CancerMancer

I don't give a fuck who made it up, I want democratic control of the economy. Anything else is secondary to that.

In the early 1900s the workers of the world were beginning to build the framework for the democratic collectivization of resources and labour. Elites considered this such a severe threat that they were organizing their own conferences on how to deal with it. This was stopped in most countries with one of two methods: concessions (like The New Deal) or fascism. Welfare or fear-mongering austerity politics.

To put this another way: some capitalists conspired to promote and ultimately install fascist authoritarians to fight socialism because it was in their class interests to do so. The various banana republics and other economic colonies of imperialist nations? Installed by capitalists. The forever wars that no one even wants? Believe it or not, also capitalists. These are not the moves made by freedom-loving people lol.

So I guess I should ask you: where are you consuming your propaganda from?

Totalitarian planned economies exist today, they're called "Walmart" and "Amazon". You think they'd stop functioning if people had more of a say and didn't have to piss in bottles anymore?

It's because they've written off the populists as worthless and instead focus on the PMC liberals who are prioritizing DEI over class. Liberals see themselves as being closer to the capitalists than the filthy poors.

The truth: populists are way easier to convert than liberals because their class interests are the same as yours. They've been told lefties have dumb priorities but if you come in saying "jobs and families matter more than bathroom drama" they're going to give you a chance.

I could barely get Minecraft to run 20fps on this old laptop I had given to me a few years ago. Loaded Ubuntu on it and Minecraft ran near 60fps. Blew my mind.

Being annoyed by a bag is Sheldon Cooper level

"character falls down stairs" or "African witch doctors zebra" are both amazing.

Canada's former prime minister Justin Trudeau fell down the stairs on purpose on TV once: https://youtu.be/lRnwK01n904

Game runs like shit so I'm not buying it.

A strawman is when you take someone else's argument and you represent it as weaker than it really is. By definition their statement was not a strawman.

It also does not appear to be an implication that OSS is a Mossad backdoor, only that the possibility is present. I presume this is based on the fact that Mossad has done this kind of supply-chain attack before (see the Iranian nuclear program, or the Hezbollah pagers) and that there have been multiple recent controversies about code inserted into OSS packages.

OSS is still the way to go, but we need better governance and best practices in a lot of organizations to make that happen. In fact if the FOSS community would help provide training and certification in this realm, it would help deal with many of these concerns.

I know someone who retired early because our ticketing system changed.

They're going to stay there making bank off of insider trading until they're so ancient someone accidentally walks through and disperses the dust cloud known as Pelosi, and they finally decide they have enough money to reach supply-side Jesus.

I can't believe I'm doing this but considering a friend was publically named before in a controversy over pricing, I struggle to take this number seriously. People often misinterpret things to the point that they skim a few emails and think it costs $100,000 to set up a board room but actually it's that amount for several dozen board rooms which ended up being quite reasonable. That's a true story (with modified numbers).

Honestly fuck the cost anyway, I'd be more concerned about the extra-judicial powers being used here.