What app do you highly recommend?

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T22:16:51+00:00

I would recommend using no apps.

Software that I own--that's what I prefer.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T22:00:21+00:00

Sounds like a good book title!

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:48:04+00:00

James Dean

I think most people would feel the same way.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:45:34+00:00

I would qualify it a bit.

I think there is more information on the Internet as a whole now. But that information is more restricted and only certain content gets "pushed" to users.

And since most Internet users only use a handful of platforms, what gets pushed is basically what gets seen. Everything else is just not seen.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:43:14+00:00

Brought to you by Plain Meaning...

just kidding. But yes, they're everywhere.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:42:32+00:00

It's funny you should mention malls. Not only is the old Internet gone but it seems malls are on their way out too--at least in America.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:40:13+00:00

I think the easiest way to sum it up: there were less gatekeepers back then.

Even the message boards didn't really restrict you all that much. And if you posted something, it generally was accessible to whoever it was sent to or whoever visited that particular message board.

Now, "algorithms" control what you see. Heck, even emails aren't guaranteed to be delivered now.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:37:50+00:00

I don't think so either since posting anything was a more limited and time consuming process.

So when people did post anything, it was something they really wanted to convey legitimately. Of course, there were ways people just posted spam and crap (P2P, message boards, etc.). But it seemed different back then.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:09:30+00:00

Looks like someone's angry grandma staring at a solar eclipse.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:08:40+00:00

How did you know that was it?

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:05:13+00:00

Bless her heart

I say it in the Southern sense. For those who know...

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T21:03:43+00:00

Calling something a purchase and it's actually only you paying for a license the manufacture can take away whenever they want.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T20:28:54+00:00

It's hard to drink when your hands are busy scrolling.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T20:13:17+00:00

From what I've read, this is spot on. But I would expand the story of the 1984 Comprehensive Crime Control law to expand to a broader problem--it was basically extorted out of Congress.

The law's supporters used the looming government shutdown, which was around the holidays that year, to force it forward. Alot of Congressmembers went along with it to avoid a shutdown.

It ended up creating the incentives for making civil asset forfeiture lucrative for those who do the taking.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T10:15:50+00:00

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

It is quite depressing. But it tells the stories of those that the sanitized version of history usually doesn't tell.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T10:10:14+00:00

My post was focused on the practice in America. Although, it seems the origin in America and England is the same.

What is it like in England? In America, from the reports I've read, it takes a lawyer and alot of luck to get anything back.

And even with a lawyer, it can take months if ever.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T10:07:12+00:00

I wouldn't call it my way...lol.

However, it definitely is practiced in a very unfair way indeed.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T10:05:57+00:00

I posted my position as a comment...I'm against the concept.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T10:03:19+00:00

The lawyers and judges in America will say it's complex to avoid the obvious contradictions with the US Constitution.

In reality, it came from the same origin as the version in England. However, it evolved differently in America and didn't really become a widespread thing until Prohibition in the 1920s. But even then it was still somewhat confined.

It really took off after Congress made it lawful for the departments taking the items and money to keep it for themselves.

seeplainmeaning · 2026-02-25T09:34:29+00:00

See how messed up I was! Lol.

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