Maybe so. I don’t remember the packaging half as clearly as I do the crappy chocolate.

I think I remember these. They were a low quality chocolate stick wrapped in paper. I didn’t like them. I think I got that they were preying on kid’s desire to ape adult behaviours but I may be conflating a decade of memories.

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Henrys here! Almost…

It’s probably worthwhile to note that it would be foolish for the CEO of a business that derives revenue from people that are worried about their privacy to say anything that undermines that worry, regardless how self inflicted it is.

The morality of it is another matter. I don’t think the business model is evil in itself. There is a need for privacy in this world. But your shades of grey are getting darker if you are not giving clarity for fiscal purposes.

They’d just ‘devide’ up their businesses into a chain of symbiotic entities defined by paygrade. Then the executive level can enrich itself insulated from us front line grunts.

Devide

verb

Obsolete form of divide.

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Oh look, here comes FlyingSquid.

I could swear I heard that whole ACER laptop angle a couple of months ago on someone else’s podcast. I don’t want to say verbatim but I was having severe dejayvu. It wasn’t a Doctorow podcast that much I’m sure.

Got that Lord Percy from Blackadder II energy.

One of the lard arses that populate my garden.

They are called drays. Squirrels, even though you see them chasing and fighting each other during the day, are actually quite communal in that they’ll sleep together for warmth. This leads to a build up of fleas. To deal with this they usually have a number of drays on the go and vacate the ones that have too much flea activity.

Sometimes there is poetry in our lives

Imagine, years from now, his technology eventually overtaking the rest of the world’s. Powering his city state with cold fusion. Inventing the first warp drive. Etc

All while the rest of us keep on falling back into anti-science fascism because we can’t figure out how to take the mega-rich’s thumb off the scales of democracy/justice.

Me too.

Tired and hungry reply.

I let them get under my skin and pulled you into the firing range too. I think I was hoping for some recognition of how they were off the mark with their intolerant twist on the nazi bar parable. They weren’t asking for obvious nazi to be censored but .ml and anyone who spoke up for them.

My sincerest apologies.

Are you trolling? You’ve consistantly avoided making any qualative evaluation of either of our posts. Every response you have made is losely supportive of their demands for toxic authoritarian censorship.

Their logic is the same as the racist complaining that all african americans are criminals and rapists and you’re wringing your hands while presenting tabloid clippings of crimes african americans have been found guilty, without comment.

It’s highly ironic that either of you think that this is how you fight facism.

They should be banned. No one was arguing otherwise.

Their offensive McCarthyite screed wasn’t based on protecting victimised minorities from facists it was trying to protect the orthodoxy of establishment inculcation.

The nazi bar parable doesn’t have a horseshoe theory (Which is a sectarian cant that misrepresents socialism as the clothes it wears and not the body inside) component because it’s specifically focused on the tolerance paradox. If someone comes into your bar that while otherwise comporting themselves in a civil manner yet it is crystal clear they hold aggressively contemptful and intolerent views you should kick them out regardless. Everyone else deserves at least a base level of respect.

What it doesn’t say is people advocating for tolerance of normal people are secret nazis. It doesn’t say that because one biker gang from Berlin came in with nazi tattoos you should ban everyone from Berlin because that is text book closed minded intolerance.