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This is an insult to punks

It’s success. Not huge success, but success. It maintains a mediocre status quo in the face of the possibility of it worsening.

I am indeed aware that philosophers are not a monolith. They are, however, way more likely to like Freud.

There are counter-trends, but there is a lot of Freudian shenanigans about. The fact that they are a major force bothers and intrigues me.

Your psychologists are Lacanian? And I thought it couldn’t get any weirder after being told you fellows get blue dollars from caves.

Look up “penis envy”. Or “Oedipus complex”. Or some of his views on women.

I get that for the artists, but what about the philosophers? Are they not big dick academics who will lose their standing if their ideas are nonesense?

Yeah, man. I tested with a friend. We used Pidgin, Dino, all the famous clients. I don’t know what’s up.

OMEMO didn’t allow it either, and IIRC I couldn’t do it while doing it in plaintext either.

Yes, I have. With various clients. It sucked.

2^32 different incompatible extensions for receiving images and an inability to receive messages when offline. Glorious.

It is often sketchy. The search function doesn’t work properly. Loading older messages often makes your client spaz out. There’s several glitchy commands. Spamming snowflakes can slow down your client to a crawl. A friend once crashed Element on my phone using a lot of nested quotes with muscle emojis. We had to spam other stuff so I could open Element again because the moment those messages started loading my client crashed again, preventing me from even changing the channel so I could open my app again.

I use Element and Matrix because it is the best privacy-respecting option, but it has a long way to go.

There is one huge thing of value in Matrix: e2ee.

Sadly, the normies don’t care about stuff like that, and the UX is indeed atrocious.

I have happily succeeded. While there are some communities that are still on Discord, the vast majority of my friends are accessible on Matrix.

“The app boasts influential supporters, including the former leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, Jim Henry, and controversial Christian data-harvesting firm Gloo. It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household.”

Christ.

Seems weird that an anarchist was a US soldier. Maybe he joined before he came to the political beliefs he held as he burned, or perhaps he came to these beliefs because of what he saw in the army.

Pornography, leftism, and piracy.

"Sometimes I listen outside closed doors, a thing I never would have done in the time before. I don’t listen long, because I don’t want to be caught doing it. Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora I hat she wouldn’t debase herself like that.

Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what could you do, supposing?

Go to the Colonies, Rita said. They have the choice.

With the Unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all? said Cora. Catch you.

They were shelling peas; even through the almost-closed door I could hear the light clink of the hard peas falling into the metal howl. I heard Rita, a grunt or a sigh, of protest or agreement.

Anyways, they’re doing it for us all, said Cora, or so they say. If I hadn’t of got my tubes tied, it could of been me, say I was ten years younger. It’s not that bad. It’s not what you’d call hard work.

Better her than me, Rita said, and I opened the door."

Atwood, M. (1985). The Handmaid’s Tale. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 21-22.

Extremists tend to have anime pfps. Conservatives listen to the radio way more often, and are pretty much the only audience of radio talk shows. Progressives have a tendency to consider the implications of the media they consume way more than conservatives. Liberals tend to play tabletop games more often than other political groups. Socialists (of all variations) are the most likely group to have taken unconventional lifestyle choices (i.e. they’re vegan, live in a commune, make their own clothes, etc.). Authoritarians are obsessed with “the natural order”. This tends to shine through in the justificationns they give for their political beliefs. Anarchists/Libertarians shy away from the mainstream of literally anything (punk rock is a shining example, as is their prevalence here).

I slightly disagree. Adding addons and stuff does defeat the whole point, but Tor comes out of the box with JS enabled, and disabling JS makes life better for Tor users.