There’s definitely some information that I’ve shared that is probably not in my best interest, so I understand being the type of person who tells people almost anything. I’m pretty much an open book with close friends and family. It’s one reason I like to avoid sites like Facebook and use sites that emphasize anonymity more. Sometimes I have to keep myself safe from myself lol

I’m a big advocate of privacy, but it’s good to ask these questions. We shouldn’t shame people for asking.

“Your honor, I deny this person their right to liberty on the grounds that I am able to profit by restricting it.”

You’d tell them because the law might not consider your activities illegal at this time. But what about trans kids? What about people who have abortions? Unfortunately, we can’t trust any state or legal system to continue to have our best interests in mind.

Better that we normalize a free and private internet now while we still have the privilege of saying “I’d tell them…” And if you’d tell them, then great! But that should be your choice, your agency. It shouldn’t be data that we expect to have collated about us just by visiting a site online.

None of this is a critique of ideologies like syndicalism and anarcho-communism, so it’s still a pretty ignorant meme that conflates Soviet communism with all forms of communism.

None of this disproves what people like Peter Kropotkin and Emma Goldman were writing about, whose worldviews do not disenfranchise such groups.

I also heartily disagree with your take about private farms. The options you think you have with “private property” are a scam.

I’ve never understood how this is supposed to be some big own to communism. You’d still refer to it as “my farm,” even as I refer to the community where I live as “my city” and the jobs I’ve worked to benefit some capitalist bozo as “my job.” This is even worse than Ben Shapiro popping out of a well. In many ways, I think I’d feel more ownership as part of a community vs. the facade of “private property.”

Well, shiver me timbers!

Thank you for putting into words why watermarks annoy me. Well said.

The father finds a bible, then screams at the daughter to get pregnant and have an abortion immediately.

It’s by an unhinged right-wing artist who made this unironically

Bee (and I cannot stress this enough) haw

Same here, my friend. I have a feeling that anyone who can is already doing so, or at least have a second car or something they can sell if times get hard. Most of us don’t have shit to fall back on.

I’m pretty sure I mindlessly checked out just as often. I cringe thinking about how I just used to watch TV ads without batting an eye. Imagine being numb to that.

As someone who did poorly in math and science classes because I spent all my free time reading Stephen King novels, binging horror movies on VHS, playing the original Final Fantasy, and walking around town aimlessly with my friends, I assure you we were there, and I knew people with even less motivation than myself.

What if they get really sick and die because you ate their vegetables? Ever think of that?

Eat your vegetables

I don’t trust homophobes or cryptobros, especially not those with a history of selling users out like Brendan Eich

Eh, I have a brother who’s an abusive piece of shit, and he definitely didn’t get it from our parents

With mods, anything is possible!

15:45 to say this. Thank you for the list. You saved a lot of wasted time for a lot of people.

My problem with passkeys is it seems to be centered around the mentality that my identity is inextricably linked to my devices, which is something anyone concerned about privacy might want to avoid