i thought the religious cult was the government, or did they seize power later ?

So just to be clear when you say popularity, you mean who people like the most, on a personal level ?

Not something like who people think is the most fit for the job, regardless of personal like or dislike ?

I have no idea what you are saying now. You’re saying, you should dictatorially be given the power to appoint school board members, and you’d do so solely on a first come, first given, basis?

I mean, not at all , read the reply again.

OK, so you are saying you want to be a dictator of school board members, because you are the one who should have sole authority in this area. And you would not judge people based on qualifications or merit?

Ah, i see, you don't have an actual response so you weaponise ignorance, that's actually pretty clever.

It's hard to argue with someone not using reason as a basis, you neither have to present a reasonable argument nor support it, that's downright devious.

In case that reply was serious and you just missed what i was saying, i'll try and simplify for you and leave out the extra words around it so there's nothing to be confused about...ready ?

Who can run is not the only criteria for who is qualified for a position.

Just to be clear, you're arguing that merit/competence can't be accurately judged and therefore should be ignored in favour of popularity ?

As expected

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As you have asked for, i have provided:

• My definitive stance, in simple bullet points so you don't get confused
• My understanding of your stance, in the same format
• A list of direct questions (the ones with ? on the end)

Most of the questions are asking for citations from you, which has not been your strong suit so far, but I’m ready to be surprised.

Feel free to respond to them or continue deflecting, your call.

As expected

In my setup only three of them are altered from the default values.

• privacy.resistFingerprinting
• privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager
• privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing

"privacy.resistFingerprinting" is the one i was talking about specifically, which works for me in the scenarios detailed in my response.

It's been a while since i setup this install but i know i used the arkenfox scripts as a baseline.

I have no idea how much deviation i have for the default baseline so YMMV greatly.

I only mentioned that setting because it's one i use to fix my specific problems and it might help as a starting point.

It's an entirely efficient way to allocate resources if the goal is "shareholder enrichment".

Feel free, if you can't deal with counterpoints to something as basic as this, a full conversation is probably off the table anyway.

You’re never going to get an honest answer to this question,

The honest answer was in the post they were originally replying to.

I will never tolerate ads. I will give up YouTube before I watch ads.

Youtube isn't an existential need.

Ad's or bust isn't a real dichotomy.

Here's another honest suggestion, drop ~~free~~ ad supported Youtube as a product and go full premium.

It'd significantly reduce infrastructure costs and they'd be able to fund it with subscription monies.

edit: used the wrong quote at the start