I hate focus stealing so I might set mine to strict, now that I know that’s an option.

It’s an absolute nightmare to be typing, some dialogue box pops up, and I accidentally accept it by hitting spacebar without even seeing what it was.

Yeah I noticed that, too. Not sure why. Using apt on the command line is probably an alternative, at least.

Is this real? Source? It’s believable and that makes me upset

Edit: https://www.wired.com/story/battle-toilet-workplace/

From like 2019

Also switched to Linux (popos) this month. It’s been fine. Games work. Browser works. No complaints, really.

I think there are protests but coverage and communication is limited. Probably because a lot of news and platforms are owned by shitty, rich, people.

I think most computer users now don’t know that file systems exist

Fear and hatred of out-group is a pretty core part of conservatism. They are bad people

Is there any of that here? No, so you’re reaching & pulling shit out your ass.

The idea that cities are dangerous crime areas full of violence is a racist trope.

Hold on. Like how old are you? I’m going to feel bad if I’m engaging with like a 15 year old who’s never taken Literature 200.

You seem to be media illiterate and I don’t know if I have it in me to do a whole course. But here I am typing on my phone.

The comic is being derided because it’s showing the NYC subway as a dangerous place where fights just happen. This coincides with the common right wing belief that cities are dangerous, which has racist roots (see: white flight).

In order for the joke to work, you need to accept that premise. Imagine if the comic was instead someone in the first frame holding a $100 ticket to a zoo, and then a $3 ticket to the subway, where the subway is full of elephants. That wouldn’t make any sense because there’s no idea that wild animals are on the train. It would simply be absurd.

Even if the author didn’t intend to reference that fear of urban areas, it’s there. Death of the author. Authorial intent does not supersede the text. It can provide clues, but it can’t take something out.

The joke doesn’t work without the racist context imported.

The authors usage of woke could be any of those things, but given their comics seem to mostly be making fun of left wing positions, I don’t think it’s plausible that it’s some deep irony. It’s much more likely that they’re a simple right wing troll.

Also like why are you going to bat so hard for this?

He got people talking, which is worth something.

She’s a very selfish person who doesn’t care about other people. She only cares about what benefits her. So when someone says “there’s no material benefit to me” they sound like that kind of asshole.

Also it was a critically acclaimed show, not some obscure media.

Feel a little like a crazy idiot, but I wasn’t sure where long beach is and it was kind of hard to figure it out. California.

That doesn’t logically follow. No more than saying “Building more highways is bad for the environment, ergo the highway administrators benefit from having more cars on the road.” You’re looking at a problem of induced demand and concluding the problem is on the demand-side of the equation.

What? Yes it does. Facebook needs users to generate revenue. With no users, they can’t sell ads or user data. How else do you think they make money? Do you not think making money is a benefit for the owners of facebook?

It’s one node in a massive web. And it’s easy to say “Well, you have to do your part because <insert consumerist morality here>”. But mostly it’s just some random asshole on the internet telling me not to use my telephone because AT&T is run by a richer set of random assholes. There’s no material benefit to me and no collective coordinated action that I’m seriously participating in.

You’re reminding me of Eleanor from the good place. Do you also litter? Refuse to return shopping carts?

Well, there’s no going back and changing the past, so the best you can do is learn. Glad you’ve come around!

There are certainly worse candidates. Stewart still seems like he has a soul, unlike most republicans.

Well, there’s the extreme end of things that moderators don’t like posts about People love Luigi, though. But I understand not wanting to throw one’s life away, even if success pushed the entire world onto a better trajectory.

There’s also that low grade sabotage stuff that gets talked about. I think people were posting the ww2 sabotage manual a couple months ago. Stuff like have excessive meetings, make plausible mistakes to gum things up, that kind of stuff. This works better if you’re closer to a source of the problems (eg: ICE, mega corps, republican think tanks, etc)

Then there’s safer stuff like protests. There’s the really safe ones where you just go and march. Those have use, but are kind of limited and won’t fix things on their own. You can also do disruptive protests, but you have to be quick and smart, or you have a high risk of going to jail (or worse).

Radicalizing your friends also can be planting seeds. Maybe those will grow.

You could run for office, but that’s slow and expensive.

There’s probably other stuff, too, but I’m running out of steam here.

I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect.

Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There’s the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)

If you accept that, it’s a small step to “They benefit from having more users on their platform”. More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one’s going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook’s going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren’t on there.

Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.

Can you share what lead you to support Adams, and what changed your mind?

Those aren’t the only email providers, and using email is less harmful than using Facebook.

email exists and isn’t run by the worst people on earth