Compared to the usual game console os windows offers a A LOT of freedom

Compared to the usual jail cell, the prison yard affers A LOT of freedom, just because you personally hate prison does not make the statement any less true.

Pardon the trite advice, but it really is a marathon, not a sprint.

How ever you’re feeling is a-okay, but if you find things to look forwards too, lean into them.

That’s not really a fair statement…

There is an ongoing linguistics debate about water being wet.

Just in case anyone starts getting the wrong idea, all ICE agents look like they are on an all carb no protein diet.

But not all carb no protection diet looking people work for ICE.

If you see my bread inflated ass coming down the street, I can’t understate how important it is that you don’t mistake it for an ICE agent!

I’ve got my beliefs sorted, I want to be able to express myself however I choose. Including using censored curse words if I so choose.

And my point is, as I’ve said a few times, that I find it funny how censorship has gone from “polite” to “offensive”.

What if I don’t “not want to swear”, what if I want to used self-censored curse words?

Should I sacrifice my freedom of speech to appease others? Cuz that sounds an awful lot like censorship to me.

Edit to answer your edit: Oh, and this is not missing the original point… at all. It is more than fair to say who ever originally censored the post was doing so against whoever originally posted it’s wishes and that’s obviously uncalled for and uncool.

But when that was screen capped and posted here, OP didn’t care to un-censor it or look for an uncensored version. They were forced to preform a kind of “Topsy-turvy” censorship, in which their original post was considered “offensive language”, and had to re-upload the image to appease the crowd (though OP clearly appreciated the effort the other lemming put into changing it, so it’s not like they were “un-censored against their will”. So not really a big deal frankly). Still, that leads very nicely into my original (and thus the original) point.

My original point is just that I find it funny how censorship used to be polite speech, and is now considered impolite in circles such as these. And that point is aging like fine wine with how much people are trying to tell me that my freedom of speech is offensive to them. (Sure, you could say you don’t find it technically offensive, but you are asking me to change it or otherwise telling me it’s the “wrong” way to speak).

Depending on the circumstance, I completely agree. There are certainly many cases where censoring yourself is giving away your power and freedom of expression.

However, it’s not disingenuous to say that if I want to censor myself, for any reason, on the internet I will likely be shamed by folks who want to assert their values over mine. And as such, acquiescing means I am once again giving away my power to the people who want to dictate what I do with my life.

Perhaps I want to do it because I find it funny. Or perhaps I want to do it because I’m trying to emulate a classic comic book speech style, which often had to use censorship because they were being controlled, but now has become a recognizable convention. Or perhaps, as I already mentioned, I simply want to do it to assert my right to speak how I choose,despite the “higher authority” of the crowd.

For whatever reason, giving up my freedom of expression, as you already mentioned, f*%king sucks actually.

For example, take this post. OP didn’t care if it was censored or not, they just wanted to share something funny and didn’t want to work to do it. Yet most of the comments are about the rage felt by folks who wanted OP to do more work so they didn’t have to see a black bar.

I always find it funny how cursing used to be “contrary to polite speech”, and in doing so you were asserting your freedom of speech.

But now, on the internet, self-censorship is considered “uncouth”, freedom of expression be damned. So now you will be attacked if you say “I’ll F*%Kin talk however the f$$k I wan’t Sh*thead!”

If you think this post is about being tailgated in the passing lane, instead of the crazy amount of (usually truck) drivers that tailgate in every lane and on every road, then it’s very likely you are the problem being discussed.

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No offense was taken, I though adding a little Futurama quote would show that it was all supposed to be in good humor. Sorry if I came across as defensive, offended, or otherwise offended you with my response. It was not my intent.

Was just adding my 2 cents as a 90’s kid that the “smoking is cool” propaganda and marketing still existed, and was still effective.

I was a child in the 90’s, I found it cool. Hell, I still find the “lighting up one last bent cigarette before going out in a blaze of glory” or the “smoking melodramatically in the rain” scenes in old movies to be cool tbh. Marketing, like nicotine, is a hell of a drug.

It’s like Bender said in Futurama (in 2003 no less):

Viewers of the world, do smoking and drinking on TV really make me cool? Of course they do! How about committing crimes and violence? Again, the answer is yes. But do we really want our kids exposed to that kind of trash on TV? I say, absolutely not!

Cheers to your moral superiority tho.

a barely functioning windows environment…that’s only useful for very specific things.

Sounds like a full Windows install to me.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Does Hiren’s BootCD PE count?

Up is subjective…

Very true

…and arbitrary

er… not quite as true.