For sure. Context absolutely matters, ans the context here doesn't establish a pattern from my understanding. So in this case it's unlikely to be a dog whistle.
But people should still be aware of what the 88/1448 dog whistle looks like.
On its own, it can be used accidentally, such as if you have 88 in your username because you were born in '88, but if paired with other behavioral patterns it can become damning.
A CEO/founder of a communications company praising a fascist is gonna be a major concern of a privacy focused community like this.
Proton should be doing everything they can to keep things private, since that's they're whole marketing strategy. Yet here they are licking the boot. That makes them untrustworthy of our data.
A good way to keep this easy for yourself is to keep the files you actually care about like pictures, game saves, documents, etc all on a separate partition. It makes it very easy to make a backup for distro hopping.
You can nuke your OS as many times as you like, and everything will be exactly in the same place.
That, and due to the relatively small nature of the fediverse, simply being in the new tab makes things likely to be seen for quite a bit, enough for ~8 users to come in and explain how backwards they're being.
This isn't a sudden dry spell though, it's something that is slowly changing over the years. Part of that is because everyone is in financial pain right now. But that should be your expectation if you're going into a job where your wages are dependent on how well others are doing, you should expect and prepare for the inevitable times where others aren't doing great.
What needs to happen first are steps to kill the massive and ever-increasing wealth divide.
Yes, we need to solve that. But people just rolling over and accepting 30% tips at the self serve mini market isn't the solution here.
The problem is that there is a rise of expectations for tips in places that previously didn't involve tips. That, and the expected percentage for places where it is normal to tip has gone up. And people are reasonably tired of it.
It's perfectly ok to do both, to be tired of it and avoid such places.
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