Thanks, Claude

Weeeelll he might be just enabling it but I’m leaning towards him actively waging it.

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How do you like FSB spyware on your phone?

Aah I see there are depths to the Dutch spirit I’ve yet to uncover. All my encounters with the Dutch have been at a pre-canal-swimming drunkenness level.

Is it the one where you pretend to deepthroat a frikandel?

The underlying problem is that like half of Americans only pay lip service to the First Amendment.

That’s what she said

No over the whole screenshot. Open the full image, it’s a lot of text

What the hell are those faint watermark looking things on the image?

Because making sense is so 2010, grandpa

He is a member of the in-group for many. He is using the arguments that will actually make some in said in-group listen.

Bro is a cognitive dissonance junkie

Some beliefs are more antifragile than others

You can’t have a rainforest in Brazil without cutting it down either, but that doesn’t seem to stop people

Hehe .ml user being defensive

I think that’s that old mobile OS. You’re probably thinking of Symbian.

Sure, but I’d wager it goes beyond the singular manifestation of power as money. Plenty of other manifestations, and all lead to similar places.

At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.

This kind of stuff never happens overnight. It happens slowly, incrementally, and the people are never mad enough at too much sudden change to be motivated enough to do anything. People should feel good about the imposition of boundaries, and it helps that for the average user, the boundaries often result in a better user experience.