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  • Your analogy doesn’t work at all.

    The answer you’re being asked for needs to be a solution (what can replace capitalism?). The answer in your analogy is an observation (the plane crashed).

    It’s fine to not have answers, but then your position is pretty useless. A societal system is a mandatory component of our lives. You can’t get rid of it without it being replaced with something else. If we don’t replace it, then one will arise naturally.

    To follow your cancer example, it’s like a cancer patient saying they don’t want chemo or radiation because it’s not good enough. When they are asked what they want to do instead they just say “I don’t have answers, I just know these treatments aren’t very good”.

    Winston Churchill is quoted saying

    Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those others that have been tried.

    Pretty much the same applies to capitalism.


  • but being able to decide after the fact that you want a heated steering wheel isn’t one of them.

    No one is bitching about being able to decide that you want a heated steering wheel. You can decide to install it on literally any car brand or model.

    People are bitching about the hardware that they have paid for and they own being locked behind by a software paywall. This would cause a riot with practically any other consumer electronics. Imagine if the fingerprint scanner on your smartphone was an extra $50 to unlock? Or quick charge being an extra $75?

    That would be the most anti-consumer horseshit we’ve seen, and that’s exactly what Tesla is doing.





  • I remember Reddit was overwhelmingly united behind Depp; I assumed that Heard was in the right.

    This is just incredibly intellectually lazy, to put it nicely. I don’t suppose you think climate change is a hoax, trump is a reasonable guy, and Russia is in the right? Those stances are the opposite of what reddit is overwhelmingly behind.

    Asking random commenters to tell you what to think isn’t much better. The trial is public, there are plenty of highligh compilations. If you don’t have the time for that, you can read the verdict. The legal system and the jury are surely the better judges than randos on the internet.

    Also it’s kind of ironic that you reject the popular opinion of reddit, only to come and ask for popular opinion on a reddit replacement.






  • But let’s just go even further. He was on the podcast of Shawn Stevenson. The first podcast episode I found of Shawn Stevenson regarding COVID cites in the episode transcript, among others, Geert Vanden Bossche, who advised stopping all mass-immunizations for COVID and has written all kinds of crazy, grammatically-and-factually erroneous content on COVID.

    I don’t care about Zach Levi whatsoever, but this has to be the biggest reach I’ve seen.

    So he was on a podcast, of which the host, in a different episode that did not include him, cited a person who has at some point advised stopping mass-immunizations for COVID (from what you said, I interpreted thats not the statement he cited).

    When you’re 3 levels of guilt by association deep, it seems like you’re just grasping at straws to support your position.


  • WAG can go fuck themselves for stealing the role of Angel Dust from Michael Kovach who has poured so much time and effort into bringing the character to life.

    But here comes WAG and stronghands away what he has worked so hard for, something that could have been a big career break for him, because he’s not part of WAG without offering to onboard him.

    Creating that level of injustice under the guise of protecting voice actors is one of the most disgusting things I’ve witnessed in my life.

    Michael Kovach is a saint for being graceful about it and having the restraint not to go nuclear on social media.

    WAG is not a union. It’s just another ultra corrupt Hollywood clique that fucks over upcoming independent creators. I sincerely hope WGA is blacklisted by every studio until every member is forced to leave and it doesn’t exist anymore.





  • There are AOSP based roms that are de-googled. You can use third party app stores to download foss software, or other 3rd party stores that let you download from Google play (aurora). iPhone is basically the only other choice, but it’s not any better in this context.

    Lots of alternative email providers. Protonmail is one.

    For maps, openstreetmap exists. You can also use Google maps without an account inside a secure browser. That will minimize data collection.

    You can use a downloader (yt-dlp or a gui that wraps it) for YouTube, or use a 3rd party app like NewPipe. Again, using YouTube without an account in a secure browser is an option.

    Chrome can obviously be replaced with Firefox/LibreWolf. If you must have a chromium based browser, you can use ungoogled chromium. chrlauncher is a small app that can be used to make it easy on windows and keep it updated.

    You cant really do anything about the apps that use chromium internally for rendering, besides finding replacements.