Why are these companies the worst? It’s a honest question since I actually don’t know much about them.

Micro$oft, as we used to say in the old times…

Yeah I honestly liked this text too.

No it was part of the request actually :)

Nvidia is bad and also Ubuntu is using a very old kernel.

I think you should try installing Pop OS instead.

Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?

All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.

Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.

Cost of doing business.

It was a while ago… Not sure when. But I remember the news about it. :)

You don’t have to do the keyring thing manually anymore, pacman takes care of it. :)

The Fastmail calendar is pretty good. Just a random page about them: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/shared-calendars/

It’s not too hard. The most important things are web search and email. I still use Google Maps. But I don’t want my private emails and searches at a company who is user hostile and preditory.

Basically they have made themselves kings and everyone else are peasants. Now they are dividing the land between them.

It may be the last few years of the free web because of Google. Their goals are clear.

Please switch to Firefox, another search engine and another email provider…

Being born rich is almost certainly a requirement to start with. There must be a lot of non famous brilliant people without a public voice like the clowns, Musk and Trump and Zuck and all the others.

I liked this one better. The repeating last sentence was enough to get it. :)

It is irrational. Just because you believe that various forms of xenophobia (writ large) are “human nature” does not make them rational. Phobias are irrational (that is ‘without reason’) by definition, and attempting to redefine a phobia from a clinical diagnosis to a justification based on your perception that people are inherently prejudiced is itself irrational.

It’s not a phobia so it’s not irrational. I’ve tried to explain the reasons above but I don’t think you agree, which is fine. According to your definition, everyone who feel uncomfortable around trans people are transphobic, which is absurd to me and I strongly disagree with that.

With that logic, I am also a racist if I prefer being around people from the same skin color and culture. Then almost everyone on the planet is a racist because they don’t enjoy hanging out with other cultures (like I said above, people tend to group up and be friends with other similar people).

You make a good point but I don’t agree it’s transphobia still.

We pick people to be around from a number of reasons. Usually because they make us feel good and have similar culture. This is why people of similar culture usually ends up living in the same places. This is why similar people become friends.

There are entire cities in Spain where only Nordic people live. And same thing in other countries. This is because they want to live near people with the same culture.

Trans people is something new and different, and it will take time before everyone is comfortable around them. This is not transphobia (irrational fear) or racism. This is human nature.

With time, it will become normal for people to have trans people around. But today it’s unusual and people need to adapt to it.

I’m arguing that to make it easier to get to know Trans people, we have every opportunity here on Lemmy for example. If everyone remains friendly.

I’m arguing that Transphobia is not hate driven, not for the majority of normal people anyway. They just don’t feel comfortable and wants to avoid trans people because of that.

It’s human nature to want to avoid situations that makes us uncomfortable. That being said, of course there is a minority of haters. But it’s far from being the majority. The majority don’t even want to deal with it and they just avoid it.

And I would welcome if trans people would start joining conversations like this one without assuming that everyone is out to hurt them.

Why? Also seems perfectly natural to me.

I understand. Isn’t that even more of a reason to connect to people here?

Should we just not talk to them? Leave them alone so they don’t get scared by our comments?

I would rather see them as part of the community like anyone else.