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If every HP fan supported the author by buying it, but then volunteered in a soup kitchen one time, they’ve done far more good than bad.

Good and evil aren’t interchangeable, fungible quantities. You can’t punch 20 babies in the face and then feed 100 starving orphans and expect people to forget about one due to the other. The babies stay punched and the orphans stay fed.

With respect to HP in particular, supporting someone who actively and successfully campaigns against trans right hurts trans people. (And tells us that y’all care more about a children’s story than you do living, breathing human beings). Volunteering at a soup kitchen after donating to the exterminate trans people fund doesn’t undo the donation. It does feed some hungry people, but again doing “good” doesn’t erase having done “evil”; both acts still occured.

What people are saying here is literally “please don’t donate to the trans extermination project.”

Finally, there being no ethical consumption under capitalism is an indictment of consumption, not an absolution for any/all consumption. Just because all consumption falls short of perfect ethics doesn’t mean it’s all equally unethical. This should be obvious.

It’s not just about moral reasons (although I would write them off for moral reasons alone, to be clear). Brave as a browser has a history of making privacy worse- see, for example, disabling advance anti-fingerprinting in 2024 and their piss-poor tor implementation in 2021. Your initial comment had said you hadn’t seen anything since 2018 and maybe you like the browser enough to not care about their history of careless implementations of privacy features or their limiting of user choice on fingerprinting protections, but I don’t see how these objections can be dismissed as not relating to privacy.

Wow, we’ve come so far in the last 20 years… In 2006, Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid was released. Thank goodness we’ve come together as a society to figure out how best to refer to the domination of the Palestinian people 🙄.

Here’s a brief synopsis of the various things Brave has gotten up to, with receipts rather than “Brave is spyware”: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/.

Personally, I see a pattern of continually engaging in underhanded and rent-seeking behavior that does not align with its stated goal of ensuring user privacy. Because I see a pattern of trying things to see what they can get away with, I lack any trust in their future behavior and have no desire to use software that I feel I have to maintain constant vigilance over what changes they’re making from release to release.

I mean, the W54 was small enough to be carried by a person and I don’t think anyone wants even a 1kt device going off near them. So it’s within the realm of possibility even if it does strain credulity as an actual goal Iran was working toward (let alone a solid justification for this bullshit).

Edit: the W54 weighed 51lb (23 kg).

Every generation has had people who believe in and work toward all sorts of things. Hippies who thought they could levitate the Pentagon were the same age (actually, that’s an oversimplification because, surprise, social movements have always been more age-diverse than they are presented in our media and histories) and existed in the same context as Henry Kissinger who was picking out carpet bombing sites in Southeast Asia as if he were picking what to have for lunch.

For as long as there’s been people, we’ve disagreed with one another and worked toward disparate goals. Find people working on things you care about and work with them. Anything else is a waste of your extremely limited time in this life. Allowing endemic power structures to refocus your anger toward broad groups of “others” and then further propagating that misplaced anger only serves to prolong the status quo and to make working together harder.

Flag code is advisory and != law. If you’re naked and wrap them bits in the flag, no laws are broken.

You can develop your technique using a pellet gun (esp. pump or single shot) much more cheaply if that helps. There are also cheap-ish drop-in .22 conversions for ARs so you’re spending a few cents per round rather than $.75.

What are the theological implications of there being pregnant people in the afterlife?

Cool!

It’s so cool and I love the wrong-side-out texture. I should try it with some of mine.

It’s so fun! Short synopsis: anarcho squatter punks deal with ancient deer god.

I came up on Slackware, used it exclusively from like ‘96 - 08’. Have not touched it since. I have fond memories of debugging XFree86.conf and compiling half of what I installed from source. 🤣 This is a wild slack themed day- I just ran into a Bob Dobbs picture in the wild. 😂

The deer thing super reminds me of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy.

It improves video games in the same way that motion smoothing “improves” movies. There’s no mental gymnastics involved here- the point of art is to tell a story or convey a message from one or a team of humans to one or a group of other humans. This tech erases the myriad choices that artists make and instead reduces it all to a “better” mean. And all of that’s without addressing the subtle misogyny of how it treats the faces of characters who it perceives as women vs men. It’s your right to like this shitty tech because you care more about leather jacket texture than you do about engaging with the artistic work of others, but those of us objecting, I can assure you, are not missing out on “progress.” If I want to see leather jacket texture, I’ll go look in my closet. 🙄

Not really. They’re still harvesting/monitoring everyone’s chats and are moving forward with age verification, to include behavior-based age verification. They’re just hiring a different scummy vendor to handle the age checks.

Currently hosting a couple of zulip instances for communities that had been on discord. I really like the way it handles topics/threading and they make hosting a breeze. I reported in an upgrade recently and it was < 30 minutes between me reporting it and getting code to solve my issue pushed to the repos. Wild.

10/10 recommend if voice/video are not a focus.

Not saying this isn’t bad, but I’m not seeing any statements from the hrtcafe admins here and for months (have a look at the wayback machine), the site has had a banner at the top saying it’s unmaintained for a site redesign and directing visitors elsewhere. Other sites remain up. This feels a lot like the pink news getting ad $$$ from scaring us trans folks (who are reasonably terrified as it is).

Really a question of whether you still trust the state apparatus to protect you and your loved ones from physical violence. For the right, the need to protect themselves was never anything but a bogeyman dreamt up by gun manufacturers and racist opportunists. The calculus may well differ for other folks given the current state of things and the lessons one might draw from history.

For anyone intrigued by the first title, I offer this masterpiece: Pounded In The Butt By My Own Podcast: Bigfoot Pirates Haunt My Balls, read by Dane Terry

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