And despite the story here, it might be PHP.

I mean, HP's predatory ink bullshit is long since proved, nobody doing the faintest amount of research wouldn't find it.

This isn't exonerating HPs nonsense, I'd love to see them get their comeuppance.

But seriously: STOP BUYING HP SHIT. Not just printers, ALL OF IT.
Until *consumers* punish them for their choices, why should they change? Do you think a huge corporation feels guilt?

âoeAll Boys Arenâ(TM)t Blueâ is a young-adult nonfiction book that details the life of George Johnson growing up as a queer Black man. This is a book with explicit passages about fisting, butt plugs, anal, the spit-or-swallow decision and rape as well as 10yr olds performing sodomy, underage incest, strap-on dildo, and blow jobs.

"Gender Queer" has illustrations of fellating a dildo, as well as the MC getting aroused by illustrations of an adult man touching the penis of a young boy.

"Beyond Magenta" has reference to a six year old boy blowing older boys.

"Flamer" has a bunch of tweens talking about the last person to jizz in a bottle has to drink it all,

"This Book is Gay" gives step by step instructions on how to give a handjob.

Is this OK for kids? Those are graphic sex? This book is gay is, afaik LITERALLY MEANT AS A GRAPHIC GUIDE TO GAY SEX, no?

If parents are forcibly removed from School Board meetings on grounds of indecency, for reading text from books their kids brought home from the school library, that's pretty wrong.

If you say that's ok, you're a kook and/or a pedo.

Would I rather live in a regressive petro state with a medieval patriarchy enforced by law where women are little more than chattel slavery and legally regarded as less than a toddler boy? No. I like women as people equal to me in every respect, thanks. That said, I'm also not really fond of 'corrective' sexism where women are a 'favored victim class' long past the point of equality; it's been pretty solid for years that more girls go to college than boys - have the preferential admissions ceased? No? Why?

That said, I think it's delusional to not recognize that men and women approach things differently. Not better or worse, generally, just differently. In 2024, we've all been deeply programmed to never question some things, so it's anathemic if not outright heretical to point out that women:
- tend to care about the rights and feelings of others as well as their own
- tend to be accomodative
- tend to seek group consensus and approval
- tend to be risk avoiding and stability seeking, ....and the inculcation of these approaches as priorities are not necessarily completely positive for larger issues in our democracy nor (especially) in geopolitics.

It's 2024, I expect that if you've read this far (and depending on your age) you'll be reacting in shock and no small anger to these generalizations but they ARE largely proved.
https://www.andrews.edu/~tidwe...
As a VERY broad assertion, I'd state that those feminine qualities undercut democracy by trading things I value like liberty and choice, for things are are less important like comfort and stability.

Hell, I saw a recent study that testosterone actually leads to positive feelings when rejecting authority.

I think women are generally more easily emotionally manipulated. "Look at all the sad little families just trying to cross the border. Look at all the poor children in Gaza."
(Men were too, for sure, but the effeminization of the electorate has led to the deprecation of patriotism generally, so ironically this has left men LESS easily manipulated by that historically very-strong lever on them. Skinny-jeans wearing soyboys aren't going to take to the streets if someone waves a US flag. Well, maybe to protest against it, lol.)

In the same generalization, men can also be TOO uncaring, TOO disruptive, TOO independent of necessary consensus, of course. I just think we've swung way past any sort of rational center today.

Yes, stifling intellectual expression is in principle a bad thing.

Otoh, to suggest that all printed matter is sacrosanct is stupid.

What the screeching here fails to note is that a vast array of the books banned are things like graphic sex manuals being pushed into elementary school libraries for, let's be honest, political or sexual goals, neither of which are admirable.

  No reasonable person believes a kindergartener should learn to read by reading the captions to "a guide to Asian anal hardcore" or "how best to suck a co co".

To be clear, I do NOT believe such things should be banned. I personally think they're valueless, but that's irrelevant.

To suggest however that children should be provided unfettered access to them is ridiculous and if you believe that, you're a kook or a pedo.

That's worked out so well for the west.

Waves of people invade shops, take things freely, and if anyone interferes, THEY get arrested.
Otherwise, nobody gets arrested, and if they are, they're let go immediately without bail and if they fail to show up for their hearing, well, nobody cares.

Yes, of course, knowing their *faces* is the solution.

Anyway, we all know that this will be discontinued anyway when the pictures turn out to be disproportionally "racist".

You can still be smug:

"Linux? What, you just run a kernel? I run GNU/Linux."

"Your distro has systemd. You might as well be a Windows user."

"I use Arch. You've probably never heard of it."

"Linux has be corporatized. That's why I use *BSD."

"Slackware is the only true distro for nerds."

"Gentoo is the only true distro for nerds."

The definitions of communism/socialism get very murky, but I think Star Trek comes about as close to the ideal as one could get. Central control by the state that provides an abundance of goods. The problem with real communist countries is that they had to contest with the very real problem of scarcity. Star Trek doesn't really have to worry about that, but if my memory serves me correct a whole load of services like transportation were monopolized by the state. People appeared to have jobs because they wanted to do things, not because of an economic requirement. Seems pretty damned communist.

I want an open phone but it really isn't practical for my needs right now. Also, while my iPhone may be less "open" than an Android, I at least get some semblance of privacy protections. I don't think that makes me a horrible person.

For years I used nothing but Macs. I dabbled in Linux and would dual-boot, but that was just for playing around and learning about servers. Eventually Linux got to the point where I could use it everyday and when my Macs reached EOL, I just went from dual boot to only *nix.

I'll probably follow the same trajectory with cell phones. Once PostmarketOS becomes compatible with an old phone I have lying around I'll install it and toy around with it. Eventually I'll have an iPhone and an "open" phone. Once there's enough feature parity, I'll make the switch full time (for me, the ideal situation would be tight integration with NextCloud—if that becomes a thing I could convince my boss to switch the whole company over).

I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect everyone to use an "open" phone:

– State of PostmarketOS

(I know there are some Android forks out there, but that's like using a Chrome-based browser when I could be using Firefox)

That's because they were already communists.

Ah, shit, you werenâ(TM)t replying to me. Sorry, sometimes in mobile view it is not very clear.

I was referring to the sequels, not the prequels.

3D printed houses do not even need AI. Replacing many laborers is a robotics problem, not an AI problem. The programming is relatively easy.

Most laborers are hired not because they cannot be replaced, but because they cannot be economically replaced. Scales of economy will accelerate the pace of robotic replacement at some point. Robotics will eventually be cheaper than people for most manual labor tasks.

I remember the joy when I discovered you can change YT to 1.25x or 1.5x.
Honestly, some of the presentations are so lethargic I put them on 1.5x before they even start and they SOUND NORMAL. I have to double check the setting is even right.

I haven't watched a non-musical video at less than 1.25x for years.