Really?

My laptop only supports expanding the RAM up to 12 GB IIRC. ~Red

Wow, I’m pretty sure my laptop has less RAM than that. ~Cherri

So nothing?.. ~Strawberry

Is there anything that can be done to make content moderation less traumatizing? ~Strawberry

I don’t mean pedophilia specifically. I mean the sort of people who think screaming at and hitting their kids is discipline for some reason as well, or the sort of people who deliberately deny necessary healthcare and education to their trans kid, etc. ~Strawberry

Does the calculation showing that it’s cheaper when accounting for inflation also account for wage stagnation? ~Strawberry

Not quite. The main groups who push this crap, IIRC, tend to be the same groups of far-right evangelicals who insist on homeschooling their children because “public schools are liberal indoctrination” and totally not because they’re trying to isolate their child so it’s easier to abuse them. ~Strawberry

I mean they can make up as many bullshit justifications as they want, but what they’re doing is abuse and they’re trying to make it easier to do. ~Strawberry

But why do they come up with stuff that kills people like this? ~Strawberry

I thought that the “drink bleach” thing was a joke. ~Strawberry

Wouldn’t that effectively restrict a lot of platforms to people age 16 or older? I am a bit worried that such an id law could cut off younger queer teens dealing with abuse that’s severe enough to qualify as abuse in the academic sense, but not in the eyes of the law, from vital community… ~Strawberry

Because they’re only a minority so they don’t count! /s ~Strawberry

IIRC I2P can’t access the clear net and Tor is still absurdly slow. I’m not sure what to do there. ~Strawberry

It’s not like there aren’t already a lot of people trying to vote better people in, it just never seems to be enough… ~Strawberry

When you put it that way, it does actually sound interesting, though I’m still a bit skeptical of its lack of open sourcing. In addition, unmodified Chromium phones home to Google a lot IIRC. There’s a reason Ungoogled Chromium exists. If there’s a way to use Ungoogled Chromium with it or even Gecko, it’d be a bit more compelling for me. I’m not quite sure if I see Chromium’s extension library as a positive. I get that it’s larger than Firefox’s library, and I’m sure there are plenty of interesting ones that aren’t on Firefox but are on Chromium. However, a lot of those extensions are either pretty low quality or are straight-up malware (I’m more concerned with the latter, the former can just be disregarded). It seems like every couple of months or so, a new article comes out about a bunch of malware being found on the Chrome Web Store. Even accounting for Firefox’s smaller userbase, there are very few articles about such incidents happening on Mozilla’s extension repository. And I’ve noticed that Mozilla tends to respond more quickly to reports of malware than Google does. CWS has also had a problem with survey scam extensions that blatantly impersonated various companies in the past, though I’m not sure if that’s still a problem. I’ve recently found that FVD Speed Dial intercepts search queries that are supposed to go to Bing or Yahoo when you use the search bar added by their new tab page before redirecting you to Bing or Yahoo when it’s not supposed to do that. Essentially an MITM attack. This behavior has gotten them banned from Mozilla’s extension repository in the past, but despite the fact that they’re still doing it, Google has featured the extension on CWS. ~Strawberry

I hate it already! ~Strawberry

If this browser is as slow as their website, I can’t say it’s looking too good. It also appears to be just another Chromium browser, because I guess we needed more of those. And it appears to be closed source. Hard pass. ~Strawberry

Edit: No plans for a Linux port and they’re planning on shoehorning A"I" into it. I hate it already.

This is your brain on Great Man Theory. ~Strawberry

Is there anything that’s good as Google was a few years ago? And what about Google Images (including image search)? It seems that’s gotten way less reliable over the last few years. ~Strawberry

So if simplification isn’t a good way of making it so that poor people aren’t more likely to get screwed over in courts, what is? ~Strawberry

Did you watch Eminem’s latest X video? ~Strawberry

But like… Why do they believe that? Why do they want this as their purpose in life? Why do they believe the “one of the good ones” crap? Why do they prioritize maintaining their worldview over human lives??? ~Cherri

Why do they want this? What’s the appeal of it? And before someone says something about control or cruelty or something, why do they want that? ~Strawberry

Why do they want this though? Why do they want to roll back women’s rights and freedoms? What’s the appeal of that? Just… Why??? ~Strawberry

What is the appeal of it exactly? And I don’t mean the surface level “something something control, cruelty” answer, what’s the appeal of that? It’s confusing… ~Strawberry

I guess that makes sense? Maybe? I don’t quite get how someone could purposely hit children with anything and think it’s okay. I don’t get the thought process there. It’s certainly not “well my parents did it so it must be fine”. It seems so obvious and yet… I don’t know. I don’t get how it could take a lot of effort to not hit children. It’s an active choice, not a passive one, and it doesn’t seem like a difficult conclusion to come to. I’m confused more than anything. ~Strawberry

I would think not hitting children would be a pretty good offer, among many other things. ~Strawberry

the children who will be subjected to this will not be the ones with parents who are able to deal with conflict in healthy ways

I’m not sure framing this in terms of ability is particularly accurate. Nothing is forcing those parents to abuse their children. Absolutely nothing. They are choosing that. They are perfectly able to choose not to and to try to find a way that actually works and isn’t incredibly cruel. ~Strawberry

But that still leaves a major question: What’s the point of the cruelty? ~Strawberry

How exactly do you propose we get people who want to force all trans people to detransition or face persecution to stop wanting that?

The whole “it must be because you disagree with them!” narrative only makes sense if you ignore any and all context surrounding what’s being disagreed upon. Of course, those people are a vocal minority within the population, but a vocal minority who cause a disporportionate number of problems. ~Strawberry

If I may ask, why do you think evangelicals maintain their position on homosexuality? Any idea where it came from? ~Strawberry

What outlets do tend to put out investigative journalism more often than writing copy? ~Strawberry

Why though? And why do so many people, including many who aren’t in power, seem to have similarly awful responses to crises? ~Strawberry

I guess so. But mainly why that’s only being spelled out in law now rather than earlier. ~Strawberry

A lack of an immediately presented opposing viewpoint doesn’t automatically force someone to become a genocidal fascist. They could look for something else. They could come up with something else. They could tell the fascist to fuck off while they wait. Not knowing what to do doesn’t magically turn someone into a fascist just because a fascist scumbag happened to grace their Facebook timeline first. ~Strawberry

Of course, but we also need to convince people to stop defaulting to horrible bullshit that has nothing to do with solving the root causes of the ongoing crises in response to said crises just because some fascist scumbag happened to end up on their TV or Faceboom timeline first. And also do something about the fascist scumbags. ~Strawberry

Why do people always seem to pick the most horrible responses to crises?.. ;-; ~Strawberry

My question is why is this only being spelled out now? Hell, where and why did the contrary idea come from in the first place??? ~Strawberry

So uh… What do we do? The best ideas we’ve seen basically boil down to gambling on being able to make small parts of symptoms of the root problems slightly better in local areas… ~Strawberry