I have indeed noticed Google (and Google-based search engines like Startpage) has got worse in the past months. Even DuckDuckGo is better now (which as a long time ddg user is wild)

Why don’t you try?

He’s like Charlie Kirk, but at least Charlie Kirk was bad at his job enough that it made him funny. I ended up missing him a tiny bit when he died, I won’t miss Ben Shapiro at all

Why did you make your entire post bold

If your phone supports Lineage, the default installation comes with only the apps you would typically expect on a dumbphone (except the web browser). You can just never install any stores, never download apks from the web, and chill with it

God declares bankrupt, millions of investors in shambles

This. Israel is the unofficial 51st State of America, they don’t need blackmail lol

I think Trump would say anything you want live on TV if you gave him like fifty dollars

I’d say it’s fine in a personal context, e.g. to use as your wallpaper or a in a private RPG campaign with friends.

No one would would give you shit for downloading other people’s art off Pinterest for your D&D character, but if you reposted it online as your own, it would be plagiarism. Since AI art takes copyrighted material from all over the internet, the principle is the same

I don’t like these one-liners that try to extrapolate a simple general rule from a much more nuanced reality

By definition, we don’t know

Yes those are the ones we should strive to emulate!

sometimes you want to sent text messages to normal people

This is another reason why I think the key to success is timing. Be the first to provide a service people need, and they’ll use it for a long time

Erection medication exists to make penetrative sex possible at all for the men who need it. Whether the sex is pleasurable or not is a different thing. The female equivalent to erection pills already exists and it’s lubricant

I tried using Konqueror once, but Cloudflare websites (like WineHQ) would verification loop me. Niche browsers are discriminated against

I lived the switch in second person. My sister kept running out of SMSs to text her boyfriend, and our elder sister told her about Whatsapp and how she could have basically infinite text messages

because it’s the de facto sms replacement in many european and south american countries

Morality, in general, is a set of criteria used to determine when it is acceptable to do “wrong” things to people. If someone is an asshole, those around them will usually be assholes to them in return, to show them that being an asshole is wrong. The point is where you draw the line

The guy who first came up with abolishing capital punishment had an idea: what if, instead of killing convicts (which makes us seem barbaric and instigates rebellion), we imprison them for life and make them work as slaves? Dying can be noble, but wasting away doing prison work takes away all dignity, so other criminals will not be tempted to emulate them.

This was one little step in the long progress that lead to the fine-tuned fascism machine the USA is today.

What I’m trying to say is, capital punishment is bad, and it looks especially bad because it’s flashy. It distracts us from other forms of punishment, which are just as inhumane (if not worse), but go unnoticed.

So capital punishment absolutely needs to be abolished, but that is only the first step of many.