Why not go full data nihilist and say that every file is just a natural number expressed in binary.

She's creating the opportunity to take it to SCOTUS where they will make the appointment of any future Special Counsel illegal. The intent is not to be consistent and it doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it's even better if it doesn't make sense because this erodes the judiciary's legitimacy; two birds, one stone.

Americans are in very very deep trouble but they don't seem to care. The worst part is that the rest of the world will be dragged down with them.

Yeah, I feel like oop reached the wrong conclusion after this. Apple treats its consumers as if they were mindless children and they (for some reason) love it. Just look at the whole "green texts" issue, for example.

Some manufacturers found a smart workaround but the apple brainrot is stronger, I guess.

This article https://nautil.us/chaos-makes-the-multiverse-unnecessary-236664/ made me very uncomfortable back when it was published. It takes what you say to the philosophical limit.

I like to think I'm charm but deep down I know I'm strange. I do feel down from time to time, too

How about this one:

What about quaternions and octonions and ...

Next step is starting to appear in right wing spaces to say you were "canceled" by the left to start the next phase of the grift.

Profoundly internalized hierarchy all over this thread.

What? 7 million people died from COVID-19. How many more would it have been without all the safety measures?

https://covid19.who.int/

My opinion is that what matters is how much money each part of the network receives.

For example, instances tend to be transparent about their funding. And we can see that some of them are just months away of being out of cash. Meanwhile, we see people subscribing(!) to a very expensive app that charges $20 to remove ads (and tracking and data collecting) otherwise.

I think is okay to keep people aware of these things. Getting defensive about it is just a waste of energy. For both sides.

Look, if people come to you in good faith to learn and you reply like this, how are you expecting to organize and positively influence people around you? Are you gonna build socialist utopia alone?

The idea is to build stuff together right? If you're antagonizing everyone, how do you expect to achieve that?