Assuming that there are any non-fascists left to react…

As someone who gets greeted alarmingly often by people whose names I ought to remember but don’t (I’m a minor community leader but am bad with names), I’ve wanted a device like this for 20+ years. I’m a little sad about the concept being vilified.

On the other hand, as an advocate for both privacy and Free Software, I always imagined it as being completely self-hosted and only adding people’s names/faces to its database when I’m introduced to them in person. I’m not at all sad about the particular implementation being vilified.

Yes, I understand that that’s the reason, but a reason is not the same thing as an excuse.

Every US State has its own government, too. I don’t see that as an excuse.

The better question is “why didn’t the 23^rd grant voting rights to all US citizens in all territories?”

Yeah, nobody does. That’s why citing them as Sorbo “getting a lot of roles” is a fucking joke.

Sure, you can work around Microsoft’s intentional sabotage, in the same way that you can make excuses about “falling down stairs” when friends ask about the black eyes your abusive spouse gave you. But you shouldn’t have to.

Oh and…

It takes the same fucking time when configuring your Linux distro of choice, unattended or not.

…no it fucking doesn’t, BTW. (At least not unless you intentionally choose to use a ‘difficult’ distro like Arch or Gentoo.)

That’s right: it is a fucking tool, which means nothing the user does to it or with it could possibly count as “abuse” by the user. An OS is supposed to exist to do exactly the computer owner’s bidding; no more, no less.

But Microsoft certainly doesn’t see it that way. Instead, Windows exists to do Microsoft’ bidding, computer owner’s rights be damned. It’s Microsoft that’s abusing you, by whoring you out to advertisers and subverting your property against you, when you use Windows.

ITT: Stockholm Syndrome victims defending the abusive relationship they have with their OS.

Newsflash, honey: she doesn’t respect you; she only wants to exploit you. It’s time to break up!

Can’t believe how dumb lemmy can be at times.

(Looking at your bigoted, unfunny nonsense) yep, neither can I.

What’s 7726?

Video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1w3FgB0Ohc

Not gonna lie, that humility/candor would’ve made me more likely to vote for Perot/Stockdale.

so they’ll believe anything they are told.

Except the truth, for some reason.

Huh, it’s almost as if, when sanctions are declared, they go into effect for everyone at once.

Man, I miss Humble Bundle from before it sold out to IGN.

Man, I wish Lemmy had enough participation to have posts that active!

It looks like I don’t mark my messages read, LOL.

Okay, then that would be option #4 (because neither of the two things you previously mentioned are civil disobedience).

This time I had the foresight to take screenshots:

I’m not buying for a second the notion that it being “county staff doing a ghost trend video” makes it “nothing untoward.” That’s just the excuse for plausible deniability. Cobb County is one of the most racist in metro Atlanta, and its government even more so. It does not deserve the benefit of the doubt.