Disliking OP is reason enough to want them out of your feed, you don’t have to try to get them by gatekeeping what counts as zerowaste or what counts as valid activism/hobbies. You can just block them and move on.
OP is not a state level target, […]
That’s a very individualist attitude. Even if OOP is doing nothing to combat the rise of fascism, the chip issue affects everyone, including investigative journalists, activists, and others that might get state-level attention without having state-level resources (i.e. being dependent on the likes of random charity shops).
It’s surface level relevant to the zero waste conversation […]
This reasoning applies equally well to other “waste reduction” hobby projects like spending hours of labor (thus “wasting” the resources it takes to keep a person alive) to fix up an old article of clothing that would otherwise have been discarded, which you could simply have replaced with new mass-produced (and therefore resource-efficient) stuff.
If you genuinely want stuff that wastes labor - like getting ancient computers to work, mending clothes, or high-context living - gone from this community, that is a consistent opinion and we can talk about that.
That sounds like it makes perfect sense from a high security culture standpoint. It is unknown and from an outside power, therefore it is presumed unsafe.
Of course right now there are a hundred reasons why you should never trust a computer to be private, but I don’t see a problem with trying to make that a hundred minus one if that’s what someone enjoys doing.
Disliking OP is reason enough to want them out of your feed, you don’t have to try to get them by gatekeeping what counts as zerowaste or what counts as valid activism/hobbies. You can just block them and move on.
That’s a very individualist attitude. Even if OOP is doing nothing to combat the rise of fascism, the chip issue affects everyone, including investigative journalists, activists, and others that might get state-level attention without having state-level resources (i.e. being dependent on the likes of random charity shops).
This reasoning applies equally well to other “waste reduction” hobby projects like spending hours of labor (thus “wasting” the resources it takes to keep a person alive) to fix up an old article of clothing that would otherwise have been discarded, which you could simply have replaced with new mass-produced (and therefore resource-efficient) stuff.
If you genuinely want stuff that wastes labor - like getting ancient computers to work, mending clothes, or high-context living - gone from this community, that is a consistent opinion and we can talk about that.