installed anyways and work fine - much ado about nothing lol

most conservative pushback goes like that. “This change is scary and bad!” -> change is good, actually. Often, the conservatives will then fight to defend against the thing they fought against before. It’s just kneejerk emotions.

Right. The robbery example is close to mind because someone broke into my house once, and they stole my partner at the time’s work laptop. We needed the police report to give to their workplace (I guess so they’d believe us it was stolen, or so their insurance would believe us). It was a bad situation, but it could’ve been worse if the police were like “Sorry, you’re not a subscriber”.

They did eventually catch the guy, but we didn’t get our stuff back. I don’t think they made any effort to return it. I think we both agree that the current system is really bad.

Simpsons meme where homer’s like “The worst day of your life so far”

At least right now if someone breaks into my house, I don’t have to pay the police to come make a report or whatever.

But to your point, the current state of things is also really bad, yes.

I haven’t thought through all the scenarios and edge cases, but generally spying on the public seems dicey and ripe for abuse. Especially if it’s just like “the public, all the time, whenever we feel like it,” instead of “ok we got a warrant signed by a judge to investigate Joe Bombguy”.

I don’t want the power vacuum left by removing policing to be filled by private enterprise. Amazon run police would be worse, probably.

“Included now in amazon prime: Same day detective work when you’re robbed! Non-prime users pay $88, and the detective will arrive within 14 days.”

I think I remember a sketch about this from ages ago with stephen fry in it.

This probably won’t help with the first point but you can hit Ctrl+d I think, or click the star, and it’ll just bookmark it with a default name (page title) and location, I think. I’ve definitely bookmarked things by accident somehow.

I don’t believe I have ADHD so I can’t really relate to it. My original post wasn’t meant to be like a condemnation - weird isn’t always bad. Just different.

It’s mildly interesting that you wouldn’t get anything done, but I feel like if I had to work like you I wouldn’t get anything done. Trying to deal with all those tabs would be a big distraction to me. Funny how different folks can be.

There was a news article a while ago about maga hats saying their church was repeating “liberal talking points”, when the pastor was simply quoting Jesus.

https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

Most of the maga hats don’t care. They found their tribe and that’s all that matters to them now.

Facts and quotes don’t change people’s minds. In-group belonging does. So long as they see you as an enemy, they won’t listen to anything you say. We’re all vulnerable to that, but maga hats seem especially vulnerable.

That always reminds me of the “missing missing reasons” post. It’s about estranged parents specifically, but I think the behavior shows up elsewhere. People’s ego is too fragile to let them remember or admit some details, and their emotions are creating their whole reality.

https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html

Usually the browser history, or I remember enough to find it again.

Admittedly, a couple times I haven’t been able to find a particular meme or whatever, but it’s never been important stuff.

I don’t think the current government is capable or interested in making sound decisions. I don’t think the public is capable of electing a better government. For profit orgs don’t have the public’s best interest as a priority. So this is bad

Well, every republican idea is a bad one so that follows.

Other people’s computer usage is weird to me.

I just bookmark stuff if I think I’ll need it later, and I usually don’t even do that. Otherwise, every browser window is closed at the end of the session.

I feel like shithead musk always says like “working on it” but i would be surprised if he ever does any meaningful work.

He’s just such a disgrace. Like a fractal shit. No matter what part of him and his life you look at, no matter how zoomed in or out, it’s just shit. Fuck that guy.

The big one should not be legal.

Pete Hegseth should be removed from power.

Though the details of the Bezos wedding are highly guarded beyond the rumored $10-million budget

Ok so I’m not going to say that we all need to eat dirt so long as anyone is worse off than we are, but that’s a lot of money that could be spent on anything else.

I’m not christian but camel through the eye of a needle, man. You can’t be a good person when you’re sitting on that much wealth, and Bezos isn’t even trying.

Aren’t great on… median? Majority fall below some arbitrary standard of “decent”?

I’m not sure that detail of how it works today. I would assume that if there’s an option that is less beneficial to the wealthy, it’s not true.

In my magic wand perfect world, we just do UBI and things are much simpler for everyone.

I only learned recently that there’s a max on social security tax you pay each year. If your income is high enough, partway through the year your takehome pay jumps up because that tax is no longer applicable to you.

That’s stupid. Profoundly stupid. Ass backwards.

When your income is low, you need those dollars that are taxed. When your income is high, you don’t.

It should be like, the first (some amount) of income isn’t taxed for social security, and then the rate goes up as income goes up.

Anyone who doesn’t want to pay into social security is welcome to go live in a state of nature where they can be eaten by wolves instead of a society.

That’s something to work on. You’re not immutable.