You need to look at it from their perspective when weighing the inconvenience. You know how to quickly install an adblocker, so it looks like the inconvenience of doing that would be small. But they don’t know how to install an adblocker. And they don’t have the skills to learn how to install an ablocker. They might not even know about the existence of adblockers.

The thing you need to weigh is the inconvenience of them putting in the effort to become tech savvy. That’s a big inconvenience. So, the inconvenience of dealing with ads and whatnot looks much smaller from their perspective.

Also, it’s worth noting that there are plenty of Windows users who are tech savvy. There is a lot of convenience that comes from using the dominant OS even if you have the proficiency to use others.

This take might make you feel a sense of superiority, but it’s a braindead take. It’s not “learned helplessness”, it’s simple convenience.

It’s convenient for the average user to not have to know computer fundamentals. It’s also convenient for users of any tech proficiency to be able to assume that the vast majority of programs will run on their OS with no fiddling required.

To the overwhelming majority of users, their PC is a tool to run programs. Convenience is king in that use-case, because any amount of time fiddling with the tool or any number of situations in which the tool doesn’t work outweighs the benefits in any other metric for the average person.

I made this one myself a while ago.

So he’s gonna have solidarity with that white woman who was shot by ICE yesterday, right?

“arrested”

Nope, that’s not the word for that. That was kidnapping.

Make it Tylenol to level up your special interest.

I’d settle for “Not the worst year”.

AI. And housing “investment”. And first-past-the-post voting. And lobbying.

That ascribes far too much agency to AI. It’s people like him who are putting society through the woodchipper.

Depends. Are they hot?

I’d say that capitalism manufactures the chains

I like the Tron reboot movies more because of Daft Punk rather than the other way around.

It maybe depends on the particular culture/context around you. When I was growing up I was usually in explicitly Christian contexts, so it was probably more repressive than what some people experience. I think that toxic masculinity is pretty widespread, though.

I think the issue there is that male friendships in general and especially with females are culturally discouraged.

My personal experience might be taken with a grain of salt because I’m a trans female (and my wife clocked that before she started dating me, even though I didn’t realize it myself until later), but from my personal experience being raised as a male I had very few friendships with girls and women and I never dated until I developed a close friendship with the woman who is now my wife. She expressed interest in dating me, and eventually we committed to it.

So, I think that breaking that cultural norm and encouraging men to have more friendships would help a lot.

Why do you dislike Daft Punk?

Kinda funny that it’s a battleship of all things. Really shows you the sort of brainless nostalgia that’s running things. The end of this gerontocracy can’t come soon enough.

What do you dislike about that pose?

So… they released none of what the people want.

They are the current rulers. Rulers can be overthrown. And I think that framing it that way gives people an accurate idea of what will be required.

Google motto: Don’t be evil

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