DjangoFett

Preaching to the choir, my friend.

I’ve been to protests and movements and the like. The system comes down hard on anything that has real grassroots potential. They were terrified of OWS back in the day. Its why they coordinated a nationwide simultaneous strike at east coast dawn to dismantle the entire movement.

I’ve stared down cops with military gear in their military formations, using chemical weapons in their own city that would otherwise be considered a war crime while also using barricades as battering rams to pin groups of people against the side of a building while the rear line swarmed in with batons and zip ties. And that is after, mind you, they had sent groups in at midnight on the nose to literally destroy the encampments. Chainsaws were put through occupied tents, pharmacies were emptied of useful over-the-counter remedies for things like pepper spray and bruises - there wasn’t even any tiger balm or Ben gay, I looked - and they just generally made sure to make everyone in that impromptu community as miserable as possible.

It really is Altman and Musk and Trump who are the problem. They pay the politicians who gladly take the bribes to make sure they all stay fat together. The system allowed them to get so big, but it was last generation’s fat cats who really made it possible for the greedy fucks of this generation to run this wild.

Conservatives in this country have long hated the notion of an educated populace. That isn’t unique to the US, but we went and took a sledgehammer to our education system over the course of my life and I actively voted against those policies. Outvoted by the idiots.

Get rid of all that money and influence at the top and things stand a chance of actually changing. As it stands, money makes the rules and the rules say money gets to make the rules, so sucks to suck then doesn’t it you filthy poor? That’s life for most thinking Americans.

This blue wave is something like a fluttering of hope, but it could also just be the final twitches a corpse lets out as all brain activity shuts down. We shall see.

A neat preservation project. Maybe I’ll check it out.

If we were to leave it at him being an evil idiot - which he is - that still leaves him at the helm. He still gets to dictate what goes where because there are always useful idiots who will follow those dollars right into their own destruction in the name of ultimately making the evil idiot more rich.

It can’t be left alone. I don’t have anything like a realistic answer besides “make a law or ten prohibiting such people from doing such things and acquiring such incomprehensible wealth and power,” but outside of that I’ve got the same secret dark wish as everybody else; that Ryuuk will drop his Death Note at my feet and then I’ll rearrange society that way. Otherwise, I got nothin’.

Staten Island is effectively small town NYC. The biggest question there is “what high school did you go to” followed by “Oh, so then do you know…” Because you probably do. However, it is also still one of the biggest cities in the world with everything that entails.

You underestimate New York’s love for a good drinking holiday. We even have two St Paddy’s Day parades; one in Staten Island and one in Manhattan, each on different days so we can celebrate longer.

Bronies, man. I knew one years ago and… Yeah.

But once my daughter got into the show, I had to admit it is better than it has any real reason to be. And it ends with a DBZ battle out of absolutely nowhere. Also John DeLancie is in it, so it has merit on that alone.

The New Generation movie was also excellent as far as kids musicals go. Their not-cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit is genuinely catchy.

I was once having a conversation with nurses about the sitcom we would all write about hospital experiences. “Commode: Can’t fake this shit” and the theme song is a vent alarm. What’s today’s episode? Basically yesterday.

Is…

Is that Missingno?

That’s cool and all, but reading comprehension is important when debating online. I definitely specified company collapse. As in, that rich boy stops being rich and goes back to being a pussy bitch that everyone rightly makes fun of.

Finance people: what happens to the company when they get 15 million? Or whatever the realistic-but-nowhere-close-to-the-mark number is. Is it the total collapse of the company us plebs are hoping for?

Fuck you, Chucklefuck.

I miss my city.

Its got hard, dirty edges everywhere, but it is also one of the friendliest, most fun-loving and kindhearted places you will ever have the privilege of visiting.

Just don’t be on any roads during rush hour when people are at their crankiest and make sure to keep valuables close to your skin when in places like Times Square and you will only have good experiences.

This is more or less the definition of being Agnostic. You don’t subscribe to any of the major organized religions, but you still believe there is more out there than “the mundane.”

I’m far more afraid of nutjobs like that bringing a gun to my kid’s school because they heard the voice of god or whatever, or justifying the bombing of a school full of little girls because “whoops, wrong god,” or deciding an entire planet full of people is done living because your ancient fanfic told you it was a good idea to kill the people you disagree with after you’re done beating your slaves properly.

Organized religion has proven to be the single most devastating invention the human race has ever come up with. It genuinely needs to die.

Look up Project Ada, I believe it was. Google/Motorola had a functional mockup of basically a Lego kit for phones. Abandoned for lack of general interest.

If you want it DIY, then DIY. The vast majority of people want something that just works. There’s a slice of that who care about the specifics, the nitty gritty, the full capability and functionality. I’m somewhere in that surprisingly broad range of a slice. You are too, it seems, but even then my willingness to tolerate jank with the amount of processing power available to literal children these days is extremely limited. My 8-bit NES ran better with only a few spare kilobytes and you mean to tell me actual gigabytes isn’t enough room to do flying cartwheels? Sorry, fuck outta here.

Proof of concept is one thing and I can run with that, but daily driver? I need more.

Yes. Right now there are significant functional differences. In the future, maybe. Human Interface capabilities are always going to be the primary limiting factor, and as of now there are plenty of people who still much prefer actual tactile responses to computing to verify interaction. Physical buttons very clearly respond to inputs - except of course when they don’t for [insert IT guy sigh here].

Plus, I can tell you for sure that Linux ARM distros are functional, yes, but don’t compare to what an optimized PC distro or a dedicated mobile OS on ARM is like. My RaspberryPi with its fully optimized OS and ARM processor can’t handle the same thing my phone can do in the background while I browse several tabs on the internet. Is it the RAM? I dunno, my laptop had the same RAM as the Pi until a couple months ago and still could multitask better. Play a game and watch a video and have multiple tabs open for the game. The Pi struggles on certain websites and that’s all I ask of it.

Just because it exists doesn’t mean it is ready for primetime.

I’m tech literate enough to understand potential points of failure and that level of security. I do, however, have an earnest question: how is this more secure when your information still exists on ~public servers in the form of credit assessors and the like? All of those credentials that you enter into your secure machine still go through the same pipes to the same bank that is ultimately still a target using AWS for all their internet-banking needs. So again, I understand limiting the points of failure, but then why not use graphene or another similar OS and keep convenience and security?

I mean no offense and am definitely not trying to convince you to change your habits, I am just genuinely curious as to your reasoning. Cheers, friend.

I’ll start with the TL;DR, they’re probably bootlickers. To be decidedly less brief:

“Woke” is so stupid in how it is used and meant.

The original colloquialism was about being genuinely aware of what is happening and “awake to reality” with an almost Matrix-like connotation to it. Enlightened, in a sense.

Now it means a tumblrista who has more hair dye than actual sense and is overly concerned with how they feel versus reality. That is, if you are to ask the person in question. And that character assassination doesn’t come from nowhere if we’re being perfectly honest with ourselves.

Anti-woke at this point is associated with fascism in a distinctly similar misrepresentation of the original term, though perhaps still a bit more appropriate. Gotta be brain-dead or asleep to be okay with fascism after all, so it isn’t perhaps as far off the mark.

The person OP describes exists in several instances of the fediverse as well, just wearing a different uniform and flying a few very specific flags. Ultimately they are all secret bootlickers. They secretly worship the strongmen because it allows them to outsource the difficult task of thinking to somebody else who views the world in as simplistic a manner as they do. “That’s not a real thing because I don’t experience it” type energy, so belittling/dehumanizing/othering/criminalizing/persecuting groups becomes okay in either active ways or “doesn’t affect me, why should I care” ways in equal measure.

Again, it is important to note who ultimately comes to the defense of these voices and the commonalities they have with straight up fascists. The person you describe may very well vocally support anti-fascist ideologies at first blush, and yet there’s still some authoritarianism in their slant. Like I said, more than happy to relegate their thinking to some form of “greater power” that still views them as the useful idiot. “Well its working just fine for me!”

Yep, keep licking the boot.

Still DIY, only you really would rather not have the handyman come help.

I mean, unless you do. I ain’t judging.

I believe so. Nice to have agreement there.