The number of users being those who would rather leverage the software for free, and then resell a walled garden version with proprietary extensions.

The alternatives to the GNU tools are largely permissively licensed, yeah? What could possibly go wrong with that…

One popular answer is that sometimes people just experience things that they find scientific answers to not be able to answer adequately. We as a species are still far from knowing everything.

I’m a spiritually-inclined person. Also think it’s totally legit to be atheist. You’d think that actively wanting diversity of belief would be reasonable, but evidently a lot of people just want uniformity and cultural erasure.

Looking forward to getting a Pinetime. It might not be polished, but community support never truly ends.

Is there any difference? Would killing and carving up the body parts of a dinosaur for your sensory pleasure be any less cruel if it happened in the dinosaur’s own time?

Yeah but the aesthetic!

PGP/GPG. I would like to see the web of trust take off. Also I love the aesthetic for anything that’s been signed, and would like to see blog posts everywhere be nested by long blocks of random symbols.

Maybe y’all need to consider, isn’t it strange to fantasize about bringing extinct (potentially) sentient beings back into existence for the sole purpose of killing them again and carving up their body parts for sensory pleasure?

Historically, different Christian denominations used to rally behind the two political parties against each other, back when everyone was Christian. If I recall, if you had Catholics on one side, you’d usually find Protestants on the other. Of course this was also back when Republicans were the progressives, and Democrats were conservative.

Things are different now, but there is definitely still a more liberal contingent of Christians who are more in line with ‘separation of church and state’, and the more fundamentalist side whose schools have literally taught their children that it’s their Christian duty to vote for Trump.

Does it make you feel strong and masculine to harm beings who are smaller and helpless against you?

You should be wondering why your cholesterol is so high.

No, here to tell you to go vegan. Your gluttony doesn’t justify what’s done to so many animals.

Yes it has, get used to it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-problem-with-the-paleo-diet-argument/

Your characterization of events is inaccurate. We have hypotheses about what happened to the megafauna in the last epoch, but nothing proven. Humans probably did hunt them, and it very likely could have played a large role in their extinction. But it wasn’t the only factor, nor even remotely the largest. For starters, it was the ice age. It’s a pretty safe bet that those conditions would have been the most significant factor in their extinctions.

And it’s also the most significant factor when thinking about what humans ate at that period of time. They were pre-agrarian, and living in an extremely cold climate where plant life would have been much more scarce in many times and places. What humans eat in the most extreme circumstances is irrelevant to what we still had the largest tendency to consume throughout history: plants.

https://www.christophersebastian.info/post/they-want-to-take-away-your-hamburgers-animal-exploitation-and-white-nationalism

Dead animal flesh, and animal exploitation is central to fascist identity, dunno why anyone halfway sane would want to be associated with that.

Get real, early humans were predominantly plant-based as a matter of necessity.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FNIoKmMq6cs&pp=ygUhcGFsZW9udG9sb2dpc3QgZGVidW5rcyBwYWxlbyBkaWV0

It’s possible to believe that both individuals and corporations have wrongdoings they are responsible for fixing. If corporations disappeared and your preferred magically ideal socioeconomic system prevailed, it would still be unsustainable if everyone were still omnivores.