I think the disconnect here is that others are saying "they aren't supporting us," and your response is pretty much "lol, abandon what you're doing and go back to the corporations." A totally fair take, but how you're delivering it comes across as missing their point.
Also "it works on windows" is a terrible rebuttal in a discussion where you first say "it works fine on x11"
I don't think you know what a thought piece is. There is no analysis or opinion from the author.
Plus when people share their take on it, you just accuse them of parroting talking points. You have added nothing to this conversation past various forms of "you're wrong," with only insults to serve as counter points.
That said, if you want to try to explain to us why you feel a corporation taking away access to something that was bought is fair and just, I'm all ears and more than willing to have the discussion with you that you claim to want.
I heard it was pretty much twitter with even less moderation, but it's a smaller so you're slightly less likely to run into open neo nazis, but only slightly. I only have hearsay to go on, as it never really interested me, but most of the people I know that went to it have stayed.
I feel like you didn't read the opinion piece at all, and just ran with your feelings from the title. In the first two paragraphs the author talks about how I agreed with the strong initial response to the terrorist attack. It's the wonton targeting of civilians and looking the other way as language of genocide is being used that the author, and every else that I know that isn't blindly pro one side or the other takes.
Honestly, I don't think more of the same is going to help you feel less burned out. Obviously your couple of sentences doesn't give me a lot of insight into your life, but you do not seem to enjoy your job, and that is going to color your whole perception on anything related to it. I think I'd honestly recommend you start looking for work you actually enjoy, but if that isn't possible I recommend unplugging as much as possible for awhile. That's the only way I've ever had the spark come back for me. Starting side projects always lose their luster after a session or two and just started to feel like another source of stress for me.
I believed that like 5 years ago, when S42 was "releasing next year!" Wish I could get my money back.
I gave up when they randomly jumped topics and I couldn't tell how they were related. And just generally felt like this essay could have been heavily edited to get it's point across.
In general I like the EFF and the ACLU, but I do think that it's not uncommon for them to end up on the "wrong" side because they extrapolate too far or are being dogmatic when most things have and require nuance.
It's less than half, as can be seen by popular vote counts. Still higher than it should be, but if it wasn't for voter suppression (as laid out in the article) the right would have significantly less power than it currently does.
Because that doesn't let them shake their fist and tell the youths to get off their lawn.
Unfortunately there isn't a finer grained tool. You can ban users, but if the instance they're from has open sign ups the banned user can just create a new account and return to harassing people on the server. This is the reason that Beehaw defederated with the two earlier this week. They tried everything they could before then, but the tools just aren't there yet to not punish the whole instance if the instance's admin isn't willing to meet part way.
I think your car metaphor is even more apt than you meant it, as over time both car manufacturers and mobile platforms have gotten more and more hostile to users actually being able to do maintenance or self service.
Because I have limited space.