Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
techbros gonna techbro:
The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party
btw I live in Sweden and until today I have never heard of these nutjobs
apparently being a VPN provider is either brainrot inducing or induced by brainrot, there is no 3rd option
The third option is to exit the market. The underlying issue is that, regardless of how much effort one puts into cultivating non-criminal customers, VPN services will appear to attract criminals, and the optics alone is sufficient to dramatically limit and shape the pool of customers. Source: I operated some least-authority encrypted storage (I provably canāt read private customer data) from like 2016-2019 and my peer group thought I was facilitating criminals. Ironically, I left that peer group because they wouldnāt stop platforming Bitcoiners.
That must have been a trip
Thereās a take in there somewhere, about ādark webā-like online communities and how they form too thin a social fabric to keep people accountable and aligned with a common good, so personal grievances and economic incentives take over.
Someone probably already wrote it up better than I could bother.
well fuck :|
anyone got any recommendations for an alternative vpn?
I looked at AirVPN and didnāt find anything too weird yet.
@gerikson @BlueMonday1984 I had heard *a lot* of good about them, used and recommended them. But no more @mullvadnet for me.