"My argument still stands."
"That was my only argument."
"I didn't have an argument, bro."
Yeah, you're just an asshole. You don't care what words mean.
You don't care about anything I've said past mocking your surface-level ignorance. You are stuck on that. I have been talking about everything but.
What you're doing is trolling and you're not very good at it.
Civil disobedience: forbidden.
Discussion civil disobedience: banned.
Advocating to allow the discussion of civil disobedience: unreasonable.
Jesus Christ, what is the origin of political change, in your reality? Suggestive whimpering?
Dipshit-come-lately thinks the issue with 'uhh do you know anything?!' is that I genuinely didn't understand their stupid question.
Look up the word "or."
If your only argument is acknowledged in the first sentence, maybe you never understood the conversation.
Copyright laws exist. No kidding. What next? What's the rest of your point?
People saying they shouldn't exist, are not ignorant.
People saying they don't care, are not ignorant.
Neither position is challenged by some rando parroting 'but laws.' Do you understand that laws can be changed? Do you understand how and why that starts? Do you speak English?
Dismissive dickwad behavior is good, actually - if you're dismissing Nazis. Or anyone else who deserves a blunt rejection. It is fine and valid to deny people civility, when their rhetoric is inherently abusive. Respect and patience have limits.
Swearing at people absofuckinglutely has its place in online discourse. If not for the assholes themselves - then for the people they're trying to fool.
Anyway.
Discworld has a few parallel threads. Release order starts with The Colour Of Magic, which is fun and short, but not exactly top-notch material. See explanatory flowchart. Those first few novels have a real Season One vibe.
The traditional introduction seems to be whichever book catches your eye. Or whichever you happened to find first, if you'd heard good things about the series. That's how I wound up reading Ringworld by Larry Niven, because cultivating your interests in the 90s was a much fuzzier experience.
Apropos of little - how long ago did Sean Hannity say he'd get waterboarded?
And those are the only two options.
He was arrested yesterday.
Jevon's paradox says this might not help. If shipping gets faster, cheaper, and cleaner, because ships get free power on top of their engines - are we likely to do less of it?
Good old ethical Microsoft.
Windows 95 legitimately had better UI than that "Material" bullshit, via relief shading conveyed through four fucking colors. The hierarchy of elements is instantly visible. Buttons even popped in and out when clicked. There's just no excuse for how minimalism fetishists have taken over user experience.