> So not really a panacea.

Not a panacea for for convenience—the goal was not retaining functionality, the appeal is that it is a modern car that is private. Something that a some people really want. (https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/cate...)

I agree with the vibe of the comment you are replying to, and I agree with your assessment on normal.

Does it really make people "not your friends to begin with" if they react badly to learning something new about you?

I am not saying this is the same situation at all, but it would not make someone "not your friend to begin with" if you were good friends for a while but then they started serial killing. Even if being a furry is no big deal at all, people do stupid things—that doesn't erase what came before.

I certainly don't think you should leave your friends over them being a furry, but friends are complicated. You can have a meaningful friendship with someone who turns out to have serious flaws. I wouldn't want to invalidate a past friendship.

True; sometimes good people don't know how to handle shocking (unconventional) news.

Thank you i guess ill go fix things with her and the others

Maybe start with an apology: hey, I'm sorry if I shocked you with that, I know it's not conventional, and the last thing I want to do is make my friends feel uncomfortable. I know that some people can think it's weird because there are some weird people that do weird things in fursuits, but I just wanted to let you know that's not me. It's just a character I like to cosplay as, kind of like how people dress up at anime conventions

Just an example, I don't have all the details or know you or anything. Edit it or write your own, or take a completely different approach. I'm not an expert at these kinds of things.

If you've tried reaching out already in the past couple of days and they were ghosting you: maybe have a day-long cool down period (not texting them), then say, "I value our friendship, so I asked some (non-fury) people for advice, and I want to apologize...

I admit I have a bias against furries. Not sure where I got it, I guess people irl degrading them and social media.

But I agree with the [dead] commenter who said, "They weren't true friends if they reacted like this."

Edit:

If someone learns something new about you, it is not unreasonable for them to update their opinion.

But whether their reaction tells you something about you or something about them is a separate question. Their reaction says everything about them. Their reaction tells you whether their opinion is still worth caring about.

Hang in there.

>But I agree with the [dead] commenter who said, "They weren't true friends if they reacted like this."

I meant my edit as a revision of this. It is a nice vibe, but kind of problematic if it tries to make the previous years of friendship invalid. That would suck to have past years of friendship invalidated because of something in the future.

Thats fine if you have something against furries like me you know. Just dont let it control you to hurt anyone.

I would never try to hurt someone, regardless of what I think about them.

Also what do you mean by dead commenter?

It's a comment that does not show up due to various reasons unless you enable seeing "dead" (hidden) comments in the settings.

And I guess someone "vouched" for that comment (which made it visible for new accounts), because I do not see any "dead" comments.

I guess that makes sense

I would prefer Vehicle-to-aslittleaspossible. Very cool to see Rivian working on this. (https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-co...)

There are still fun things to do with tech, and stuff that won't enshittify — you just need to know where to look.

No, I think it really is down.

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Address is donations to The Rage, who I think do some great journalism.

(https://www.therage.co/donate/)

>they're just here to dissipate and confuse opposition

What do you mean by this?

>WebSocket getrennt

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