I think regardless of how realistic it is, it’s definitely interesting how the owning class really likes the idea of a future with a class of sapient beings with no legal rights.

So the Panopticon. The hypothetical prison that even people in the 1800s thought would be a human rights violation to build because it was such an extreme form of psychological torture.

It’s not a modern standards thing, Genghis Khan was seen as a complete monster in his own time.

The claim is “Earth isn’t a planet”, sometimes with the addition of “space isn’t real”.

“Why” implies they act according to some form of logic. The thing is, they’re racists, and racists tend to be fucking stupid.

It should be legal to slash the tires of anyone who does this.

They can only force you to use biometrics to open it, not a password.

It’s the fact that it could just be a checkbox in search settings, but they make it as hidden as humanly possible, not only is it in the registry, but it’s not an existing flag you can change, it’s a flag you have to know the exact name of to add. It only takes a minute if you’re the type of person to be here commenting on a Linux meme on Lemmy, but to the average user, the option almost doesn’t exist.

Still do, in all likelihood.

Somewhat pedantically speaking, the belief that an evil god exists (exclusively or otherwise) is dystheism. Misotheism is the hatred of a god or gods. Dystheism implies misotheism, but they’re not exactly the same.