I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements.

I think lot of that is embedded in the privacy communities/movement, so it gets easily overlooked as a separate part, even though most of the time it actually is the cause of the disease. Many times it’s just easier to treat the symptoms (“install adblocker”) because the real cure is to topple the entire system and challenge our late stage capitalism. That tends to be a bit too much for a “normie” who doesn’t necessarily even see the constant flow of ads as a problem and even if they do, installing a browser plugin tends to be “lol, too much work”

Evolution of Homo Sapiens was inevitable which means destruction of the entire habitat and all species in it is also unavoidable.

It’s not a question of belief

What I prefer is not getting sick and dying. I prefer following science. I prefer following government guidelines for keeping distance, washing my hands and wearing a mask when required.

I’d recommend you to contact psychiatric healthcare services (they are free here, don’t worry Mr. President) because we don’t have a president.

“Built on AT protocol, centralized on BlueSky”. No thanks.

I agree that idealy no one would have to donate to the poor, but we don’t live in a society like that

I do live in a society which has social security programs based on a shared taxes instead of relying on donations from rich. Same with offering base human needs like free healthcare and free education.

Well have fun with the lottery!

How about building a society where you have a freedom to do meaningful things without having to amass wealth?

How about building a society where the poor don’t have to rely on donations from the rich?

Why would I want to get rich?

Good one, got a chuckle out of me :)

Yeah bud, very topical

Tell me, what data does Beehaw sell to the brokers?

Or maybe we shouldn’t be allowing data collection and surveillance in the first place.

To answer to your question, no, most people don’t. And at any case, showing a screen like that is far too late in the process. If the user has decided to install Instagram, then showing them a screen like this won’t do a thing. Their mind is already made. If we want online privacy to really matter, then the question of online privacy needs to be solved higher up in political policy level in form of regulations as well as lower level in form of awareness and education. It can’t be left to be done in app installation screen by individual end-users.

Good on you for being privacy conscious though.

If we think Elon, Gates and Bezos are far-right, exploiting, scum billionaires, then Thiel is about 715 Texas sized football fields to the right of them politically. Dude is and has always been insane.

Yes, I think you’re correct. The noise/signal ratio tends to be bad in online communities and especially in social media (as with any other topic). I’ve met some lovely (and attractive!) trans people in work life. Never dated one though, as I’ve been “off the market” for years now, but I don’t find the idea any stranger than dating anyone else. If there’s a mutual connection, then that’s all I need. The rest will sort itself out and this, as you rightfully point out, has become stronger and clearer the older I’ve become.

If I found someone attractive, yes of course. I don’t care if you’re straight, gay, bi, trans, whatever - I’m not attracted to sex or the bits between your legs, I’m attracted to person and personality. As long as you’re confident and comfortable being you, I’ll swing anyway you want.

But due to the world we live in, lot of the time the struggle of being them so very much in their identity that they can’t talk about much else and I don’t find that very attractive, in fact quite the opposite.

Enjoy life, friends, the world. You have no real obligations apart from school, you have no real worries. YOLO.