Or Linux users
jcrm
joined 2 years ago
I mean in Toronto the joke is that every year it's not legal is just another year of illegally drinking in parks. It's happening anyway in basically every park, so just make it legal already.
Given their name is "OpenAI" and they were founded on the idea of being transparent with those exact things, I'm less impressed that that's what they're upset about. The keep saying they're "protecting" us by not releasing us, which just isn't true. They're protecting their profits and valuation.
Dishonored, I absolutely adore that game, and it still looks so good because of the art direction they took with it. Funny enough, it was the same art director as Half Life 2
Then they don't transition. Unless you want to make up some imaginary enemy to validate your hate.
That's a lotta words for "I don't respect what people want to be called". When you call someone by the wrong name and they correct you, is that also compelled speech to you? Because that's all pronouns are. By your definitions all of language is compelled speech, because you're being forced into using specific words to communicate.
It can be your opinion all you want, but it's one you should evaluate and change, because it doesn't make any goddamn sense.
@Eigengrau Fully agree, even if they're empty I don't like that they're sitting as a kind of invitation to transphobes and bigots.
Low key using this thread to do that. Lots of closet fascists being shitty in here, but hey, the nice thing about them is they make themselves easy to spot!
Man if you're complaining about getting banned of dogwhistles, you should re-evaluate how you align yourself. It's not enough to just turn you attention away from the Nazi shit, it has to be stamped out. When we do the "well just don't look at it" thing, we allow them to keep recruiting and pulling vulnerable people in with their propaganda. Fascism is an evil ideology, flat out, and has no place in the world.
A list I saw had Freedom Social and Parler on it entirely seriously. Really shocked me to see, and made it a lot harder to figure out what was going to be the replacement. I'm glad I stuck with Kbin.
Lmao, yeah you deserved to have your trash take "censored". Gender affirming care saves lives, and has a less than 1% "regret rate". For reference, knee replacements have about a 15% rate. Shocking how trans-inclusive spaces don't want transphobes around.
So I've got a couple feelings on this.
This is a fools errand. It's like antivirus companies, no matter how well you make your product, the hackers are always going to be one step ahead. If they manage to obscure ads so well they can't be detected the way we do them now, ad blockers will find a new way to go about it. Especially when the way Google wants to do it involves pushing shitty web DRM that other browsers have actively said they won't play ball with.
These tech megacorps seem to think they're invincible. Like people have always used their services, and will always use them. That just isn't true. Youtube, for example, is impossible for me to use without adblock these days. It's just a horrendous experience without it. And when your product is awful to use, that opens the door for someone to come in with something that isn't awful. Yes video hosting is difficult and costly, but it's not nearly as bad as it once was. I really feel like they're digging their own grave here. At least I hope they are.