“Ok kids the last 5000 years were just an endless string of dick waving contests. They said that we had to knew history so we wouldn’t repeat the same errors of the past but that was a fucking lie. Now who’s up for some science?”

Something something… Pikachu face… Something…

Journey’s ending hit me pretty hard: the score’s composer, Austin Wintory, did such a great job channeling emotions into the game narrative

AGRO!

During high school our class went to this guided experience that was called “Dialogue in the Darkness”.
It was basically a tour in this building with all light blocked out, total darkness, so no one could see anything and each room we went through a scene in the normal life of a blind person.
I particularly remember when they made us order something at a bar and then pay with cash. The struggle to figure out what coins I had without seeing them is something that I never tinked about before that moment. It made me understand that there are many aspect of our lives that we take for granted just because we don’t have a disability. Sometimes I still think about it

When you say “pride in hypotetycal tribal bands that may have never existed” what do you mean? You don’t believe that human beings evolved in tribes or don’t believe the members of these tribes felt a sense of common well-being that we call “pride” which have helped our evolution?

Collective pride is real and there are a lot examples of it, but it works with small sized groups and when it does it feels great. Because of course we’re a social species, but our monkey brain is built around tribes and doesn’t conceive whole nations. And that’s why, for example, when I see people cheering for an athlete just because all their parents happened to fuck within the same imaginary lines, I find it really silly.

But I know that’s me, I have no problems with people who have a healthy national pride. I’m just saying I don’t and never had.

Good for you man, but in this case I guess that you’re proud of yourself and in the achievements that helped the people around you.
You don’t have “second hand pride with extra narrative on top” from people that died long before you were born

It’s a coping mechanism that gives people who achieved nothing in their life something to brag about

White border tho…

The Klon Centaur is a highly praised guitar pedal that, since it had a limited production, has an unsustainable price for most of the players (some people paid up to 20.000$ for one).
Luckily the circuit is easy to copy and over the years many clones from other brands came out. But still, the original one holds a special charm and has become a higly collectible trinket.

Also it avoids that the first 10 comments will be from people trolling you for the exact thing you used as an example instead of answering the question

and was asking what you need to tinker with to make it suitable for you.

For myself I like to add a couple addons, like u-Block origins with automatic cookie reject and containers for when I have to browse IG or Google stuff, plus some tweaks in the about:config for disabling telemetry and such.

My point is that many people either don’t feel like going through this process, even if it takes just a few minutes, or don’t care about privacy at all, they just fancy an ad blocker. So they may end up installing Brave.
I’ll give you one of many examples I have: I’ve taken guitar lessons for the last year and a half and every time my teacher put a background track on youtube we had to sit through 30 seconds of ads, while he complained about it every single time. For the first month I tried to persuade him to install FF + u-Block, but he kept saying things like “I’m not a computer guy”. Even after I offered to do it myself, he was afraid that “there may be some sort of virus” so at one point I just stopped suggesting it. A couple months ago he installed Brave because a frend of his told him to and that was it.

And that’s because what me and you see as “barely tinkering”, as you put it, other people see it as this herculean labor they cannot even imagine to approach. Of course this is because of a lack of culture on the matter, but most of people don’t care about making a culture at all, they just want to be spoon fed with stuff that works, no matter what happens under the hood.

Dude I use firefox as main browser too, I’m not saying that brave is better, read my comment again.

What I’m saying is that you and I are not the average user. Our moms are the average user, our brother that got a DUI last friday is the average user, our anti-vax aunt is the average user…

No, in fact the <u>average</u> user doesn’t tinker with Chrome either

The typical conversation I have is:

• Hey, how don’t you have ads on Youtube?
• Well, its easy: you install Firefox and then…

and that’s where I loose most of the people, that extra step.

Me and you can go down on the about:config all day long to dissect every aspect of privacy we care about. For the other 90% of people, even just going to Mozilla extensions manager and downloading u-Block Origin is too much.

Bear-proof trash can theorem…

Because vanilla Firefox has to be tinkered with to get the best out of it and the average user is not able to do it

Stick a chewing gum on the thing’s speaker and start singing songs with very dirty and explicit lyrics, like gangsta rap and Bloodhound Gang.
All day long, everyday.
Persuade your colleagues to do the same.
They will have an endless string of report notifications they can’t do shit about.
Fight smart.

Edit: still the best thing to do is unionize as many others already suggested, but fighting on more than one front is a good tactic, wars are won by exhausting your opponent.

Memes.
And I’m not even ironic, I truly believe that is one of the purest form of arts of our time

Well Aaron didn’t deepthroat a mushroom-shaped presidential cock to ask for pardon