Peaceful protests don't lead to revolutions, violent protests do. When things get so bad that people start to violently destroy the infrastructure then you get revolutions.

Revolutionaries start real revolts by terrorizing the powers that be.

I started working at age 13 back in 1980 because I wanted money to buy GI Joes, and comic books. So I started going to construction jobs with my shithead father on Saturdays and helped him put up sheetrock. My first legitimate job was the summer I turned 15, I was big for my age so I started doing deliveries for a furniture store, worked there for two summers until I was fired after a workplace injury. The guy I worked with was a racist Italian from Whitestone New York, and I was a smart slightly autistic black kid. His delivery truck only had one seat so I stood in the open door on the right side holding on for dear life. One day we were moving a heavy office desk upstairs and I was bringing up the rear, he lost control which resulted in the desk sliding downstairs and slamming me into a wall. My ribs were badly bruised so after I got home the store panicked and fired me, they probably thought we were going to sue. Anyway I went into a deep depression and couldn't leave my room for a month. One of my therapists later told me that it was the first appearance of my bipolar disorder.

I was legally employable, and of age but still got hurt on the job. I just had shithead employers.

I made an exception for Baldur's Gate 3. I'm only human.

Is it weird that I think of an ouroboros every time I see the Threads logo?

Content discovery is really easy for me on Mastodon, I can search for what I want via hashtag or a post, plus the people I follow and my followers always have nice suggestions. But if your instance has low federation, you might not see much.

They also lifted chunks of Star Citizen.

If was always about limiting the ability to organize using Twitter and Reddit. They want things to go differently in 2024, not because of any conservative political ideology even though most of them skew that way. But because they make more money when the monsters are in charge.

I've logged into Discord a grand total of five times in three years, and nothing I ever saw there convinced me to stay.

That comment seems to be an attempt at disinformation. I have not detected any of those trackers. You should also run your own checks just to be sure.

Same. I prefer it to Jerboa. But I am disquieted by the currently unverified post stating that it might be full of trackers.

Same thing with Relay for Reddit. I loved the app, even had a pro license. But I just don't love them or Reddit enough to pay a subscription fee.

I am a 55 year old gamer, and I'll probably be gaming until I die. It's entirely up to you.