Although I wish Reddit will soon rot and I’m an atheist, we all know who the people focused on criticizing only Islam are.

A large number of them are former muslims who managed to escape from oppressive islamic regimes, and are now outspoken activists against an evil ideology.

I prefer the company of people who are either neutral about religion or hates them all equally.

That’s pretty stupid on your part either way. Neutrality towards religion is simply complicity. “Hating them all equally” is absurd and simple-minded, as every religion differs wildly in the level of harm it does. Islam and christianity are objectively the most harmful religions in existence today, and to focus your disdain on the one that you have the most experience with or poses the biggest threat to you is entirely reasonable.

Because it’s fun.

Assholes like this love tipping culture. It gives them a feeling of power over people they see as lesser.

But the capitalists keep telling me our lives are great because now we have computers and cars and sugar in all our food! Don’t tell me they lied to me…

Good. Productivity killed the planet.

The system you describe cannot exist. An anarchist or libertarian state in the real world can neither regulate nor defend itself from other states. It’s a fantasy that would collapse immediately upon implementation in all possible real world circumstances.

Secure from who? The law? Not likely. Some dude in his basement in Russia who really wants to know where I’m meeting my friends after work or what time my dentist appointment is? Big deal.

Honestly, who is actually stupid enough to still be sending sensitive personal information by text? It doesn’t matter what app you use to send it; once it’s sent, it’s inherently unsecure because now someone else has it in their posession with nothing but their personal integrity protecting it.

“Essential worker” just means non-union poors, realistically. If you’ve got no leverage and don’t make enough to have any savings, you are required to continue going to work no matter what happens.

My phone can already send texts. Why the fuck would I install spyware to be able to also send texts?

That looks entirely inedible.

“Propaganda doesn’t work on me, I vote third party!”

-Actual quote from a coworker.

Squirrel is actually pretty good. Some of those others though…

You’re right, I guess we just shouldn’t try. We should probably just let corporations do whatever they want with no meaningful pushback and keep making our lives worse.

Why should the customer have to hand-hold shitty corporations while we pretend, againt all past evidence, that they’re ever going to learn to do better, when “doing better” isn’t their goal?

It’s not our job to fix bad business practices by rewarding them with continued business while they lie about “figuring things out.” It’s our job to condemn them to failure and bankruptcy for their atrocious anti-human behavior, and we’re failing miserably at it due to our toxic collective preference for short-term convenience over quality and long-term societal and economic health.

Or, and I know this sounds crazy, the highly paid professionals at the top of their field can do their job properly for the majority of their consumers.

My recommendation for anyone, but especially IT, is to learn how to use LLMs as they will be pervasive before you know it.

Better idea: stop doing business with companies that do this.

A lot of us live in apartments and choose not to be obnoxious assholes to our neighbors. Wheres the sound mix for us?

If you have to keep changing the volume throughout the movie, the audio engineer did a bad job, period.

Yeah, it’s pretty terrifying. Luckily, we can all still vote by mail here in Wisconsin, so we don’t have to physically go to the polls, but the republicans have managed to put some heavy barriers in the way of it in the last couple years, even though their attempts to ban it outright have failed.

My city used to have a mobile ballot dropoff truck, but they sued and got it banned, and they’ve also banned dropping off ballpts for other people. If you’re disabled and/or don’t have reliable access to transportation, and understandably don’t want to trust the republican-crippled USPS with your ballot, voting has become much more difficult, if not entirely impossible.

We’re far beyond the point of no return on that. They’re going to be violent no matter what, so we should celebrate when they target each other instead of, well…literally anyone else.

Rarely, yes, but the technology to create a body cam that functions reliably when near police officers hasn’t been developed yet.