But, for your mental and social health, you should really maybe take a step back, clear your mind, and read some of the things that are here.

That advice is good for the pragmatist who does not give a shit about ethics.

The horse your riding on is so high, I’m not even sure you can see the grass, let alone touch it.

This is not how you convince ethical consumers to ditch ethics and take the pragmatic selfish path. Ethical consumers do not patronize enshitifiers.

The intentional use of inflammatory language, the not actually answering a question,

The question was irrelevant threadcrap. You need to lower your expectations when you bring uncivil commentary.

and the fact that you’re about a hop skip and jump from actually saying “DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!”

It’s more like: GET YOUR OWN THREAD.

You are only a stone’s throw from a Truther or other fun conspiracy nut.

This is exactly how normies view those w/infosec backgrounds. We opt for security by default and require justified cause to make a compromise. The normie mindset is to flip that around and prioritize convenience while requiring a reason to do security.