Generally, if software was affordable and their business model is ethical, I wouldn’t pirate it.

If a company is charging a subscription for something that has no business being a subscription, I’ll pirate it. If a business is stealing data or willingly collaborating with evil people/governments/regimes/etc, I’ll pirate it.

I care a little bit. I work as a welder and am on the verge of completing a four year apprenticeship. My pay is going to shoot up, so I need to plan to save money for tax day.

Right now I have my employer taking an extra $15 out of each paycheck to give to the IRS. It used to be enough to receive a refund. But these past four years as my pay increased, that refund gets smaller and smaller.

I’m going to have to get my employer to take a bit more out of each paycheck. Tgat way I wont owe anything at the end of the year.

My pet goldfish was also sent to a farm when I was a kid. Sending people to farms sounds like a euphemism for extermination.

I hated Elon Musk well before he got involved with Trump. It was obvious to me that there was something deeply wrong and evil about that man. People keep falsely assuming rich = smart. Elon is proof that’s not true.

I hated Beanie Babies when it first became a craze. The company who made these stuffed toys had full control over their value and was deliberately causing shortages & errors to drive up perceived value.

I hate NFTs and cryptocurrency for the same reasons I hated Beanie Babies. I advised my sister against investing her savings into cryptocurrency, but she wouldn’t listen. She lost everything.

And now I hate what Nintendo is doing with the Switch 2. I can see the writing on the wall, this is a shameless cash grab using deeply unethical anti-customer tactics.

"I’m really concerned that this is a moment in history when people look back, where we’ve got it wrong as a country,” Pritchard added.

Bullshit. The people got it right, the news media and politicians got it wrong. We always knew genocide was wrong, but AIPAC bribes and/or threatens people in media and power.

Man in the High Castle tv show. The premise was interesting, Nazis taking over the US and the population figting back. However, the show quickly devolved into a confusing mess.

Nazis are in charge of the US government, yet there’s other Nazis on the run from the Nazis in charge? And they’re hiding bibles? I was left scratching my head wondering if there were any characters that weren’t Nazis. I guess it’s a story about how bad guys always turn on each other?

Also The Witcher season 1 tv show. I’ve never played the games before and knew nothing about it. I was hoping the tv series would be my introduction to the games, but… what in the actual fuck. Was the director drunk? Is this a show about medieval fantasy time travel and I’m just not getting it?

As a Satanist living in the US, I only follow laws that don’t conflict with my faith.

Killing, stealing, and real harm laws I follow. Anti LGBTQ, anti women, and anti immigrant laws I do not follow.

Well, they shouldn’t mourn the wicked at least. I still remember when people mourned Mother Teresa’s death.

Rationality.

The world is ruled by superstitious people who make irrational decisions based on belief in the supernatural. So very often, such decisions end in disaster.

But rather than taking responsibility and owning their errors, they’d rather scapegoat and blame others.

When we accept the facts of reality as they are, we can begin to make good decisions.

Yup, I work as a shipwright welder and have had to refuse to complete assigned tasks. When I’m tasked with welding two large steel plates together, end to end, they both need to be double beveled. If they’re not, then all I can do is make thin surface welds which are easily broken.

That’s dangerous as these steel plates are an inch and a half thick and weigh a lot. Their weight alone will break surface welds. So I refuse to do the job. They ask why I refuse and I tell them about the lack of double bevel.

I’m even willing to break out the oxy/acetalyne torch and cut the bevels myself, but they refuse. They’re in a hurry, they don’t have time to do things correctly or safely, and they don’t care about making it someone elses problem. That’s the sort of shit that’s likely to cause serious injury or death.

People are losing their minds over protests against genocide. When did genocide become a thing that was good and unquestionable?

Yes, I no longer order from Wish or Temu or any of these sketchy Chinese sites.

Purchases from Wish. A pair of block heels where the heel length didn’t match the shoe arch. Wearing them meant constantly falling backwards. It was so comically bad, the seller gave me a refund and said don’t bother sending them back.

A Gorillaz t-shirt, also from Wish. The picture on the website looked ok. However, what I received was so awful I thought it was a prank. The white shirt had what I assumed was yellow rust stains. It looked like a rag kicked underneath a disgusting kitchen frier and left there for years.

Some of the seams were on the outside and some were on the inside. The print itself was heavily pixilated, as if someone took an internet forum avatar image, blew it up, and stuck it onto a shirt.

Maybe they should stop mass banning people for opposing genocide? Just a thought.

I’m a leftist and I would like to have children, but can’t. I’m intersex and the “plumbing” simply doesn’t work.

SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom Capsule? Did a ten year old boy name this thing?

I’m a welder, and no I would not. It’s not allowed on the shipyard. But even if I could, I wouldn’t. I’m a professional and I’m working with high power tools & equipment. I need to have a clear head.

Right wingers have been falsely screaming “anti-conservative bias” on every social media platform for so long that admins and moderators have aquiested. It’s not true, of course. Right wingers simply break the TOS and violate site rules far more often than left wingers.

Atheism describes what we don’t believe in, Satanism describes what we do believe in. We believe that superstitious beliefs are holding us back as a species, and is the cause of so many societal problems. We have a duty to help the world get over their superstitious beliefs through discussion, theatric performance, and activism.

Oh no, are the background trees ok?