Americans don’t really value freedom. Not really. Americans pretend they like freedom, but they will give up all their freedoms for the slightest bit of convenience, and because social media told them so.

Am I talking about consumer electronics, or politics? Impossible to say.

You, the people, out in the streets, rioting, en masse. That’s how democracy was won, and it’s what is needed to maintain it.

A piece of paper means nothing if people with guns disregard it.

Why, the same people in support of Netenyaho, of course.

US policy doesn’t get to dictate how websites operate in non US jurisdiction. The US acting like it gets to bully the rest world into doing whatever it wants is the whole issue at hand. That’s the point: the trump admin wants to use US influence to intimidate, bully, and antagonize other countries by disrespecting their sovereignty.

There’s only one reason to get a cybertruck, the one thing it is excellent at: grabbing attention.

Mission accomplished buddy.

Yes, but also no. Older hardware is less power efficient, which is a cost in its own right, but also decreases backup runtime during power failure, and generates more noise and heat. It also lacks modern accelerated computing, like ai cores or hardware video encoders or decoders, if you are running those appd. Not to mention lack of nvme support, or a good NIC.

For me a good compromise is to recycle hardware upgrades every 4-5 years. A 19 year old computer? I would not bother.

“So what do you do for fun?”

If that’s too direct, just mention something fun you did recently and let them decide to respond in kind. If they don’t open up to you like that in the slightest, after you open up to them in such a small way, then you should just take the hint and go talk to someone else.

It’s the great flood of (miss)information, drowning out truth, and AI is only making it worse. People have forgotten how truth is generated and why it is valuable. This will continue untill people adapt to the new reality that information (AI) is not the same thing as truth. And people being people… they will only adapt and learn after a lot of people get hurt.

You both aren’t wrong… But this isn’t about you.

Voting trump as president was the first strike. Supporting a CEO killer was the third strike. Is it going to take a third strike before the people in charge wake the fuck up and realize the bread and circus they’ve been providing just isn’t enough anymore?

All this convenience in tech. We never stopped to ask ourselves what we were giving up. Add protest to the list of sacrifices to the altar of affluence.

I’m not convinced that people, yes even the bad ones, wake up, get out of bed, and think to themselves “let’s do evil today”. Rather, I think people tell themselves lies about how their actions are morally justified for some greater good, or at least remain willfully ignorant (i.e. psychopaths), or just complicit in a rotten system (passive bystanders).

I can’t relate with this feeling of wanting to “troll people on Reddit” at all. Are you conjoined at the hip with them? Is your identity defined by your relationship with them?

Cut them out. Try some scissors.

There is no justice in the US right now. Why bother holding this person accountable when we can’t even hold the highest position in the land accountable for their crimes. The social fabric is unraveling.

Information is not truth. A do or die slogan for the 21st century.

No, no, you are supposed to eat the glue.

The system is a product of each and everyone of us…

Except the rich and powerful have disproportionate control over perpetuating how the system works.

So fuck it it. No. You are dead wrong. This isn’t just the system. This is a few entrenched interests continuing to oppress everyone else. And I think this way of thinking is part of the way that broken system is perpetuated.

The rich and powerful control the narrative. They use that narrative to craft stories to keep people’s anger and extremism directed inwards.

This isn’t some great mystery. It’s just the reality of what tyranny actually looks like.

Headphones do all this already. No mind control is a nice little benefit too.