But also companies don’t do things for free, so what were they hoping to get out of paying?

Democracy dumbs down civilization.

Professional thought minders want to control what you see. They can vote but don’t speak because the dishonestly of their thought control would be uncovered the second their motives enter conversation.

Once you see what you are not allowed to know you now know what you need to know. Look for other high positive comment high downvote threads and you’ll catch the pattern.

I’ll spell it out. At least one type of supressed info that might be at play here. There are minders here who work for the democrat party (like the organization). So if the democrats are in office you can’t criticize anything the government does even on an anarchy forum. Anyone here should know there isn’t a decent person in either of the political parties. Decency transcends working in that system. Yet a democrat government is beyond reproach on an anarchy forum even though they aren’t really our allies. Really they are within reproach in conversation because the commenters are real people and we know what’s up. But the workers bees can’t have it and they target suppression marked information with either bots or manual voting.

So that’s why there are downvotes. Someone in the current government did that. And there are thoughtless cowards here who think they have more responsibility to defend a left of center government (kind of) than to defend community self organization (which should be the higher value).

This is why pirating is justified. If you want your shows to last forever, torrent them, and keep them seeded.

It usually involves trying to start some shit with Russia.

Exactly. And you aren’t a terrorist after you win your country back. That’s like the British partnering with America to fight terrorism being ironic because of George Washington. Different era is different era. Whether people like it or not the Taliban run an actual government.

It sounds like everyone but mods should be able to see voters. But of course they will use straw accounts. What if only votes on your own post/comment were revealed to you? Like some pointed out, they are already not anonymous to anyone who wants to try hard enough to get the data because of federation. So the question is who do we want to be able to see that data easily? It’s a GUI modification in any case. Who are we making the gui modification for?

Then I’m super for it. Might as well make what is available to a few try hards available to all easily.

For this user base it is the right answer. So many petty downvoters. On my site I’m considering a rule that would make it so you can’t be the vote that casts a comment into the negative without giving a reason, and then that reason would be turned into a comment. If something is worth downvoting then it is worth explaining why someone is wrong. If you can’t do that maybe you shouldn’t downvote. I don’t think you should have to do that every time. But if a comment is going to go negative someone should step up to the plate and bother to articulate. That way a comment can’t get hidden away from the public just because a petty mob that can’t even present an argument sees it as convenient if certain information disappears.

So in that case the downvoter who crossed it into the negative would not be anonymous.

But even with that margins are tight, so 99.5% of why your flight is expensive is that planes are not cheap to operate and fuel isn’t free. But we can pretend it’s all the other thing to maintain slave morality.

But on the plus side normal people can use air travel now.

Chase the penguins. Cease the day. That’s what I say, because I’m the coked up personality.

This logic breaks down when you realize the laptop is mine, and not HP’s or Windows. And any software that is mine, my copy of windows should also be mine and not microsoft’s, can modify my device if I have selected some of my software to do that.

If you don’t use HP and you don’t use windows you won’t have the problem. You should be boycotting HP as a part of BDS anyway. https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

“But I already bought an HP.” If you had adopted BDS much earlier like you should have you wouldn’t have these problems.

No one would opt-in to having all of their personal files sent to the cloud. But Windows managed to get my father using OneDrive even though he had no idea what it was. He was absolutely pissed when I told him. Somehow that wasn’t enough to get off of windows completely though.

They use dark patterns and cryptic dialog boxes to get old people to opt in.

That’s not what makes websites slow. It’s React.

Retards with React. “I’m optimizing user experience”

The future is retarded.

The important thing is she didn’t die from the Cartels. Do you know how many politicians have been taken out by cartels in the last year. Just recently in April down in Chipas a cartel got 538 politicians to resign all on the same day and murdered 38.

To be a politician in Mexico from any party you need blessings from the right people.

Super badass considering her opposition got assassinated.