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Nor can you in good faith generalize the ideas of a single person to be representative of all members of the political party that individual claims to be a part of.
I consider myself to be more right-leaning and "conservative" but neither I nor any other conservatives I know would support this. Typically, though not always, people on the right want to take away power from the government - not enhance it as this would do.
I personally don't think this form of discrimination is ethical, moreover its ripe for abuse.
What prevents me (morals aside) from claiming LGBTQIA status? Aside from the T (usually), none of those are observable or provable. Can I claim to be black, or Latino as well, or will that be verified against by a 3rd party? If verified by a 3rd party, how are they doing it? What of Latinos who appear white? Will there be a subset of these minority groups that are denied participation because they look "too white"?
This, along with similar programs and affirmative action measures, is just racism/sexism/bigotry/etc in another form. These sort of programs are always enacted in the name of equity, but select for only the most successful among the claimed oppressed groups. If they were to simply change the criterion to measure economic background and upbringing, the program would have so much more utility. There are a higher % of black Americans in poverty than white Americans. The solution to bring about equity isn't to specifically target the black Americans in poverty, but to target all in poverty regardless of ethnicity, race, or self-identification.
I likely agree with you, but if you're just going to make a vaguely disparaging statement in the negative without elaborating or contributing to the discussion then you really might as well not comment at all.
Every now and then I hear about another fundamental freedom I take for granted that they just don't have and it just reminds me how lucky I am not to live there.
1. The extreme laymen that do essentially nothing outside of the web browser
2. The tech savant that has the time, energy, and motivation to spend the countless hours required to get Linux to run anything sufficiently complex.
Those in-between typically have the desire to do more than they are able to easily do OOTB with Linux, but also lack the technical ability to actually do it.
With removable batteries also generally comes reduced battery size. Pick one.
Sure, true FOSS is always better, bit the maintainers have to eat somehow. If you're making 25m+ ARR and are using their software, maybe you should be paying them something.
That said, it does still have issues and by its very nature is prone to organized disinformation campaigns. Yes, it will be corrected in time, but if timed correctly it could be too late.
Imagine this:
A post on social media site X goes viral. The post makes some wildly divisive claim about an American political figure. The claim is untrue, but the posts virality leads many to believe it. Simultaneously, a group of dedicated attackers change the political figures wiki page to match the disinformation in the viral post, keeping it like that until the posts virality cools down. The Wikipedia article gets linked in the comments of the post. The hundreds of thousands of people who saw that post at its peak all now believe the false claim. The malicious actor benefits.
These sorts of comments are common but always strike me as having been made by someone with little to no real world experience on the specific issue being discussed.