I will maybe make an exception for boomers. Fuck the lead-brained "me first" generation.

I keep posting this quote because it remains true and has helped me a lot with overcoming my executive dysfunction:

"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly"

It doesn't matter if you don't take all the dishes to the kitchen; just take 1.

It doesn't matter if you don't do all your laundry; just put 1 shirt in the hamper.

If you're in school, turn in unfinished assignments, even a 1 sentence essay.

At work, do the smallest task you can imagine, even if it's just opening a document.

The point is, while all of these things aren't perfect, they are infinitely better than doing NOTHING. Plus, that one small thing will often snowball into doing more. And if it doesn't, so what? You met your goal already. Anything else is extra.

You are not lazy. You are not a failure. There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It's the world that is wrong. Remember, society has evolved WAY faster than our brains have. Quit placing such high expectations on yourself when none of us are meant to be doing any of this in the first place.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say these chuckefucks wouldn't be happy if there was a compromise that gave them zero property tax, but only on the first 2 properties they own.

Is this AI? I don't recognize this type of star destroyer. It doesn't have a bridge so that rules out the full-sized imperial-class or the smaller victory-class. The Reaurgent-class doesn't have a bridge, but the shape doesn't look right...

No, you're right. Clearly the strategy of telling people to go vote and then complaining about the difficulty of voting while never mentioning early voting is the right way to go. After all, that's been the tactic for the last 5 elections, and they've all gone so well!

Oh fuck off. Look up early voting in your area. Nearly every state has it, they are available on weekends. Stumble into one and you'll be in and out in less than 10 minutes.

Or you can sit there as an uninformed dumbass and go "Oh woe is me! I haven't spent 5 seconds looking up how to vote so I'm just gonna sit and complain that it's all hopeless and pretend there are no alternatives to voting exactly on election day! Oh why must the world be so cruel!?"

Learn where and when you can vote early. You have weeks to do it. You are a piece of shit if you can't be bothered to do that.

This comic is from 2009, over 14 years ago. Good thing we took action and have made great strides towards combating climate change during that time. Could you imagine how screwed we'd be if our world leaders had sat on their asses and did fuck all instead? /S

Haha how cute and adorable to lie to your spouse and betray their trust rather than being an adult and talking to them! 🥰

Here let me fix the headline for you:

US Senate to vote will vote no on Bernie Sanders-led effort to stop arms sales to Israel

There. That way people won't get the wrong impression, like that any of this fucking matters.

Do. Not. Trust. Polls.

DO. NOT. TRUST. POLLS.

This feels like a fucking repeat of the 2024 election. The internet naively believing they know the outcome, because certainly people can't be that ignorant and shitty, can they?

They can.

They are.

Go talk to people in the real world, instead of reading articles written by fellow shut-ins, and realize that the narrative is FAR different for the average person. You people are setting yourselves up for disappointment. Again.

My prediction is the Dems will pick up just barely enough seats to take back control of the House. Not a snowballs chance in hell of taking back the Senate.

My friends, there exists premade maps of labyrinthian proportions that twist and turn, with multiple larger and smaller rooms, shortcuts and hidden passages, and yet still in a format that encourages a natural flow through the area.

It's called IKEA and you can use their floor layouts to trap your players in an inescapable hell.

Sure I'm a NATO apologist: I'm sorry NATO is necessary because Russia is such an antagonistic fuckwad.

And if all your friends are hyper focused on tech and decentralization and open source software, they should have no problem switching!

If, on the other hand, you have friends who fall into the rest of the 99.9% of society, they will react like you suggested they replace all their meals with raw potatoes.

I remember a couple years ago there was that rumor that skittles all tasted the same. I immediately called bullshit, because of course they fucking taste different, and went digging for the source, only to find it was a claim made in a scientific paper showing how the internet is quick to latch on to and spread false information. Somehow this made me even more upset.

I know of the controversies, I just don't think they're all that big when you actually examine them.

Homophobia

I'm part of the LGBT community and I just think there are bigger fish to fry. One of the guys involved made a $1k donation to an anti-prop 8 campaign like 15 years ago. That's it. That's the controversy. Like, yea it's shitty, but there was a lot more hate toward the community back then. People have grown and changed their views a lot in the years since. If we boycott every single company or individual who ever did anything even remotely homophobic, no matter their actions since, we'd essentially have to be living in a commune growing and making literally everything ourselves. Btw, this same guy is the one who developed JavaScript and I don't see even remotely the same level of hate for that, so it really feels like people are just being selectively upset.

Cryptocurrency

It's opt-in. It asks you once, and then never again. It was developed at a time when crypto was popular and was a feature people wanted. It was seen as a good thing when it first came out. Public opinion on crypto has soured, but plenty of people who wanted it still use the feature on brave. They have no good reason to scrap it. Especially because, again, it's opt-in only. Don't like it? Cool, don't use it. They aren't pushing it on you. But people hear the word crypto and immediately break out the pitchforks.

Do you even know what the goal of their cryptocurrency was? I think it's safe to say its failed at this point, but the goal was to completely rework how ads function on the internet. It would have killed the modern advertisement methods where ads are shoved in your face and you get nothing for it. Instead, it would have directly paid you a tiny amount any time you saw an ad, with you being able to choose how many you saw, or even if you saw any at all. Then you'd either be able to either keep the money for yourself, or donate it to websites/content creators of your choice. Take away the crypto part of it, and that's actually a pretty admirable goal in my book.

Ad affiliate links

Brave's biggest, actual, controversy is that they replaced some affiliate links with their own. Specifically links to binance.us, which is a crypto market. When it was found, Brave changed their code extremely quickly and claimed it was a bug. Now, companies have often lied through their teeth and claimed malicious actions were a "mistake" or a "bug", so maybe that is the same case here. But considering it was one site only, it was fixed almost immediately, and when you look at how it was actually replacing links (suggested auto fill in the address bar, pulled from browsing history) I am leaning toward it actually being unintentional.

Conclusion

I think people just like to hate things, and will find any reason to continue to do so as long as their little corner of the internet tells them they should hate it. People most vocal with their complaints rarely take the time to dig into the facts and see if it's really as bad as they claim; or they fully know it's not as bad, but never want to let the truth get in the way of a good ol' fashion, hate-boner, circle-jerk.

Is Brave the best browser? Hahahaha no. It's still a chromium fork and has been a little too eager to integrate AI in my opinion. But it's FAR from the worst and is the probably the best privacy focused browser for those that don't understand technology and struggle to use third-party ad-ons. It's just a little ridiculous that while there are legitimate things to complain about, most people's arguments seem to always stem from the 3 topics above.

Now cue the downvotes because I'm clearly some crypto fascist boot-licker for daring to believe "nuance" isn't a made up word.

Idiots. You are all fucking idiots. Yes, you; from OP to every single person in the comments. All of you are too fucking stupid to spend even 30 seconds reading past the most bullshit, click-bait, headline of all time.

No one is talking about reinstating the draft. No one is talking about specifically excluding Barron Trump. Do you dumb fucks want to know what this article is actually about?

IF the draft DID get reinstated (despite literally no one considering it), Barron Trump MIGHT get exempt because he TECHNICALLY falls outside the maximum height requirements (no special treatment, just the actual limits already defined and laid out).

That's it. That's fucking it. No nepotism. No potential draft. Just complete made up horseshit. It's like saying "If we made drinking milk mandatory for people who are younger than 18, Baron Trump might be excluded because he's older than 18." Like, no fucking shit. That's not a news story, its like a hypothetical a child would come up with.

All of you need to go look in a fucking mirror and rethink your media literacy, because it's fucking garbage. You fucking idiots.

Until we start seeing some socialists in positions of power, passing socialist policies, I'm going to respectfully disagree.

They're right that capitalism is out; but look around. Socialism isn't in. Fascism is.

Is no one else just a little, tiny bit enormously concerned that social media is having a post-jury interview fest? Like holy shit, is no one else worried that we are suddenly scrutinizing jurors? That's the first step to killing jury nullification. Imagine getting called to a high profile case, and you make a decision the public doesn't like. Imagine losing your job over it due to public backlash. Imagine getting stalked and harassed, literally for performing your civic duty. Imagine you stand up against fascism by utilizing jury nullification against an unjust law, only to be mercilessly harassed by the police for months on end because focusing on jurors has become the norm.

When the trial is over, the jurors should cease to exist. The media should not "tell their story" because their story begins and ends with the trial. Jurors identities should be kept sealed once the trial concludes.

If a person impersonating a cop spouted out some random digits when I asked for their badge and serial number, I doubt I would be able to tell the difference.

I think it's important to note that if you only read headlines here, you might think there was overwhelming disapproval from the firefighters union. If you get your news from right wing rags, you don't hear the boos, you only hear the cheers. I'd say it was pretty mixed listening to the video, in fact more cheers than jeers. Of course that's all meaningless as we have been digitally editing crowd reactions for years now and news agencies cherry pick what they want you to hear.

The point is, go out and vote. Don't you dare think this race is in the bag, it is a hell of a lot closer than articles like this would make you believe and the actual hatred for the right is WAY less than you might imagine.