America has democracy?..

Since when?

Tell me you don’t know that the word politics means without telling me you don’t know that the word politics means.

Everyone who uses modern computer technology has skin in the game. Whether we’re actively contributing code to the kernel doesn’t change our ability to hold opinions on its development.

In the same way many don’t have skin in the game in the middle east and yet it is still perfectly legitimate to hold opinions on the atrocities being committed there.

“Skin in the game” is a thought terminating cliche used to unjustifiably shield oneself from criticism.

Tailcat is a remix of Tailscale open source pieces to act like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane, without Tailscale’s control plane. Tailscale’s data plane (magicsock, internally) gives you point-to-point WireGuard®-encrypted tunnels between two machines with DERP as the NAT-hole-punching communication side channel and the ultimate relay-of-last-resort if NAT traversal fails. Instead of using the Tailscale control plane, all tailcat connection metadata is exchanged out of band, however you want.

A common misbelief about anarchism is that it opposes rules. It doesn’t oppose rules though, but rulers. Those who wish to make rules for others.

If this were an anarchist world, which it should be, it would be perfectly fine to create rules for yourself and consensually with others.

Therefore, if he, and the others supporting the death penalty for this crime, choose to apply that standard to themselves then they should face the death penalty. That doesn’t mean that punishment therefore applies to everybody else though.

Your logic is fine, no slippery slope.

On a less related note, here’s my favourite video debunking the efficacy of the death penalty: https://youtu.be/_DrsVhzbLzU

The ignorant will never switch if even the informed don’t make the move.

Delete it. Inform those you regularly contact that they can contact you via Signal, email, whatever, but that you don’t have WhatsApp any more.

The only way to break the network effect of WhatsApp is to leave the network.