Yes, and if that's the only issue that matters to you, and you ignore the impact on all those other people, I guess that's fair to say they are the same. But does all that extra suffering serve a purpose? Are you volunteering yourself to bear any of it, or only others?

Zero that axis, please.

It's the same argument I've heard about the "complexity" of Mastodon: too many choices, which is I guess why people largely stopped going to websites outside the major social networks. Monopoly over competition, it's like everyone is pining for a monarchy.

There's a whole book about this: # Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/nickel-and-dimed-20th-anniversary-edition-on-not-getting-by-in-america-barbara-ehrenreich/9836607?ean=9781250808318

At first I was annoyed, until I realized "drop" is an antagonym.

Americans explicitly didn't want a national ID.

Wow, no.

When people forget to vote or are disenfranchised or are too distracted or were tricked into really inane rationales, this is what "the system" thinks about you:

I'm pretty sure they only care about their performative solipsism.

Zero is freezing

10 is not

20 is pleasing

30 is hot

40 frying

50 dying

I did not attend the funeral, but I approved of it.

It's actually meditation, isn't it?

Dismissing entire groups based on stupid labels is ugly.