finley

defending bigotry isn't progress, and outright lying in the face of obvious bigotry isn't doing yourself - or anyone - any favors.

"don't believe your lying eyes" is a line that only works on the most stupid and gullible, and you're not going to get very far by telling your audience they're too stupid to know better.

oh, and if you think that defending bigotry is "contributing something meaningful," think again.

perhaps you should ask yourself: why do you like bigotry so much that you must dedicate so much time and effort and space to defending it? what sort of person does that make you?

Poor behavior can be corrected. Ignoring bigotry and letting it slide hurts others. That’s not acceptable

I don’t need to accept bigotry. I can just use a different browser.

I don’t like bigotry

Or, just hear me out, maybe they’re just not assholes like Adobe.

That’s good of them. A lot of companies would just say, “fuck it”

Where do you think the people who pay the creators get the money to pay them?

ads, mostly.

From sales from the results of the last creators who worked for them.

so? they already got paid. i feel no remorse for pirating from a global megacorp.

And neither should you

edit: and - once again - if i couldn't pirate it, i wasn't going to buy it anyway. You can't even argue lost sales (which the creators never see).

That all sounds like it’s still terrible idea to use optical media for backups

The creators get paid when they do the work, not from sales.

Also, a much more important note: if I couldn’t pirate it, I wasn’t going to pay for it anyway.

And why on earth would I pay for media when I can get it for free?

My Plex server is packed with downloads and rips.

I also don’t care to look

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I quit optical media around 03. Haven’t even owned anything with an optical drive for nearly a decade.

We talked to each other, read books, went on walks…

Also, tv. Lots of tv.