Graphite for door hinges surely?

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I’m not a believer in toxic empathy, I pretty much agree with your assessment here - just going to play devil’s advocate for a sec. If a bad actor purposefully pretended to feel a certain way to elicit empathy to influence a group, that could conceivably lead to toxic empathy.

Thinking about it, essentially what the author of the article is attempting. Projection the whole way down.

Toxic masculinity has always appeared to be a typical in group/out group thing to me.

For what it’s worth I don’t think they particularly want the role either but until someone destroys the duopoly they have it’s the way it’s going to be.

Go listen to the first season of the Hot Money podcast, it’ll explain it in much better detail than I’ll remember. Essentially VISA and MasterCard don’t like the reputational damage of being associated with certain types of porn. It’s not a hill they’re willing to die on. If you want your app to accept online payment you’ve got to be in line with what they find acceptable.

MoistCr1TiKaL I believe, aka penguinz0, aka Charlie. Don’t know much about him but he seems like a nice enough bloke.

They also installed the product incorrectly in a test and shat all over it and the initial response on the controversy from Linus on the forum was pretty terrible.