I had my characters experience a bit of the opposite of this in a DnD campaign. As part of the story, they had to break into a museum to steal an artifact. They went in when it was closing and met Doris, the sweet old lady at the entrance who told them “I’m sorry sweeties, the museum is closing for the day. But I’d be happy to arrange a tour for you tomorrow, my dears!”

Now, my characters had been getting a lot of runarounds from people in the city. Basically dealing with beuracratic headaches that were designed for them to get frustrated and just strong arm past to show how the seemingly oppressive government running the city was actually pretty ineffectual and many officials could just be brushed off or ignored with little consequence.So my frustrated characters, thinking they’re meeting yet another roadblock, decided “screw it, let’s just tie her up and ransack the place.”

But Doris was different. Doris had a backstory. Doris was a druid. And she was the head of security for the museum.

So when they attacked, instead of dealing with a frail old woman, they found a 12ft tall, pissed-off, Kodiak bear who FAR out leveled them. No one causes trouble in Doris’s museum.

I’m sure he’s really sad on his yacht with his billions of dollars.

Neither does Brave unless you specifically opt in to those services. It’s open source, you can check for yourself.

Someone hasn’t ever bothered to read past headlines.

It’s a bell curve situation.

Those who are uniformed don’t have anything against Brave and would consider it a pretty decent browser.

Those aware of the controversies hate Brave and want it to die.

Those who have taken even a moment to dig into the actual “controversies” and read beyond hyperbolic headlines don’t have anything against Brave and would consider it a pretty decent browser.

He also created JavaScript, but I don’t see people getting upset and telling others to not use JavaScript.

Pesto base, grilled chicken, cashews, red onions, sun-dried tomatoes.

Can someone set me straight on Pizzagate? Like, sure what it evolved into was BS, with people storming a pizza parlor looking for non-existent basements. But… I mean fuck, look at the emails in the Epstein files, compare them with the Podesta emails…

Are we really trying to say that “pizza” WASN’T being used as code between high-profile individuals in Washington? People still bring up Pizzagate as if it were all conspiracy nonsense, but I’m sitting here reading actual emails between grown adults high up in politics who are salivating over the thought of sharing fresh, young pizza and being VERY particular about the toppings. Not to mention the other foods that are talked about in a similar batshit crazy way (jerky, tuna/sushi, pink/black shrimp, etc.).

Normal people do not talk about food like this. And at its core, wasn’t Pizzagate about high-profile individuals using pizza as a code to traffic children? While there is no smoking gun (yet) that proves pizza and other foods were 100% code for children… Come on. It’s clear they AREN’T just talking about food. And it’s all found smack dab in the middle of a global conspiracy that has a focus on trafficking minors!!

So, again, someone tell me WHY we’re still treating Pizzagate as completely debunked nonsense? The specifics at the end were wrong and the whole movement was likely taken over by controlled opposition by the end of things. But the core conspiracy? Are we just pretending there’s nothing there? Are people so disgusted by the idea that they are just preferring to call it debunked when it really hasn’t been? Has the opposition been successful in proliferating the narrative that only conspiracy theorists believe Pizzagate, and nothing conspiracy theorists believe is real? Why the fuck aren’t we talking about this more?!

I bring this up and people act like all they heard and saw was television static. How does this keep getting memory holed?!

Something always bothers me about these kinds of infiltrations. Wild Shape is a relatively low level spell. And while most NPC’s are essentially level 0 with no magic, it should at least be common knowledge in their world that the spell exists and MANY people have access to it.

So why would the guards not be suspicious of an animal? For that matter, why do the guards not have someone constantly using detect magic? Wild Shape is far from the only magic that can be used for infiltration, seems like common sense to constantly scan for magic around an area you are trying to keep secure. I just feel like too often, DMs treat their NPCs, especially guards, as if they have zero knowledge of magic or the world they live in.

Yes, it’s not good. We’re talking about if it is worse than telegram though. Not if it’s simply good or not.

I thought I was pretty fucking clear on that in my original comment?

Damn near everyone was making a coin at some point. Again, why would they remove or get rid of a feature they spent time, money, and energy to develop when it doesn’t hurt anything by being there. In fact, they’d have to spend more time, money, and energy to remove it than if they just left it in place.

It’s important to remember that for a lot of programs that have some tangentially related crypto feature, crypto used to be popular. It still is popular in some circles. There was a time when it made sense to include those features because users were asking for it. So time, money, and energy was spent to add those features.

What do you expect them to do with those feature now? You really think they’re just going to delete them? Why would they remove an already developed and implemented feature? They hurt nothing. People don’t have to use them. Them existing doesn’t take anything away from the app functionality.

It’s like being upset that old car models weren’t recalled to remove ash trays and cigarette lighters when smoking became unpopular.

I wouldn’t say it’s worse. It technically claims to have end-to-end encryption while telegram doesn’t. I wouldn’t trust it at all because it’s from Meta, but I don’t see how you can say the one at least claiming to have encryption is worse than the one that just flat out doesn’t have it.

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Because, shockingly, Discords user base is not made up of people hyper focused on tech and decentralization and open source software. It’s mostly people who just want to play video games with their friends.

And if all your friends are hyper focused on tech and decentralization and open source software, they should have no problem switching!

If, on the other hand, you have friends who fall into the rest of the 99.9% of society, they will react like you suggested they replace all their meals with raw potatoes.

Sorry, best I can do is vampires again. If you’re good, I’ll also toss in a society of werewolves that they are in constant war with for some reason.

Yea, I’d agree with 7th and 8th. 13-14 year olds are old enough to be relatively smart and know what things can hurt others, but young enough that most haven’t fully developed a sense of empathy. While most kids are relatively good, more than a handful will exhibit literal psychopathic tendencies that would get any adult labeled as highly dangerous or criminally insane. And they locked us all inside with them.

I’m not exaggerating when I say those were the darkest days of my life. High school wasn’t much better, but holy shit middle school was definitely responsible for the majority of my childhood trauma at the hands of my peers.

I’ve job hopped a lot, and literally no company has ever asked for my social media besides indeed, which I keep sterile clean. Actually, they’ve never even specifically asked for that either, that’s just where I’ve applied through.

Our industries may differ though.

That any time someone suggests a workaround, it always involves like 2-3 different obscure apps and plug-ins, and often people will recommend several variations that all do the same thing. All of these apps are also fairly new, with only a single developer or a small team with no proven track record, that are doomed to lose support or stop working at any moment. And yea, most of them are FOSS, but that only means that when they go under, a dozen differently named clones will pop up. All with their own weird flavor of drama.

“Noooo! You can’t use Fweeb, that’s just an offshoot of Squootle that was made after the Fweeb developer was kicked off the Squootle team for making some vaguely problematic Slack comments!”

“Yea, but Squootle is set to stop working within the next 18 months because of the upcoming YouTube ‘Screw Our Users’ update and the remaining Squootle team members have all fucked off to Hungary to raise free-range alpacas and aren’t pushing updates anymore.”

“Oh fuck, man, you’re using Squootle? Squootle is just spyware. You want to make sure you’re using Squootle Origin. That’s a completely different program with different developers”

Anyways, have you tried QwiDer? It’s really the only one you should be using, bro. Anyone not using QwiDer is behind in the times. Just get QwiDer and run it using a PLST script.