Maybe I should start running my own pet robot Zuckerberg. He'd totally not mind at all, right?
Start by making them pull their own weight.
The next step is encouraging bottom-up independence. Pro-feudal Republicans want dependency. This is one of the reasons they fight universal health care - keeping insurance tied to employment suppresses business formation by keeping a lot of people tied to their job because of risk.
Eventually opinions and expectations shift.
In the mean time, keep pointing how how Republicans are ruining their grandkids' lives, leaving them poorer, less educated, and sicker.
Respond to a fascist with a fist or you will be owned by them. Your choice.
West Virginia needs to stop doing whatever the hypest corporation tells it to do.
Corporation? Our own government the last 5 years or so took the position that every kid should learn to code, because there was no future in things like, oh, honest manual work. AI has fucked the assumptions of everyone from the halls of Congress all the way to Silicon Valley.
I just think the cause is a bit different.
They have this habit of making everything as general as possible without thinking through the implications, while trying to "extend" anything they didn't make. So you end up with a generic URL parsing library that will happily launch installers from a text file in Notepad and similar nonsensical capabilities nobody in their right mind would intentionally use. Software for Martians, borne out of naive assumptions I doubt they even notice they've made most of the time.
And there's never been benevolent dictator with taste there, so it isn't like Apple's backsliding. Microsoft has always been like this and has no financial reason to try to do better, and even if they did, they don't know what "better" looks like. Except, perhaps, when coveting someone else's monopoly.
What the fuck are you even talking about regarding Biden?
As far as Clinton goes, I don't know who you think is defending him. Everyone I know says if you can prove he did something, lock the fucker up.
And that's the difference between normal, ethical people and fascist freaks. You defend these awful shitbags out of tribal allegiance - who cares if they rape kids, they're on your side. And you expect others to behave the same way, because you simply don't understand that non-weirdos want to see hurtful people punished no matter who they are.
And that's why you're failing.
I don't give a shit about the cops knowing things about me. I don't commit crimes.
This is literally the kind of thinking that got us here, to the point of surveilance capitalism. Because credulous people like you thing that wanting privacy means someone is doing something nefarious. How's that worked out?
What privacy do you have outside your walls? Let's assume you have a house for a second... if you do, then while your lawn is part of your property, and you can forbid others from trespassing, you can't forbid people from looking at it. Or at your doorway. Or your driveway. Unless you put up total privacy fencing, then everything outside your walls is legally accessible to eyes, both meat and electronic. And always has been. This is why city people have moved to the country for years. Because there your neighbors are raccoons and bobcats and snakes, and they don't care who comes to visit. City life has always been a surrender of privacy outside the walls of your domicile. That's the unavoidable consequence of packing people close together.
Dude seems like a real shitbag.
But you don't need permission to make your own choices about who you surround yourself with. Many of us are collecting names and sharing with like-minded souls as we research. Start your own! LinkedIn is a fucking gold mine of people telling on themselves.
These are people I will have nothing to do with because they've demonstrated that they are unfit to live in a modern free society. I will never hire them, I won't rent to them, if I owned a store I would ban them. ICE on a resume should be look at the same as "professional rapist".
Going fascist is a choice. I choose to have fascists nowhere near me.
(Do ensure you are familiar with local discrimination law. But you are also free to simply say nothing about your reasons. It was just a bad culture fit is all.)
There are other things happening in this space, like labelers on Bluesky. But I expect any big, centralized source of traitor listings would be attacked, both legally and by other means. Which is why I don't share with people I don't know, and why you should make your own. Let a thousand flowers, etc.
Having a long memory is how we will get another 100 years before people forget that fascists are evil, negative-sum shitbags again. Th ethnic cleansing-curious need to remember how Grannie Fascist died of lingering cirrhosis in a Florida trailer without air conditioning because everyone hated that nasty old bat so much she had to get her vodka money cleaning the local churches, and how Timmy the ICE 'Roid-rager killed himself in frustration because the local cops can't afford another lawsuit magnet and guarding backhoes overnight just doesn't cover child support.
That has served as a sort of gravitational center of my music; everything I would seek out to listen to, I already own, so that only leaves "discovery". And I don't have mainstream tastes, so consent-manufacturers like Spotify are useless for that. I'm also older and less in to random new music, so I tend to be old-school there, too, and depend on friends for new music.
I still buy CDs sometimes, mainly at shows when I know the money goes directly to the artists. Then I rip it.
I have no reason to subscribe to a streaming service.
Because that makes the game rather obvious, does it not? Submit and help throw the election or the pain continues.
Sorry dude, you are so full of shit simple googling refutes you and your fucked up projection about what you think happened.
Many of us are making sure there is ample documentation of this period. The Good Germans of this period are not going to be able to slink away.
Your way of life is effectively subsidized, and at some point it simply will not be affordable. The difficulty supplying water alone in many parts of the US will basically cause suburbs to die. Your notion of personal freedoms cannot override reality, no matter how often you pound the table.
Oh fuck off. You're perpetually offended because Americans have things like big houses and big yards, and this grinds your gears. We won't eat the bug and we won't live in the pod. You want Canadians to live in Soviet worker housing pitched 30 stories high? That's your business. Stay out of ours.
"Little else matters than to write good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer
