I google stuff in the brave search google engine

The average person is furious the computer just restarts by itself because of an update. You don’t have relatives that use Windows? They have asked me to disable updates because of this

It means the few businesses who help marginalized groups have a lot more business than the other ones and benefit.

Furthermore, I believe in canceling bigots and spamming their businesses yelp pages. The government doesn’t need to force people to be good, society still exists

You have property rights, your backyard is your property.

I can’t force a credit card company to do business with me. They only do it because they calculated it’s worth their while.

No, but that’s not the first time I’ve talked about it here with other people

People on Lemmy, not you in particular

The first amendment does mean that, where consequences are specifically government fines or imprisonment. It doesn’t protect you from being fired from your job later

It doesn’t matter what reason someone has to just refuse to do something. The government should not force someone under threat of violence to do work.

I can privately boycott businesses that I disagree with, give them bad reviews, etc.

Didn’t you guys call it muh freeze peach earlier

I mean, when a gay couple sued about not getting their wedding cake you guys had the exact opposite response.

I’m of the opinion nobody can force you to provide service like a slave

Even before AI, when the internet went down I went home. You think I can code without references, stack overflow, etc.? No way, waste of my time

That’s assuming agents can’t do the work of a senior in the future. The future is famously hard to predict

I got so used to PS UI I can’t figure out Gimp. That’s why I use Krita

I bought a Pixel Fold because when closed it’s a one handed device. I mostly use the inner screen when traveling so I don’t need to bring a tablet

Bob learned how to use the agent to do work, which is just as useful to society. I wrote a short script to tproxy my connection using an AI and it took less time than doing it myself. More importantly, knowing it took less time gave me the motivation to actually ask the AI to write it

Okay, I’d have to think of a more pure example, but you get the idea. Downloads and support not free, but compile it yourself if you want

https://theconversation.com/in-2024-independent-voters-grew-their-share-of-the-vote-split-their-tickets-and-expanded-their-influence-245125

I could potentially just say it costs money to use this software, but allow you to build it yourself if you don’t want to

It’s called Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in case you were wondering

Because I understand the former

The latter can both summon nasal demons and not summon nasal demons. It is in a state superposition until an observer consults the manual

Doesn’t matter, Republican base is less than 50%. They can’t win any election without independent voters.

In 2024, independent voters were 34% of the electorate. 46% of independents voted for Trump, 49% for Harris

Trump is polling -40% with independent voters right now