floofloof @ floofloof @lemmy.ca

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Very brave of them. I too used to stand up to school bullies privately, at home, in my mind.

Hook up a couple servers to some dams.

As someone who works in IT, I love the optimism of making it sound this simple. Things that I expect to take 10 minutes can end up taking weeks, because there's always a surprising answer to "How complicated could it be?"

I recently learned that Steve Ballmer is a director of and major donor to the Jewish National Fund, which supports the Israeli military and the settlers in the West Bank and around Gaza. This made me like Steve Ballmer slightly less.

https://shopisrael.com/blogs/support/does-steve-ballmer-support-israel

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

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

I'm not saying we should tolerate fascists, or expend all our energies trying to understand why a hateful person is hateful. But we have to recognize that they're not monsters or subhumans, they're people. Cruel and hateful people, but people like us. Those tendencies are in us all, but in some people they become totally dominant and in other people they shrink until they're almost not there. But they're there.

They are worthless animals not fit to be called humans

That's the kind of attitude towards fascists that leads to complacency and a belief that it couldn't happen here or we're better than that. The most important thing to understand about a fascist is that they're a person like you. No one is immune to the risk of falling into it. All it takes is the right circumstances to incentivize a person, and there's a decent chance they will take up fascism.

If we hold that Nazis were monsters, or subhumans, or some other kind of beast entirely unlike us, we will never dig deep to understand what makes fascism appealing or what needs it serves, and we will miss the warning signs in ourselves and those around us should we start sliding towards it. I think most Americans missed their own country's capacity for fascism until it was right on top of them, because they had spent decades imagining the Nazis as some special kind of inhuman monster. That attitude is dangerous. Fascists are ordinary people like us.

Torvalds is still very active on the Linux kernel. As far as I know, he's in charge of it and makes major decisions about its direction.

Bill Gates retired from Microsoft in 2008.

Why would he? It's all he has.

In 2000. Al Gore won that election, but Republicans cheated.

Only one of these "criminals" is a criminal.

Specifically, since Thatcher and Reagan. The UK never recovered.

A highly selective natural disaster maybe.

I’ll get a cabin in the woods and forget about all this.

Enjoy the uncontrolled wildfires. There's no escaping the damaging effects of capitalism.

And they quite probably killed the scientists' families too when they attacked them at home.

So they pollute, they raise the price of power for Michigan residents, they don't provide any needed power, everyone in charge wants them closed down and local people don't want them either. Is Trump ordering them to stay open just because informed and responsible people say they should close? Is it just the government equivalent of rolling coal in the face of a cyclist because you're bitter about how your life has gone?

There's also a strong white supremacist aspect to natalism. It's a form of racial eugenics.

That just sounds like fascism done by pretentious techbros. "Dark Enlightenment" is just them trying to make it sound more mysterious than the absolute idiocy that it is.

Here's another source that confirms the truth of the headline:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-army-tech-executives/

Mick Mulvaney warned that the flagpoles could pose a problem for landing the president's helicopter.

Hmm. Not sure how to feel about that. Depends whether he's in it.

Extremely depressing to read that. People don't understand that you can't have a society that truly respects everyone's rights except those people. Trans rights are the frontline of the fight for everyone's rights, not some optional extra.