But rich people have money, so there’s that.

So where do I get this?

There’s no business more parasitic than being an editorial house. As time goes on this becomes truer.

Is this a surprise? The more religious people are, the more judgmental, controlling, and bigoted they are. And this is not a coincidence, most religions teach precisely that.

Mistakenly?

Well, to be fair, if he doesn’t learn anything, he can’t announce it.

Tells you something about religious people when they are willing to abandon their kids because of their belief in an imaginary friend in the sky. And then they claim that atheists are heartless and immoral.

Also because applications don’t constantly crash while you’re working, and the OS doesn’t need to be restarted at least twice a day.

My 6 year old kid could write software better than Microsoft. It doesn’t take much to write a word processor that works.

The real surprise is that people still use their software.

The difference between religion and a cult is that religion requires an acceptance of irrational beliefs without questioning, as opposed to a cult, which instead requires an acceptance of irrational beliefs without questioning.

The main difference being that some of the irrational beliefs are more popular than the others.

It always is.

Politicians are a reflection of the people they rule.

That’s what a civilization of smart, reasonable people would do. Not us.

I appreciate the appeal of comparing it to a world war though.

But good news are boring. We need bad news so that people can freak out, find other groups of people to blame, fabricate stupid theories, etc.

Humans need conflict, they need an “other” to hate, they can’t just sit by and feel good that things are going well. It’s human nature.

Only one step is needed: Install Linux.