AVincentInSpace

What do you get out of throwing trans people under the bus because you didn't want your own feelings to be hurt?

...how do you mean?

Obviously we're not going to get everyone to download a FOSS period tracker, as nice as that would be -- they're already invested in the ones they're using, and no doubt it will have features and usability improvements the FOSS one doesn't, usually thanks to some network service that is fundamentally incompatible with the FOSS philosophy. That's almost always how these things go.

We should definitely be telling more people about F-Droid, but let's not get our hopes up. Socialism is about protecting everyone, even people who don't share your views, even if those views are objectively correct.

I'm not opposed to it because it's illegal, I'm opposed to it because sweet mercy you are going to poison yourself

Tantacrul made an HBomb-length video about Facebook recently. Def worth a watch.

Wait, what happened to Minecraft? You're just talking about the Bedrock edition, right?

...right?

Microsoft.

MICROSOFT.

NOBODY IS GOING TO LISTEN TO YOUR "HEY MAYBE THIS IS A VIRUS" WARNING IF YOU HAVE TO CLICK THROUGH IT TO INSTALL CHROME.

https://youtu.be/cSDqLC0-fKk

which transitioned smoothly into the amiga vs pc debate a few years later

no one is saying this, are they?

According to this article this was part of a performance art project by an anti-fascist activist, who asked the teachers to do that activity just to see if they'd be willing to do it.

in dr frankenstein's defense it's kinda hard to get peer reviewed while you're doing the experiment. that usually happens after you've done all the sciency stuff, crunched all the numbers, written up a paper, and sent it off to be reviewed.

this legitimately feels like something that could have happened in Snow Crash