I like Debian. There are very few distros I don’t like. But it’s not the right choice for everything.

It sounds like anything with KDE Plasma will make you happy. If the underlying OS has been fine with you, then try Kubuntu. If you want a non-Ubuntu system, try openSuse or Fedora.

Every Microsoft product.

But also Gimp.

Which is why they’ve been banning RCV, weakening voter protections, gerrymandering, and undermining the democratic process in any and every way they can think of. It’s not because of Trump, though. It’s because they know their oppressive, authoritarian policies are deeply unpopular when presented clearly, which is why they’ve been actively undermining democracy for decades.

Forward-thinking companies should use AI to transform each developer into a “10x developer,”

Developer + AI ≠ Developer x 10

At best, it means 1.25 x Developer, but in most cases, it will mean 0.5 x Developer. Because AI cannot be trusted to generate safe, reliable code.

This is a form of the “Nothing to hide” fallacy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

So what he’s saying is that he wants to replace the tarmac roads with concrete? It’s certainly in character for him.

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California secession / Calexit would be beautiful. That is how I know it would never happen, even as rest of the US collapses into Gilead.

The “Senator says” part is unnecessary, The Guardian.

Defederate. Let them be murderous genocide apologists on their own.

Turns out that America is the origin of Dune’s Tleilaxu and their Axlotl Tanks.

I kept waiting for a eugenics storyline where the Federation tries to make Klingons more human and turns them into TOS Klingons, thereby completing the narrative justification circle.

Instead…

It ships with Denuvo malware, so I just assumed.

I’m conflicted. The stock photo industry has been broken for a long time, with Getty actively maintaining and orchestrating an illegal monopolistic trust. I feel inclined to champion almost anything that threatens their illegal, predatory business model.

The problem with Lenin’s failed roadmap (and Marx’s, for that matter) was that neither considered the intrinsic corruption and selfishness of humanity. The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is not supposed to be an actual dictatorship, but a kind of democratic power where a minority of wealthy capitalists can’t simply use their wealth and power to supersede the will of the people. Hence why neoliberal capitalists are so happy to misuse the term “tyranny of the majority” in regards to direct democracy. Instead, following communist revolutions, a new ruling class emerged, composed of selfish, self-centered bandits. Not “The People” writ large, but a small controlling class of party members. That was never supposed to happen, and even Lenin tried to warn of this in his final days. There was also the matter of international isolation… where powerful, wealthy imperialist countries cut them off as a risk to their own rulers authority.

My point is… there is no roadmap. The American experiment failed, and for exactly the reasons founders like John Adams, George Washington, John Hamilton, et al warned about. Incidentally, the same reason Lenin’s experiment failed as Stalinism took it over… power was allowed to be concentrated into the hands of a small ruling class or singular political party. I don’t have a solution. I wish I did. There is just no way for any major movement to survive individual human ambition, greed, and selfishness. It will always be tainted and that taint will always eventually metastasize. Unless we already have a stateless, classless society where everyone shares a cultural and moral system where greed, selfishness, and preying on others for personal gain is immediately and staunched stamped out, the system cannot be sustainable… and that means there is no path to such a system at a national scale.

Such a system would need to start small and be protected from without. It would need to grow organically over multiple generations and be accepted broadly by it’s own merits. And how likely do you think that is given the realities I just discussed? The rich and powerful would never let such an experiment survive. Just look at current culture. If you don’t buy into neoliberalism aggressively and religiously, you get called “communist” and “marxist” and “woke” and any number of emotionally-loaded pejoratives.

So… no roadmap. Not yet.

Woke means “I noticed that society and it’s systems treat certain groups of people much worse than others. We should fix that.”

Which, yeah, means “live it and let live” but in a way that implies a call to action, lest you be a willing participant in oppression.

Gotta love how “divisive” is always a dog whistle for “how dare you do anything that would question our authoritarianism.”

• Diversity: No, no, no! We can’t have that. Obscenely wealthy, white, male, cis, hetero, neurotypical, Christian nationalist, Republicans only. Diversity means giving others a voice, and letting them have a voice means we lose power… unacceptable.
• Equity: Absolutely not. Neoliberalism demands that anything someone does or create belongs to their corporate liege-lords. You will rent and subscribe to everything you need to survive. You will own NOTHING. Even your taxes will be funneled to the wealthy so that you will get nothing in return. No equity. You are serfs. We OWN you.
• Inclusion: If you aren’t an obscenely wealthy, white, male, cis, hetero, neurotypical, Christian nationalist Republican who has the desire and means to cheat, steal, and destroy so that the club can amass even more wealth and power, then you shall not be included. You can still white knight for that behavior, we like that, encourage it even, but you still will never be included. It’s a small club, and you ain’t in it.