Regardless of rules you’re going to have scammers. For every real person that needs help you’ll have 10 that are just preying on people’s emotions.

No, I’m a fish apparently.

Whales are mammals.

What’s the difference in apathy and inaction?

Nothing.

Yeah this is the type of response I expected. An unserious meme potshot because that truth is too uncomfortable.

Collective action, but that takes people and people, again, don’t like giving up their conveniences.

You guys are gonna lose your shit when you find out where your tax dollars are winding up… Or your phone purchase dollars… Or your electricity bill dollars…

Are you alive and spending? If the answer is yes, congratulations you cause pain and suffering.

Oh right… The moderate approach. Yeah that works really well…

Yeah you’re right. Let’s just keep using all these apps and building our technological lives on top of these awful corp’s infrastructures and platforms. I mean we have to, right? We can’t inconvenience ourselves in the short term to find alternative solutions, can we?

It’s so frustrating watching the world fall apart when we’ve tried nothing and are all our of ideas.

No one is suggesting social isolation.

I get that, but change will never come with compromise.

Genuine question, why go to the trouble of switching to a privacy focused os then install Meta apps? Do you just not like Google?

laughs in Linux

You’re looking for permission not for recommendation. Get your Macbook.

Never.

It’s strange that people think this is a good price.

I mean if you pay taxes in there US you’re a genocidal POS.

The worst part about the bad news is the continued lack of action to remedy some of it.