Windows Defender has been sufficient for most users for a while. Which is just a default part of the OS unless you go out of your way to remove it.

It’s been long enough I don’t think I could faithfully remember the details of their argument. I think they were insisting that no AV was needed at all though, not that Windows’ built in protections are sufficient, which has indeed been true for a while.

Years ago someone told me on reddit that antivirus protections on personal PCs aren’t necessary and a waste of processing power.

Can’t really reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

Ah neat. I saw this posted a couple days ago and meant to check it out, but lost track of the link. Thanks!

What a terrible day to have eyes.

I bet that shit got destroyed the same day.

This meme predates AI.

One is my favorite strips:

I mean, yeah. The red hats don’t feel bad about the murders. They probably use those videos the same way less deranged people use PornHub. Honestly asking - is there anyone who isn’t deep in the cult who doesn’t already realize that?

Please be a broken clock moment please be a broken clock moment.

Narrator: It was not.

Poorly Drawn Lines is an awesome comic.

That tracks.

Wait, what? That’s crazy.

Yeah. Memes like this are making the perfect the enemy of the good. Is there an issue? Sure. Is this the right time for that issue? I’m not so sure about that one.

That question doesn’t make sense. Did you respond to the right comment?

Naturally, the solution is to interrogate the critique rather than the problem. That approach has an impressive record of success.

Many people, likely a majority, are not in a financial or practical position to participate in a boycott or general strike. That constraint is not accidental. Considerable effort goes into structuring economic life so that such actions are difficult to sustain, and additional effort goes into convincing people they are even more powerless than they actually are.

Even within this comment thread, some seem to overlook the range of options that exist between blowing whistles on one extreme and violent confrontation with the red hats on the other.

Position’s already taken, I’m afraid.

I’m not as well versed on that event as I would like, but isn’t that another example of a peaceful protest that turned into a shooting gallery?