If you’re gonna game the system that hard just get divorced and keep living together. Remove the uncertainty.

I don’t know about you guys but I’m tired of taking the high road. These fascist pricks have no morals. They know there are lines polite and reasonable people won’t cross and they use that to their advantage. They have no such constraints. Every hesitation on our part exposes another crack that they can slip through and avoid consequences. Threats of social repercussions, financial penalties, and prison sentences will not win this fight. The only way this ends is if we take it all the way.

Charge them with treason, execute them, and redistribute their wealth to the people. Anything less will only allow this disease of insatiable greed and lust for power to fester and one day return. Even going that far will only keep such men at bay for a generation or two. It will take constant vigilance and unwavering commitment to the principles of equality and justice to keep them out of power. We got lazy and gave them an opening. If we want to get rid of them we have to be willing to be as ruthless as they are in pursuit of that goal.

Not exactly. RCS is the default when enabled but it’s supposed to fall back to MMS when RCS is not supported. For whatever reason my messages are not doing that, but only in most of my group chats. Messages to individuals and even a couple of group chats work fine using MMS.

Ah fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.

No SMS or MMS either?

Same, been having some issues with receiving group texts but overall the switch has been much smoother that I expected. MicroG works for all the use cases I’ve tested except RCS but I don’t really care about that.

Have you had issues receiving group messages on e/OS? RCS is borked but I figured that would be the case. Not getting group texts is a problem though and I’ve tried every solution I can find but nothing seems to work.

To be fair, parenting is a pretty shitty gig. Expectations are high and support is low. People judge everything you do, especially those who have never done it themselves. Even with good kids its a thankless slog most of the time. God help you if you get a hard one.

How else are we going to know who is at the door? I mean, I guess we could open it but that’s boring

To be fair, at that point we already knew he was a rapist. The new information was the gay stuff. Of course that’s going to be the most interesting part to everyone

I’m certainly not shocked that Trump posted some racist shit

You could say the same about ballet. Participants in both are athletic but they aren’t playing a sport

Or we could collectively decide that we want a government that can be trusted to manage something as fundamental as drinking water infrastructure without poisoning people and vote accordingly. If you can’t trust your government to provide basic public services then what is the point of having a government at all?

Knowing who they are is irrelevant until someone does something about it. Up to this point no one has.

Yeah, much better to say nothing and let them keep doing that to all the brown people because they’re not as important as the whites

White people just can’t stand to be uninvolved. They don’t call it brown knighting now, do they?

People tend to classify not being primarily driven by emotion as a disorder of one kind or another. Personally, I think being overly emotional is a major contributing factor to many societal issues. The cold, rational brain of a so called psychopath is more useful than that of the emotionally driven rube who can’t think of things in terms other than how it makes them feel. Losing empathy is a problem but the rest is a net benefit imo. I don’t think much, if any, emotion is required for empathy though.

I wish they would

I don’t mean to sound callous but if some relatively minor RCS issues, and there’s really no way they could be classified as major, stopped your friend from doing what he set out to do then he wasn’t all that invested in the idea.

I’m not saying there’s no problems with GrapheneOS or any other product helping consumers to change their habits but if you really care about issues like corporate overreach then a little inconvenience isn’t a deal breaker. In fact, it’s to be expected when switching away from mega corporations. They invest tons of money to make their user experience decent so that they can profit off of your data. If you want to get away from that you have to accept the fact that you’re moving away from a product supported by thousands of engineers with billions of dollars to spend towards a product developed by tens of engineers or less with very limited funding. Those developers do a damn good job IMO but a dip in ease-of-use has to be expected.

At the end of the day we all have to decide if we’re going to prioritize convenience or mindfulness. It sounds like your friend made his choice, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with the choice he made, I just think it’s important to put it in the proper perspective.

In the same way that the best solution to a drug addiction is to stop using that drug, yes that is how it works. It may not be easy but it is simple.