These losers who refused to participate then after all the hard work and risk is over come back and say "I would have done that except" are trying to rewrite history. All you need to contribute is the know-how and a computer. Nobody needs to know you're a man or a woman or a trans or a gay or a straight. You're a few characters on a screen and the code you create. You don't even need to contribute to projects you don't like if you don't want to, you can create something completely different if you want.
I can't be the only one who grew up this way. I'm not some giant open source developer. I've never contributed to the Linux kernel or KDE. Regardless, growing up the computer more than anything else didn't care who I was, who my parents were, who my friends were, how much money we had or didn't have. If you understood and followed the rules of how the computer works, you could do really cool things.
The only ones who don't get that are people who are used to special treatment and who are upset that the computer doesn't care about the reasons why they deserver special treatment.
I can't be the only one who grew up this way. I'm not some giant open source developer. I've never contributed to the Linux kernel or KDE. Regardless, growing up the computer more than anything else didn't care who I was, who my parents were, who my friends were, how much money we had or didn't have. If you understood and followed the rules of how the computer works, you could do really cool things.
The only ones who don't get that are people who are used to special treatment and who are upset that the computer doesn't care about the reasons why they deserver special treatment.
@jeffcliff @waltercool To be fair, most right wingers aren't right wing authoritarians. Most of the people who I know of who plonk themselves on the right are there because of the explicit liberalism and anti-authoritarianism.
@Breaking911 If only it was a federated instance. Imagine how much that would redefine the game?
@pluralistic If the federal government did its job as enumerated in the constitution instead of trying to do everyone else's job, then cities would have a lot more resources available to do good things without having to beg the federal government for some of their money back.
If communities had to balance their own budgets, then the unimaginable suffering that all Americans will face imminently when interest rates inevitably revert to the mean could have been avoided. Instead everyone treated the federal balance sheet as something somewhere else nobody needed to worry about.
More tax dollars than not will soon be going to wall street bankers. It won't be because of some plot by said bankers, it's going to be because people assumed the federal government could be all things to all people and nobody was ever going to have to pay for it.
If communities had to balance their own budgets, then the unimaginable suffering that all Americans will face imminently when interest rates inevitably revert to the mean could have been avoided. Instead everyone treated the federal balance sheet as something somewhere else nobody needed to worry about.
More tax dollars than not will soon be going to wall street bankers. It won't be because of some plot by said bankers, it's going to be because people assumed the federal government could be all things to all people and nobody was ever going to have to pay for it.
Oh geez, I've been adding all sorts of people to my feed who look interesting, I almost forgot the world we live in.
Look, as far as anyone who considers a nazi to be whoever they say is a nazi, I'm a nazi.
Make life easier for yourself now and just block me, because I have absolutely no tolerance for that particular strain of violent fascism.
Look, as far as anyone who considers a nazi to be whoever they say is a nazi, I'm a nazi.
Make life easier for yourself now and just block me, because I have absolutely no tolerance for that particular strain of violent fascism.
@collappsar @alex It's like any taboo. Once you take away its power, people lose interest. What people who are allegedly woke are doing seems specifically calibrated to make the things they claim to care about worse.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/youtube-mit-opencourseware-blender-foundation-blocked/
The scariest thing about censorship is that if it works the people who are censored don't even get a chance to scream.
Did you know about this? I didn't.
The scariest thing about censorship is that if it works the people who are censored don't even get a chance to scream.
Did you know about this? I didn't.
@SirSpencer "While it is true that Biden fell on the stairs, we don't like it so we'll say what we want."
Really pathetic.
Really pathetic.
I ended up going with MXRoute for my email. they had a lifetime email deal that was right up my alley. Then I read this:
https://mxroute.com/what-happened-to-mxroute-social-media-accounts/
With the lifetime deal I guess they've got a customer for life, but this only makes it an easier sell for me!
https://mxroute.com/what-happened-to-mxroute-social-media-accounts/
With the lifetime deal I guess they've got a customer for life, but this only makes it an easier sell for me!
@josh Most asian countries have a mutual agreement with the USPS and other postal services to deliver the last mile stuff free of charge. That's why you can get so much stuff off of ebay for free, because the chinese postal system is heavily subsidized then the USPS doesn't charge for home delivery.
Anyone aware of a good email host that'll let you pay for like 10 years of service up-front? #bigtechalternatives
Anyone who believes the mainstream media that there's all these hate crimes against Asians, I've got a bridge to sell you.
I had an intuition that mounting my fanless PCs vertically would result in significant temperature improvements because convection currents would carry away more heat. I was right! Normally the system CPUs are running around 58C. This morning they reported to me that they're running around 43C!
@dickmasterson If by real you mean "a male chinese soldier in a CPP intelligence disinformation center", then yes.
I took the 3 fanless computers that were scrounged from roadside signs and mounted them on a board, that's now mounted on the wall next to my router. Reuploading a better quality photo.
@pluralistic Remember, this is the same Chevron that tweeted support for Black Lives Matter. One of thousands of megacorps that supported BLM while supporting murderous regimes around the world in plain view.
They aren't your friends. They aren't your allies. They will support everything you're against the moment it becomes moderately convenient to do so.
They aren't your friends. They aren't your allies. They will support everything you're against the moment it becomes moderately convenient to do so.