This feels like the correct take to me. I still view the occasional Reddit post but only as an absolute last resort for information I can’t find anywhere else. Even though I don’t post, comment, or vote, I’m still aware that my mere presence there is helping them in some form.

It’s similar to the recent Harry Potter game. Lots of people decided that it’s far enough removed from Rowling to be okay to buy even if they were pro-trans. But everyone who bought it DID give some of their money to Rowling. It’s your decision to weigh the cost/benefit of such a thing, but it was a little shocking to see how many supposedly pro-trans people straight up deluded themselves into thinking they weren’t directly supporting Rowling and her anti-trans views.

So yeah, use Reddit still if you must; I certainly understand how much important/useful content and information lives exclusively there, and the overzealous Reddit boycotters may be missing this (or just don’t care). But don’t pretend like using it isn’t also supporting them.

I love how Tesla recalls still make national headlines. As if other car companies no longer have any.

I get the need to have a distinction between fish flesh and other meats such as beef, pork, and chicken, but using the same logic as in this article, I’ve always thought of fish as part of the general “meat” category. It confuses me how Catholics do the “no meat, yes fish” thing. Maybe there’s some etymological explanation for why our current-day definition of meat doesn’t explicitly have this distinction (assuming it ever did), but if there is, that context seems to have been lost long ago. For some reason, many people now just reflexively believe that fish is not meat – even non-Catholics.

The irony is that I wasn’t that against ads until they got super intrusive and started causing performance issues and breaking web pages. And of course the privacy problems with tracking cookies. But yeah, fuck all ads now, and fuck Google for trying to wring as much ad revenue out of me as possible. I switched to Firefox with uBlock.

Yeah, using humanoid aliens makes it easier to relate to them for obvious reasons (and is a lot cheaper for the costume and effects departments), but it’s pretty likely that alien life would be vastly different from humans. Just look at the huge variety of animal life on Earth alone.