Vittelius @ Vittelius @feddit.org

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There is a UK petition in the works. It's not quite ready yet, because thanks to your recent election the team behind the initiative had to redo all of their work. (Your government requires everybody to resubmit petitions if a new parliament is elected)

Right, I knew I forgot to mention something in my post. 1000% this

via: https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-troll-trump-on-his-own-building-in-chicago-ahead-of-party-convention

Can't I just not update the microcode beyond what the manufacturer provides, and instead keep updating the kernel and userland and in essence keep updating my android version?

You can't update the kernel because your phone isn't running mainline Linux. The device manufacturers (which in this case mostly means chip manufactures) don't upstream their code. All the device specific kernel drivers are only in special device specific branches. You can get the code for the drivers (because GPL) and do the work to mailine it yourself. In fact that's what Postmarket OS does to get "proper Linux" running on phones.

Because I am a believer in death of the author. That means that a developer doesn't get to decide what their game is or isn't about.

A dev could have put in a theme unintentionally. Does that mean you are not allowed to talk about it?

Why do they get to decide what a work of art means to me?

Sure, but you get rewarded, they would get punished. The outcome might be the same, but for a ideology built on grievances, the vibes matter

Yes they would. And yes they do. And yes they are

BUT...

Incels also hate the cruel world that made them and the politicians upholding it. The problem with women isn't, according to incel ideology, that they refuse to pick a partner. It's that they pick the wrong partners. That's where the dreaded "nice guy" comes from.

So according to incels this doesn't harm women enough but rather creates a tax on "normal men" for being "normal". (And then they turn around and call themselves degenerates because their ideology isn't the most consistent)

Also if you are in these communities for long enough, then it becomes part of your identity. That's how we get stuff like wizardchan. (People who believe that still being an incel at 30 makes you a wizard). And this is an attack on that from the outside.

Plasma is the desktop environment developed by KDE. It's for example desktop environment used by SteamOS 3.

As to how you learn this stuff: looking things up on the search engine of your choice helps. Not trying to be rude here, but you could have found all of that out yourself by searching for "plasma Linux": https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=plasma%20linux

Also the arch wiki. There you can find all the info you could ever ask for.

" just use Linux" is a great piece of advice for most people because most people don't care about the OS they use. They just use it. And they shouldn't need to take a course to do so. Of course you are missing some things with this.

If you want more than you will need to go out and actively look for it

Of course the incels don't like him. He argues that childless people should pay higher taxes. How did anyone think that would go over with the "never even had sex" constituency?

I mean that's established political wisdom: establish yourself as a progressive in the primaries and then move towards the centre for the general. That has been the democratic playbook for many elections. And it kinda makes sense: You need the base for the primary but those voters alone are not enough for the general.

Biden was actually an outlier in that regard. He actually moved left in his campaign rhetoric after Bernie dropped out.

(even including countries which have already passed the threshold, I'm assuming).

You assume correctly

I don't even read this as allowing proprietary apps. They are investigating allowing different monetarisation methods for open source apps and building open source tooling to help with that.

Oh!

And a lot of others require a special app for 2fa. I for example still need a app when using the website.

I found that having a second phone (just my old phone) as a dedicated banking device. How often do you need to initiate a bank-transfer while on the go anyway?

Also just getting 100% in 7 countries is not ging to be enough to reach 1 million votes total.

So you should keep signing it either way. Every vote still counts

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White House staffers even have a nickname for it. It's called the "hug Bibi strategy" which reportedly has been in place since the Obama administration.

So I think the reports are accurate. Biden seems to think publicly supporting Israel is the best way to arrive at a ceasefire. Of course doing something ineffective and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.

What complicates matters is that there are actually good reasons to supply Israel with some military equipment. Many Israelis are living there in 3rd or sometimes 4th generation. Putting the let's call it complicated circumstances of Israels founding aside, they are a people and deserve self-determination (just like the Palestinians do). The often repeated line "Israel has the right to defend itself" is not only a line it's also true. You can't just cut them of from all military assistance. So any policy is going to look kind of contradictory.

All of this isn't me defending the Biden administration. It's just me pointing out, that a substantially different policy would look very similar. You would hear a lot of "friends tell friends the truth" and Israel would only get the weapons they actually need to DEFEND itself (iron dome missiles etc.)

And that's something they should definitely do

exactly. In the next paragraph Ian even has some examples of how that works in modern day American conservative political culture:

Reactionary politics is rebellion against things they dislike getting normalized, because they know, if they are normalized, they will have to accept them. Because the thing they care about most is being normal.

This is why the echo chamber, this is why Fox News, this is why the Far Right insists they are the “silent majority.” This is why they artificially inflate their numbers. This is why they insist facts are “biased.” They have to maintain the image that what are, in material terms, fringe beliefs are, in fact, held by the majority. This is why getting mocked by Stephen Colbert was such a blow to GamerGate. It makes it harder to believe the world at large agrees with them.

This is why, if you’re trying to change the world for the better, it’s pointless to ask their permission. Because, if you change the world around them, they will adapt even faster than you will.

Honestly the whole talk is worth a listen. It's depressing because, well, it's about gamergate but it explains so much (and it's probably one of the parts of his alt right playbook series of video essays getting shared the least on social media