Ok I’m done giving you the benefit of the doubt. You are an asshole… Please kindly go fuck yourself.

What makes you think learning from someone else’s stupid decisions qualifies as trauma?

I don’t. I think someone you care about dying in a motorcycle accident counts as personal trauma.

When you see someone do something stupid you go “no, I’m ok”, and your life is better for it.

See, this is what I mean. Motorcycle riding isn’t an inherently stupid thing, or at least no more stupid than driving a car or riding a bike. There is inherent danger in all forms of transportation. I don’t see you railing against the people driving two ton land torpedoes that we call "cars’ and killing people on motorcycles or those who walk.

Don’t delude yourself into thinking it isn’t on the table because “not everyone who rides motorcycles dies”.

The only one who suggested it." isn’t on the table" is the strawman in your head

This is why I said you’ve got some personal trauma. You are insisting you don’t actually care about the safety of someone who you spent time out of your day to yell at for wanting to drive a motorcycle, then call anybody who says you are being excessive childish for not agreeing that motorcycles have a 100% injury and mortality rate and that the person who you supposedly don’t care about is doomed to end up like the teacher who supposedly isn’t a source of personal trauma for you

Edit to add: I’ll forgive your ad-homenins because it’s clear you need some therapy to overcome the death of that teacher you knew.

And you are talking like people who ride motorcycles have a 100% death toll. Which is demonstrably false.

I don’t ride them, I’m 29 morbidly obese and have a shit sense of balance. I just can’t stand people who try to spread fear based on personal trauma they experienced instead of being factual about the real dangers of the world.

You sound so paranoid about safety I get the feeling you literally live in a suit of bubble-wrap. If they wanted your finger wagging they’d have asked you for it

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A slower connection is better than ending up in prison, the re-education camps or worse, beheaded.

Without average Joe’s using it for nonsense Tor usage is basically a neon sign saying “I’m doing something worth hiding. Come and kill me.”

Smart home devices have been a godsend for accessibility though. My dad’s got Parkinson’s disease. He couldn’t adjust our lamps without knocking them over and he couldn’t use the pullcords on the ceiling fan lights without losing his balance. Smart bulbs + Google Assistant are the only reason why he doesn’t need someone to turn the lights on/off for him.

Not everyone has the same needs, and unfortunately if these things weren’t mass market products they probably wouldn’t exist, or only exist at a price point that nobody living on disability payments could afford.

I’m looking into moving him over to a locally hosted setup, but this tech is still critical for a subset of people and definitely needs to exist at an affordable price.