Please tell me that these are two trolls interacting and not genuine idiots

Certainly would disarm me lol

That's a fair criticism. I'm gonna hope their scrapers aren't looking at Lemmy, but they probably are.

That's some thorough alt text

Unfortuately I haven't found a way to make the filament hang in the air like in the picture

The website has a message on it that sounds pretty definitive to pretty much everyone. But you know how it is. Piracy site goes down, comes back up a week later, turns out the feds are running it as a honeypot

I dont remember John ever being the guy on the left. He may think hes the guy on the left, but we all know he's a twinkfailure

I get where you're coming from, but my stance is less of a "this person is loudly bad" like Orson Scott Card and more based on the fact that she is actively pouring millions of dollars into making the world worse for trans people. If she wasn't a billionaire from a property she personally owns, I wouldn't care. There's lots of rabidly bigoted millionaires and billionaires who get their money from inherited assets and the stock market, and we can't do anything to affect them. I'm not going to pull out my soapbox to protest Nestlé, there's not much I can do other than try to avoid their products and I know that isn't going to change them at all.

Better comparison is AI. Every time you use an AI for any reason, trace amounts of heavy metals end up in someone's drinking water source directly because of you, and the company can use your query to justify their value to shareholders. Very few things are actually black-and-white like this. Like, one bag of Purina Dog Chow does not equal Nestlé tormenting one African child laborer. With Rowling, that correlation absolutely exists. I will not judge you or anyone else for buying Orson Scott Card's work, he doesn't have the capital to fund hate crimes even if he absolutely would love to. Disney has the money to do what Rowling does but refuses to becasue it is bad optics. Rowling is the only person whose ability to fund hate crimes equals her hate.

He's as rabidly against the existence of gay people as She Who Will Not Be Named is against trans people, he just isn't able to actually do anything about it, partly because a large part of the income from his books is tithed to the LDS church.

That's a fair point. But I'm not sure how to make a clear title without the keywords. Naming things is such a frustrating, imprecise art.

Pretty sure the whole picture is CGI.

Please reread my post, I think you missed my point.

Wait, I thought Mega was relatively safe? What happened with Kim dotcom?

waow

What pride flag is that?

Also, more seriously, I didn't think Greece was a 3rd world country? I was pretty sure that in the Cold War you guys were firmly on Team Capitalism and are therefore a 1st world country. I could be wrong, though

Stupid distinction, imho

I'm glad you said this because I tried to word my post in a way that did not include or suggest this phrase, and I see now that trying to be diplomatic to transphobes may have been a mistake. But I still hope I changed some minds.

Oh you should hear some of the tech takes from some of her friends. The funniest ones I've heard was that adblockers/linux/Mastodon were computer viruses. I am in hell.

God this brings back memories. Back before it was obvious that the world was fucked