There are trans people on the internet saying we should resist universal health care because some countries have shown hesitation when it comes to covering youth transitioning.

I’m here for these people but this proposal is stupid beyond belief. Unfortunately the identity-obsessed sometimes fight for this kind of absolute non-starter of an issue and it is in fact actively harming the greater good.

Ugh true, it’s really the worst of both worlds somehow.

Oh how I miss the beautiful simplicity of Win95/98/NT UIs. It seems as our screens have become larger, they found more shit to put on them that I don’t want to see.

lol this is the problem with liberals, they believe everyone else is reading propaganda except them.

I don’t give a fuck who made it up, I want democratic control of the economy. Anything else is secondary to that.

In the early 1900s the workers of the world were beginning to build the framework for the democratic collectivization of resources and labour. Elites considered this such a severe threat that they were organizing their own conferences on how to deal with it. This was stopped in most countries with one of two methods: concessions (like The New Deal) or fascism. Welfare or fear-mongering austerity politics.

To put this another way: some capitalists conspired to promote and ultimately install fascist authoritarians to fight socialism because it was in their class interests to do so. The various banana republics and other economic colonies of imperialist nations? Installed by capitalists. The forever wars that no one even wants? Believe it or not, also capitalists. These are not the moves made by freedom-loving people lol.

So I guess I should ask you: where are you consuming your propaganda from?

Totalitarian planned economies exist today, they’re called “Walmart” and “Amazon”. You think they’d stop functioning if people had more of a say and didn’t have to piss in bottles anymore?

It’s because they’ve written off the populists as worthless and instead focus on the PMC liberals who are prioritizing DEI over class. Liberals see themselves as being closer to the capitalists than the filthy poors.

The truth: populists are way easier to convert than liberals because their class interests are the same as yours. They’ve been told lefties have dumb priorities but if you come in saying “jobs and families matter more than bathroom drama” they’re going to give you a chance.

I could barely get Minecraft to run 20fps on this old laptop I had given to me a few years ago. Loaded Ubuntu on it and Minecraft ran near 60fps. Blew my mind.

“character falls down stairs” or “African witch doctors zebra” are both amazing.

Canada’s former prime minister Justin Trudeau fell down the stairs on purpose on TV once: https://youtu.be/lRnwK01n904

A strawman is when you take someone else’s argument and you represent it as weaker than it really is. By definition their statement was not a strawman.

It also does not appear to be an implication that OSS is a Mossad backdoor, only that the possibility is present. I presume this is based on the fact that Mossad has done this kind of supply-chain attack before (see the Iranian nuclear program, or the Hezbollah pagers) and that there have been multiple recent controversies about code inserted into OSS packages.

OSS is still the way to go, but we need better governance and best practices in a lot of organizations to make that happen. In fact if the FOSS community would help provide training and certification in this realm, it would help deal with many of these concerns.

I know someone who retired early because our ticketing system changed.

They’re going to stay there making bank off of insider trading until they’re so ancient someone accidentally walks through and disperses the dust cloud known as Pelosi, and they finally decide they have enough money to reach supply-side Jesus.

One of my friends dipped into “emailing his friend’s bosses about the conspiracy against him” levels of schizophrenia during the COVID lockdowns and at this point I don’t think he’s coming back.

Can’t help but wonder how many people we alienate from their loved ones because we refuse to take mental health seriously.

Fatshark has a bad habit of half-baked releases that take a year or more to get right. When they finally do, they leave it that way for a bit and then swing back around and completely change everything again even if we liked it. They just keep doing this shit.

I will not be buying Fatshark games until at least 2 years after release at this point.

“We should boycott Amazon for firing all their workers in my province.”

“Why bother, boycotts do nothing.”

How is that the default response and not “FUCK THIS COMPANY”

Used to see the odd “genetics” fat person and they’d just be built a bit bigger. Now I’m seeing fucking waddling planetoids and that’s not genetics man. Part of that blame belongs to individuals but part of it belongs to the food lobbyists and their quest to add sugar and corn syrup to everything.

Incentivise people to grow their own vegetables (or source them locally from those who already are) and disincentivise the purchase of processed and sweetened food. Have our agencies promote healthy recipes using weight rather than volume measurements and show people how to use scales to properly weigh ingredients and help make it as easy as possible to count calories.

mfs need to rewatch Ghostbusters. Never cross the streams! smh my head

Don’t get me wrong, Americans really are fed an absurd amount of propaganda, and it’s as likely (if not more so) to come from private sources as it is from the government. Watching American media from the outside is a wild ride, and it’s no wonder everyone is so extreme.

That said, the DPRK is on another level entirely.

Last time someone told me a game wasn’t for me I never bought any of their titles again. It has been years since that happened. I’m in it to win it on this one too. Eat shit Nintendo.