There is no scale of weirdness, and the idea alone is toxic. If you contribute in a positive way, people accept you, because you have made yourself useful. Beyond providing value, and not destroying it, 'weirdness' only incurs the occasional wrath of red tape.
Exactly. These people are petting the dog after it attacks their kid, oblivious to the training they are offering and reinforcing. We as a collective are just teaching big tech how to more effectively enslave us for profit.
Or like staying with an abusive spouse. I don’t get it—why stick with a company that behaves this way, just to take part in a service that is frankly optional and unnecessary to life?
We get these threads a lot here. “Company X charged me for something they didn’t deliver and ripped me off!” So report fraud through your credit card and charge it back. “Bbbbut then they’ll ban me!”
I am very extreme already about these sort of things, and twitter was my one main compromise besides Steam... it just makes me feel like what is going to happen is the masses will always be on services like this and only a handful of hackers will be on the alternatives, creating and further encouraging information bubbles.
Your frankness is appreciated though, there is some truth there.
That seems to be the trend. 'If you're not a facist, you're a nazi' looks to be the hip discourse lately. I have never been more happy, or genuinely nervous to be unaffiliated with any political movement burdened by other members.
Still though, remember the left, the right, the facists, the nazis, the whigs, and even stalin all think they were doing the right thing, and saving humanity by making hard choices at the expense of others. Power, no matter how it is held, can and will bulldoze the powerless, no matter who they are.
Most is now reproduced for restoration. Even a well perserved cabinet has a bit of fading and wilting of the marquees and screen frame by now, not to mention the sides and control surfaces.
Because it hasent happened? The roadrunner gag comes up every few years only to be debunked (by snopes and others). Computer vision is fooled by many things that are still very obvious to the human observer.
Consenting adults should be sufficient.