I’m honestly shocked that nobody has mentioned mesh networks. It might also just scan for any unsecured network it can connect to without informing you in any way. Not connecting your TV to your WiFi is not nearly enough to preventing it from phoning home. You need to open the TV and ground the antenna(e) to physically disable the wireless capabilities. Even then, there may be other antennae hidden under or inside components you can’t disassemble.

Short answer: No. Your smart TV is smarter than you are.

Have you heard of mesh networks?

Tough when you need a job.

this answer is synonymous with “nothing”

Yeah the deadly risk of… being in public?

what have you done for your community lately?

Honestly, it’s not gonna be 10 more years of misery for me cause I’m not gonna stick around for it. I’ve been deeply depressed for about 20 years and I’m probably gonna call it long before that if you know what I mean.

I also feel scarred by my ex’s actions. How can someone watch you build your life around them, make every decision with them in mind for nearly a decade, and then impulsively discard you the second they want attention from someone new? Just to add insult to injury, she manipulated me to keep me providing for her for months under the guise that she was trying to repair the relationship when she was really just trying to work out a seamless escape route. The constant stress fucked my mind to the point that I lost my job 2 weeks after she left. Still unemployed and too depressed to even begin looking for another one.

Just makes me realize that there’s nothing anyone can do to secure their future. There’s a lot we do to give us a feeling that our future is safe, but it never is. That’s not even really my main problem… I genuinely don’t think it’s possible for me to be happy. I don’t think my soulmate is out there.

That was super interesting, I love talking about this sort of thing. Really appreciate the thoughtfulness of your reply.

It seems like our conceptions of vampirism differ in how far from human-ness vampirism takes the host. In my mind, vampirism takes the host just far enough away from human-ness that they can never live like a human again, but not far enough that they wouldn’t want to. The reason it’s a curse is because they’re so torn, kind of like drug addiction in a sense. Being addicted to meth is probably torment, but doing meth is ecstasy, so a meth addict might viscerally want to go back to a normal life but at the same time viscerally never want to give up what they have. I think breathing, among a lot of other things (like wearing clothes, drinking wine, conversation, etc) are totally unnecessary physiologically, but absolutely necessary to maintain the appearance of a human, which in turn is necessary for the psychological well being of a vampire. I think without these things (or without blood too) they convert to the monster form, becoming more and more distorted as time goes on without their needs met. Their mind also becomes more and more animalistic, but only to the point that they are confused and scared, never fully immersed in the monster mentality. Like they’re aware of how much brain function they’ve lost which is terrifying. Due to how blood deprivation and social deprivation have essentially the same physical toll, I think their “psychic” nourishment is as important as their blood intake and thus not breathing could be not only the medulla oblongata panicking but also a form of supernatural psychic damage to them.

Also, I’ve never seen Buffy. Should I watch it? I absolutely loooove vampire movies and shows. I’ve exhausted everything that is obviously going to satisfy me already so I need to look to others for more recommendations. My favorite vampire movies are Only Lovers Left Alive, Byzantium, Interview with the Vampire, and the original Dracula. Hbu?

I got out of a 7 year relationship about 8mo ago… thought I was gonna marry her, she cheated on me. I’m not content on my own, and life feels completely pointless alone. I am literally never not thinking about how miserable I am. Did you experience this? When did it get better?

The caption makes me want to leap off a bridge

This is a really bad coping mechanism to rationalize failing to develop important skills and to justify giving up. We have at least 200 more years of misery in store before it’s all over, in my opinion.

In my internal version of the vampire canon, vampirism is definitely a curse passed down from ancient times. When someone gets the curse, their corpse is now inhabited by the spirit of vampirism itself, which flows to fill the imprint their soul left. Like their individual curse of vampirism changes to resemble the soul it replaced. This, combined with the (internal canon) fact that vampirism can only be spread to the freshly dead, results in a brain that is mostly the same and something like a soul that is mostly like what they had before.

Think about other types of eternal (un)life, like a specter for example. In my internal canon, specters usually appear where they died and continue the action they were taking when they died. Like a specter who died in a house fire might appear in the charred husk of the house every full moon or something, just to pantomime burning to death and desperately trying to scratch through a door that won’t open.

I think vampires would continue on with their mannerisms and habits that they had before, including breathing. The circuitry is still all connected for it, the muscles still work. On the flip side, the circuitry that causes panic when not breathing is also still connected. I think a vampire could easily “survive” being locked in a coffin at the bottom of the ocean… but it would be excruciating for a century or so until that neuronal connection simply burns out or fades away or whatever. Or maybe that would never happen and it would be eternal suffering.

He’s the reason I want one

Do vampires not breathe? I imagine they do, but only to maintain appearances

you would need therapy if you lived here, trust me

bad advice, i like breathing

do you actually do this sort of thing or are you all talk?

“Never went” implies you were supposed to go.

since we are doing semantics, this is incorrect. “never went” does not imply anything

sorry, the nsfw tag is not enough to save you. swearing is not allowed and you will be punished. your account will not be terminated but be aware that the police are en route.

So you’re just gonna read my other comment and pretend like this conversation never happened when you realize you’re wrong?

Trying to deny and strip me of my judaism is quite fucking anti-semitic and any decent person would apologize for that. Anyone who isn’t a complete scumbag would at least acknowledge their mistake. What kind of person are you exactly?