I hope you’re not so scared of the commie boogie man that you refuse to read Marx. It’s not even that long and it’s an important historical work, regardless of whether or not you agree with any of it.

I’ve read the Bible and i can assure you it bothered me more than the manifesto did. And it took a lot longer to read lol

Never said it was right, why would you think that?

No enterprise is going to want to deal with that and realistically they’re the only ones with the pockets to fight that battle.

Microsoft has been telegraphing these moves for years now tbh.

Beat me to it!

Nawor show em your OH face

I totally get the critiques. They are many, varied, and valid. But some people truly think that every Apple user is essentially a victim who has been hoodwinked. It’s very patronizing and gets old tbh. They have many great use cases.

Man there are some truly braindead takes in this thread solely based around “Apple and Apple users bad.”

A good grinder can do a lot of good

What a thoughtful and informative response. Thank you for this!

The Libby functionality alone might be enough to get me onboard tbh

Yes. Clearly I did. If you’re not going to to respond substantively than just don’t respond.

I’ve never heard of kobo, just looked it up. So it’s a kindle paper white competitor essentially?

Physical for some comics, mostly digital because I get most of my books from the library. A lot of libraries around the US have fantastic support for digital media.

Didn’t say it was a fair fight

I didn’t say you can choose your beliefs. This person can decide if they want to adhere to the rules of a religious apparatus or not. Millions of religious people around the world do this every day. Most people even under the banner of a religious institution choose to ignore or downplay key elements constantly. See: Catholics who support a woman’s access to abortion. They are not in line with the church. They know this and choose not to be while still attending church and believing in most of the church’s teaching.

Most people do not adhere to 100% every rule and regulation of their faith. Believe it or not religious people are capable of nuance.

The religion can’t “ban” you, they don’t have governmental authority or a police force. The person chooses to participate and chooses not to donate. Unless they live in a particularly authoritarian theocracy it is likely this is a choice.

I disagree entirely with their decision but it’s important to not wildly mischaracterize it as not a decision. They can be an organ donor if they want and live their lives if they choose.

I think we can be a little more respectful in our disagreement no?

If there’s anything Suzerain taught me over the last few days it’s that sometimes you have to pull an Urdnot Wrex and drag the ignorant forward before their own short sighted self interest gets everyone killed.

Yes I really enjoyed making two video game references lol

Some hardware just have the gift of gab!

Man that is quite the series of dog whistles/red flags.

Edit: scanned your comments. Yikes. A lot of things make sense now.