They sure are, bro. They sure are

And what’s most important is you putting smart people down to make yourself feel superior to them

Why isn’t there a feature to allow individuals to block whole instances?

Every day I thank the stars I never got involved with any of that shit back in 2020

No you don’t get what I’m saying, because I am explicitly telling you I am not playing your game. My ethics are my personal boundaries, not trivialities up for debate. OP wanted to know what they were, so I shared them. That does not make it open for debate, nor is my refusal to allow it to be put up to debate, up for debate.

Take the hint and go away.

It’s reductive because it’s not meant to convince you. It’s simply what is. You asked me why I thought it is moral and those are my reasons why, and they’re gonna stay that way whether you like it or not. They don’t have to be reasonable or sensible or in line with your worldview. You don’t have to agree with them. They don’t even have to make sense to you. They’re MY reasons, and they are valid simply because I hold them, because I say they are, because I decide what’s ethical to me and what’s not. That’s all.

And you have to put up with that whether you want to or not.

Sweet tea is fucking disgusting and anyone who drinks that shit ought to be ashamed of themselves.

It is to me. Most content is corporate generated consumerist garbage anyway so it doesn’t matter. Our right to access content is more important than a creator’s right to restrict access to it for profit. It’s information and ideas. And we are entitled to all information and ideas. I am entitled to it simply because I say so, and if you want me to stop, you’ll have to kill me.

It’s as simple as that.

All of it. Piracy is in no way unethical.

See, here’s one of them

The upside to that is that humans could and probably would just sneak nukes onboard their ships and set them off on the inside if they did try to invade, a tactic for which they’d have no real defense.

Any civilization that had those things, even rudimentary Trinity Test ones, are on a whole different playing field than any that came before by virtue of the nature of nukes, so it is reasonable that aliens would investigate nuclear powers first.

I am not judging you and when I was a kid, I too saw some shit. Many people have, it’s very common. What’s up for debate is whether it’s aliens or not, is all.

I don’t think you’re crazy and you saw what you saw. It probably just wasn’t aliens, it was likely some astronomical phenomenon. You could’ve seen a comet or an asteroid or a planet passing over the sun, that’s what your description sounds like to me, anyway.

Dumbasses who unironically defend Stalin and Mao. Left authoritarians basically

No it won’t. It’ll just fork the internet.

Or more accurately, the rest of us will simply fork the Internet itself.

I am shocked at how quickly everyone is giving up.

We can’t just quit and go gently into that good night. All life on the planet is depending on us.

People like that need to be educated more than any other and liberating them of that responsibility only harms them, it does not help them.

Post a lemm.ee version

🤔 So what do we do? I am de-googlefying as we speak, but collectively, we really need to organize and build workarounds.