Nino Mangione’s supporters used to regularly talk about killing Democrats on his Facebook page with no attempts at moderation or removal. When I brought the issue to his social media team’s attention, they blocked me and I started receiving threats from his supporters. I left Facebook and radically altered my online presence as a result.

Shaka, when the walls fell.

If fascist is my final form, please God just take me now…

I’m a libertarian - or at least was - and can confirm that at least one of those things is true!

I don’t support doing this legislatively, but there should be a greater incentive to optimize storage size and bandwidth. Broadband has made us far too comfortable with unnecessarily large files and inefficient compression.

Have to second Organic Maps, especially if you want a single app for driving and hiking/running/biking/etc. The trade-off is no live traffic or adaptive routing, which you can certainly learn to live without. (Don’t forget that alternative routing using paper maps used to be a common practice.)

That does not matter to me, personally, and I cannot generalize intelligence, decision-making validity, or the motives for having children based on need for food. What I will say is that people who come to food banks and pantries are human beings who do not deserve suffering when resources exist and the barrier to their survival is currency.

Trying to ascribe individual blame in a system as broken as our global economy is pointless; we live in the system and we are forced to survive in it. The best we can do is act to reduce suffering and strive to fix what is broken.

To that end, sympathy is an empty gesture. I empathize with them. Then I stock the local food bank so that they and their children can eat.

Trump. It’s because of Trump and the MAGA-fication of American politics.

I don’t think you’re crazy. Not even extreme. You’re like slightly left of a reasonable centrist in my book. The past 10 years of politics have too many people across the political spectrum wearing orange-shaded glasses, IYKWIM.

Likewise. Got so sick of those assholes over at r/libertarianism parroting “ThErE’s No SuCh ThInG aS a LeFt LiBeRtArIaN” that I just up and left Reddit, the Libertarian party, and at least 30% of my remaining faith in humanity behind.

Not just taxing them, but taxing them until they are no longer billionaires. No one person needs that much money and it is morally wrong to hoard that much money while others are without homes, starving, or worse.

My ex (and her friends) from over 20 years ago peer pressured me (and probably her, too) into having sex way earlier than I intended. Then she regretted it and became increasingly distant. Then I resented her for becoming distant. Then I started having non-sexual relationships with others and she resented that, so she started having casual sex with my bandmates. It was terrible for everyone involved. Should have just stood my ground when I said no the first time…

Not a typical “me too” story and I won’t pretend that the experience was anywhere near as traumatic as others have had, though it was traumatic for me and destroyed years of my young life.