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Bookmarks bar get actually used (mostly). General bookmarks? Yeah those are never seen again.

I wish more people could recognize you can support specific actions without liking or approving of the entity taking those actions. It’s not a binary choice.

True. And I’d expect you’d need fewer of these moments for younger people than older ones. Every little bump might be the one that diverts someone to a different path. I know it hasn’t worked well on my older family members, but it was those kind of moments that helped my diverge from my religious upbringing when I was younger.

I’ve found that even if you do this, it doesn’t really alter their behavior. A moment of consensus is never going to be enough.

People need to treat this kind of stuff like breaking someone from a drug addiction or helping someone lose weight. Without addressing the lifestyle factors that drove them down that path, you’ll never get them to actually change.

That’s why the brainwashing is so terrifying. People can fall into it pretty quickly and then it can take years and years to deprogram them.

This has been my experience. There was that whole aspect to reddit that you’d be in a sub and some random 20 year expert would chime in with extremely in depth advice.

Now I feel like everywhere on Reddit is nothing but 14 year olds (or people that never matured past 14). It’s not that reddit didn’t have a ton of these people before, but now it’s all that’s left.

Combined with their decision to ‘suggest’ posts from subs you aren’t subscribed to resulting in many subs getting totally uninterested people commenting and the whole magic spark of Reddit is all but gone. The community aspect is dead in favor of yet another engagement algorithm.

It’s rapidly becoming Facebook, but for millennials.

It’s the whale-verse

Piracy is somewhat similar to vigilantism to me. My ability to consider it a negative is directly related to how fair I consider the legitimate methods available to be.

If similar efforts were focused on consumer protection laws as we do IP protection, I don’t think pirates would have much leg to stand on, and they’d be seen in more of a negative light.

But since consumers are regularly fucked by corporations, all I see is two sides both doing bad shit and I’m not feeling all that charitable for the faceless megacorp. I also dislike pirates who pirate from small time creators. But that’s about as far as I can care given the state of things.

We should be focusing on stronger consumer rights to truly fix the problem for all sides.

I’ve never repacked a console in its original box, even when I’ve had it.