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This point would come off better if it were an argument for expanding the circle to include nurses and such, rather than removing the circle altogether.

The lifetime debt incurred from military service isn't something you can put a dollar amount on, but it exists all the same. Veteran discounts aren't for the kid that did 4 years sitting at a desk. They're for the ones that didn't come back, the ones that missed their kid's birth, their grandfather's funeral, their brother's wedding, watched their friends die, worked 20-hour days for weeks/months on end without even going home at the end of the day.

You don't have to get it or like it, but it's not without cause.

They had a warrant.

It's okay to have privacy concerns regarding that, but don't make shit up to make it sound worse than it was.

Sure you can. Wouldn't that have been an easy excuse for this guy to reply with instead of all this defensive bullshit?

1. Of course not, because you refuse to answer a simple question.

2. Just because you were offended doesn't mean I was being offensive. Learn the difference, kid.

Instead of being so defensive about it you could just answer the question.. Did you have so much free time you decided to try signing up for a service you had no intention of using just so you could complain about it?

Seems a fair question to ask someone who makes a post to direct people away from a service under the presumption that they were trying to use it, only to find in the comments that they already use a different service that they not only enjoy, but are happy to freely advertise for.

Also, your justification for their lack of crypto payments is that they use a payment system they designed themselves, which I find funny since most of the complaints I see about Proton (granted, not yours) is the unverifiability of their operations, leaning on "Just trust me, bro." which is the same thing as this site's payment processing system. 🤭

Are there any non-self-hosted services where that's not the case?

This is an unfortunate truth. I occasionally teach a short course on basic computer networking with a short segment on Unix/Linux to students ranging from ages 18-25 and only about 1 or 2 out of every class of 20 even knows what an "operating system" is.

Why are you trying to sign up for Proton if you already use another provider?

So, they operate a repo of open source code as a cover for their internal repo of completely different code?

I installed it a week or so ago.. it was alright. Didn't care much for the DE animations, switched back to Mint the same day. Good for the lulz (and on-demand waifu pics).