Damn, imagine hell freezing over and a bunch of them still don’t get the message

Still missing the point.

The criticism was on your “words don’t kill people” part.

Neither guns nor words spawn out of nothing.

Didn’t know much about this community, but honestly it gets some of my respect for pushing against the current main narrative.

Violence isn’t necessarily always a bad thing - otherwise, Europe and Japan would look drastically different today.

Leaving out that the reporter was a mass reporter likely stirring up trouble, I think it’s natural in dire and extreme times for people to wish for more extreme actions to happen to evil people. It’s not as of people wishing that will necessarily do it (just in case, I wish for enough money to buy a house and retire with the basics), it’s just a way for them to vent the frustration they have at Injustice they can’t otherwise do anything about.

Not to mention silencing the side that wishes death against those advocating for the death of others always seemed to be… Hypocritical to me.

So in all, I think this community’s admins did good. If people left over that, maybe it’s for the better not to have them.

• Proton CEO: Trump’s FTC pick is great for privacy and reigning in big tech
• Trump’s FTC pick is a corporate stooge that is corporate friendly
• Big Tech is corporate
• Therefore, there is no reason for to believe that Trump’s FTC pick is good for privacy and reigning in big tech
• therefore, Proton CEO lied

Now, let’s look at the definition of endorsement:

the act of saying that you approve of or support something or someone

The something in this case is Trump’s judgement (which, even you have agreed is terrible), because it is Trump’s judgement that picked the person.

Ergo, he is endorsing, although indirectly, Trump, for Trump is the holder of the judgement that was picked.

Now, with all that being said, criticizing the Democrats while also stating Republicans support the little guy (paraphrased) is also a lie - there’s plenty of evidence behind this.

Considering Trump picked this guy too:

There’s also little excuse to support anything this government does at this point as well.

Apply a bit of critical thinking, if you’re willing, and it’s not hard to see the Proton CEO supports Trump, even if he walked back his statements.

Now, you’re free to keep your business with Proton.

I for one would rather not put my trust in privacy for someone who is holding water for literal fascists, considering how fascists have historically been known to dislike personal privacy of others.

If you’d like to keep being that gullible, go right ahead and spend your money on that.

As for me, I’m making backups already and giving them 3 months to remove the CEO from the position, or I’m cancelling my subscription and moving or, at this point, just hosting my own email locally.

You’re confident they’re a terrible choice? Then that makes what the Proton CEO said a fucking lie, because he’s confident the corporate stooge is a great choice.

Even if we take what you’re saying at face value, Trump’s FTC pick is a fucking terrible choice too, and very corporate friendly.

Trump chose this guy to be in his government

That’s not defending the Democrats, but this one just openly displayed he’s a Nazi on national tv

Edit: in case there’s any doubt:

The discussion was never about the guns, dumdum (this, btw, is an ad hominem)

… Do you mean turn OFF everything at night? Because you do realize that the output of solar power at night, you know, when the solar part is missing, is zero, right???

And wind can’t get anywhere near the difference, even assuming it’s running at 100%. Not to mention many things need to continue running at night. Like hospitals.

And that’s before I even got to the absurdity of tech companies using computational work as a sink. Computational work doing what, exactly? Rendering 3D farting fairies??? And that’s not even getting into how they’re the main cause of increased energy usage recently preventing us from catching up with demands in the first place, mostly because of AI.

And the back up batteries only at sensitive sites - so you just expect people to freeze to death in Winter or during a heatwave? To not eat because they can’t heat anything up? What about comms. Most towers are in places where there’s not enough space for local battery sites. “Mandating rooftop solar” sure, but you’d still also have to “mandate” that it’s free because many weight be able to afford it.

As for the reason I said you should play this games, it’s to make you realize how difficult it would be to run everything purely on solar and wind and without batteries, EVEN WITH future tech and perfect weather with no inhabitants like in Satisfactory. You’ll either need good sources of hydro in every possible spot on the map (at which point, in real life, you’d definitely be altering the environment, + climate change is affecting that too in reality) or a massive battery storage site / so many distributed batteries you’ve accomplished the same thing anyhow. You’ll fucking realize energy demands can be so damn high, the struggle isn’t “what to do with all this power” but “I need more power / need power at night”, constantly, even with magic future solar tech on a planet with a binary system.

You’re clearly both too uninformed AND misinformed to continue this conversation. At best what you do now is help the fossil fuel industry with how ignorant you are - at worst you’re a troll willingly doing so.

Demisexuals do have sexual attraction though.

It’s just they don’t really want to have sex with someone unless they first have an emotional bond (and since it’s a spectrum, some literally don’t find a person sexy at all until there’s an emotional bond).

A lot of people don’t have that limitation though - it’s not a goal or anything, they just also get sexual urges with hot people and therefore want to have sex.

Those people usually are up for / have one night stands for example, because they don’t really need any emotional connection to want to have sex.

Thanks for the strawman, I see now you’re arguing in bad faith (or are one of those Americans hyper focused on guns)

I’ve heard it’s supposed to be ready to move, but I still haven’t figured out the new “easy” way of moving my stuff to a new instance, at least on Voyager

Word of the day (because I suspect many humans don’t realize they fall into this category):

Demisexual

Yes, except that takes a long time, and in the meantime electricity usage fluctuates with spikes and continued growth. That’s without counting other possible issues, like dropped outputs due to weather (hurricanes, lightning strikes, winter in a northern latitude, etc). Tell me, how do we build enough energy production to cover usage when both lines go up? And what about while water creation plants are constructed?

Ideally, we end up in the situation you describe, yes, but even then we would need back up storage because things can and do go wrong, and output won’t always be consistent and neither will use. And then there’s the whole issue with using solar at night.

Play something like Factorio or Satisfactory with certain mods, and you’ll get a small idea of how difficult it is to keep load balance even with machines running to use extra energy.

I agree it’s complicated, if you make it so.

In terms of scale, direct kills are a rounding error compared to the damage of climate change.

In terms of indirect kills, like accidents, coal still beats hydropower by a long shot if you include the actual history of coal and steam boats, in part simply from a lack of standards or care in safety (and that’s even if you exclude coal lung as an indirect kill).

While you make perfect the enemy of good, the world will burn, just as those who own the fossil fuels desire.

Setting aside that the discussion was never a legal one (and either way, what is legal does not mean is moral);

The tool is still very relevant. If you have the intent to kill many but only a stick, you probably won’t get as far because sticks are not as dangerous as guns, or even words for that matter, when used.

That’s only a solution for when energy demand won’t spike or increase.

The issue is that currently energy demand does spike and increase.

I’m pretty sure cancers and other health issues have killed way, way more than hydroelectric.

Not including the climate change thing…

I do not have kids. I do not want kids. I do not regret it.

Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse?

Pull a trigger in the air without a gun, and see how many you kill.

The gun is an extension of the user - without the gun, you cannot shoot, just as without a person the gun won’t shoot.

Same is the case for words. They didn’t come out of the aether into existence, and when spoken carry the will of the speaker inherently.

It’s not “just words”, it can be malice or hate given form - that is, after all, the point of communication; to give form of what you desire or think to others.