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I agree, actually. It’s actually unreasonable to think people were any better or worse before, there’s always good and bad… The difference is what’s accepted by the rest of us. Great response, I appreciate it!

A person who otherwise wouldn’t be noticed suddenly getting attention they never received thrown at them can easily abuse it if they don’t control their behavior with a moral compass, which is becoming less and less a priority. When something feels good, many indulge. When you overindulge, you justify. When you get good at justifying, you can make anything okay in your head. If you don’t have a line drawn, it’s wild how far people will go… he went way too far and he should endure the consequences.

This is genuinely a tough position to address, as I see both parties’ sides. I can’t blame a dev for setting up a system to ensure he gets paid, I’m on antiwork with a lot of you, raging out about how minimum wage hasn’t gone up and employers want to squeeze every last drop of labor out of their employees and give them as little possible in compensation… and I also see the side of wanting the spirit of greed (the source of Reddit’s choices that caused the exodus) to not have soil to take root here…

In Sync’s defense, it’s so far ahead of any of the FOSS apps I tried while I waited for it to release that I don’t think it’s greedy for the dev to set up a system to earn some compensation for their efforts and whatever ability enabled him to create an app so far ahead of the other Lemmy apps. I wonder how much these other poor devs have made from their work on the other Lemmy apps that have sprouted… might explain why they’re lacking in comparison, they can’t put as much effort into their app while holding a full time job because unless there’s an incentive to compensate, the comments in response to Sync’s release have made it apparent that a lot of the lemmy preachers of FOSS are really just cheapskates, whose attraction to the “ethos” is the free stuff, not the principle.

On the other hand, I can understand the price point and the subscription system aren’t exactly what many expected or view as “reasonable.” For me, $1.99 a month doesn’t bother me, I make enough to cover that from Google Opinion Rewards so it’s no money out of my pocket. If that amount is too much, go to Network Settings and add “DNS.adguard.com” to your private DNS provider hostname field and don’t pay for it. I still don’t think it’s worth not using the app because you think the dev is greedy for not wanting to work for free. That mentality keeps up, the spez’s will start taking notes from us on how to get folks to provide services with no compensation at all!

Cache rules everything around me…

The best part is they told them they have X amount of time to spend the coins, but whatever they buy disappears anyway!

I commented on this when encountering the 2nd type of person on here. As it gains popularity you’ll encounter more of them, it’s inevitable.

We both know what it looks like. Good day to you.

That’s been my position throughout, the disagreement came from the other person assuming my stance because it didn’t align with theirs. Much appreciated.

🤦🏼‍♂️ exactly what you did when you joined the discussion arguing about a point that wasn’t made?

Says this and a reply later says people aren’t allowed to have opinions other than the ones (he/she/they?) offer, which is apparently “if you aren’t blue, you’re red.” 🤦🏼‍♂️

Anything to prevent “we don’t want to live under a 2 party dictatorship anymore” from being an option, right?

“if you’re not with us, you’re against us,” is somehow better? The only options are the options YOU give me? Shew, you got authoritarian with a quickness. The whole seeing the world in black & white isn’t a sign of much depth… It’s also the primary reason it’s hard to agree with “the red side” on a lot of their arguments. Hate something so much you start acting like it 🤦🏼‍♂️

Lol relying on telling the other person what they were implying to create an argument for yourself. Followed by saying “we’re not stupid” as if you have a bunch of people around you’re speaking for.

I said they’re both dicks. They both are. You want to argue the size, you go for it, I’d agree that Trump 100% is the “bigger dick” of the two, he’s absolute garbage, but since I’m not on some fanciful battlefield fighting in your war of the blues & reds, I wasn’t concerned with who tarnished their side the most. My concern was more geared toward the fact that rich folks shouldn’t get away with doing shit the rest of us can’t. If you’re going to make statements for you and, whoever else falls under “we,” about whether or not you all are “stupid,” you should make less assumptions, it doesn’t help your case.

Well I got to enjoy a few weeks of it feeling different from Reddit around here…

The comment at the head of this was stating that no one should be above the law. (<- That is a period.) Not that no one should be above the law if their crime is a certain amount of awful… Not that no one should be above the law depending on their political alignment. No one.

Then the response was arguing that Hunter did nothing wrong! There’s no evidence of a crime! You shouldn’t say they’re all the same!!! No one said their crimes are the same. No one said they’re the same in any way beyond that they are citizens of a country that has laws and they should be held accountable if they break them… And yes, Hunter committed and admitted guilt to crimes… And it doesn’t put a red hat on someone’s head if they acknowledge a fact that doesn’t fit in with your agenda.

I responded and enter you. You really weren’t worth this response because you said the same dumbass thing the other person did. Arguing a point that wasn’t made because you’re so cocked and loaded to encounter one of those dumb right wingers that you think if anyone disagrees with you they must be wearing a maga hat. Pull your head out of your ass.

Don’t think that’s what the comment said… And I’m pretty sure Hunter pled guilty to a felony firearm charge and willfully failing to pay hundreds of thousands in taxes so, yeah, sounds like they’re both dicks. The argument that “your dick is bigger than my dick” is hilarious though.

Using TiviMate on my Google TV and it’s got a great (and customizable) UI.

Until A.I. starts doing the work too and you just sit around broke waiting to be told what to do for your basic necessities.

I stopped at them both being monsters, haha, but I agree with your correction.