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It's OK to be "disconnected."

Especially if "connected" implies dependency on one corporation which has shown general disregard for its customers' privacy and mental health.

I don't use Whatsapp, FB, Instagram, snapchat, google, and somehow manage to make my way through the world.

Believe it or not plenty of people still interact in meatspace, limited as it is.

For me, Sandy Hook was the moment I realized we aren't going to collectively do anything about gun violence.

I mean, if God lets it happen, it was meant to be

Introducing Google Pay-I.

Revolutionary AI learns from your habits and personality to make payments on your behalf! It will buy things you didn't even know you needed!

Ugh flashbacks of trying to install Slackware on my Pentium-based Compaq Presario (originally Win95)...

I do not look back fondly on those times.

It's OK to personally "not understand" a popular meme (400 updoots at last count). Create and vote for content you really understand.

As a trans woman who exclusively uses Linux and 90% FOSS, avid wearer of thigh highs and skirts, it makes perfect sense.

Something for all of us.

You are waaaay overthinking this.

It's a crossover meme from trans/gender-nonconforming spaces. We have ways of finding humor in what is often an frightening and deadly serious situation (being trans in this world).

One of the in-jokes we have that I saw quite a bit on reddit, is that especially trans women and femboys "are all programmers or IT people" and being technical minded, use Linux. (I'm a trans woman who uses Fedora... Hi)

I think there is also the political and economic association that comes with FOSS -- it's a sort of disruption of the norm in capitalism, which is to have proprietary secrets as a store of value. FOSS challenges the notion that the fruits of labor should be privitized. In that sense it's a radical movement, always has been, even if it has been adopted by the world at large.

Trans folk are as a rule, politically left-leaning, it seems these days we must be to exist, and so FOSS like Linux naturally appeals to the community.

Obviously there are going to be many non-technical trans people, and tech trans people alike who use proprietary OSes; and conversely most Linux users aren't trans or GNC. The meme isn't meant to be taken literally or to change anyone's beliefs or actions.

No, I'm sorry, if a person was bullied for a year, that was the time for "due process" to protect them and society by preventing further harm. Now it is too late.

They caused someone to die by their violent actions, I am fully in favor of violent retaliation here, and as I said not looking to be convinced otherwise.

There are some things our society gets right, and some things it gets wrong. Passivity in the face of violence is a mistake IMO.

I have to admit, one of my first emotional responses was anger. I want vengeance. When will we see the day the bullies, abusers, murderers, and their enablers receive justice?

Not civilized "justice" in court rooms, on pieces of paper, with well-dressed men and women arguing politely over legal arcana.

Blood for blood. There should be a mortal fear that if they harm one hair on our heads, something worse will happen to them by far.

Don't tell me this won't bring anyone back. Don't tell me to be better than our enemies. If you will assault someone over their skin color, gender, sexual orientation, you don't deserve the breath of life.

Haha I'm driving my 13-year-old car like, what you all don't have buttons?!

Where's Indiana Jones when you need him? Didn't he take out a truck full of Nazis?

I always assumed it would be like Lord of the Rings. When evil creatures die, they get burned, and nothing ever grows there again, the landscape permanently defiled.