Yeah, much better to say nothing and let them keep doing that to all the brown people because they’re not as important as the whites

I wish they would

I don’t mean to sound callous but if some relatively minor RCS issues, and there’s really no way they could be classified as major, stopped your friend from doing what he set out to do then he wasn’t all that invested in the idea.

I’m not saying there’s no problems with GrapheneOS or any other product helping consumers to change their habits but if you really care about issues like corporate overreach then a little inconvenience isn’t a deal breaker. In fact, it’s to be expected when switching away from mega corporations. They invest tons of money to make their user experience decent so that they can profit off of your data. If you want to get away from that you have to accept the fact that you’re moving away from a product supported by thousands of engineers with billions of dollars to spend towards a product developed by tens of engineers or less with very limited funding. Those developers do a damn good job IMO but a dip in ease-of-use has to be expected.

At the end of the day we all have to decide if we’re going to prioritize convenience or mindfulness. It sounds like your friend made his choice, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with the choice he made, I just think it’s important to put it in the proper perspective.

It does sound kind of like those randomly generated Xbox live usernames from back in the day

botulistic sausage

Epic new band name

That’s cool. I have yet to find a use case for AI. Am I doing it wrong or are they just bad with computers?

It’s already been several years. Tesla had an actual product that people wanted. Yes, they’ve been doing their best of late to torpedo their market share and brand name but at one point they were doing what they set out to do. Open AI has never done what they said they would do.

No society can exist without offing a few executives here and there. That’s too high a bar to clear

No problem. I have been using it for a while and I really like it. There’s nothing stopping you from doing it the old fashioned way if you find you don’t like portainer but once you familiarize yourself with it I think you’ll be hooked on the concept.

Use portainer for managing docker containers. I prefer a GUI as well and portainer makes the whole process much more comfortable for me.

That’s always been on the table for any politician. In fact, one could make a pretty strong case that a big part of our current problems stem from the fact that modern American politicians seem to have forgotten that they are just skin bags full of meat like the rest of us. They’re supposed to be aware of the possibility that any random person has the ability to walk up and shoot them in the face. This should encourage them to make decisions with everyone’s best interests in mind. Clearly they don’t worry about that possibility nearly as much as they should.

We only do that to poor people. Rich and powerful people deserve nothing but deference and understanding from the courts.

Trump is nearing his life’s term limit. A 3rd term from him personally is not particularly concerning. That’s still a red line in the sand that we should never allow anyone to cross but I’ll be surprised if he makes it through his current term in good enough condition to even pretend to be in charge.

Same here but we both know we’re in the minority of gun owners, at least as far as public discourse is concerned.

You’re assuming that I don’t. Failing to distinguish between an argument that will land with some people vs one that will land with most people is exactly the problem people are pointing out to you and you’re still doing it here.

The point is that isn’t how the world works. You can complain about that all you like but it won’t change anything. Accept that reality is what it is and respond accordingly. In this case that means using whatever opening you have to press for change. Telling racists they should care about brown people is obviously not going to work, even if it is true. Pointing out that their policies are killing white people might. This is the basic concept of politics.

Maybe that means something different to you than it does to them but that is definitely not true from their perspective or mine. I hear Democrats talk about gun control in various forms on a regular basis.

I don’t think it’s that. This administration has had no problem telling Democrats to go fuck themselves at every turn. I think they realized that they went too far for a significant portion of the conservative allied 2A absolutists who they cannot afford to alienate in an election year.

Many of those people are not nearly as conservative as most tend to believe. They just categorically refuse to vote for Democrats because they have correctly deduced that Democrats want to take their gun rights away. There’s tons of discussion to be had about that topic but it would be a wise strategy for Democrats to stop talking about gun law reform until they have the votes to make it happen. It’s a non-starter for too many people in states they absolutely need to win a Presidential election by a wide enough margin to accomplish anything legislatively. A progressive, pro-2A politician running on a Sanders style populist platform would do well in large parts of the country, especially if a significant portion of gun owners start to doubt the GOP’s commitment to the 2A.

I agree with what you’re saying I just think it’s odd, even by GOP standards, to try and give Trump a pass on something he did by appealing to something he has only talked about doing.

The first two things on that list are crazy in their own uniquely Republican way but the credit card thing is just bizarre. Both in comparison to the others and at face value. You want to give him a pass because he proposed something that hasn’t happened?