donations and commissions. That’s how modern artists operate, for example

that way we know we’re not in an echo chamber

well, it’s always much easier said than done, isn’t it:]

happens with the best of us. If anything, ability to change one’s opinion instead of blindly insisting on it is always an admirable quality. Vocalizing such fact takes an even greater resolve.

No matter how firm your belief was, you have my respect.

Thanks! I’m not used to hear any kind of appraisal, especially online, so i will admit, i do feel a bit awkward right now :D

I guess the Pharaohs actually did achieve some form of immortality…

Well, AFAIR, they did believe that as long as their name was spoken, they continued to live in the afterlife, didn’t they? They definitely were onto something

you’re stretching the term “slavery” beyond what is acceptable in the context of historical discussion.

The inequality is one of the core principles of society. And even if the society was magically equal, your freedom would end where other’s freedom would start.

Your definition of slavery is also quite useless simply due to the fact that everyone is a slave by your logic, as everyone has some kind of social obligation they are ought to fullfill, be it for the money or otherwise.

Egyptians didn’t have that choice tho

Do we tho? Not having to work is a privilege. Without a job you’ll most likely die a slow miserable death if you don’t have that privilege, as we no longer raise our food, collect our drinking water, or build our own houses. Not to mention, we still have to pay taxes.

By the way, according to what i heard, working on a pyramid construction was exactly the last case — a form of tax payment.

Anyway, considering that workers were well fed, receiving meat, beer and bread in greater quantities than any peasant of the day would dream of, as well as they had medical care for their conscription period, one might hypothesize that most people of the time would’ve jumped on an opportunity like that.

Your argument is neither constructive, nor it helps to represent reality better, let alone do so historically correct.

except those “slaves” didn’t have to bother about buying food, affording rent or paying up morgage, while still working only for a fraction of time that we do.

People in countries with conscript armies are slaves too, by your logic.

We’re far more enslaved than they ever were, especially if we’re talking about modern physical job workers.

Not to mention that “believe in my divinity or die” is more of a christian shtick. And people did believe in pharaoh’s divinity, as everybody percieved reality as magical at the time. It’s important to remember that rationalism and atheism are relatively new ideas, emerged the moment that people noticed that our new knowledge contradicts christian dogmatics.

And while slavery was a thing pretty much from the beggining of human civilisation, don’t think it was the same as colonial slavery. Colonial slavery is more akin to what nazis did, really. Not that its surprising, considering that both utilised more-less the same rhetoric.

OHHHHH

he looks like he regrets his life decisions

Hunting a diaper

Is this some kind of catholic priest slang!?

Gabiblio had afterdicted this.

ah yes, the “Americans”, the united meat obelisk of people that moans “Truuump” in its sleep.

Trump also was democratically elected multiple times

enlish swearing is too simple for that

Pardon, but some people want to eat shit and watch others do it. Some people still use facebook. I don’t judge them. But won’t be happy if they showed up and told me that i must do it as well.

And those features being what exactly? A small chat window drop-out so your lazy ass won’t need to open an ai chat in a tab? This is absurd.

At least they give you a choice of enabling/disabling that functionality

lmao. That’s how we got Windows as enshittified as it is now.

lmao. You fail to beat the fanboy allegations with this comment. At this point you literally look like the guy from the meme in my eyes.

and again with the misuse of the word “propaganda”, this time topped off with the most basic demagogic manipulation i’ve seen in a while, comparing me to corpos, trying to… What exactly? Is the last paragraph there to make me feel bad? Because it provides no logical counter-argument to what i said. Sorry, but i’m too autistic to be ragebaited.

You’re the one, making claims without supporting them with any proof.

My claim is that firefox gets worse by adding the features nobody asked for, spending time and money for their development, purely out of FOMO of the AI hypetrain, while struggling to implement actually relevant modern technologies such as WebGPU. AI can be a useful instrument, but if i ever want to use it, i’d use specialized tools for that, and look for them at specialized places.

Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.

a quote from Enthony Enzor-Demeo, the current CEO of Firefox.

I like how you treat any rumors you don’t like as propaganda, implying ill intent, as well as call people morons for not trusting yet another corpo.

I personally use firefox for now, because i’m too lazy to set up synchronization between devices myself in an opensource browser.

The fact that they’re slightly better than their competitors is not a reason to fanboy over them and put a blind eye over their slow but steady shift towards enshittification.

except firefox is also part of a problem

ah yes, male pattern value increase, completely forgot about it

*sad jesus noises*