[–] 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I don't think therapy is bad. I think gatekeeping childfree and prescribing someone else as needing therapy because of that gatekeeping is bad. They're essentially saying "your reason for being childfree is not valid, get help". News alert, 25 years ago everyone thought i was crazy and selfish for not wanting kids, regardless of my reasons!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (7 children)

    I am childfree and disagree. And not anti-natalist either for w/e reason you bring that up.

    Why are you childfree? Before you respond i will warn you that whatever reason you say I'm going to tell you to get therapy because that is what you are doing to the individual in the video.

    If anything is radicalized here it's people policing other people's reasons for being childfree. It's gross.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago

    You're not childfree if someone hasn't told you that you need therapy /s

    But really, i have been told i needed therapy for my reasons of being childfree. Everyone has their own reasons and if you're going to scrutinize them then you're opening the door to be scrutinized yourself. Instead id rather us not judge each other's reasons for being childfree based on some legitimacy hierarchy.

    You may think their reasons are stupid and devolve to self hatred but who are you to judge? Many people are scared on some level what bringing a child into this world would mean for both them and the child.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago

    They got so much telemetry that you could show them the inside of your asshole and they would know it was you. And now you know why they require using their app on mobile and Javascript on desktop.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Did you read the 404 media article? Like more than the headline?

    There is a slew of valid complaints against Andy Yen and assuming this must be a state actor means not holding them accountable, here's just a few points:

    • Andy wants proton to fully embrace ai and said there would be re-interviews based on the employees use of AI. The implicit threat here was firing employees who don't embrace AI. This may have been walked back but it still says a lot
    • Andy said this may be the last year they hire engineers. He wants to use AI and just have people supervise the AI.
    • he thinks releasing untested code into prod is ok and that it's "loser thinking" to suggest taking a few days to test.

    There's a lot more in the article but just from those points you have a shitty employer showing they don't value human talent and don't care about shipping potentially unsafe code which is especially problematic when they want to get rid of the people who could understand the code.

    You're basically saying that that things should get a pass even if they aren't perfect. But that ignores the context of a privacy and security product that is showing unsafe practices. Other CEOs "sucking" is irrelevant. Those other CEO's aren't doing something antithesis to their stated goals. To me i could accept AI use in proton, however, it still needs to have engineers who can understand and review the code, and it still needs to be tested. That's not what Andy yen wants to do though, and that's the problem. It's not just about AI.

    But bravo for the unpopular opinion.

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