Why is this flagged?

If you live in CA this is because they have a law requiring this.

Of course, it was all just a coincidence

It's almost like there was a unmissable event that occurred that both companies responded to.

That’s a very charitable interpretation. Too charitable if you asked me. Much more likely that everyone saw Facebook ban Trump then piled on after them, no longer afraid of the blow back. Still not collusion though.

Except I don't think they all would have piled on if not for that unmissable event

Fair. Both things happening were likely necessary.

The world is not divided into collusion and coincidence.

If I’m standing near someone and a bomb goes off on one side of us and we both run away in the same direction, there is no coordination, collusion, or common endeavor needed to motivate that similar action.

It’s also not at all “coincidence”.

Turns out trying to overthrow the government is quite the coincidence

I'm all for censorship when it's hate and lies.

Pretty interesting how the ACLU becomes an enemy when they go after the employers of a sizable chunk of the users on this website.

Not sure why you are being downvoted. This is absolutely the case. We’ve replaced evangelical christians with social justice mobs.

I had basically this exact experience with GIMP, truly life-changing software for me.

I feel like hardware problems on Macs are overblown, especially compared to the alternatives.

I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately.

Agreed on the hardware. Part of it is perception - people expect crappy windows laptops to be crappy and break down. Apple is "supposed" to be perfect, and any problems are instantly literal front-page news.

MacOS has had a bad run, though. It is substantially buggier than it used to be - I see far more weird silent failures than I have in a long time (pre-Snow Leopard), bad performance in some cases, etc.

And then there is all the Catalina security-related breakage. Maybe that will work out for the bulk of users, but it broke the platform for me. That's the reason I don't see myself paying for another.

I used to feel that way until it bit me my own self. I had to trash an iMac with a bad graphics card that was past warranty. That was a lot of cash down the drain.

Then add the silliness (thankfully behind us) with the butterfly keyboards on the MacBooks.

I can’t speak for the rest of us, but between the glitchy (for me) experience with Catalina and some of the unwelcome (to me) changes around SIP, I definitely feel less and less happy every time I sit down to do work on my Mac.

> I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately.

Something always seems to break for me on macOS updates. Often it's related to third-party software, but it still feels like a regression for me.

For Catalina:

* I use Karabiner-Elements for keyboard customization. Since Catalina, hitting capslock will randomly stop the keyboard from working until the OS is rebooted. My solution has been to remove my capslock key to avoid inadvertent presses.

* Since iTunes was removed, Apple Music no longer works with Firefly Media Server. This means that any NAS device with iTunes library support can no longer serve that library to macOS. My solution has been to give up playing music on macOS, since I can't find any software for the relatively simple use case of "play my pre-organized folder from this artist in chronological order by album".

You're being downvoted, but I agree. In the information age public school teaching is a glorified jobs program.

...daycare program.

But it doesn't have to be this way. And that's what makes it so sad. One look at an 8th grade primer (math, language arts, geography, history, any will do) from the late 19th Century or early 20th Century and it is clear American public education took a very wrong turn somewhere along the line.