It is correct, not cowardly. I made an edit to hopefully clear any further confusion. I very much dislike the “coward” polemic from anyone calling themselves radical or revolutionary (hah!) when I know they all pulled the mask off along with everyone else years ago. That is cowardice.

The revolution is on its tenth COVID reinfection, struggling to climb a flight of stairs.

Are you still wearing a mask in public spaces? Is anyone in your org? Talk to me about cowardice.

e. to make myself absolutely clear, how seriously do you take COVID, and if prevention via mandatory respirators at any demonstration or meeting is not the expected bare minimum conduct, why not? What world do you think you are building? If this is not up there with climate action on your itinerary, any world you imagine is not equitable. It is not sustainable. It is certainly not revolutionary.

95% of Americans won’t wear masks during an active pandemic of an airborne pathogen for which the only legitimate cure at present is prevention. Commiting to a level of hygiene annoyance which is less than a maxi pad was too much for us as a society. Forgive me for rolling my eyes.

Americans were already adult children, all of that is simply amplifying it.

No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.

Wow

I don’t see how the two are related at all. One hallucinates more-or-less-fingered things and is used cynically for profit motive regardless and the other is a gag about a common and intentional stylistic choice in many cartoons.

Even that started as “abolish the police.” That was too radical, so they went with “defund the police.” That, too, was too radical, and turned into “fund them more, but include sensitivity training.” The sensitivity training was not included; too radical.

It is truly impossible to make any kind of prediction for what will happen in the US because of this. I think a lot of people not from here don’t realize how bad it actually is. It’s really, really bad.

It is pretty much the singular online chat app in use by most English-speaking spaces, replacing the niche Microsoft-owned Skype used to fill. The way it works is, similarly, an inscrutable black box by design, developed and headquartered in the USA. There is no question that it is compromised.

It’s implicit. I’ve been a lurker for some time; check any of the social megathreads and you’ll certainly see people constantly going on about gatherings, restaurants, organizing this and that in person. These people are not masking. The ones that are will be talking about it, because it is impossible to be masking in the current year and also be social without noticing the dissonance. Any pushback to this point will be met with apathy at best, hostility at worst. It seems to be treated like veganism, where there is an unspoken policy that everyone acknowledges it is the correct stance to take…but if someone is not following it through for whatever reason, they just aren’t going to mention it at all, and doing so is breaking decorum. In this case “don’t ask don’t tell” doesn’t work when you still mingle about going to bars or concerts or whatever else like nothing is going on. This itself is a form of (normalized) violence, which is where “this site is pro-eugenics” comes from, a sentiment I am in agreement with because the base of modern society is pro-eugenics.

While this is despair inducing, we can’t give in and sink to the lowest depths. There is a need for moderation throughout the site when it comes to the eugenics (subtle or over) and covid denialism, and it needs to come from US, not the mods!

What do you do when the “help” is unwanted? At best, we can do agitation, and I have been barking up this tree IRL and online since the early years. People won’t change. They don’t want to change. If they do, they are an outlier, and I have not met a single one of them. The only time any of them did anything was when it was policy and under threat of consequences—visible consequences that they can’t wave away like degrading health. We won’t get there again without it. Even then, not everyone would abide. People were on their deathbeds decrying the existence of COVID. All I, a human being of “the community”, have succeeded in doing is burning myself out while no one listens and the party outside goes on unimpeded. What then? As someone else here put it, someone needs to be COVID Stalin to shape the discourse. It will not happen for our part. We have no authority, a fact that is easily confirmed by trying to talk to anyone about COVID whatsoever.

People are always talking about upworth. What if I want down?

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I don’t either. Everyone has their ways, I suppose. The way of hundreds of browser tabs is full of Sin and gluttony, is all.

Is it not? I thought there were other proprietary bits & telemetry removed, like what LibreWolf does. Maybe I’m lost in the semantics of “fork” and “custom version”…

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