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  • grue@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSafety
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    5 hours ago

    I’m not sure I’d call it “relaxing,” but It’s definitely easy mode.

    Of course, that’s why so many of the losers among us go off the right-wing/incel deep end: if you’re living on easy mode and you still manage to fail, you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself. But they can’t handle that either, so they go fucking insane desperately trying to find scapegoats.





  • grue@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml11.37%. Now we're talking.
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    14 hours ago

    The kernel is copyleft (100% of it).

    Technically, sort of, but GPLv2 isn’t good enough. Stuff has to be GPLv3 (or AGPLv3) to fulfill the intent of protecting the end user’s right to control their machine. That’s the essential thing people are looking for when they choose “Linux” — if it’s a tyrant device like a smart TV that’s subverted to work against the user by showing ads or whatever, nobody gives a shit if it’s running a Linux kernel because that fact doesn’t actually help them usurp the manufacturer’s control.

    Usurpation of control is what “GNU/Linux” implies. The fine details of which software has what license isn’t the point; whether the system as a whole delivers on the promise of user freedom is.









  • More and more I’m thinking we really need a wealth tax. Not because the government needs the money - the government literally makes their own money, they can create as much of it as they want - but because I think a cap on wealth is necessary for social cohesion.

    This is literally what the inheritance tax is for, so there’s precedent.

    Of course, they piss and moan about that too, but I don’t give a shit and neither should anyone else.