• No mention if it is EME-Free (no DRM playback possible)
• Settings and prefs and bookmarks sync is a strong want from me, I just want to do so self-hosted, and not via Mozilla’s servers.
• Lack of Windows releases means that the 78% cannot contribute/test, leaving only the 3% to do so. You can’t see significant adoption/testing/exposure by cutting off your legs just before a race.

Do we know that?

Ran across a paper years ago that did confirm this, but laid out various reasons why, including:

1. Many courses that employ debate/reports and the weight of proof, especially the humanities, requiring the student to even moderately master bullshit detection and critical thinking in order to pass those classes.
2. Higher education being much more of a “melting pot”, putting the student into direct, personal contact of people coming from a wide variety of other backgrounds that they would have normally never interacted with, forcing them to directly confront personal biases and assumptions.
3. STEM courses, in particular, being wholly dismissive of opinions and feelings in favour of facts and evidence, thereby setting up a way of interacting with, and evaluating reality, that tends to favour facts and evidence over feelings and emotions.

As the saying goes, your kid didn’t become a “dirty leftist/commie” because they were indoctrinated by their professors. They became one as a reaction to being exposed to the wider world and all of its variety.

To be liberal requires empathy. A deep understanding of others and their situations and the knowledge that your own personal needs dont always automatically outweigh others.

Not strictly necessarily. For me, it comes down to logic, reason, and evidence.

I’m neurodivergent. This means that among some mild cognitive superpowers, I also have some significant weaknesses, such as an inability to understand or even recognize the inner workings of others. Essentially, the first half of your second sentence, above. That simply isn’t in my wheelhouse, no matter how hard I try. It’s analogous to asking a blind person to pick out the colour red.

But I reach the same place - the second half of the second sentence - by using logic and reason and evidence (usually via science) to come to an understanding of what is correct and good and right and how the needs of others simply don’t restrict my own personal needs in any way, and so carry equally as much importance and have all the same ability to be fulfilled without conflict. And because some of these people are disadvantaged or oppressed, it is my duty as a fucking human being to have their back whenever I have a decent opportunity to do so.

This is because reality itself has a strong left-leaning bias, and intelligence makes you encounter that a lot more as you interact with reality.

Sure, there are highly intelligent right-wingers, but intelligence only gives you the cognitive tools to discover reality, it doesn’t force you to use them. Just because a person is intelligent doesn’t mean they can’t slide off into wharrderp fantasy land.

If you cut onions with a knife, sure. I use a Japanese mandolin called Benriner that is so sharp that I can get through several yellow onions before I start having issues.

Not in the least.

1. History speaks volumes about the successes of violent revolution in the face of a violent state. It has almost zero examples of successful peaceful revolution against a violent state. Peaceful change only occurs against those who have a conscience, who have empathy. The current American administration fails utterly at conscience and empathy.
2. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Any member of ICE has willingly abrogated their right to be treated humanely. You don’t coddle a dog with rabies, you euthanize them. These people completely lack the mental faculties to exist cooperatively in polite society, and should be isolated in the same way we isolate serial killers and mass murderers.

At this point, there isn’t much left to use aside from political violence.

And if you look through the history of effective political change away from fascism and totalitarianism, it’s pretty much 0% peaceful protest and 100% violent revolution.

Let’s start with removing members of ICE from the gene pool. I advocate castration as a long-term option of eliminating any genetic influence of fascism on future generations (low IQ, genetic propensity for authoritarianism, genetic propensity for sociopathy, etc.), but others may be in favour of methods that can more permanently prevent these fascists from terrorizing existing citizens.

America stepped onto this path with Regan, this is just the inevitable swan song of a process that Democrats didn’t have the balls to stop.

I mean, pre-Regan America still had much that could have been improved, it wasn’t perfect. But it gave its citizens one of the most prosperous eras in human history for the working class.

Oh, please no. I so desperately want humanity (and the planet) to be rid of these people.