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“Sucks to see how many people take everything they see online for face value,” one Proven employee wrote. “Sounds like a bunch of liberals lol.”

There it is. These companies that are run by old, rich, white men think they are owed your money. Any and all criticism, no matter how true, is hand-waved away as “wacky liberal extremists”. But some people still know how to cite their sources and offer proof.

Proven also had its lawyers file “multiple” DMCA takedown notices against the McNally video, claiming that its use of Proven’s promo video was copyright infringement.

McNally didn’t bow to the pressure, though, instead uploading several more videos showing him opening Proven locks. In one of them, he takes aim at Proven’s claims about his prep work by retrieving a new lock from an Amazon delivery kiosk, taking it outside—and popping it in seconds using a shim he cuts right on camera, with no measurements, from an aluminum can.

Republicans are literally ruining America and the world. I had no feelings prior to this, now I will tell every single friend and family member to never, ever buy a Proven lock…

You know, I don’t think you have a good eye doctor?

You folks have houses!?

It’s hard to get more clickbait-y than “The Worst Bug In Games Is Now Gone Forever”…

That’s not fair. Tankies also censor anything even slightly critical of authoritarianism.

I don’t feel this analogy works, when you think about it. What’s the “trap”? People trying to control what others say? That’s always been the case. And if I knew about it decades ago, I should have… what? Not expressed myself freely? Nah, fuck that.

Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the Street. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a tickle in your Elmo, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?

I imagine that right now, you’re feeling a bit like Alice. Tumbling down the Big Bird hole? Hmm?

HikingVet, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge dancers?

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Do not try and watch PBS. That’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… There is no show.

Show me.

It seems that you’ve been living two lives. In one life, you’re a regular, respectable person. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you… help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in the fediverse, where you go by the hacker alias hopesdead@startrek.website and are guilty of virtually every shitpost we have a rule for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.

You take the blue cookie, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe… whatever you want to believe. You take the red cookie, you stay in Sesame Street and I show you how deep the trashcan goes.

Unfortunately, no one can be told what Sesame Street is… You have to see it for yourself.

Let me know when you can participate in a genuine conversation without exclusively regurgitating tiktok phrases!

It’s weird that it’s completely necessary for every single person to make that choice! Also, the kind of people that actually parent and don’t just unleash their loud, hyperactive child on strangers don’t get memes made about them.

Source: I was a loud, hyperactive child, but I was taught respect, consideration, and made to follow rules.

It’s the cigarette burns that still hurt the next day for me, personally.