I don’t think that anybody should have nuclear weapons. Do you support assassinating scientists?

Definitely recommend Soulseek. You’ll get higher-quality files, too.

I’m not trying to defend BestBuy or DoorDash. This is entirely on the driver.

You are defending Best Buy in the very next sentence.

DoorDash is designed to deliver food, not expensive electronics. You can bet that if somebody designed a delivery service for electronics, they wouldn’t make it this easy to steal shit. If the driver decides to take your food and eat it themselves, you’re out…what? $25-35? A $700+ laptop is a whole other level.

Attacking civilians doesn’t automatically make it a genocide. If that were true, then pretty much every war ever was a genocide.

Why did the authoritarian regime wait until now to turn off the Internet?

I don’t look both ways before crossing the street, and I’ve never been hit! It must be safe!

No, it’s Aluminum of America.

Your mother took my load lmao

It’s the name of another precious metal with one letter removed. Star Trek writers are so lazy.

Or it was just a weird network issue. A week is a long time, though.

There are speech police in the real world. Workplaces don’t allow you to use slurs or to harass your co-workers. That’s just one example. In fact, any social group that I can think of will punish you for saying something. Some are more lenient than others, but every one has a line that you cannot cross.

No newsgroups? No IRC?

Tbf, having a central authority dictate the truth to you ain’t so great.

I don’t think the phrase “third-party fact checkers” (plural) implies a central authority.

Neither is having classes of people who you aren’t allowed to offend.

Facebook can’t stop you from offending people. What they can do is make it slightly more difficult by disallowing slurs, etc.

“I don’t care if I get dirt in my mouth, but I better not get it in my hair.”

I love Arch, but it is not for beginners. WiFi and Bluetooth are both sketchy. Or, at least, they used to be.

If they aren’t worried about dirt, I doubt that they’re gonna be worried about spit or piss.

I don’t think that we need million-dollar movies. And, no, I don’t think that humans would quit making art if you removed the profit motive. We’ve been making art going all the way back to pre-history, and most of those artists were not wealthy. Art wasn’t something created by capitalism in order to get people to fork over dollars for the latest Marvel Cinematic Explosion.

We also wouldn’t have any media if everyone pirated.

[citation needed]

If nobody copied, a lot of media would get lost to time.

Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.

Because they’re two completely different things.

Damn, the whole world really is going authoritarian.