paultimate14

This feels like it would be an actual Deadpool joke

Yeah it's a fine line to walk. There are people who are non-functional, who spend their entire lives unable to take care of themselves and function.

My older sister was a genius who, every couple of years, would have mental breakdowns and need to be institutionalized until she was diagnosed in her mid-30's. Before the diagnosis I always considered myself a milder version of her- smart but not on her level, introverted but functional. Others in my life, without knowing about her have said they think I'm on the spectrum. So that's a round about way of saying "there's a good chance I'm on the spectrum too, but I don't like self-diagnosing and haven't had enough reason to get diagnosed."

I think the real key is giving people the freedom and technology to choose. I could envision a world where people move along the spectrum from day-to-day based on what best serves them. And I think a lot of non-autistic people would find a bit of the spectrum helpful. But that's probably just a utopian dream.

Yeah my first thought reading the headline is "oh so we can spread it to more people and actually have a functioning society?"

Of course I don't mean to offend those who suffer from it. But in small doses....

And it seems to have worked out for him pretty well. He lives an incredibly lavish lifestyle, won the presidency twice, has a huge collection of devoted followers, and generally seems to have avoided any negative consequences.

Between Trump and the people around him, SOMEONE know what they are doing.

Oh yes I see I got distracted and didn't get to my conclusion: perhaps it is unwise to ostracize the creations of evil people and evil corporations.

The Cybertrucks are here. I don't want to toss a bunch of EV's (even bad ones) in a landfill prematurely just because the CEO is a fascist.

Definitely sucks for the people who thought they were doing the right thing by going electric and ended up driving Swasticars.

I know there's an argument that those folks should have known what they were in for by the time the Cybertruck in 2023, but some people just don't pay much attention to current events.

I drive a Subaru and couldn't tell you who the CEO is, although in retrospect perhaps I should have done more research before buying. But even without looking I can guess that it's some shitty billionaire who donated heavily to both the GOP and DNC. Subaru itself has a history that involves... Being a Japanese manufacturer during WW2.

You could also look at the Nazi Henry Ford and all of those gigantic pickup trucks clogging the US while also buying fossil fuels. It helps that Henry Ford is long dead, but are they really that much better than Cybertrucks?

I mean morally. Objectively, Cybertrucks are just badly designed and manufactured vehicles but that's separate from my point. Although if I may also rant- we already know that he used the Boring company to purposely sabotage high-speed rail projects in the US. We know that he bought Twitter not to make it profitable, but to gain power over social media. When you look at Tesla- the QC issues, the labor relations issues, the missed deadlines, the proprietary charging connector, the complete mess of a car the Cybertruck is, and how he is now very actively supporting a president who seems to be trying to destroy EV's and prop up fossil fuels... Was Elon EVER actually trying to push EV's, or was he actively trying to sabotage them? I know this is borderline conspiratorial thinking, but a lot of his madness seems to make a lot more sense in that context.

Imagine believing that Democrats are homogenous

Maybe if you live under a rock?

Exactly. The whole world suffers from that. And I've seen a LOT of Democrats get absolutely destroyed by their bases for supporting it. Fetterman went from being a folk hero of work class Pennsylvanians to a genocide-mongerer. Cory Booker just pulled off a pretty amazing feat of giving a 25 hour filibuster and yet the news cycle very quickly shifted to how he voted with Republicans to continue bombing Palestine.

This meme doesn't make sense to me because I've never seen Republicans send that accusation towards Democrats. If anything, Republican criticisms tend to go the other way: that Democrats should mind their own business and that there is a moral obligation to limit the scope of government (not that they actually care about that, but they say they do).

Imagine believing that a party can have a policy that doesn't affect you.

That's where the "analysis" part of "cost-benefit analysis" comes in and it doesn't make sense to generalize like you seem to want to.

Is it really that much more responsible to run Windows 11? You seem to have a LOT of faith in Microsoft to keep you safe. There's plenty of reasons to not switch to Windows 11.

I also use Linux on some machines. But I can also see why there are reasons why one distro or another, or even Linux in general, may not be the right call for some people.

You seem awfully optimistic about Microsoft's response time lol.

How many people are out there today with broken locks on their doors or windows? How many stores do you think close every night with the minimum wage worker forgetting to lock up properly? How many people out their use incredibly weak passwords, share their credentials with others, or leave everything on post-it notes?

Security is a cost-benefit analysis. Depending on what exactly this hypothetical exploit requires I might very well be comfortable running Windows 10 anyways. The vast majority of security exploits require physical access to the machine- we only hear about the remote ones more often because they are scarier.