It pays for society

You earn money to make your own life better, and part of that is taken away for the better of your entire society.

Yeah, honestly i'm pretty fucking stoked about no hospital bills

Imagine paying $100,000 because you broke your leg

and having to sell your house because you got cancer

Or all the smaller industries that would be completely shit on without subsidies from the government

@Soldz (CF) While I don't necessarily disagree with socialism, I don't think pure socialism would work in the current day.

Maybe, in the far future when everything is automated and people can all live in luxury

I do support universal basic income, though.

Pure capitalism is too prone to greed, you need someone there to help the small guys up, to make sure people don't get exploited and abused.

But then, that already happens.

@Hugh Just turn off windows update 😏

Why do you edit your messages to add a new line and a dot, what is the purpose of this
.

Reminder not updating makes you even more open to viruses than not updating

But Win10 is also a hot pile of garbage

Hot garbage

Oh my god that's even worse, reee apple

Reminder the best way to not get viruses is by not being a stupid idiot

*downloads mp3.exe*

*gets virus*

Linux is a better OS in general

No one said you do <:GWchadMEGATHINK:366999806343774218>

Also remember, not updating your OS makes sure you keep old vulnerabilities that have been made public

@Hugh Just make your own OS <:GWmemetownOMEGALUL:380058735214723072>

Windows XP is so old and outdated, and doesn't even get security updates anymore.

Why would anyone use that in a situation where they connect online

Nice vulnerabilities

what

I don't succumb to shit, i'm not a retard 😂

>Mac for media

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Well god, I don't want advice from someone who doesn't know about security vulnerabilities

Oh wait, I can give myself advice

<:GWmemetownOMEGALUL:380058735214723072>

More like i'm a smart guy who independently studies and verifies things myself, because I have enough braincells to do such a thing

Or keep in contact with the people who know more than me about a topic

With the qualifications to back it up

Because anti-virus doesn't protect you from everything, nor does it protect you from things that *aren't viruses*

No it's not, their job is anti-virus. That's what they do, they try and detect viruses using a library already built.

They're not going to protect you from the relatively recent kernel exploit which required security updates

So you have no idea what you're talking about.

@Derpy Panda Some invites are temporary

Your anti-virus software doesn't protect you from everything

nice kernel exploits, nerd

@Derpy Panda Did you get removed from the discord

@Derpy Panda Probably banned

If you got removed from the server

@Hugh Here I am, I never turn on my anti-virus except every few months

Still virus free <:GWmemetownOMEGALUL:380058735214723072>

I'm not a brainlet who does things to acquire malware

Well sure, I take steps to not get those things to begin with

Also, for the record, not all adblocks protect you from malicious ads

Some, like the *actual* adblock only hide it, they still run in the background

Letting ads run code was a huge mistake <:GWchadMEGATHINK:366999806343774218>

Wow something smart

uBlock Origin is good, it doesn't just *hide* ads because that would be retarded

It prevents them from loading entirely

I don't think Ad-Blocker Plus prevents things from loading, either

If it does work like that, you're an absolute idiot if you use it for "protection"

@Hugh UBO lets you remove elements from webpages

@Hugh Here's an example I guess

😏

Nothing is enough if the user is stupid enough

Same 🤔

CSS isn't complex

yeah they usually pay for someone who specializes in cyber-security

Or someones, i can all but guarantee microsoft has entire teams working on security

There's a lot more to security than *just* being able to detect a virus (like an anti-virus does)

@Moist Mayonnaise Well they'd have to

Most places would lose their credibility when a dude from CERN comes around

Can't be disproven if you ban anyone who disagrees with you 😏

This server not banning people who disagree, at least puts it several steps above the rest 🤔

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

<:GWmemetownOMEGALUL:380058735214723072> earther

@^Kevin^ Hey my dude

Could you tell me about the firmament? I don't know much about it and I want to know what you think of it, and what it is. Not wanting to discuss anything, fyi

Today is the day I find a new anime to watch

What does the underside of a flat earth look like?

Who is their

News comes from a lot of different sources

Or are you attempting to generalize so you can attempt to make an argument?

I don't believe everything. I believe people who have the experience, or qualifications to back up what they say, as well as being able to independently verify information on my own

What, you think i'm gonna believe anyone who could be a braindead retard without them proving to me they're *not* braindead and retarded?

And yeah, people do have agendas. But you know what, not everyones agenda is a bad one.

No, it's not. It's up to you to find out who's with you for yourself.

Nothing, also for the record

I'm not American

I don't know how much you think gets outside of America, but I can tell you non-americans *really* don't care about what goes on over there

You never should

That's pretty close to America

I live on a real fucking big island <:GWmemetownOMEGALUL:380058735214723072>

@The Gwench So, CIA tries to get American media to write fake stories?

I'm not watching a video when text would suffice

@The Gwench I'll be honest, I don't have a very high opinion of most Americans, or their intelligence

So personally? I'm not surprised.

Entirely anecdotal but most of them seem like they completely lack any sort of skills to find out things for themselves

Like when I walk into a shitty area and there's bogans everywhere, except it's their whole country

But yeah that's a problem, media a shit. American media is especially but, but I won't say Australian media is *that* much better