@ahasty so while I empathize with the resignation and despair I would feel if I said what you said (and I might've said at one time), I also think society isn't in itself an entity that can think and give power to anybody, it's people who looked at the laws and the media and who decided to play as dirty as they could to gain power, and they're self-serving and some, actively malicious, and I need to do what I can to counteract this - in this case, help ensure access to services without eIDAS

@ahasty I gave you a light-hearted way out of that direction, would've been nice if you took it

Hanlon's razor, while considered philosophical, is basically an emotional coping skill used to counteract certain types of rumination (caused by seeing current negative interaction as threat because of past trauma or learned behaviour)

emotional coping on its own, however, is of little use when dealing with current threats

and Hanlon's razor is not actually a very good emotional coping skill either

@ahasty any reasonably advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice

@AH_99 e-SUVs are out, e-bikes very much in

@stux my phone is the device 2FA is sent to, so not the one I use for purchases?

@stux Thread boosted to me last night:
https://friendhole.social/@beandreams/116296220636150716
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