Man, we should break more stuff.

A couple years ago it wasn’t thoroughly and transparently sucking off every bit of personal data it could get, and gearing up to put adds on the desktop on top of that.

You are underestimating how much bulshit people are willing to put up just to not have to make any change.

At this rate he might be applying to become a Terf Island Government Regulator probably

And here you are talking about homemade surgery when the topic of the day are pills and disability aids. All you have said in this thread is bait and switch.

…what part of the comparison you have issue with? That trans people are a marginalized group, or that what they are seeking is not nearly as harmful, yet authorities making an issue out of it regardless.

You are right, I don’t know you. But if you are so good-hearted deep inside, why would you call trans people narcissistic for trying to address the unfairness of life by their own means?

Yet for all you say of me not knowing you, you don’t seem to be trying to understand anyone else either. All you have to show are the shallowest platitudes you can think of.

You are right, life is unfair. Which is exactly why you can’t count on governments providing what you need, why people might need to figure it out on their own. In light of that, is it really so shocking that people may resort to illegal means? Yet even that is being taken away.

You don’t seem to have a drop of sympathy for that, you don’t know or care about what severe gender dysphoria may be like, you talk of it as if it was merely denying them a luxury. No, this is not the sort of thing that may be alleviated treated by “eating healthier” or “access to transportation”.

Frankly, all this pearl-clutching about illegality and regulation sounds like something from someone who believes society is far more ideal than it really is. Or is your point just “get fucked when you are told to”? Because that’s the only way I can see conciliating the inherent unfairness of life with strict adherence to the rules.

The very first thing I showed you is that the legitimate channels are unusable.

But hey, it wouldn’t be the first time “illegal drug sales” are used as a pretext to attack undesirable populations.

Spoken as someone who haven’t ever bothered to talk to trans people or read about them a single day of your life. Consistently studies and accounts from transgender people indicate that gender transition diminishes the rates of suicide and suicidal ideation.

But it shows how little you know that the best you have to say is “sometimes life sucks for other people too”. Guess what, this isn’t about you. No idea why you are even so invested in the risks and needs related to something that has nothing to do with you. Because clearly it isn’t out of care for other people.

Always lovely when people pull the “it’s a tiny percent of people so whatever happens to them doesn’t matter”. So are disabled people. So are people with rare illnesses.

But who do you think is even going after gender-affirming hormones in the first place? It’s an unbearable risk for everyone else but whatever happens to trans people without it doesn’t matter. Funny how that is…

Except that the UK is also obstructing proper avenues to get them too.

Transgender patients facing a years-long wait for NHS gender care are being handed a “death sentence”, says the mum of a trans woman who took her own life.

Data obtained by Newsnight and analysed by the BBC found it would take 10 years to clear the backlog of people waiting for first appointments in gender care.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68602939

Mind you that gender affirming treatment can be the difference between life and death for trans people. So, they can’t rely on public services, and they can’t take matters into their own hands. So, the idea here is “be rich or don’t be trans”?

What is the best distro for gaming on Linux?

No?

The way you are speaking it’s as if they mean to close down the whole thing. There is a whole rest of the world for them to operate in. Sure losing the US market be a huge detriment, but the owners still might rather have it everywhere else, than keep it running in the US in someone else’s hands.

Windows 11 made my girlfriend’s laptop so slow, even she asked me to install Linux, and she is not even a techy type.

As someone who’s neither chinese nor america I want nothing more than these countries to keep their hands to themselves. I don’t like China doing it, and I don’t want the US doing it because China does it. Are y’all gonna hand a piece of your companies to every country they operate in? I’m guessing “no”.

Well, of course. They aren’t banning Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. That’s exactly how they want it.

Who knew firing most people keeping it running would have negative consequences 🤔

The movie industry can’t bother to provide and preserve the movies they make, they should shut the fuck up.

Haven’t I been hearing that since the rise of computing and the internet? And it’s probably been around even longer. Seems like this sort of stuff only gets going when a lot of workers start putting up a fight.

But hey, maybe 41% jobs lost might be the tipping point. Because people aren’t just gonna sit on the sidewalk and starve.

Right. This is only “right” because tech corporations were allowed to undermine the meaning of ownership without any attempt to protect customer rights. The concept of “buying a license” is fundamentally contradictory, because without the transfer of ownership, nothing was “bought”. Yet they still present this licensing process as if it was a purchase, which is deceptive.

Many take it for granted that this is just the nature of digital purchases, but the digital market simply created the opportunity for companies to redefine purchases with less resistance. Now they are trying to do the same with physical objects: physical media, technological devices, vehicles, so forth, trying to establish that people didn’t own what they bought.

And the basis of all of this is simply that they wrote some text that they said so. Can you imagine if customers tried something like this? They would be laughed out of the room. It’s a sham. The flimsiest possible pretense of legitimacy. Yet it’s treated as valid because they have the lawyers to defend it while the average customer does not, and governments often neglect their role to advocate in favor of the public.