That’s only one country though, whereas amazon is evil world-wide.

And then have the nerve to argue on behalf of “poor people” most of whom probably don’t have any spare money to buy convenience products on amazon.

You missed the point completely, so I’ll lay it out for you: Everyone has to draw a line SOMEWHERE. And when a country whose government sends fascist death squads into the streets is supported by a company, there’s a fuckton of lines to be drawn.

There’s ZERO excuse for doing business with amazon. No one is starving because they can’t shop there. So GTFO with your lazy ass morally corrupt exuses.

“some people don’t have the luxury of considering whether their product is made from death camp body parts when they’re just simply trying to get by”

(*) https://krakowtop.org/auschwitz-room-of-hair/

fair enough. Eating animals is definitely “natural”, but humans have evolved to a point where we can live vegetarian / vegan without suffering malnutrition, and since we have both the least empathetic as well as the most empathetic living beings among our species, there’s a good argument to be made for eating vegetarian / vegan when given the option.

I can’t make much sense of your statement. I am flexitarian with a strong leaning towards vegetarian (meat is a rare exception) and a convenient leaning towards veganism (I love cheese, sowwy). But the reason I avoid animal products is because if I can enjoy good food without animals being hurt, then I will prefer that to eating animal products, for which animals get hurt. That’s a very easy decision and doesn’t involve nor require consent of any kind.

my sympathies :/ then again, I also used to drink way too much & toned down quite a bit

As an up, coffee with oat milk tastes better than with cows milk :) ymmv obviously.

By centrism you mean what? People not taking a position on a moral topic?

Oh wow. I thought I couldn’t despise that piece of shit any more than I already did. Fuck you, Lennart Poettering, may you burn in some fiery place in the afterlife you useless corporate lickspittle.

so much wrong with this title.

• it’s not AI, it’s LLM slop bullshit
• it’s not the software at guilt here, it’s the sacks of shit running those companies who plan such data centers
• blamed? No, those shitheads are totally and absolutely responsible for this clusterfuck.

As an engineer, I second this. Unfortunately, many engineers fail to ever acquire a conscience.

Get fucked, corporate shitpiles.

End to end encrypted chat, with the possibility to host your own instance, federated or not, and voice / video calls with screensharing. However, bandwidth costs money, accordingly the free Matrix servers (remember: Discord was never free, you just paid with your data) can not provide the level of video streams that a commercial provider with a lot of money to throw at the problem can.

Also, federation of chat rooms.

Matrix is a mature chat client for secure communications, and more than that. But it is not aimed at gamers, it is not necessarily (as) trivial to use, and streaming gamers are definitely not the target group. So yeah, it’s not an alternative for a lot of what users seek from Discord, but it’s still a really good tool.

Complaining that matrix doesn’t have X & Y features of Discord is like complaining that you can’t use a Hammer to bake a cake. It’s designed for a different job :)

Microsoft. Please, scrape my comment and then leave me the fuck alone. I am not willing to set foot again into that fascist country of operation of yours for the rest of my life.

Na, a self-secure person can take a joke while acknowledging the truth in it.

you responded to a comment, not to OP :)

It’s not a nitpick for me but a relevant clarification to distinguish between two very different words.

crowdsource, not crowdfund. One is sharing the work, the other is sharing the cost.

:/