While not a trans man, I have a great many friends that are - and all of them have really struggled with the social isolation men face. “It shouldn’t be like this” no shit dude, but this is unfortunately what you signed up for and it’s gonna be a fuck of a lot of work to fix it, welcome to the team.

Geographically it can be better because queer folks tend to stick together, but outside of queer spaces… yeah, it’s rough out there.

We’ve used tamper resistant screws as critical fasteners for that entire half a century, this is just a new and uglier version.

So it’s just another pattern of tamper resistant screw, this time with tacky branding. Those have been used for decades on cars, idk this feels very blown out of proportion. People are acting like it’s evil when it’s just a normal thing but cosmetically way uglier.

Sure, and any experienced DIYer is gonna be able to get the right $5 bit from any of the random bootleg company that makes them. This isn’t a true security bit (it doesn’t require destructive methods to open once installed) its at best just tamper resistant, which is fine and completely normal to use on critical parts (my Subaru needs security torx to access the airbags, for example)

… What are you talking about? The design ensures you can’t be anything but perpendicular to it in order to have any positive engagement, and Phillips screws are so notoriously bad about camming out at even ideal angles that it’s been popularly believed that was an intentional design feature (it wasn’t phillips screws just suck) for almost as long as they’ve existed.

sure but… boliva doesn’t have nukes

Yeah the patent doesn’t mention anything about it being a security screw as far as I can tell, it just looks like they patented a dumbass design that’s only useful for the aesthetics and people are making some sensational headlines. Like, yeah, we’d just get or make the bits to undo them - they also know that?

SMCF is trollin’ as usual and this one really seems to have landed.

Does it? I thought mbin just tallied up the votes to get that number, I wasnt aware it was a tracked value for the fediverse.

wait wait wait - I’m not talking about you.

pr0sp3kt, the one spewing the insane word salad, is the one at fault here.

Mmmhmm.

(a bunch of us are pretty sure they’re a bot, they’ve been doing this kind of insane word salad all over the place and none of it has made any more sense than this)

'cept people are already getting gouged now that there’s been broad reporting about the devices. It’s one of those rough situations where a community grew up around a low cost piece of hardware, but where the price was kept low due to that hardware’s usefulness being obscure instead of a true lack of demand. Now that people know, the price has absolutely skyrocketed and the community, which was set up around the idea of low-cost hardware access, is sadly having their hard work exploited to prop up the price gouging hardware scalpers online.

It’s incredibly depressing.

Sorry, no, too perplexed to be offended. My dude, There’s no shame in conforming to basic linguistic structures. What in the heck is this even supposed to mean?

There are degrees of conformity - I do take pride in conforming to the general standard of not, for example, using slurs in internet arguments.

I also pride myself on doing plenty of non-conforming things, like how when I’m losing an argument on the internet I don’t go around LARPing like I’m some kind of sigma male nonconformist under the delusion that that will somehow help me save face.

I am a unique and independent thinker.

this gaggle of deltas

You sure are buddy! In fact I think it’s been made abundantly clear how independent your thinking is.

I couldn’t tear my eyes away from this trainwreck even if I wanted to…

Being called out for using slurs then doubling down. Yeah… that’s a great look. Real mature. A+

Interesting take, care to expand on that one?

Acrually jesus canceled the tapdancing performance, they’re suing him too.