Kinda like setting off a car bomb so you can rob a bank (I’m pretty sure that was in the show Justified)

Man, you really didn’t look very hard.

Freud was a charlatan and anything he ever said should be disregarded.

That’s the same energy as flour companies making floral patterned burlap bags during the great depression because people were using them to make clothes.

That’s the point.

Isn’t that the point of a blockade?

They’re not really paywalling FOSS, though. You can absolutely install it all and configure it yourself. You’re paying for them to do the work so you don’t have to.

I think it’s pretty benign to charge for that to support development.

It’s just because of all the plastic in it.

That’s an inaccurate statement. You’re a client because you can fire them and hire someone else. This is also true for basically any type of agent.

Just because they have a vested interest in your success doesn’t make you a product.

Nope, it only lets you go to year 2100.

They likely used either the magic wand or lasso tool to select the glass, then made an semi-transparent magenta layer and inverted the selection and deleted the area around the glass.

Gotta love Type B personality disorders. Until we figure out a way to cure or prevent them, we’re doomed to keep repeating the fascism cycle.

All you have to do is look at the state of the world right now. Yes, there are people working to stop the spread of fascism, but they’re vastly outnumbered. I mean, Trump didn’t hide the pain he wanted to cause, and 2/3 of the country were fine with it because they thought he would be hurting someone else. I mean, basically the entire USA was built on the backs of immigrants who were horribly abused. Shit, we’re about to have a ton of people starve because our slave labor force is being deported. And most product the US consumes has slavery involved in some step of the process.

Most of human history is full of war, slavery, and misery of the masses, often in the name of religion. Sure, there have been societies who strived to be altruistic, but they all fall or are corrupted. And not even the Native Americans were free from this. There were definitely war tribes that practiced slavery and even cannibalism.

Unless we find a way to eradicate Type B personality disorders, horrible people will keep gaining power and convincing the masses to let them commit atrocities. Because one of the major issues with humans is that we want someone else to take the responsibility of making decisions so the consequences aren’t on us.

Both capitalism and communism are great theories on paper, but it’s humans that pervert those systems for personal gain. We eventually corrupt anything we touch.

And I’m in therapy, but I just don’t look at humanity through rose colored glasses. I think since the western world doesn’t have to look these things in the face we forget about them.

Those locks were never very secure in the first place.

He doesn’t, but the SS does

You could cut them into throwing stars. Or maybe take them to the nearest disc golf course.

The phrase just means, “alright old person” now.

Yup

You do know what outlier means right? Just because there are exceptions doesn’t mean that the overall behavior of humans isn’t shitty and exploitative.

Slavery is an invention of humans. Rape is a human behavior. Murder is a human behavior. Every evil thing that a person has ever done is part of human nature.

And exactly, those people who just want to live a peaceful and quiet life are the ones who just sit back and let the rich and powerful exploit everything. It doesn’t take many people to stop the exploitation, but most people just keep their heads down.

I’m one of those people who just want to live a quiet life, so I’m not judging, but all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. And there’s a lot of good people doing nothing.

It’s no different than the “all cops are bad” mantra, because there are absolutely cops who aren’t corrupt pieces of shit, but they allow the corrupt pieces of shit to keep being corrupt pieces of shit.

I think we got spoiled by a few decades of relative good and forgot the many thousands of years of war and misery beforehand. And we’re heading back to that world because the evil people aren’t in hiding anymore.

It’s easy to try to blame capitalism, but capitalism is just the end result of human greed and corruption. If industrialization had happened 1,000 years ago, capitalism would have started 1,000 years ago. The fact that it requires a massive amount of regulation to curtail it means that it’s a natural behavior.

Buddy, the rich have been exploiting the masses and ruining the environment for basically all of written human history. Capitalism may have sped it up, but it’s not some new behavior that sprang up out of nowhere.

Capitalism is a product of humans, and humans have always either been shitty and exploitative, or willing to let it happen to protect what they have. No matter what system of government or economics you come up with, humans will eventually corrupt it. I believe our ability to do so is our species’s Great Filter.

The people who have fought against these behaviors were outliers.