I used it for a while. It honestly was a really good browser for a long time but since everything started going this shit it quickly fell from my good graces.
The only time I even think of missing it is when I have to open a page that is optimized against Firefox on purpose because the developers decided to use some janky Javascript plugin and didn't test.
I miss my games being on solid media that I can trade with my friends or sell at a game store.
But I would not give up the seven seas to have that back again.
I fully expect an incessant torrent of smug assholes on every corner of social media I go to alongside a never-ending stream of horror stories of all the shitty things that people are doing to other people.
Yeah, now it's entirely reasonable to drop a human being from your friend pool for the rest of your life because of which person they voted for.
If I find out somebody has voted for Trump they are now persona non grata to me.
And before you say I shouldn't let politics rule my friendships, my dad is dead because of how Trump bungled the covid pandemic response, so any person who has voted for that person has said that my dad dying is less important to them than that guy being given the highest office in the land.
I cannot think of a graver insult, and it is one that cannot be apologized for short of bringing my father back to life.
So if you voted for Trump, fuck you.
Originally it was used as a hex to dispel demons.
Using it on a person is telling that person that you believe they are a demon that needs to be cast back into hell.
So how offensive it is honestly depends on who's doing it.
The tatted out meth head with four teeth? Not offensive at all.
Kindly old church lady with a heart of gold and an apple pie in every pocket? 100,000 out of 5 offensive
There's the line about the beast that was wounded unto death and yet lived that seems vaguely apropos
13:3:
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Is concubine the correct term? Wouldn't it be "a harem of twink concubines"?
I feel like you're overlooking the death of the culture.
That's what colonialism is really about.
If it were just sharing space and technology and advancement then nobody would have any problems with colonialism.
Colonialism extinguishes culture.
Every single space that has been monopolized by a billionaire has had its culture extinguished.
Break out some coconuts and become her faithful steed.
But it is colonialism. There are virtual spaces that are currently occupied by native inhabitants and deep pocket billionaires are literally bulldozing their way into the space, evicting the current tenants, and then exploiting that space for its resources.
I don't think there is a better term for it than colonialism.
Would it matter if it were communist colonialism? I don't think so. The result is the same. The space is disrupted, the native inhabitants are displaced, the resources are exploited.
I'm not 100% certain they would melt. And I'm not going to spend my own time and money to try to fix everything that's wrong with them.
If you have an idea on a way to make them better, how about you implement them and then make millions of dollars selling them to ignorant rubes like myself?
What is there to be positive about?