rambling_lunatic @ rambling_lunatic @sh.itjust.works

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Learning from the Russian law on "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" are we?

Not arguing with that, but clearly people seem to believe you and think he discovered microbes, which he didn't. The truth is more impressive anyways, no?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to observe microbes. Semmelweis deserves immense credit for trying to convince people to wash their hands, but he didn't observe microbes and believed in corpse particles. (⌐■_■)

The one with Picard too. I forgot the name.

The one where Kirk dies. I don't think I need to explain further.

I don't discount the possibility. That being said, mentioning every possibility messes up the joke potential.

I keep a webcam because I trust my personal computer far more than my phone when it comes to private comms.

1. The antivaxxers were complaining a conspiracy when this whole time they were the conspiracy.
2. This whole time antivax kept getting blamed on Russian troll farms, when the troll farms were Western all along. Golden.

Security is in degrees. The highest level would indeed use open-source hardware. I hope to build a rig like that someday.

I keep my webcam unplugged when not in use.

The right has finally gotten back on track in the pursuit of its goal of cleansing society from the weak and stupid (themselves).

Again?

Sadly yes

Comrade, the USA was founded by rich businessmen, and organized primarily to defend the class interests of that group.

The nation-state has at various points hunted down runaway slaves (Fugitive Slave Act of 1850), used the national guard to put down strikes (the Ludlow Massacre, the Lattimer massacre, the breaking of the Homestead Strike, the West Virginia Coal Wars...), fought violently against peaceful protesters (Kent State shootings, pretty much every protest of the Civil Rights Movement, the DNC protests of 1968, various incidents during the Floyd protests...), arrested and murdered people for ideology rather than proof of actually committing a crime (Sacco and Vanzetti, the Haymarket Martyrs...), drugged and murdered Fred Hampton as he slept next to his pregnant fiance, funded dozens of coups against democratically elected leaders because they were left-leaning, and done countless other things. This is aided by the permanent death grip that capital has on the country.

Even if the process of getting elected was completely untied to wealth (hahaha) and lobbying didn't exist (lol), at the end of the day the economy is controlled by the capitalists and they can bring a country to its knees if it doesn't obey. Capital strikes and the threat of disinvestments and layoffs are powerful.

It's not a bug. It is a feature.

It's C with feeping creaturism. Some of the features are good. Others not so much. Personally I agree with Torvalds overall.

Diet of Worms is a dope name

If structured through direct consensus democracy, rather than the appointment of leaders, the Karens will be powerless.

My country (not USA) uses American paper. I hate it.

Or you could just not use LLMs for this.

Unity of ends and means strikes again!