I’m sure you already know this, but now you need to be SUPER deliberate about your food choices. You have a very limited ability to take in food, so that needs to be packed full of good stuff.

Good luck, we’re all counting on you.

It is of benefit to the company, I guess?

I think you have pegged me as a pro capitalist. Let me assure you to the contrary.

Market share and user metrics are also valuable.

But give no direct revenue, in fact for free customers they continue to cost the corp money.

100% seriously I don’t understand what this means.

Proton spend the money they made?

Sometimes that’s the case, but Proton have free tiers, so new customers can just cost more money on top of the cost to acquire them.

But they don’t make money from advertising…

They spend money.

People in that link saying he just got an automated link, rather than a negotiated deal.

Do you have thoughts around that?

That’s sick, and looks great. (Though I have no experience fletching arrows)

You can make a bow out of nearly anything, if you want to make a durable and high performance bow, that’s a different story.

But start cheap and easy.

I like this channel a lot because he removes a lot of the mystery and prestige from being a bowyer. https://youtu.be/PAFadJJFwsE?is=NC7y8r4zVlE1hmQK

Wear and tear will certainly make things more difficult.

Make friends with a good machinist, get new pistons turned for cost :D

Sounds like you might want a Classic Car. In some countries you can get very cheap tax/insurance, but there’s a low maximum yearly mileage.

Or you might be better off just renting as you need a car.

You shouldn’t be able to, because both lanes are full and moving at half speed.

Came here to find this argument.

Well done everyone!

Merging at the last minute is the correct way to do it.

Zipper merge, you fucks!

Would you care to elaborate?

Thicc Betelgeuse

Sure, fine. We can go with that, if you like.

Then my core point still stands; using a service gives the creator/owner of that service a platform to speak from.

Do note that the line between related and unrelated can be quite faint and blurry. How do you decide where it is?

It is not pointless.

Using a product gives its creator legitimacy. If that creator is a shithead, you’ve (in part) chosen to give that shithead a pedestal to speak from and have their words heard.

Mozilla get to speak with authority partially because they’ve been in the browser game since nearly its inception and partially because they’ve have a user base. If either of these things were not so, who would care?

If you don’t like what any of the major players are doing, you can grab an open source alternative, switch to a different browser engine and upset the metrics.

You decry people being arbitrary for drawing a line, but yourself are doing so from the other direction. Your refusal to take a position leaves you in an arbitrary place.

Life is too complex and nuanced to search for a hard line in everything. And things are always shifting. You can have morals the compel you, and so long as you make a good-faith effort and are willing to listen when people you disagree with also make good-faith arguments, then you’re doing alright.

Well I hung out with Mitchell Baker and she seemed pretty chill.

Yeah, Firefox fired the anti-lgbtq asshole when his donations came to light. So then he went and founded Brave.

I am firmly of the belief that people with ADHD should be prescribed an air fryer.

It is such an incredible tool because it almost destroys the mental barrier that something like the oven has. I actually make myself food now!