Install cameras in their bedroom that streams to YouTube or Twitch 24/7. See if they really have nothing to hide.

Say it louder for the people at the back: adblock is a basic cybersecurity measurs

Same. I’d rather they not exist, but if they must, better that it isn’t under big tech’s grubby palms.

Technically true, but in practice, it’s very vulnerable to conglomeration of power by a few. Social media, for one: it’s not exactly a matter of quality to get users to use your platform. Beyond a certain threshold of minimum quality, people use and stay on a certain platform because the people they know are on it, such that it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Other than that, Google have such a ludicrous market share of web advertising (which unfortunately remains the primary method of monetising the web) that it’s very difficult to not use Google’s advertising, giving them immense power to surveil and monitor people. Google Chrome, which remains the most popular browser for reasons that elude me, has so much sway over the internet that it had the courage to even propose the idea of WEI. The infrastructure on which the entite internet runs are controlled by just a handful of massive ISPs, yet another centralisation of power.

Even more reason for me to never get a car!

Are adblockers even illegal? I didn’t think it was.

Don’t forget about malvertising, that’s probably a more imminent danger. If Google and other ad companies don’t give enough of a shit about user to actually filter out malware ads, why should I give enough of a shit about their revenue to not use uBO?

Ah, that’s understandable. My native tongue doesn’t really have gendered pronouns so they/them feels right at home for me (though ironically, the people in my country are mostly conservative and bigoted and wouldn’t accept nonbinary)

I keep it simple and default to they/them unless they mention some specific preference. Doesn’t matter if they appear to be very traditionally masculine or feminine, or anything in between.

I agree, but I don’t think the studies themselves are to blame though, they’re simply reporting the facts. OP just simply misinterpreted it, knowingly or otherwise. The studies back up the point that ‘vaccine injuries exist’ which I don’t think anyone is arguing against. The important point is rather that ‘Covid is significantly worse than any vaccine injury, and our system can take care of the latter but not the former’.

Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.

Thanks! I’ll be copypasting all of these to my notes haha

I don’t think the point is that it’s not a threat. I think it’s more like if you set fire to a house before robbing the neighbouring house, if that makes sense. It’s not that the house on fire isn’t important, but more so that it was meant to distract everyone.

I only did a quick skim through the abstracts so I might miss some important details, but from what I can tell, they’re all rare/one-off events. Sure, they exist, but the rate at which these vaccine injuries exist is eclipsed by that of Covid itself; there’s a reason why the hospitals were overloaded by Covid and not vaccine injuries. The point is not that the vaccine is 100% safe, it’s that the downsides of Covid far outweigh that of the vaccine (not to mention that, at least from what I understand, vaccine injuries are not contagious, unlike Covid, and hence you are protecting others who are immunocompromised). Tl:dr is that unlike what you see with the overloading of hospitals during covid, they have no problem handling a couple of vaccine injuries here and there.

Is GrapheneOS affected?

I should start marketing cyanide as a painkiller too, goddamn.

What a coincidence, I’m trying to learn SELinux too! Any tips?

Fair enough, I was being too idealistic. I just wish we can have them see reason instead, but if we can’t, making them shut up and not spread their idiocy would perhaps make for the next best thing.

Really fasttracked my Linux learning experience too. If you’re starting out Linux and are predisposed to masochism like I am, using Gentoo as your first distro really catalysed my understanding of Linux (at the cost of a week’s worth of crying and self-loathing lmao).

That is very much a plausible argument, but I did start out by drinking tea instead of coffee when I was younger because my parents fearmongered me about coffee. Stayed a morning person throughout.