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What is this mental pull some of us have to see something completely unrelated to one's pet issue (FOSS, or religion, or politics, or exercise, or nutrition, or whatever) and feel the need to jam it in?


Because there is the reason why children and not only children crave those snoop-phones so badly it needs to be limited by state health authorities.


Putting Linux on a phone doesn't change that. Calling things "snoop-phones" and "dissocial social networks" doesn't change that, it just makes serious people roll their eyes.


I never told that putting Linux but keep running proprietary scripts is significantly better. Naming things in proper manner helps me to make long statements short. It is like shaming bad practices.


It's soapboxing, twist some other topic into some core issue for us, stand on the soapbox and talk about it.

I think everyone does it from time to time on different levels, for sure I'm guilty of it.




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