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That is outside of our scope of vision and equally as unknowable as the true purpose of God.

Uncle Enzo isn’t going to let you down unless you let him down first.

Yeah but I’m not out here paying $50 to put some pixels on someone else’s post. Cry more

Netflix used to be that and everyone bought the hell out of it. Then it enshittened and all the shows moved to proprietary platforms and now you need 19 subscriptions to get a selection of shows you care about. No thanks.

There are powerful lessons to be learned from the successes of Steam and Spotify if only the relevant people look and listen.

Okay so you admit in your own argument that they’re doing it slower. Yes, I WILL vote for a 50-year plan to fascism over voting for a 2-year plan to fascism, every time, without question. Gives us more time to turn it around before sitting officials burn everything down. At this point in this country I frankly don’t give much of a damn what the Democrat long term goals are anymore because the Republican party is such an immediate and obvious threat to safety, democracy, and human decency. Given such an environment it’s obvious that a few decades (or less) from now we’re going to be dealing with significant problems in the Democratic party, since it’s so easy to choose to usher them into power right now - it’s easy for bad actors to abuse that. And frankly there are already problems in the Democratic party. But I’d rather deal with that then, than deal with Republican ideals now, because instituting Republican ideals now will not leave us with a future where we even have the choice to deal with Democrat problems.

maximum height allowance on vehicle’s headlights so that they’re not right in a sedan’s driver’s rearview mirror when a pickup is tailgating

That’s actually already legally mandated at least in states that require state inspections. Headlight angle is supposed to be one of the things you have to check in order to pass inspection.

In practice, mostly nobody checks it and it doesn’t matter. But it should.

There are a multitude of reasons to recommend against using Brave.

Personally I refuse to install it because the CEO and creator, Brendan Eich, unapologetically donates to right wing and anti-gay establishments. Many people refuse to use it because it games the users and advertisers with a proprietary cryptocurrency that isn’t actually useful for anything except making money for Brave. Others refuse to use it because in 2020 Brave was caught adding their own affiliate codes and tracking data to websites in the url bar, even ones that were typed in by hand. That was eventually rolled back but it didn’t help me trust them any.

Vivaldi is a better browser option, in my opinion.

The distinction is becoming a lot smaller these days. I can sync a Bluetooth keyboard to my phone and pull off quite a bit of fuckery that would typically require a laptop.

I actually really appreciate the thought and effort put into your reply here. I will admit freely that my original comment was coming from a place of frustration, no small amount of depression, and desperation. And I think you’re absolutely correct that for the average person it’s probably more important to worry about your own immediate health and surroundings. It’s healthier that way.

The part I disagree with, though, is the idea that just putting on your blinders and ignoring the things you can’t change is a fine way to live your life. We, as citizens, have a duty and a responsibility to keep our country in line. We, as human beings, have a duty and a responsibility to be good shepherds of our planet. We, as parents, have a duty and a responsibility to leave a better world behind for our children than the one we inherited. And I can’t, and won’t, just ignore all that. The universe is not malevolent but it also is not benevolent. It is vast and uncaring far beyond our ability to comprehend it as such, and it is up to us, the thinking, feeling creatures, to forge our future. If we do not act, there will be no action.

Our situation was caused by thinking, feeling human beings, and it will be solved by thinking, feeling human beings and no one else. Or else we will die, and find ourselves as an evolutionary dead-end that tried real hard but didn’t quite make it.

So my question then becomes, at the end of the day - if not you or I, then who? If we do not rage against the night, if we do not reach to the sky to pull ourselves out of the hole we’ve been dug into - then who is going to do it for us? Not God, that’s for sure. Not politicians, or soldiers, or celebrities. So who?

The parts of life I’m not satisfied with are the facts that my country is rapidly sliding into becoming a fascist ethnostate, our tax code is fucked six ways to Sunday, corporations are unaccountable to the law, I can barely afford food anymore because of corporations being unaccountable to the law and our tax code being fucked, my society is being actively destroyed by religious fanatics and schools can no longer be trusted to educate anyone.

So, yeah. Any ideas? I’m all ears.

If I fought and killed over the right to own and abuse another human being, I would hope people would show up to piss on my grave. This is more respect than they deserve.

And don’t try to say they were a product of their time, either, because so was Cassius Clay and that man landed on the right side of history after being born to the richest slave owner in America. If he could buck that trend then so could all these other assholes.

I’ve met a dairy farmer, that mfer could KO a brick wall.

I bet the fucking moon did it. That big luminous asshole. I know it’s up there plotting something.

Well… Yeah. Otherwise they wouldn’t ask me for a credit card for a free trial of a service. It’s always been obvious that that’s their aim, refusing a single use credit card isn’t some big “gotcha” moment here. Free trials only exist anymore in order to steal money at the end of the trial period, counting on the user forgetting to cancel. This is a known quantity.

No, that’s just what the political right tells you they are all about. Inspect their actual actions over the last several centuries and they tell a very different story.

Make no mistake, conservatives desire an oppressive government. They want the state to be able to tell you you can’t be gay or Muslim. They yearn for the boot on their neck, so long as it steps harder on their neighbors than it does on them personally.

Maybe I’m just missing something here but I can’t think of what part of discord’s UI could be considered convoluted. It’s a list of servers with a list of channels in them. You also have a list of DMs. End of story. Everything you need is right there in front of you.

It’s miles better than any IRC client I ever used, which is the most direct comparison between Discord and “the good old days” of the internet. And I liked IRC a lot.

I understand having issues with Discord’s corporate backing or having issues with how it’s difficult to find files or specific posts. Because it isn’t a forum, it was never really intended for that. But I think it’s a bit disingenuous to say the UI is complex, convoluted and impractical, because it’s actually none of those things. Discord has done its best to keep up with people misusing their platform as a forum, as they should, because that’s what the userbase wants (even if they’re using the product “wrong”). But the core functionality of what it’s supposed to do is wide open right in front of you and is highly intuitive.

Do correct me if I’m wrong though, I’m curious to hear what people have to say about this. There’s always a possibility that I’m some savant who is the only person in the world to intuitively grok Discord. But I very much doubt that.

Thanks, I’ll get right on that.

On an unrelated note, got any virgin blood?

It’s a meme account. JC Denton is a character from Deus Ex, most of their comments are quotes from the character.

Firefox + uBlock Origin served me about 4 hours of video last night without an ad in sight.

They very well might just bill your next of kin about it. Or it will be taken out of estate value first.

If you’re broke, die, and have no immediate family? You get out scot free.