Let the self sacrifice on display be a lesson to all of us, on this most blessed birthday of the person who (allegedly) gave their life for all of us.

Organized religion is, fundamentally — at its very core — based on rejecting critical thought; to “just have faith” in the unknown/unknowable.

It is in no way surprising that it’s incompatible with advanced science/evidence-based civilization.

The first time I traveled to America, my first thought after a day meeting southerners was “man, these people are dumb as rocks”. It was a major tourist destination so I met many Americans of normal intelligence from elsewhere, and the southerners were friendly, but man… the things they chose to talk about, and questions they chose to ask, really solidified how dangerous promoting religion over education is. A democracy can only survive when the average is informed, and conservatisms overall anti-intellectualism — its multi-decade attacks on education — is the #2 predictive variable destroying western democracies (the #1 being religion itself).

Let’s just say I’ve been expecting fascist dictatorship for America for over 2 decades, so Trump/MAGA was expected… Though, even with that expectation, I didn’t expect it to be this fucking stupid.

It was the simplest/cheapest form of 2FA to implement. Grandma will never understand how to setup TOTP.

Capitalism requires regulations, otherwise it will ALWAYS do what is cheapest or most profitable, regardless of how dangerous or destructive.

The NSA already has your social map from Apple, Google, Facebook/whatsapp, plus a hundred other sources you’ve given access to your contacts in the past decade.

Even if you’ve never used any of those, or given any app access to your contacts, 99% of your contacts have.

A recall implies the product is irreparably damaged, or too expensive to repair, and needs to be returned/replaced.

This framing benefits corporations, because the average recall is relatively minimal and inconsequential, the public will grow to consider “recalls” as normal instead of “potentially deadly failure/defect”, and make it easier for corporate sociopaths like Space Karen to scream gubberment overreach. The wording should reflect the risk to life/public health (e.g. potential to cause harm/death) as well as the cost to repair/replace (quantify the severity of the failure/defect).

The greater the access and granularity consumers have to this type of data, the greater the benefit to society. Any corporation, politician or lobby group arguing otherwise is your enemy.

Which it also didn’t do. Nobody “trusts” “big Pharma”. They trust doctors, scientists, and the regulatory bodies that oversee them.

Enshittification guarantees a near 100% chance they’ll do it eventually, so you’re better off preemptively moving to an alternative sooner that later.

I’m a programmer. Programmers are the way the are because of biases inherent to pre-existing wealth and historically in-demand skills / high pay. It’s only a matter of time till they learn the boot of capitalism will crush them the same as any other worker.

Bro’s legit out here thinking there’s some sort of meaningful wealth redistribution instead of winner takes all for the few, abject poverty for the rest.

Can’t he just do what America is known and loved for? … Denying entire countries their basic human rights, sovereignty, and democracy?

That would certainly explain MAGA/Trump. I’ve been calling it a mental illness since 2015.

I legit think the state/oligarchy will kill him silently. Taking it to trial and giving this guy a voice could make things so much worse for them. They’re afraid of creating a robin hood, and class solidarity; of giving the working class a hero and cause to rally around.

They’re so close to creating a robot army that can suppress the masses. They just have to bide their time until revolution is impossible.

I don’t feel this way about dudes kissing or PDA, but if I accidentally click the wrong link or scroll past a thumbnail with some explicit gay porn, I feel the exact same visceral disgust.

That’s how I OG confirmed I’m not gay back in the day. Trying to watch gay porn and having my dick shrivel like a frightened turtle; wanting nothing to do with it.

It’s kinda peaceful, knowing that I’ll just end and nothing will matter anymore for the rest of eternity.

The prospect of living for eternity is so much scarier; basically nightmare fuel.

Yet none of them really paywall you for using an adblocker.

Actually come to think of it, porn sites are the only place I allow ads (obv blocking the pop ups and other dark pattern fuckery)… probablys because I learned to ignore them entirely as a teen before ad blockers existed.

So you can doom scroll faster… duh!

The millions of free porn sites would beg to differ…

You’re my favorite customer.

The entire internet backbone is fiber optic cables, so most data is already transferred using “beams” of light.

This is what computers do on either end of the fiber optic cables to transmit the data; except billions of times faster, using multiple “colors” (wavelengths) and similar tricks with light to stream as many 1’s & 0’s as fast as possible.