I think it’s really funny how in proprietary software, if you download stuff without asking, you’re presumed to have economically harmed a business. But in free and open source software, if you download stuff without asking, you’re presumed to have economically benefited the random individual that made the project.

Nobody said it’s a conspiracy. It’s practically a natural phenomenon. Why would anybody be afraid that their child would look different from the other boys? Because they don’t want the other boys to bully him. Why do we all know that the other boys would bully him? Well, the good news is there’s a lot of research on this topic but the unfortunate thing is if you wanna learn more, you’ll have to engage with a word you don’t seem to like for some reason.

Men do it because of a fear of being different.

I think a lot of people make a very reasonable argument that a huge reason this anxiety even exists is because of patriarchy

It’s really outrageous that it’s illegal to sell snap benefits, but Tesla can make like half of its income off of doing nothing but selling regulatory credits to other auto makers, and it’s also the only thing that is allowing them to stay afloat right now it seems like.