The us was never wholly good. Maybe 3/5ths good, at best.

People gotta stop watching slop. But it seems impossible to get people to stop using tiktok, twitter, instagram, et al. They just don’t care enough.

Verbing weirds language, per calvin and hobbes

https://imgur.com/verbing-weirds-language-wHldxoy

Conservatives are fundamentally bad people. Hypocritically supporting your in-group while harming your out-group is bad person behavior. Someone admitting they are a conservative should elicit the same response as someone saying they kick puppies or punch babies. It’s inexcusable and has no place in polite society.

I suppose. But have you tried to get people to care about things? It’s stupid hard. I can’t get most of my friends to stop using Twitter, which is a pretty low stakes change. Nevermind something like “eat less meat” or “walk instead of drive sometimes”

If you can make people care, you can solve a lot of problems

Can never tell with this kind of turd if they’re stupid, lying, or both

You can make that kind of thing illegal. I think “shrink wrap eulas” are dubious. Rule that fine print with a bunch of other stuff doesn’t count as explicit. Like there are rules now about cookie acceptance that has changed how the web works, and most sites don’t try to hide the cookie thing because that’s against the rules.

I think you’re under estimating what the law can do, probably because most of the time it’s used to bolster rich assholes.

You could probably make it illegal to alter people’s videos without their explicit consent. But also the Republicans have shown us that laws mean what the people in charge want

Am I old? I thought they were talking about vietnam

I’ve read this kind of thing before and I believe it. People mostly change to conform to their in-group.

The other thing that changes people’s minds is trauma. Massive, life altering, trauma.

Like if some maga hat gets the absolute shit kicked out of them by the police they worship, like “will never walk again and is blind in one eye”, that might be enough to overload the brain and throw out the 'cops are good, actually ’ belief. Might be.

And I think it has to happen to them, not just someone close. There’s news stories about like people’s husband being deported but they still support trump. I think conservatives particularly are bad at empathy, so they won’t get it until something happens to them

Seems like this should be illegal, Google should be broken up, and its leadership imprisoned

I read they’re using react, the JavaScript library, for the start menu. If true that strikes me as insane

Too many people do not want violence of any form ever, so they’ll just let maga do what they want.

If the rules prohibit something, and they do it anyway, you need to stop them. Much like the paradox of tolerance, the rules are a treaty not a suicide pact.

They want to emphasize certain words, but don’t really have the confidence and writing skills to do so in other ways

and a few of the worst offenders (Google is one that I know does this) add a random string of characters on the element that serve as a unique identifier that periodically changes and so requires me to readd them to my UBO blocklist.

Does ubo accept css selectors? Css has syntax for “match element that starts with, ends with, or contains, this string”

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors

that she had no idea that there was any risk to drinking the milk

Did this person not take 9th grade history?

The ignorance and stupidity of people is astounding

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

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

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