SootyChimney [any]

The classic “I was going to be a caring individual and oppose systemic wrongs but a leftist said things I disliked on the internet” move.

Let’s be clear, in the UK, parents can almost always leave behind over a million pounds worth before any tax starts kicking in. Not to mention the thousands of easy loopholes.

A pact that was a necessity when all the Allies rebuffed the USSR, but also a pact that documents show the USSR never even intended to honour from day one.

I suspect pissing about copying a mass of text into an AI to have a 70% chance of getting an actually correct answer is probably harder than pressing Ctrl+F

I only see Tory used as “one who supports conservative policies”. Obviously it consequently also means you’re bad, but I don’t see it applied to people who don’t do the first thing.

smh when countries do a slaveowner genocide and eliminate slavery. Why didn’t those slaves just peacefully themselves free?

We’re mainly waiting for you to say “Yes, I was wrong, Hexbear doesn’t shill for Russia/China/DPRK and call them communist utopias, and I guess tankies is kind of a meaningless term.”. I think that was the point.

“I want to remove our violent oppressors by any means necessary so we can be free and happy” - Bad violent leftist who ruins parties

“I knowingly sent material support for a genocide resulting in the deaths of 300,000+ people literally being gunned down in the street, oopsie doopsy everyone makes mistakes” - “Wholesome” “Nicest fucking dude”

ublock obviously should be installed on Firefox by default. But I seem to have a host of privacy add-ons that break few-to-no websites.

• Privacy Possum , which blocks certain tracking headers/js. Privacy Badger by the EFF is an acceptable alternative but I’ve personally found it doesn’t block quite as much.
• NoScript Honestly my favourite addon of all time. You can operate in block-everything mode and just allow javascript/HTML5 from sites you trust, or if you’re lazy then just operate in allow-everything mode and every now and then set crummy sites to untrusted (looking at you google tag manager). In block-everything-by-default mode, this add-on will break some sites, but the UI is so easy it’s a couple of clicks to trust all the sites in a tab and auto-refresh.

Be warned - If you’re not privacy conscious, you might cry from seeing the hundreds of sites that are running javascript on your machine without asking.

• User-Agent Switcher Really easy add-on to just leave on and misdirect sites. Never caused me a single problem, and in fact is useful when sites (looking at you Microsoft Teams) claim they don’t work in Firefox and refuse to load but actually work fine if you use this addon and pretend to be Chrome.
• Sponsorblock kicks ass. 30 hours of ads skipped in half a year.

And my personal silly couple ones:

• Wikipedia Vector Skin because I’m an old fuddy duddy and I like old Wikipedia.
• Cat-In-Tab because I’m also an old fuddy-duddy that likes whimsy sometimes. This is just silly but I like it.

So you’re homeless and starving huh? Why didn’t you of just think of putting in a little effort?

Every person with this attitude was born with a silver spoon in their mouth or otherwise given all their wealth by knowing rich people. 99% of people who work devastatingly hard end up even poorer, me and many of my family members have chronic mental and/or physical conditions as a result of working too hard, and now we’re still piss fucking poor as well as in pain and traumatised.

Liberals: Nice try tankie, but all of our leaders and popularised heroes commit genocide, so it can’t be criticism

This sweet plan seems to include a lot of being approved for masses of credit and hoping you can pay off your un-write-offable loans (there are an upsetting number of ways debts can’t be written off). But if anyone can go bankrupt and fuck over their debtees, please do.

I’m sure you’re right, but I’ve not seen that to be true where I live in Europe. That makes absolutely no sense.

Yes, thank you. Law is not the reason I haven’t started a business, it’s money.

The cost of administrating benefits, ie fact checking and means testing and complex rules etc, typically costs 1-2x as much as the benefits themselves. It’s not even about saving money, it’s about making sure that poor people are sufficiently screwed.

It’s a collaborative effort. The Wine and Vulkan projects have all done a lot and deserved credit for doing massive, amazing things. But for Linux gaming specifically, Proton has absolutely changed the landscape, and if Valve continues down this path, will make Linux an ever better gaming platform. So I don’t think it’s unfair to say thanks to Valve.

Not only have they sunk significant resource into making Linux gaming more viable, they’ve released Proton under BSD and seriously pushed developers to make Linux-compatible binaries. If Linux continues it’s slow upward trend in popularity, Valve will be in large part to thank.

This is already a modern hellscape scenario that happens. Check out the UK postmaster scandal, a piece of software said that >100 postmasters across the country were stealing money. They all protested their innocence. Many were imprisoned for decades. Many committed suicide over it. Years afterward, they realised the software might be faulty, and didn’t say anything. Only recently did they have to admit that it was probably a bug.

HG Wells certainly has spouted capitalism apologia, but this specifically reads very much like an intentional, satirical mocking of eugenics.

Literally anybody who can afford rent, can by definition afford to BOTH maintain a home AND keep a fucking leech solvent.

If you insist on being a lib and keeping money like that, just make some very simple social programs for amortising heavy up-front maintenance costs and simplifying house ownership, and landlords become redundant even within capitalism.

There is no justification - Landlords do not do work, they are parasites.

Russia literally requested, many times, to join NATO. Wrong way around - NATO’s whole purpose is to see a country of people reduced to rubble (and also any other countries it feels like along the way).