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You do you as we live in a free world.

You don’t know where I live.

The only thing I would be concerned about it if it was illegal to cover your camera

You not concerned about the possibility of someone spying on you? Regardless, treating cameras as eyes is damn good practice.

That’s not the point. The point is “linux” is not reason to inherently trust a system.

Cover your cameras (as a compromise to ripping them out with a soldering iron).

Why would you give them that extra inch though? Cover your cameras.

Front-facing cameras should not exist. Yes, on everything.

Did xz not just happen?

Physically block the light.

Teach your child to cover front-facing cameras with tape.

Are there any alternatives?

To sport? Try musical theatre.

If the shoe fits…

Are…you asking if I’d fuck a shoe?

Are you asking if I would fuck a Russian? 🤨

I assume you’re speaking in jest?

You know what they say about assuming.

On the contrary, I just reject the idea that what you buy from who is leading to any material improvement in society. I think there are much better ways to push for positive change.

My abstention was based in not contributing to negative change.

I can’t really eat if I don’t indirectly pay money to the largest neo-imperialist empire in the world

You could. Food is there for stealing. Land is there for growing on. People might shoot at you for trying, but you could.

There is no ethical consumption.

I’m pretty sure that phrase isn’t actually a call to apathy.

Come on, you understand what I mean.

I don’t. I don’t support what the Russian government is doing and I want to provide a little funding towards the endeavors of which I do not approve as possible.

An amount that is not ₽0 would appear to enter Russian coffers if I buy this product, and it is possible to provide “< not 0” by not buying it.

people are not their government

Which is why I wouldn’t have a moral problem with buying this product if I knew for a fact the producers were cheating on their taxes.

You don’t think money going to a country …is money …which goes to that country?

If I bought something for €40 off some guy who pays their nation 2.5% tax on the transaction is that €1 paid not a Euro the nation would not have had I declined to make the purchase?

are you suggesting we should avoid economical transactions with every citizen of a state you disapprove?

Over the table, yes I am.

I would like to provide as little funding toward the expansion of territory in which transitioning gender presentation is a crime as possible.

Russians citizen are not equal to Russian government. They are just people.

I know. I love Russians. I wish Oleg Strizhenov, Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn, Anna Melikian, and the gals from Pussy Riot all the best. May their government cease being made up of Mafiya members The West recognized in the early 90s as soon as possible.

I objected to the device being produced in (and hence paying taxes to) The Russian Federation, not being made by Russians.

I love Russians.

Copyright Mig-Switch 2024 - A product of Mig Switch, developed and produced in the Russian Federation

You’ll understand if I don’t contribute to their tax base for now.

Preach it.

Now is that me describing my view as …I believe the quote was “believing in a grand conspiracy”?

And don’t try to side-step that you were speaking metaphorically as you literally said

literally

You’ve literally just described your own view as

I did no such thing.

You seem to have a similar grasp on others’ words as you do the realities of economic systems.

I don’t see where I did that. To say you sound more conspiratorial (which you do) is not an admission of any conspiratorial thinking on my part.

A bunch of people making money jerking one another off and you think any one of them’d be in a rush to rock the boat?

You sound much more conspiratorial with your “capitalism always results in rational and correct decisions” fallacy.

This argument presumes that the entire many-billion and maybe even multiple-trillion dollar global ad industry is ALL based on complete, ineffective nonsense.

Strangers things have happened than money being thrown at bullshit.

NFTs were a thing, recall.