I don’t even care. I’d honestly do that now instead of programming. It gets me outdoors!

I think my main criticism of it all is that we’re still leaving the reigns in the hands of politicians and organizations. We sit back and wait for moneyed orgs to do the work, when it really needs to be worker-lead. But at the same time it’s also nice to see Mamdani knocking things out that no prior mayor bothered to do. It’s sad how low the bar is in Amerika.

I don’t know why we can’t at least acknowledge a smidge of progress in a good direction, even if it’s not a full on revolution like we should’ve had years ago. People are addicted to the negativity involved in shooting everything down because it doesn’t meet their manufactured expectations.

When the whataboutism falls flat.

None of its use cases are worth sacrificing the planet’s resources for data centers.

Windows: constantly having to apply patches and run tools to combat the privacy violations.

Linux: install once, run updates regularly, never have to worry about the constant privacy issues.

I appreciate that those tools exist for de-bloating Windows, but that sounds like a giant pain in the ass.

This is a rough one. Accessibility is severely lacking in so many tools and interfaces.

I have to use those tools for work (more so in the past), but I’m on macOS for that stuff. That’s a cost-prohibitive layer though. There’s AffinityOnLinux, but I’ve never used it myself. Raster and vector editing are areas have been sadly devoid of comparable software on the Linux side.

Edit: small edits for clarity.

I’m sure I’m overestimating and I don’t care. The majority will keep using malware and complaining about it, while doing nothing to solve it. Not even the bare minimum of searching “what are my alternatives?” I know there’s a massive slice of the population that will live in PC hell until the bitter end.

There is zero reason to use Windows now. Linux has gotten so good that even a noob can install distros like Ubuntu and Mint. I have Linux running as my main on an old Zephyrus laptop after it arbitrarily installed W11 without my permission or prompting. Windows is spyware and gets isolated in my network.

The Black Panthers essentially filled a void that the US government was never going to fill for the Black community. They also understood that for any sort of revolution to happen, they had to appeal to the working class regardless of color. Hampton was extremely young but insanely well-spoken for his age. He understood this well and never spoke in a demeaning or exclusionary way, despite how poorly the Black community was (and is) treated. The Black Panthers were responsible for creating a multitude of community programs that helped a lot of people left behind by their government and was centered around Black self-determination.

A small sample list of the programs they created:

• Free Ambulance
• Free Breakfast for Children (this program made a huge impact and is the most well known)
• Free Busing to Prisons
• Free Clothing
• Free Commissary for Prisoners
• Free Dental
• Free Employment
• Free Food
• Sickle Cell Anemia Research
• Police Patrols
• Seniors Against a Fearful Environment

By the end of 1969, free breakfast was served in 19 cities, under the sponsorship of the national headquarters and 23 local affiliates. More than 20,000 children received full free breakfast (bread, bacon, eggs, grits) before going to their elementary or junior high school. [source]

Right on. Being able to bridge those gaps is gonna make or break the future for the working class. If we have too many purity test barriers, we won’t ever be able to truly unify. Fred Hampton was a great voice when it came to reminding folks of this. The left can constantly lambast “libs” but the reality is that a lot of folks are getting educated and are willing to talk. Deterring them with gated communities and tests will only hinder our collective progress. At the end of the day, we’re all on the same side.

It’s on the people to break free of their chains and revolt, but they have to stop blaming each other first, and stop misidentifying symptoms as causes.

Saying it’s “mindless” ignores the metric ton of terrible shit the AI industry produces, the harm they’re doing to mental and planet health, and the absolute unprofitably of it all. And this is coming from a programmer that is forced to use it daily because the alternative is unemployment.

A drop in the ocean for a very much unprofitable industry.

Your comment assumes the people have real power. The parties are not the same but they also are in ways. This is the manufactured fight they shove us all into because it’s beneficial for maintaining their power and keeping us distracted. Both roads lead to a genocide continuing and they both allow the same people to maintain wealth. It’s not a blue vs red issue; it’s an us vs them one. It’s class war among the wealthy and the poor working class. You can vote blue if it helps you sleep at night, but just understand that it’s the equivalent of Maggie’s steering wheel in the Simpsons intro. The illusion changes on the surface but continues the same behind the scenes at the root, because they will never allow us to vote away their power.

Yeah it’s 100% on the people and not the constant onslaught of propaganda; the fake checks and balances that were actually escape hatches for the wealthy; the terrible propped up candidates, like the time the US population very much wanted Bernie, and instead got Hillary; AIPAC and other lobbyists permeating the government; nepotism; the ramping up of police funding; the capture of all media by the right; manipulation via companies like Meta, who have been involved in regime change and genocide before…

This is simple cause and effect which seems to be lost on a lot of people. Trump and his dipshit admin are losing traction daily when it comes to voter support because they can no longer uphold the lies. We’re now at the point where they’re telling us the pond is clear when it’s green.

But the people are 100% to blame for this one. We only had a metric fuckton of literature and predictions dating back over a hundred years telling us this would happen and that capitalism would absolutely collapse and corrupt in this way.

Oh hell yeah.

This is the Manosphere™ mindset. They suffer from constant Dunning-Kruger. Ask them about climate change and they’ll suddenly be smarter than climate scientists because they watched a few YouTube videos.

White dude here. Growing up, my mom always baked it like the left one. She would drop pieces of bread on top so it would toast up. It’s still the best mac and cheese I’ve had to this day and now I need to make it. RIP mom.