FormerBandmate

You can totally say Texas should be independent. A lot of Texans have.

You can’t be against the Ukraine war in Russia because Putin is an evil dictator

A huge chunk of activism is pointless and annoying. Especially when every cause is lumped together into Activism (TM) and the Omnicause.

I don’t agree with them and I don’t think they should be in my software, or dealing with anything they don’t understand (for instance crime, homeless people, geopolitics, or really anything outside of overpriced vegan coffee shops). All they really do is end up getting Fox News people to vote for fascists like Trump out of spite

The thing about this business model is that it inevitably falls apart when things break.

Bending Spoons doesn’t care (yet), but they’re not at the point where stuff has proven unsustainable

Why would that ever happen? Software is too important for people to not sell outside of communism and free software people aren’t as good as making consumer products as capitalists

Whose victory over the “empire”? I think you will find whatever empire comes next will be worse

A similar thing seems responsible for signalgate. The NSA needs better tech tbh

Rhis raises it back to the original level (although entirely based off the absurdly overinflated value of Grok at $80 billion. VCs…)

BlackBerry was a huge player. They declined, as with Nokia, entirely because they didn’t use a platform

Honestly using it for actual serious violent crimes is way better than speeding

They can just date down? A lot of the times those degrees don’t pay better anyway

AI safety people literally want the world to be a Fisher-Price version of 1984. It’s the gun emoji writ large