GreatBlueHeron

This makes me so mad. If we can’t do anything to actively help stop the genocide, the very least we can do is not be complicit!

So, we’re on a boat. It starts leaking with these mysterious finger sized holes. Most people start sticking fingers in holes to stop the water, but there are a bunch of people that are worried their finger might get stuck, or a fish might come and bite it or divine intervention will save the boat - and they decide not to stick their finger in a hole, and just for good measure some of the people that won’t stick their finger in a hole go and make a few new holes. You think that’s ok? For a bunch of people to, not only not contribute to saving everyone, but actually make the situation worse? And for there to be no consequences??

I guess it comes down to your definition of “forced”. People were forced to get the vaccine in the same way they are forced to not walk around with a gun indiscriminately firing bullets - you’re welcome to do it in the privacy of your own home (as long as your home is big enough that the bullets won’t leave it) but if you want to participate in a society then you are forced to follow some rules.

OK, I’ll bite. I read the WestJet article. The person won their case because the judge decided WestJet didn’t believe they were serious in their religious basis for their exemption request and therefore didn’t consider options to give the person work in another role that wouldn’t be impacted by their lack of vaccination.

This in no way supports your position that the mandates were somehow illegitimate.

It’s not about the taffis for me, it’s about supporting a fascist oligarchy. When that changes (both the fascist, and the oligarchy), I’ll start buying from them again. I’m not young and I don’t expect it to happen in my lifetime.

I agree with what you’re saying, but I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Mastodon can be accessed by anyone with a browser. If the whole government made their Mastodon instance their official release channel then it would achieve your objective.

I’ve been using various versions of keepass for ever. Until recently I had the database on Google drive. It’s now local and sync’d with syncthing. It’s a bit “different”, but once you get used to it, it works very well.

100% agree, which is a shame because having real numbers for the proportion of the population that don’t fit into what the bigots think is normal might help to convince some of them that they’re not so normal. (I’m not saying this very well, but I think you get what I mean.)