xennobe @xennobe@qoto.org

In other words, liberalism is an evil, albeit a necessary one.

There are only a select few people that society benefits significantly from giving more freedom to. The only reason not to quash freedom and individuality entirely is because it's hard to tell who those people are.

Unless you are important, the only way to make your opinion matter is to be a normie. When you think like a normie, your desires and your values suddenly fall in line with millions of others, and what you want has a very good chance of being realized.

"Your individuality matters" is as much of a legal fiction as "everyone is created equal." It exists within culture to prevent authoritarian overreach, but the problem with authoritarian overreach is not that it's immoral, but that it's inefficient.

The idea that there is non-negligible moral value in *you*, as an individual, having a personally happy and fulfilled life is a social construct.

@Supernothing This is... an interesting opinion. Can't you believe that both parties are heavily saturated with lies (say 80% of what politicians from all major American political parties say is false) without concluding that they are all literally as dishonest and propagandizing as the worst parties to have ever existed?

(Not claiming to be a mature or fully grown adult here.)

@freemo One reason I love open source is that the nature of version control makes it so any private information you commit sticks around forever - if not on the official repo, then potentially on thousands of others' local versions.

/s

Don't pride yourself on your differences. Everyone has differences. Pride yourself on the ways you're exactly like everyone else. Because fitting in is hard, and it's something a lot of people are never able to do.

somebody please implement this actually

Randomly generating cellular automaton rules is so $PREVIOUS_YEAR. I prefer randomly generating particle automaton rules using stochastic L-systems.

@georgia I sent that message ironically (it's a copypasta) but beyond "haha virgin" you really can't argue with the person it's trying to mock. idk if it can really be solved on an individual level, public awareness of FOSS alternatives, especially through better marketing, is probably the solution. Too bad those types hate it.

Just read Schild's Ladder and I can definitely recommend it, along with most other Greg Egan stuff from what I've read of it.

@georgia As a twenty year old single male I think it's very hard to find a girl who's actually interested in free software. I've had girls jokingly ask to "Netflix and chill" but when I tell her that I don't use Netflix since Netflix requires proprietary software to stream content, they stop talking to me. And worse if they do stay they think I'm weird since I blocked google IP's in my host file and we can't even watch youtube. I can't ever seem to get girls to come over to my place and I can't text them either. Once I get their numbers since I've added customs roms to my phone and refuse to use sms since it's a security concern I require all of my friends to download a free and open source messaging app and I share with them my public gpg key so that we can verify that our conversations are secure. None of my friends are willing to do this. And I can't use sites like tinder since it's not only proprietary software but a major privacy vulnerability. How come it is so hard to find a girl concerned about software freedom. I feel like I'm going to be a virgin forever.