As a normie, I love Bazzite because it’s as intuitive as Microsoft without the intrusive and monopolistic proprietary features, and Bazzite is also built for gaming.

Unless we live in a one-world government, the default set up is the Thucydides trap where one state tends to dominate.

Who’s going to dominate trade? Cos people are hoping it won’t be an authoritarian state like China.

This is why tech giants want to dissolve governments and the regulatory agencies.

I’ve also seen a decent share of deaf food delivery people for the same reason.

That is news to me. It is actually sounds equitable to me to give deaf people such jobs. It reminds me of when the South Korean Supreme Court ruled in favour of only allowing blind folks to become massage therapists in S.Korea, because it is only one of the few jobs that blind people could do without being hindered by disability and have a means for living. And it doesn’t make the client feel uncomfortable if the massage therapist can’t see well so it’s a win-win for everyone. The policy is actually a legacy of Japanese colonialism, which is only one of a handful of colonial policies that proved to be a net positive for Korea.

I could say the same to you. It’s a broader trend that migrants from global south do plenty of delivery jobs. I’m not trying to discount your experience, but there are exceptions and outliers when it comes to statistics. Since you mentioned you are from PNW, just look across the border to Canada, and an often complain by racists is Indians working in convenience stores or delivery. And I’m like “what are you complaining? Who’s going to do delivery for you or serve you in shops?” Same thing here in Europe, Indians working in convenience stores and South Americans delivering. The racists complain of poc migrants doing low skill job and not integrating, and yet can’t live without ordering migrants to deliver food for them or working in shops. Britain has had issue of shortage of truck drivers after Brexit, especially during the pandemic. You’d think the white Britons who voted to leave the EU would learn their lesson, and yet they are close to electing a far right, anti-immigrant party that cosies up to Russia into power.

Not sure where you’re from, but it is becoming increasingly common in the West that non-white immigrants from the global south tend to do delivery jobs. It’s not necessarily that it’s racist, it’s just that locals don’t want to do these jobs and immigrants do them instead.

A lot of countries are increasingly overreaching with privacy. There is global-wide coordination going on that we haven’t seen since the leftist international during Cold War, but this time it’s coming from the right.

Even if it’s a choice, why do some people think it’s selfish not to have kids? Is it from religious reasons?

I told you I will switch to Graphene OS, you don’t have to sell it to me.

Piracy saves money

Precisely. I don’t see torrenting wrong if you really can’t afford digital streaming or games. Netflix has made piracy less popular when it first came out, but with the proliferation of copy cat rival services, piracy became vogue again.

I prefer not to torrent games unless the game is owned by huge asshole companies like EA or Ubisoft. These big companies could absorb financial losses from torrenting because there are always idiots who will pay for their bog standard games. Small devs should be supported instead (also, small time filmmakers should be supported by paying to see their movies as well).

My friends think I am rich despite circumstances. But no, I just save money by torrenting. I use the money that I don’t buy essentials with, on learning new skills, socialising and developing hobbies. My rule of not buying new games until I clear a portion of my backlog is working on not going on impulse buying that my friends tend to do. A couple of my friends are pretty frivolous and complain when they don’t have savings. A lot of younger folks still think that the environment that allowed boomers to spend money and enjoy their youths, buy a house, get married and then raise a family with couple of kids still applies. Now, we have to sacrifice one over the other and this is what I have been telling people in my generation.

Not really. It’s more about what options are there. Of course, the left argue whether through peaceful or a violent revolution. Personally, I see violence only as the last resort. But even so, we argue what the catalyst should be for an open revolution. While Trump’s ICE kidnappings and brazen violation of constitution could clearly warrant a revolution, it is clear he is provoking people to give him legal grounds to incite the insurrection act, and consolidate his power.

You can try to be ethical under capitalism, but it will be almost impossible.

I’m not a legal expert, but if what Lawrence Atkin-Teillet said is based on strict technicality, then by all definition it’s “not violating the law”. Whether someone agrees or disagrees with this doesn’t matter, because for anyone who even has an inkling of awareness and knowledge of international laws and legal philosophy, is that there is no enforcement. Even in a different reality where someone says that US confiscating a ship is piracy, if it there is still no enforcement then in its spirit it’s now a law. Most “international laws” are more like guidelines. Both the US invasion of Iraq and Russian invasion of Ukraine are illegal as deemed by the UN. Both weren’t punished in any case.

The reality is that there is no such thing as “law” on the international level, because something is a law if it’s strictly enforceable and violators are punished. But none are punished. We are in a ruderless ship with different big boys trying to wrestle the helm from one another while the rest of us are drowning. We’re all just monkeys in suits pretending to be “civilised” and above animals.

Injustice Gods Among Us if it’s still available!

People are in their own information bubble even before social media became a thing.

Marxist Leninists obsess over theory, but when they are challenged with empirical information, they will revert back to their script “just read theory bro!”

I don’t lament the decline of the American empire. I am yet to see you explicitly denounce the imperialism of YOUR paymasters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_involvement_in_regime_change?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_involvement_in_regime_change?wprov=sfla1

not reasons (because we all have many reasons to revolt) but a clear strategy, demands or even much information

Such a typical Marxist Leninist bubble view if you are genuine. PLENTY of protests and revolts throughout history happened spontaneously at grassroots level. And the most common reason is being against government ineptitude and demanding to meet basic material needs of the public. The French Revolution, Singing revolution, the 1848 liberal revolution, Occupy Wall street, and even the Tea Party movement are ad hoc. If you actually read world history then you would not be such an antidemocratic simp.

Tech workers is like the majority of fediverse. You won’t run out of people to ask.

Edit: A friend of mine working in IT mentioned that his ex-boss retired and then became a children’s book writer. If financial constraint isn’t an issue, I would be a polymath and travel to learn more about the world. That was actually the point of education is to be a more well rounded person.

I’m not American, dum dum. Are you a bot repeating talking points like an NPC? Will you ever call out the long history of your pay master’s imperialism and interference in Eastern Europe, Siberia, Caucasus and Central Asia?