Hey, we may kill you by accident, whoopsie. Also it’ll be your fault and not the masked murderers.

That’s called a scam in most places.

Going from a country where tipping isn’t common to one where it is you realize quickly that tipping is a scam. People should be paid a living wage and tipping should be something that happens from time to time as one wants, not some make or break financial decision for the worker. It creates this awful tension where it’s never enough. 5% wasn’t enough so it became 10% then 15% now 20% now 30% or even 40% and so on. How long until anything short of a 100% tip is seen as disrespectful?

I mean I’m not too plugged in either but I feel like I see it about as often as I see complaints like this post. Also they do exactly that or sign and auction items for charity. I would say with their time and proportional to what normal people normally give the celebrities who are involved in philanthropy tend to give more than your average person and yet get scolded for it.

Billy Eilish recently donated 11.5M or about 22% of all of her money. Generally speaking we don’t normally see people donating 20%+ of all of their money and I’m speaking about people who have the capacity to give 20%+. Now I’m sure there will still be people angry at what she chose to donate to or arguing that she didn’t give enough and so on. I personally don’t like people attacking philanthropy short of the charity being a scam. All giving is good and all publicity is good. For worthwhile causes and charities. I would much rather us focus our attention. On scam charities of which unfortunately there are many in this world.

That’s the fun part about language, it doesn’t have to be logical in the slightest. I can say red is blue all day every day without issue beyond that it’s logically inconsistent.

The title and the post together make it sound like you’re saying your neighbor is the devil.

I feel like people are unaware there are intentional communities doing the same but without the religious basis.

That’s to say most people start with a very grounded sense of reality until they encounter something that model can’t deal with such as those epistemological arguments. Science like everything else is built from assumptions, things that seem true but we can’t prove. Stuff like didn’t the past actually happen. It’s typically when one notices reality is stranger than science can manage that one allows themselves to entertain other concepts.

Just a quick quip, it may literally be the case the universe is indeed physically infinite. We don’t know if it is or isn’t. That said, yeah we can indeed create mental constructs that don’t have to obey reality. Linguistically I can create contradictions. I can say on a flat plane there is a square with five sides which is even mathematically impossible yet I can put the words together, create the idea of it. Also yeah Cantor and the scale of infinities is fun. It may be the case we discovered the mathematics for something we’ve yet to discover in reality which happens from time to time.

As they say if it’s worth while it’s probably not easy, if its easy it’s probably not worthwhile. Hate and resentment are easy, forgiveness and peace is difficult. Until one’s enemy is their friend the war is never over. The best war is won without ever taking a single shot. Many things turn into this multivariate balancing act where there really isn’t an ultimate good option, something will have to give here or there, but as you said the intention and the attempt alone are commendable.

Once again I disagree. The general circumstance that someone or a group wants something that another individual or group does not want to give is just an aspect of being alive. It can be as simple as simple as a predator and prey to someone getting mugged to a genocide, X wants something Y doesn’t want to give. Now how is that not an aspect of reality?

You’ve never heard people complaining that they should use the platform they’ve been given for this or that? Also they do donate typically but I’ve noticed no amount short of every last dollar they have isn’t enough. Even then I am sure somehow someone would be disgruntled.

They are damned if they do and and damned if they don’t. If they don’t then people lambast them for not utilizing their platform. If they do then they’re sticking their nose into not their business and not donating enough no matter how much they donate. There’s no way to win for them, then again being a public figure is a curse and guarantees there’s always someone who’s going to be disgruntled.

I say all publicity for a good charity is good and all giving is good. If someone makes 100K and gives 50 that’s awesome, if someone makes 40k and gives 20 that’s also awesome, all donations are good to a worthwhile cause and charity.

Unless it’s always empty forever and always.

Rule of thumb in open source and honestly even in closed source, the more users there are, the more funding there is, the better the result is. Linux has a ton of like highly niche projects being run by like one guy on his free time with zero funding.

Even in a worse case I still think the effort is worth it for someone who wants to pull away from the iron clasp of the data overlords where they can. In this life it is rare we get something without giving something in exchange.

That said now that you know you also gained valuable knowledge and skills you can apply to anything else you want to do. That is it wasn’t like you wasted time completely.

Yeah one of the distros I listed above which I haven’t used personally is literally just enough Linux to run kodi. I mean installing Kodi also only takes seconds. Now to be clear we’re talking about billion and trillion dollar companies vs a group of people mostly volunteering their time for free. On one side you get no privacy or flexibility but amazing customer service and UI. On the other it’s isn’t as polished but far more free, private, and flexible.

When making deals with the devil things are usually nice at first until he comes to collect later. That’s the whole gimmick. Get people by the nuts by making it so easy for them to walk into your grasp.

Nope, like literal space aliens, like E.T. or predator or that movie independence day with Will Smith

Can’t say, I’m sure some do. There’s definitely clean and peaceful methods. I would say, if you’re really gonna exit may as well max out as many credit cards and loans as humanly possible and have a wild time and pick some sort of exciting or crazy way to go out, like skydiving without a shute.

Hours? Running Fedora and enabling DRM on Firefox ain’t that complex, neither is installing the waydroid flatpak. I think you’re really blowing the situation out of proportion. Assuming you already have the iso probably like 30 minutes to get set up including a full install.

You were our only hope. So many have died in your absence.

Falkor?

Most definitely, it’s essentially a full Linux PC. You could do a lot of things with it.