Good. Luigi was with me the entire time.

I don't want to see an innocent man get sent to prison because some hero killed a baron.

He's saying we shouldn't trust the police because they have a history of lying to the public to protect themselves.

As it turns out, when you lie to people, they tend not to trust you in the future. At least if they're not stupid.

Exactly.

They maximized profit just like all the other corporations. They're nothing special and neither is their ice cream.

It's okay because it's not terrorism in the eyes of the West.

That means Israel has paid into the MIC.

True, but there's a lot of stuff in the free software ecosystem that is just jank.

I expect things not to work at this point and don't get surprised when they don't. It's part of how we pour way more resources into abusive technologies over ethical ones. We can continue to be part of the problem (like a useful idiot), or pick our heads up and work towards the solution.

Yes, but middle users are the most important.

Controlling the narrative is powerful. It lets you get away with things you otherwise would not.

I'm glad I avoided the spotify bug ever since I saw it.

I have negative respect for mods at this point.

I've seen too much unchecked mod abuse to ever take their decisions seriously again.

Cannabis.

We should have a list of companies that bend to this censorship so we can avoid them.

This should be avoided like the plague because of the choice to use MIT over GPL.

Any work dedicated to this can and will be stolen by corporations without giving back if they find it useful. This is what happened with Sony and Apple and their respective operating systems. They chose to base them on BSD so they could steal work and not give back to the public.

Do not be fooled.