Pretty sure it’s the lifts in his shoes. He’s worn them for years because he can’t bear to be under a certain height. They tip him slightly forwards. That plus the corset.

It’s really weird, but not one of the many signs of dementia he shows, just vanity.

The fuck has anything in this thread had to do with bigotry? Bigotry against what? Software? Hockey?

Or do you just call everything that offends you ‘bigotry’?

Sigh, okay, I’ll try it again.

Like I do every time there’s a huge update. Will this time be different? I hate Adobe, but the Gimp has yet to live up to its promise to replace it. I’d love to never give Adobe another cent, but we’ll see.

I am all for war if – and only if – the politicians and billionaires fight it themselves.

Cage matches between the elites and oligarchs of each nation. To the death.

Then I’ll get behind it.

Again, I meant for profit companies, like Nintendo.

Volunteer led orgs are different. Particularly those run by socialists.

e: most volunteer/socialist orgs don’t have ‘customers’.

I wasn’t justifying it. Perhaps that came across the wrong way.

They’re selling shit they never asked their users for and that’s bullshit, and should be illegal. Especially with children’s data.

My point was they’re doing it.

I’ve been in software design and development for decades. Sorry, but you are wrong.

The reason these companies are so profitable is because they sell your data.

Whales are fine, but that’s not their only revenue stream. People freely give up their data to them and that’s stupidly valuable. If you think these companies aren’t selling it, you’re very naive.

And to be clear, you’re saying this in response to an article pointing out they’ve been selling your data.

Yeah. Tell that to these fanatical lunatics. They’ll kill us all for their apocalyptic fantasies.

Yeah, I didn’t think I needed to make clear I meant with for profit companies like Nintendo.

Look, you can’t force Jesus to come back by following the rules.

Yeah, but many players don’t pay, especially the huge player bases of children. They can subsidise that by selling your data.

Nothing is free. All free services are using your data somehow.

If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

In this case, it was mostly children’s data.

Ha. There’s no such thing as.

That’s literally the point of these protests.

We won’t listen to their authoritarianism.

Obviously they won’t sanction your protests. Like that should matter. If Nazis say they don’t want opposition, are you just going to say okay, we won’t protest without a permit?

That’s insane.

Oh, if it matters, I also run Memory Clean 2 to monitor RAM usage and do Extreme Clean from time to time.

I forgot about this because it’s basically muscle memory at this point, but maybe this is making a difference?

As of right now with just Sibelius, Scrivener, and about 40 browser tabs (no Adobe), I have 2.01 GB free.

e: I downvoted my original comment since it’s now occurred to me that this app may be why my machine isn’t struggling.

Yeah, I’m not sure about Tahoe since my machine is too old so it won’t let me upgrade, but at least Sequoia has been fine with 8GB.

Sequoia.

That’s not true at all.

I constantly have Illustrator, Photoshop, Sibelius, Scrivener, and about 100 browser tabs open on my 10 year old MacBook with 8gb of RAM without issue.

In this political climate? Hell no, quite the opposite.

And this political climate is all about never allowing another political climate.

I taught my son to be a conscientious objector.

I caught hell for that, especially in conversations in my very, very small town where many people sent their kids into this meat grinder.

I told my son he was too good for that, and some locals hate me for that. Like they thought I was saying my son was better than theirs.

No, I just understand the system, and I’m not going to groom my kid to be chopped meat. You don’t have to do that either.

You do you. That’s not beautiful to me, though, e: and my son is the most beautiful thing in the world to me.