Yeah, no shit. The Internet remains mankind’s greatest mistake.

People shouldn’t be able to buy summer homes and weekend retreats? Fuck that.

Really? I had flashbacks to Organic Chemistry – my own personal Vietnam.

Not particularly, it’s just a large public event and so, disrupting it draws attention to the protest more than other less media-covered events would.

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We don’t generally measure post-tax (or “take-home”) income in economics discussions. Gross income is the preferred measure because it allows for a more like:like comparison.

Millionaire isn’t 1%. Everyone with a 401(k) in their 60s is one. It’s younger if you count assets like houses.

I mean, yeah. You ever ask an average software “engineer” to have a constructive conversation with someone a different department? It’s a nightmare.

I guess I’ll start screening my surgeons, attorneys, and accountants for how well they know how to use Zoom. This seems reasonable.

Usenet and an on-site NAS agree with me, any data cap below 10 TB/mo. is a non-starter.

The chance that Trump doesn’t try and use a nuclear weapon on Iran is near zero. It’s like drunk, depressed, isolated Nixon all over again, but worse this time.

Tump high-key fucking hates Google. I don’t know that this goes away.

An order to sell Chrome would be accompanied by an order (or consent decree) to not engage in web-engine and/or browser development.

If Mastodon wanted to be preferred, it should have been better. I moved to Mastodon over a year ago when the Twitter sale first happened. It was not great then and it’s gotten slightly worse since. I created a Bluesky account two days ago and it already offers exactly the experience I missed from Twitter before Elon.

Would it be better if Mastodon was good and the federated FOSS option was superior? Sure, absolutely. But, that scenario isn’t even close to the case we are presented with.

I know posts like those feel good, but the objective fact is that the political conversation and (much more importantly) public policy has moved drastically leftward in both shorter terms (the last decade) as well as more medium-term measurements (the last fifty years).

Arch on my desktop and laptop, Debian stable goes on everything else.

> Democrats: Run most leftist administration in the history of the country

> Democrats: Pass law after law and EO after EO that are a wishlist of progressive and leftist policies

> Democrats: Put officers from the most famous leftist movement in a century in high and visible positions of power in the government

> Leftists online: We never get anything by voting for Democrats they have betrayed us and move to the right constantly

TBH, it’s long past time for the Democratic Party to actually start ignoring the fringe left and work for the American people.

Corporate support of development, and I’m not just talking about Redhat and SUSE. Hell, Microsoft is a major contributor to the kernel.

In the balance between geopolitical conflicts and Linux, the latter is the petty stuff.

Yeah, I just see paint thrown on them around me.