They turn a profit by contracting their services out to governments and businesses

lower rates because it’s a bigger pool of purchasing power

You’re so close to getting it

Thanks. That’s a pretty dumb comparison to make, but thank you for translating.

Uh I’m sorry, what the fuck are you talking about now? Did you respond to the right person?

And the fact that you assume people “aren’t thinking critically” when they use a word in a way you don’t like says a lot about you. Makes you seem like the entitled one, actually.

If you can’t accept that saying “I eat vegan” or “I follow a vegan diet” is just as valid as someone saying “I’m vegan” in the context of taking about food/diets, you’re gonna have a tough time, because that’s just how our language is used.

I play tons of multiplayer games with anti cheat. The ones that don’t run are the ones I wouldn’t even play on a Windows machine though

There isn’t really a verbal distinction though. “Vegan” is an overloaded word that has multiple definitions, and you can very validly use it to describe your diet. “Correcting” people by telling them they should say “plant based” instead is just pedantry.

Whitney Houston =/= Mariah Carey

This sort of pedantry also annoys and turns people away from the cause though. Typically when people say they’re vegan, they’re talking about their diet, and it’s easy to infer that based on context. I really hope you don’t go around browbeating self-professed vegans by going “nuh uh, you’re a liar, that’s a leather strap I see on your watch”

This used to be what Alberta was.

After your ancestors came and genocided the dark-skinned natives. But they always leave out that part huh

Cool, so between their childish whinging and yours, your combined efforts covered about 30% of the text in the post, congrats. Do you want a cookie?

So did you just ignore the whole majority of the text that was complaining about things other than AI, or are you just illiterate and got lucky posting this comment?

What alternate strategy?

To be clear, I think I mostly agree with you, that certain people are entrenched and merely pointing out hypocrisy does nothing to change their ways of thinking. What other options are there?

Moms 10 times out of 10, no contest

Nah, it’s not even that. They’ll toss their own children out in a heartbeat if they don’t follow in their parents’ footsteps. It’s not about children at all. That’s just another of their double speak lies.

Yeah I’m saying cars should be safer, not that KDE should kill you

No, I’ve never employed the aid of drugs or alcohol to obtain enthusiastic consent before engaging in sexual activity with any of my partners. If there’s no enthusiastic consent, I do not pursue sexual activity. Using drugs or alcohol as an aid in acquiring enthusiastic consent is predatory.

This situation isn’t comparable to consenting adults meeting at a bar. Providing drugs and alcohol to “entice” women into having sex is predatory behavior, whether or not the women partake consensually or not. Play devil’s advocate if you want, but I don’t think that behavior deserves defending/rationalizing/whatever you want to call it.

And you see how that makes it seem like you’re defending that behavior right? By sane-washing it? By making it seem like an appropriate “solution” instead of the bad behavior it is?

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. I definitely recognize that gaming isn’t 100% perfect on Linux yet, and graphics drivers can still be a pain. I think both of those statements hold true on Windows though, and I don’t think I’d consider a gamer an “average” PC user. PC gaming is a niche hobby. A large niche maybe, but it’s not the main thing people use a PC for. So I think it’s a little unfair to point to gaming-related issues when trying to claim that Linux isn’t user-friendly.