That’s not what the term means. It is a historical term with a precise meaning, and that meaning is not synonymous with “unregulated”.

A logical fallacy is a specific technical term pointing to an issue with the logic itself. What you are accurately pointing out is the missing information and hidden premises. In other words, you are finding issue with the facts, not the logic.

Or not smug. There’s a problem with a solution. You think it’s a program problem, but maybe it’s actually an OS problem.

Of course there are reasons to use Windows, but that doesn’t mean OP has one.

The safety argument is wrong. Security through obscurity was debunked a century ago, and you’re floating it again. In reality, it depends on the details, because of course it does.

Yes. Linux.

In a little hut that the chair lift operator of the ski area (closed in the summer, when I was there) would use normally.

Bug-free Skyrim. That’s the only thing in the last decade I miss.

Just because it looks like people moved on easily doesn’t mean they actually moved on easily.

When national politics goes to hell, think about your local community. If you and many of the people around you can do okay in your lives, that’s not so bad.

Another thing is to consider the comparison point. How are you doing compared with the average person living in Mali or Vietnam or Switzerland? Billions of people all over the world survive in situations that are definitely not ideal, and many of them are happy with their lives some of the time.

Please be careful whenever you ask these questions. It’s so easy to blame one single minority group for a widespread failure. Of course analysis of individual voting groups is legitimate, as long as you properly frame what you’re doing.

This is a serious issue both because of the connection with racism (i.e., it’s the Latinos’ fault) and abdication of responsibility (i.e., we bear no responsibility).

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Chrome funding would shift, not necessarily stop. And having a dirty source of funds as your primary source is fundamental corruption. Even if works now, the future is bleak.

First you look at other countries around the world. Then you see that lots of people somehow eke out OK livings despite horrible shit in government. So maybe you can too.

That’s not to say the horrible things to come are acceptable. Rather, you’re probably more capable than you believe. Believe in examples of billions around the globe.

Not most. Your premise is faulty

You mean just like Windows?

We could say that about every single general decision that anyone in the world has ever made. It’s a truism which tells us almost nothing about this situation.

No, it isn’t a double edged sword. Even a mediocre distro would be better than Windows, any distro would be cheaper than Windows, and there’s no reason to choose a bad distro anyway.

No. People always want some apocalyptic ending, but there’s always a chance to make adjustments in various ways. It’s just that some solutions, the ones that are less painful and involved less people’s lives getting destroyed and less death, some of those solutions become increasingly distant.

And look, if you go back and check out the history of unions and labor rights in the US, it was a bloody history. I think we might be looking at that repeating itself. And that’s only if we’re lucky.

Hypocrisy is a virtue if you plan to break the rules. You’re signaling to your allies that you all can do whatever you want.

Any time you come up with some hypothetical involving politicians and hypocrisy, you need to remind yourself of the above.

First time today … meaning after that more times today?