i’m just refuting your claim that it was something as diffuse as “someday something bad will happen”, he did in fact “predict 911”, but so did most people who paid attention to islamic terror at the time.

if you go watch the clip, it’s much more detailed than you give it credit for.

he mentions osama bin laden and the world trade center. sure a clock is right twice a day, but at that point it, i find it suspicious.

adjective

favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

being racist has absolutely nothing to do with being authoritarian.

obligatory

do you think that her joining islam (and by extension her comments about non-muslims) was a result of her mental illness?

it’s not like apostasy is a requirement for the definition of a cult.

depending on which of the dictionary definitions you’re going by, a cult could be anything from a religious system of veneration for a figure, to a group with extreme beliefs outside of that of an established religion.

to me it seems like the only common denominator for all of the definitions is that the group is smaller than that of a religion.

if it was as simple as “changing from the default”, most people wouldn’t give a shit.

the problem is that it has parasitically embedded itself as an ever-growing monolith somewhere in the murky waters between kernel- and userspace.

coupled with a bunch of bad design choices, and it taking on more and more system roles makes it so that it constitutes an actual danger to libre software.

by installing arch you chose systemd.

Intel isn’t preventing you from using Coreboot, or disabling IME.

You are probably never going to be able to boot intel CPUs without using IME.

so … intel is preventing you from disabling IME …