That was my family’s email server 5 months ago:

So roughly 2500 days today 🙂

but the old man at the dog park who only watches fox news isnt inherently evil

I’m sorry but no.

You have the die-hard racist MAGAs with the flags and the red cap. Those can fuck right off obviously.

But you also have all the ordinary folks who are NOT die-hard MAGA, but who decided that it was okay to vote for a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the government. And guess what: in a sense, they’re even worse.

Voting for Trump is crossing a line. If you voted for Trump, I really don’t want anything to do with you because you have proved to me that your sense of morality and your respect for the institutions of this country are compromised.

I do yes - VPN. I won’t next month though.

if you disavow every company contributing to the republican party/trump you might as well sell all your belongs, and learn to live off grid. no internet access, no power, no retail.

As much as possible, I will take my business to companies that aren’t openly terrible.

we just dont live in a black and white world

Tell that to the orange utan. He sure is about to turn the word from RGB to 1-pixel color space.

Do you really think I want to split people into people I can talk to vs. people I want to avoid at all costs? Trump is doing that. He’s forcing shitty choices on everybody. I’d rather have constructive and peaceful interaction with my fellow man. But can you honestly shake hands with a magard and not feel sick to your stomach? I can’t.

Let’s not get carried away. The scope of the comment is pretty narrow if you read it closely

The only thing I want to hear from you is that you actively disavow Trump, or if you feel this is going to hurt your business, at least say nothing at all. Anything other than that marks you as a shameless suck-up, and I want nothing to do with you or your business.

Ergo, I want nothing to do with Proton. It’s time suck-ups pay the price and see their bottom lines drop because of their dubious choices.

Oh well. Another scratch on my list of companies I’ll never patronize.

Isn’t it the same as tuning?

Although it’s unclear what tuning is because it depends on who says it:

• It does mean doing modifications to a vehicle for actual performance improvements
• It’s used extensively by ricers to describe themselves and their hobby and they think it’s a positive term
• It’s used extensively by people who dislike ricing and most definitely as a derogatory term

Yet for all its faults, I believe that’s the closest word to ricing you’ll find that is universally understood, neutral and isn’t rendered hopelessly bland and meaningless by the process of political correctness newspeak.

It’s almost as if shit needs to be fact-checked…

It’s strange when a country at war for years is less dysfunctional than yours.

I certainly hope a majority of Fediverse operators will decide to defederate Threads. I always thought it was important not to help Zuck grow his walled garden for free, but now it’s clearly a matter of decency.

You are running their software on their hardware with their limitations

It’s funny how it feels like my money when I pay for the device at the cash register.

It makes sense, but you totally miss my point. To go with your analogy, my point is:

• I’m not interested in playing cards

That’s it.

I don’t care how fascinating the technology is and how clever Apple are: they are not welcome to implement it on my device. I didn’t invite them to setup a card game and I expect them not to break into my house to setup a table.

If they don’t look at my data, they don’t even have to encrypt it.
If they don’t try to look at my data, they don’t need to wonder whether they should ask my permission.

I don’t want Apple or anybody else looking at my data, for any reason, is my point.

Oh yeah I kinda missed your last point. Sorry 🙂

How hard is it to grasp that I don’t want Apple doing anything in my cellphone I didn’t explicitely consent to?

I don’t care what technology they develop, or whether they’re capable of applying it correctly: the point is, I don’t want it on my phone in the first place, anymore than I want them to setup camp in my living room to take notes on what I’m doing in my house.

My phone, my property, and Apple - or anybody else - is not welcome on my property.

It’s not data harvesting if it works as claimed. The data is sent encrypted and not decrypted by the remote system performing the analysis.

What if I don’t want Apple looking at my photos in any way, shape or form?’

I don’t want Apple exflitrating my photos.
I don’t want Apple planting their robotic minion on my device to process my photos.
I don’t want my OS doing stuff I didn’t tell it to do. Apple has no business analyzing any of my data.

He’s obviously fucked in the head in many more ways than one

Aren’t all leaders?

For politicians, it takes a particular mindset to think you’re the solution to other people’s problems and run for any election. I instantly distrust people who thrust themselves in the limelight and propose to rule others for their own good.

As for CEO’s, it’s very well known that a disturbing percentage of them display psychopathic traits.

Critics argue that the monarchy lacks the unilateral power to dissolve Parliament under the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act.

Is that what “critics” argue about?
How about the massive South African white elephant in the room:

Why the fuck should Charles even acknowledge Musk’s noises?

If I was Charles, I’d offer Elon Musk a knighthood to piss him off.

Musk would have to choose between stoking his gigantic ego with the title at the cost of giving up any post in the federal government as per article I, section 9, clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution or humiliate himself and refuse the title to keep running the orange utan he’s invested billions in.

assisted living facilities

Aka retirement homes.

Aka exploitation hospices when for-profits manage them.

My Dad withered in one of them - Catholic-run, too - for a few months until my siblings and I realized he wasn’t fed properly, cared for properly, and the retirement home franchisee was spending the absolute minimum on him in order to keep him alive and paying rent but not a cent more.

Ascension’s data breach is probably the least egregious thing about that company.