I was not trying to be rude here.

I was trying to make a point that, when we are faced with choices having only unpleasant options — taking one of those unpleasant options is still a choice.

We have limited agency in this world, and saying “I had no choice, I had to do it” instead of “of the various choices I had, I picked this one as least-bad” is a kind of self-delusion that makes our lives feel even more constrained than they really are.

Keeping this awareness in mind, that I do have other choices, helps me hold my emotions together in times like now when I find myself choosing to swallow a shit sandwich as my best-available option.

You do you, man.

Everything is a choice. Sometimes the options are shit. But we’re still making choices all our lives and the shit options are still options.

You can just pay for entrance without a card. They are not mandatory.

You didn’t have to get one. You could also just not.

Rephrased, “it’s not just fixing things that is my job. It’s also important that nobody else besides me can fix the things.”

That statue is St Patrick though not Jesus

Well, it’s 100% linked to your contacts in one way or another because when you install it Signal will happily alert you to which ones of your contacts are already using Signal. I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.

Updated2 Feb 2026

Presumably if there’s a switch to turn it on then there’s also a switch to turn it back off again.