Also, the fact that those conspiracies were real severely eroded trust in institutions both government and corporate. For example, does anybody really believe the FBI stopped suppressing leftists in 1971? Hell no; they just started calling it something other than COINTELPRO that’s still classified.

Because the articles are written by capitalists for capitalists to manufacture consent for capitalism. Of fucking course they’re going to downplay or ignore the Free Software/non-profit aspect of it!

That’s how you get monetized spying enshittified email. Do you want monetized spying enshittified email?

There’s plenty wrong with credulous dipshits who give lying propagandists and conmen a platform.

Fun fact: it turns out that all those LEDs rely (in Windows at least) on a super-insecure driver written by a hobbyist who last updated it in the mid-2000s and has since disavowed it.

I feel like the $190 they want for the Pi 4/microSD version would’ve been a reasonable price for the Pi 5/NVME version.

These are people who absolutely lay down to go to sleep at night and fantasize about getting to bug out.

In other words, they correctly realize that society as it exists sucks, but are too deep into right-wing propaganda to consider that less drastic measures than a collapse (such as voting for socialist policies) could fix it.

I hope you at least give him a hearty “fuck you” right after the ink dries at closing, though.

They often have the lowest training standards in the profession

Law enforcement isn’t a “profession.” Practitioners of real “professions,” such as medicine, law, and engineering, have “professed an oath” (that’s where the word comes from) to act in the public interest (i.e. to protect the public) and abide by a code of ethics. That includes things like acting against their own interests and refusing orders from people with power over them, if necessary. In contrast, the courts have ruled in Warren v. District of Columbia that law enforcement officers explicitly have no such obligation.

I’m mainly just salty that my city insists on putting bike lanes here (a hilly car sewer mostly lined with parking garages) instead of here (the flat main street that already mostly sucks to drive on anyway), and I take every opportunity I can to bitch about it. Sorry.

In my city, which is fairly hilly, it’s often the case that the oldest streets, the ones that became main thoroughfares, were sited the way they are in the first place because they were following the ridgeline. That means the main streets are often the flattest and thus most suited to biking, aside from the traffic.

Also, the main street is the one that has all the shops on it, which means it’s the one most “activated” for pedestrians and cyclists. Dedicating it to cars is, frankly, a waste.

https://www.archdaily.com/990889/activating-the-edges-how-to-create-lively-active-streets

https://www.nbr.co.nz/guest-analysis/why-street-activation-is-critical-in-urban-development-success/

You know what grinds my gears? People who believe in the false meaning of “conservative” that conservatives pushed as propaganda to try to whitewash their abhorrent worldview, then get mad when people start using the term correctly.

“Conservatism” has always been reactionary. You’ve been duped.

The only thing conservatives have ever wanted to “conserve” is autocracy. When the status quo is autocracy, they don’t want to change it. When the status quo isn’t autocracy, they want to change it to autocracy as quickly and radically as possible.

To add to this: If both men and women are allowed to have multiple spouses (which is the only fair way to do it), how do you deal with situations where a husband has multiple wives who has multiple husbands who also have multiple spouses? This sounds like a nightmare

That sounds Denobulan, LOL.

I’m still only a little over halfway through the documentary, but here are the main new things I’ve learned so far:

1. Even if all the uncertainty and instability stops right now (which it won’t, short of Trump being removed from office entirely), we are going to be absolutely fucked in 3-6 months not only with higher prices, but probably also outright shortages just because every business will have a big gap in their procurement pipeline due to the couple of weeks of uncertainty that already happened. And it’s not just going to be computer components; it’s going to be consumer goods of every kind.

2. Everything about this seems almost designed to murder small businesses.

Watch the Louis Rossman segment of the video, where he actually makes a pretty good point about why the price doesn’t go back down: https://youtu.be/1W_mSOS1Qts?t=5774

Yeah. And “issues” means “issues,” which is not the same as “bad.”

Acknowledging that a concept is complicated is different from being opposed to it. You deciding to interpret the statement the latter way instead of the former is your own problem, not theirs.

INB4 Republicans “help” them by condemning their mold-filled and rotting homes and kick them out into the street.

No, because your premise is incorrect. This person is completely in support of the concept of independence, but simply rejects the notion that car-dependency provides it. Real independence is achieved by removing the dependency on cars.

Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :

Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.

Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.