this, the people behind LBRY spun off a sister site and service called Odysee, which works more or less like YouTube: the content is more curated (although not – for now at least – censored), the interface is more familiar, and you can sign up for an account and do all of the sorts of things you do with a YouTube account, such as subscribing to channels, liking content, and even tipping creators. Odysee is not my first choice as it is still a centralized platform. While it uses the LBRY protocol for hosting its video content, it is a centralized node on the LBRY blockchain. Odysee also recently introduced advertising, which has historically been the camel’s nose under the tent for censorship. However, it is a more normie-friendly product that more closely approximates the video sharing experience with which many people are familiar than any other relatively privacy-respecting video sharing site, and is therefore a less-bad option than YouTube. If you are a YouTube content creator, you can syndicate your videos to Odysee with a single click in your user profile. There is a small catch, however. In order to upload videos to the LBRY network (including the Odysee node), you must stake your video with a minimal amount of LBRY’s shitcoin called LBC. When creating an account on Odysee, you will receive a small token amount of LBC, and can earn more by watching videos and participating in the community features of the site. You can earn back LBC in the form of tips, or by requiring payment in LBC from users in order to watch your videos. Fiat ad revenue sharing is also a possibility down the line. Initially, LBC was the only way to make money on the platform, but LBRY is currently embroiled in a legal battle with the SEC over whether or not their initial coin offering violated US securities law. Consequently, it is currently tedious to exchange LBC for fiat currency or other forms of cryptocurrency, which is in part why advertising and fiat tipping was introduced to Odysee.

LBRY was not the first and is not the only decentralized video sharing platform. Dtube operates on a similar principle using the STEEM blockchain, while using IPFS to deliver content. Similar to Odysee, the Dtube website provides a familiar YouTube-like user interface. It has been my experience that there is less content on Dtube and that streaming is slower with more buffering required. Your mileage may vary. PeerTube is another completely decentralized, federated video sharing platform based on the same technology that powers Bittorrent. Unlike Odysee and Dtube, PeerTube does not provide a centralized instance or front-end to its service. Instead, anyone can host a PeerTube instance from which to access the PeerTube network, and federate with other PeerTube servers. While this has major advantages in terms of privacy and censorship resistance, it is also a less normie-friendly experience. Worth mentioning for the more technically inclined self-hosting aficionado, the GNU MediaGoblin project, rather than provide a centralized service of its own, is a software solution that enables creators to essentially spin up their own media content sharing server, which federates with others. This is by far the least normie-friendly option for video sharing, but an interesting project nonetheless.

In response to YouTube’s politically-motivated content moderation censorship policies, several YouTube alternatives with more lax policies, such as Rumble and BitChute, have sprung up. While these arguably serve a function by driving traffic away from YouTube and providing a platform to those outside of the Silicon Valley mainstream, most are no more respectful than YouTube of user privacy, and because they are centralized platforms, they have the exact same ability as YouTube to censor and remove content if they should choose to do so. Therefore, I generally avoid those services as well.

TL;DR: To avoid ads and tracking, consider using an alternative front-end for YouTube, such as Invidious, FreeTube, LibreTube or NewPipe, instead of the official website or app. If you can avoid using YouTube entirely, so much the better. Consider using LBRY, Odysee, Dtube, PeerTube or other decentralized technologies to share videos instead of centralized services like YouTube and its mainstream competitors.

Next, “Part VI: Chat/Instant Messaging/Communications.

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173 Comments

  1. Pat

    In the time since I submitted this article series back in October, a federal judge sided with the SEC and granted summary judgment in their case against LBRY, Inc [1]. A copy of the ruling can be found in the cited link in the next post. This has huge implications for the crypto market more generally, particularly as it regards the much larger Ripple Labs, Inc (progenitor of the XRP cryptocurrency), which is also being sued by the SEC for nearly identical reasons. Establishing a court precedent against a very small blockchain project like LBRY gives the SEC legal ammunition to go after the big fish, and leverage to effectuate settlements.

    So what does this mean for LBRY and Odysee? Well, the LBRY protocol and blockchain will continue to exist, as will services like Odysee that utilize them. But LBRY, Inc is dead [2], as they will be unable to pay the hefty SEC fines, which may top $20 million. Will the protocol and blockchain continue to be maintained without the backing of LBRY, Inc? That’s difficult to say. Theoretically, they could continue to exist indefnitely; such is the nature of decentralization. Particularly if Odysee becomes financially successful, it could afford to maintain and steward the backend. Practically, it’s possible and not entirely unlikely they may fall into a state of disuse, particularly if Odysee’s monetization schemes do not come to fruition.

    • Pat

      [1]

    • Pat

      [2]

    • Ted S.

      This is how you First.

    • DEG

      I don’t expect much good to come out of this ruling.

    • Tonio

      Okay, seriously, you people need to realize that superscripts and foot/end notes have been made obsolete by the interwebs. Just drop a hyperlink in. Really.

      That footnote / endnote bullshit is the legacy of paper publishing. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, but we’ve moved on to electronic publishing. There was just no way to do a hyperlink in print media without shiznat looking all fugly. HTML has freed us from that. Use it, ppl. Use. It.

      • UnCivilServant

        What about when the footnotes are not external references?

      • rhywun

        Heh, good point.

      • Pat

        I originally embedded the references, but then opted for the footnotes only to avoid the multiple links getting caught in the spam filter.

      • Tonio

        And that makes sense. But you can always write to me and request that your article be reverted to Draft so you can update it with late-breaking info and I can put it back into Scheduled when you’re done. Sorry, I can’t do anything about the three-links spamtrap.

      • Pat

        To be honest, I dashed that out about 10 minutes before publishing time as it had slipped my mind earlier. Also I thought the spam trap was for 2 links, so it wasn’t even necessary in this case anyway. Sorry.

      • R C Dean

        Meh. I at least want the title/cite before I click a link. Adding links to footnotes? Sure. Just giving me a clicky number? Meh.

      • Pat

        Just in case the privacy schizo sends you to a phishing site?

      • UnCivilServant

        What is ‘an Object Lesson’?

      • Tonio

        When you mouse-over a linky, your browser should show you where the link redirects to; my browser does this in a pop-up bar at the bottom of the window.

        You can reasonably be suspicious of blind/obscured links like tinyurl.

      • R.J.

        I use mine for comic relief .

      • Not Adahn

        Especially adding footnotes to footnotes.

  2. rhywun

    Isn’t it easier to block ads and tracking with a blocker such as uBlock Origin or AdGuard – which seem to work on Youtube – than to find alternatives to Youtube? Or am I missing something?

    • Pat

      I prefer to avoid Google domains and services entirely, to the extent that I can. Depriving surveillance companies of eyeballs and revenue is how you exercise the minuscule amount of consumer power you have as an individual in this space.

      Secondarily to that, the two browsers that I use most often don’t have uBO available, and DNS-level ad blockers don’t work on YouTube because the ads are served from the same domain as the content.

      • rhywun

        DNS-level ad blockers

        I noticed that AdGuard Home – if that’s the technology you’re referring to – doesn’t work on YouTube so I went for the Windows version instead, in order to get past that apocalypse that’s coming in January which will kill browser plugins.

      • Pat

        Correct – AdGuard Home is their network-wide DNS blocker, roughly equivalent to Pi-Hole. Those won’t work on YouTube for the above stated reason. But as you said, they also offer a local blocker and also browser extensions for the major browsers (with the usual caveat about the coming chromium-based ad block debacle).

    • Count Potato

      YouTube can still see the identifying info from your computer and browser. Not sure if FreeTube prevents that.

      Also, if YouTube is embedded, then YouTube can see where it’s embedded.

      • Pat

        Not sure if FreeTube prevents that.

        Being an Electron app, FreeTube can work in one of two ways: by calling the Invidious API and pulling the video content that way, or by rendering the YouTube page directly in a self-contained browser window. In either case it’s semi-sandboxed; even if rendering the page directly, the useragent info exchanged with YouTube would be the useragent of the app itself (chromium/genericOSidentifier), not your browser.

      • Count Potato

        You can hide your IP with a VPN, but I wish there was a way to hide your computer, OS, etc.

      • Pat

        You can spoof your useragent to obscure your browser and OS, although there’s still canvas fingerprinting.

  3. MikeS

    Starting FreeTube download in 3…2…1…

    • MikeS

      Oh duh. No commenting through FreeTube. Well, that’s workable. Watch everything through FreeTube and go to YouTube when I really feel the need to comment. (only on about 3 or so channels I subscribe to)

      • Pat

        Indeed, you can read comments, but not make comments, as FreeTube does not sign into your Google account.

      • R.J.

        I must test this for snarky videos .

    • Sensei

      I had no idea she was ill.

      I always figure after 30 minutes you are all good.

      • Fourscore

        Kirstie was to me what Morgan Fairchild is to that other guy. A dream, a figment, but always there

      • rhywun

        Most of us would have had trouble bench-pressing her, though.

        *too soon

    • rhywun

      😮 That ain’t right.

      RIP

      • rhywun

        *turns head to the right, sees it reported on the teevee*

        I am too plugged-in.

    • Pat

      You guys are free to go OT at any time, including immediately, on any of my articles as far as I’m concerned – no worries.

      I didn’t realize she was 71, I thought she was closer to my mom’s age.

    • The Hyperbole

      71 is a good run, RIP.

      • rhywun

        Torn on that. My mom went at 72 and my first thought was “that ain’t right”. But I don’t control these things.

      • Hyperion

        And she still looked really good not that long ago.

    • MikeS

      71 is too young. RIP

    • kinnath

      and yet, HRC still draws breath.

      • Hyperion

        Evil never sleeps. Look at Soros, he has to be at least 200.

      • Pat

        Lizard people are built different.

      • Hyperion

        Real life really is a SF episode, only more sick.

    • Gender Traitor

      I really liked her character on Cheers (SO much more than Shelly Long’s character!) She always tried to be the tough businesswoman, but then something would go terribly wrong and she’d go into a crying meltdown that would have made Lucille Ball proud!

      • rhywun

        #metoo – I hated Diane.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        “I really liked her character on Cheers (SO much more than Shelly Long’s character!)”

        YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!!!

        (her passing via cancer is still sad, and she was the second best Vulcan.)

  4. Hyperion

    Fucking Tutleheaded Fuck

    How do we even have a defense budget anyway, I thought we gave all that to Ukraine. I don’t even want to see what else is in that.

    • Fourscore

      More fodder for Musk. McConnell truly is despicable. His idea of leadership and mine are different.

      For years I’ve said I wanted to be the judge when these politicians are being cited for Crimes Against Humanity.

      • R.J.

        Please Lord, may Musk find something on Mitch. He may be too slick to get his claws dirty. He’s an immortal lizard person.

      • Hyperion

        You’ll have a field day. Start with Klaus, Fauci, and Gates, and then pretty much anyone who’s been in Congress for more than a few terms.

    • MikeS

      McConnell is such a piece of shit.

    • Sensei

      Wow.

    • rhywun

      I’ve read that a couple times and I still can’t figure out what’s in it. I guess we have to pass it first.

  5. rhywun

    World Cup keeps bringing the warm fuzzies.

    • kinnath

      They are a cancer that must be cut out before the kill the whole country.

    • Gender Traitor

      Gold Rush 2: Reparations Boogaloo

  6. Brochettaward

    No ones privacy is safe in the Firstiverse.

  7. R.J.

    My wife tried to make Jiffy Pop. She had never done it. She just left the foil pan on the stove and walked away. Thought it would just pop up in three minutes.
    The house still smells.

    • Hyperion

      lol

    • MikeS

      Way back in the early days of microwave popcorn, I misread the instructions and ended up cooking one for like 5 minutes. The microwave smelled like burnt popcorn for months.

      • rhywun

        I’ve made it a couple times recently with the “popcorn button” and now everything I cook in there makes the kitchen reek of popcorn and “butter”.

      • MikeS

        Those scare quotes are some of the most well deserved I’ve ever seen.

      • R.J.

        I have that problem too. The Jiffy Pop was for special camping trips. Hard to find nowadays! A terrible loss.

      • rhywun

        My family did mostly air popper or even just oil in a pot. I think we did Jiffy Pop maybe once or twice. Yeah, I don’t see it stores now.

      • MikeS

        Those air popper gadgets were awesome. I wonder if they still make them. I might have to add one to my wish list.

      • rhywun

        Nice.

        The microwave stuff seems less “fluffy” than I would like. I wonder if the air popper does better.

      • Mojeaux

        I have one of these, found at a thrift store.

        So I wanted a CrockPot like my mother’s avocado green 1970s one because they heat differently from “modern” ones (the newer ones heat hotter and faster). Found one at the thrift store, took it to the register, and the cashier dropped and broke the lid. Ididn’t get nasty or anything, but I just said, “Never mind Kinda useless without that.” And I have a vintage Pyrex double-boiler (1950s, 1960s). It had a lid (rare as hen’s teeth). Had. Past tense. Son dropped it when he was littler. Glass lids and I just don’t get along.

      • Pat

        I have that exact Presto air popper. I usually buy Jolly Time or Walmart Great Value brand kernels. They pop up very nicely. I usually get 2 or 3 unpopped kernels per 1/4 cup. Drizzle with EVOO and lightly salt. Best popcorn you’ll ever get.

      • Hyperion

        I need to come up with a solution. My wife has went on a popcorn binge that has lasted for months now. She makes it every night and uses that microwave bags. I swear those have had about the most shrinkflation I’ve seen in any produce. There’s about 3/4 as much popcorn in them as there was a few months ago. Not sure what they are putting in them that makes them weigh the same, but it’s not corn. At least if you guy the bags of corn kernels, you can see what you are buying and get a lot of variety.

      • Hyperion

        Holy cow that was a lot of type-os, my meds must be kicking in.

      • MikeS

        The one I remember as a kid had slots in that cup on top so you could put in butter and it would slowly melt onto the corn as it popped up.

      • Pat

        Not sure what they are putting in them that makes them weigh the same

        Extra PFOA?

        The one I remember as a kid had slots in that cup on top so you could put in butter and it would slowly melt onto the corn as it popped up.

        The Presto one has a cup built into the lid for melting the butter, but you have to apply it to the popcorn manually (no slots).

      • MikeS

        But a great story.

        Scene: 20 years in the future. R.J. and Mrs. J. at a movie theater, getting some popcorn
        R.J.: Hey honey, I hope this tastes better than the Jiffy Pop you made that time.
        Mrs. J.: Let it go already!
        R.J.: *giggle*

        Fin

  8. Brochettaward

    Every time I’ve paid attention to a Bucs game, they’ve been down late. And every time, the refs have thrown flags, either roughing or DPI/holding, which have given them new life.

    • Hyperion

      That’s called ‘The Brady Rule’.

      • rhywun

        Oh right, the Tom Brady Show is on.

        I guess I can check out the last 12 seconds.

      • rhywun

        And… taps out.

    • MikeS

      BRADY DOES NOT CHEAT!!!11

      • Hyperion

        Of course, a guy who cheats could never pull a tuck rule right out of his ass.

  9. Hyperion

    Hey, does anyone know if Mormons really have special underwear that they have to wear every day?

    • MikeS

      Maybe Gio will find out.

      • Mojeaux

        I actually don’t know the history on that, but Dot would not be wearing any, no. Dot’s parents don’t either because they have not yet done what is necessary to be privileged to wear them.

      • MikeS

        I talked to you about spoilers!!11

        🤪😜🧐

      • Hyperion

        LOL, I can’t stop laughing. The person who posted that made me laugh so hard is saying ‘really, they do!’, what the hell, the Holy Drawers? LOL.

      • MikeS

        Next do the funny little cap [[[they]]] wear.

      • Hyperion

        That ain’t funny, it’s a hat. Not a very practical one, I mean. Underwear, that’s funny.

      • Mojeaux

        (((They))) wear the funny little caps. [[[We]]] do not.

      • MikeS

        Sorry, got my bracket thingies mixed up.

      • Hyperion

        Bracket thingies are amongst the most important of thingies.

    • Mojeaux

      Yes.

      • Hyperion

        Wow, so it really is true, lol, wtf?

      • Mojeaux

        Do you make fun of other people’s religious attire? Asking for a friend.

      • Hyperion

        It was worth the laugh, I needed it, so I guess.

      • rhywun

        I swear this has come up at least a half dozen times in the last few years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Mojeaux

        Right?!

      • Hyperion

        How many faiths of religious underwear are there? I seem to be unlearned in these matters.

      • db

        They put a parking lot on a piece of land
        Where the supermarket used to stand
        Before that they put up a bowling alley
        On the site that used to be the local palais
        That’s where the big bands used to come and play
        My sister went there on a Saturday

      • db

        Wow wrong place

      • Not Adahn

        Do (((they))) have a name for the special sheet they fuck through?

      • Gender Traitor

        He only has so much RAM. (Or would it be ROM?)

      • Not Adahn

        Well, when even the Pope decided that the Tiara was a bit silly…

  10. Mojeaux

    Welp, Mr. Mojeaux and I went to see Violent Night. ADORBS! Die Harder and Home Alone had a baby.

    I am sad to announce the demolishment of 1519 Main. 1520 Main had already gone the way of the dodo and, I presume, the basement speakeasy filled in.

    • MikeS

      🙁

    • rhywun

      IMHO the replacement for such old buildings is never an improvement.

      • Mojeaux

        Mine was replaced by a parking lot. I haz a sad. Good times were had by all* in 1520 Main. So many stories.

        *Not really. There was that one salesgirl who quit when the creepy owner harassed her (made mention of her generous chest pillows and what he’d like to do to them). The creepy owner didn’t dare harass me after I told him what I said to a stalker I had.

      • rhywun

        Yes, it’s usually a parking lot.

        I always wondered at that because at some point you reach a stage where you’ve removed so many destinations that nobody wants to drive there anymore.

        I certainly saw that in my Rust Belt hometown.

      • MikeS

        This conversation has certainly lit the Ted’S signal.

      • Hyperion

        I swear, you TedS’s and MikeS’s, I can’t even tell you guys apart, you all look alike to me!

      • db

        They put a parking lot on a piece of land
        Where the supermarket used to stand
        Before that they put up a bowling alley
        On the site that used to be the local palais
        That’s where the big bands used to come and play
        My sister went there on a Saturday

  11. Mojeaux

    Dammit. My knee hurts like hell and the only thing that helps is ibuprofen, and I’m not supposed to take that because I just got rid of my fucking ulcers.

    😡

    • Gender Traitor

      Do heat wraps do any good? Or lidocaine patches? (Don’t know if the latter are available OTC. I know a guy…)

      • Mojeaux

        Well, not really. I think I tweaked my medial meniscus somehow. Already had a steroid shot for the quad strain, which worked for about 3 days, and now this on top of that.

      • Hyperion

        Where can you get these Cocaine patches, on Amazon? Same day?

  12. Brochettaward

    Between the Lou Firster’s Disease and the coming of The First That Shall Change Everything, I can see the end is near for me. As such, I have been getting my notes and effects in order. I’ve been putting great thought into who will get to tell my story to the world when I am gone.

    I figured that UCS or Mojeau can write the first hagiography. Not the one that uses my official papers and notes, but the one that gets rushed out right after a great Firster dies that claims to tell all and provide all the lurid details that were covered up during their lives. I think UCS may have too much second in him even for this.

    I may gift MikeS some of my essence in a jar. So he can always carry some of a real Firster with him wherever he goes so that he will know just how inadequate he really is at all times.

    My greatest victory will also be my downfall. But that is how The Great Firster has decided things. He is the ultimate decider.

    • Mojeaux

      “Essence.” We’re still calling it that?

      • slumbrew

        Shades of “The Magicians”

    • MikeS

      I’m touched.

      • MikeS

        But I’d rather have a finger. Middle finger, preferably.

      • Brochettaward

        I do not want to think of the ways you would use my finger to pleasure yourself. This is out of the question.

      • rhywun

        I can’t even.

      • Hyperion

        WTF was that?

        This night. First Holy Drawers and now this…

      • Hyperion

        Fuck you dog, lol.

      • EvilSheldon

        Wheeler Walker Jr. is a national treasure.

  13. slumbrew

    This is just a fantastic series, Pat. Thank you for it.

    • Pat

      Reading my own stuff makes me cringe, but I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

  14. Hyperion

    What inflation, we got plenty of money!

    Don’t worry about these reparations being all the rage. We can just hand out money by the trillions. Inflation was just a transient myth. We’re good!

    • Brochettaward

      I’m guessing that behind this push is someone like Soros. Or maybe it’s just him. The prog hive mind is being given a new directive and they are all moving towards that point, as is typical.

      This has nothing to do with Firsting so it is not worth my time to investigate with my Third Eye.

  15. LCDR_Fish

    Thanks for the support notes on the Gourmeltz situation. I dropped a tip to the National Review news team about this one too. Hopefully we’ll get some broader coverage.

    https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/restaurant-owner-defies-covid-orders-loses-license-continues-to-sell-alcohol-search-and-seizure/65-a10cf0c0-2339-4bdd-85a4-46c5e7b16ea7

    This is the news story that was linked in the tweet thread. It’s not too bad, but as a bigger discussion it doesn’t have all the videos Matt has posted on facebook and youtube – arguments with the health guys inspecting while not wearing “proper” masks, etc.

    What’s nuts is that he won the lawsuit and the state lost (thanks to Bill Barr lawyer (L), etc)- and every org dropped their issues – except the ABC – who’s got their nuts in a twist. So technically he’s been serving booze without a license for months now. It’s technically a small fine (not counting the massive legal bills he’s dealing with – but he’s standing up for his principles – and after everything else – doesn’t make a lot of sense to back down now. New DA Miyares really needs to crack down and just rein in these dicks.

    • Pat

      There should have been 10 million of this guy about a week after the COVID restrictions began. They can destroy one guy. Destroying everyone is a tougher ask. The last couple years were a horribly depressing confirmation of the sad ass state of liberty in America.

    • Rat on a train

      VABC have always been assholes. Years ago they were roughing up college students for underage drinking and strictly enforcing Virginia stupid happy hour laws.

    • Rat on a train

      You give us everything we demand and we won’t call you racist.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, that has Just So written all over it.

      I wonder if she’s running the mandatory bias trainings herself, or is connected to the one who is.

  16. Sean

    Morning peeps.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean & Roat!

      It’s a water aerobics day! 😃 🏊🏼‍♀️ I hope one of the swimsuits I hand-washed last night is dry! 😟👙

    • Plinker762

      I get to join the eastern Glibs as I wait for my 4am flight to Seattle.

      • Plinker762

        Oops, 5am. Hopefully it is better than last week when I spent 3 hours on the plane and we never got off the ground.

      • Gender Traitor

        Welcome! Sorry you’re here under such circumstances.

      • Plinker762

        Cordova Alaska this week, Albuquerque next week.

    • Gender Traitor

      National Miners Day is only an hour and a half?? Talk about giving them the shaft!

      • Plinker762

        Swissy is going to winze at that.

    • EvilSheldon

      Well, any gunfight you walk away from is a good one. But yeah, more practice. You can’t count on the bad guy panicking and running, especially some asshole like this who has nothing to lose.

      I’ll bet Zahkee was real fucking surprised when he saw that gun come out though…

  17. Rat on a train

    ugh

    • rhywun

      OFFS!

    • Sean

      police were beaten with American flags and their own guns

      Wait, what?

      • Rat on a train

        5 died

      • rhywun

        Where’s CSNY when you need them.

    • Plinker762

      Do they get a special ribbon for opening the doors?

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, U! How are you today?

      • UnCivilServant

        Somehow, yesterday after I got home from bowling, I made a few comments on Glibs, then zonked out until morning. Luckily it’s a remote day since I was unable to drag myself out of bed until after I would have had to leave otherwise.

    • R.J.

      Morning.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Maybe we can manage to get it pushed back in perpetuity kind of like paying off school loans.

      • Plinker762

        Make them a requirement for voting and it will never be implemented.

      • rhywun

        Or getting welfare.

  18. Plinker762

    The maskers on my flight seem to be primarily older ladies.

    • R.J.

      It was kids last time I flew. And just a few. They sat all around me which was funny.

      • Plinker762

        UNCLEAN!!

      • R.J.

        Hehehe! That is me!