He / They
The author’s point is that Newsom calling Trump a Socialist as an attack on Trump is just Red Scare rhetoric, and it’s ‘unfortunate’ that Trump is not a Socialist, because if he were he’d be pursuing fewer horrible (Capitalist and Authoritarian) policies. The author is not actually lamenting Trump not being a Socialist, he’s disavowing his views.
This is both a silly way to criticize Trump, and a slander against socialism itself.
I love the idea of pulling a Monkey’s Paw on the JBPs and RFKs by turning to plant-based foods instead of the pure-meat diets they want.
Is the lack of source code access the problem with change.org? It’s just a one-sided popularity poll website masquerading as activism.
There are enough animals dying slow extinctions right now (us included) without us adding even more.
I’m fully supportive of de-extinction as a concept, but not in our current world.
My use case was basically managing a bunch of (headless) remote servers, so it worked really well.
My setup auto-ran tmux with a tiling config to give me 4 panes to work with when I logged in, with the top-right automatically launching my music player, and the bottom-right running cmatrix until I needed it to do something else. :)
I hadn’t heard of surfraw, that looks cool!
My wanna-be-mr-robot friend and I were using lynx, elinks, and then browsh for a long time when we were experimenting with terminal-only linux laptop setups. Lynx and elinks are good for true text-only web browsing, but browsh is better if you want a more traditional web browser, but just inside a terminal window. It is actually running firefox headless in the background to render the pages, so it’s much more resource-heavy than others.
There’s no real advantage to a terminal browser if you aren’t being forced to use one, in which case “having a browser” is the advantage, it’s just aesthetics (especially if you enjoy customizing your terminal themes, since you can make your lynx match it).
I think it’s very easy to just point at propaganda or a lack of effective outreach, but I think a big part is that we’re a low-trust society, and most people have a hard time believing that they won’t be excluded from the collective, because that’s not our experience elsewhere in life.
Also, fascism doesn’t call itself fascism. So the real question as most people perceive it is, “why is socialism scarier than conservativism”. We know it’s actually fascism, and thus know to fear it, but most don’t.
Lastly, I think the false narrative of meritocracism in capitalist/ fascist societies plays into the psychological bias where humans tend to perceive themselves as average or above average, and makes people vote for rigid hierarchy (where they all think they’ll be closer to the top than the bottom), against their own interest.
All my machines except for my gaming desktop are linux already. But there are still games with either DRM that doesn’t support linux, or other niche issues, so I’m keeping my Win10 machine alive for the foreseeable future.
The Overton window is anchored by a series of landmarks. The most effective way to lose one of them, like the Constitution, is to start discussing whether it has merit.
In any kind of public, widespread platform/ venue, I agree with you 100%. Discussing whether the US is a moral entity at its root is not something you do on CNN or even Facebook, because it is going to be weaponized by the Right to paint you as anti-US to the politically-disengaged Center, and also to justify their unconstitutional actions as being less harmful via whataboutism.
I don’t think Beehaw- a small, intentionally Leftist space- is equivalent. No one here is going to say, “hmm, maybe Trump ignoring the constitution is the same as people discussing whether a document that first enshrined slavery and then sustained it in a carceral system, is capable of reformation. Makes sense.” Nor is anyone outside this space reading or broadcasting it. And there does have to be space for free political discussion somewhere, or you’ve just abdicated free speech out of fear of politicization.
You wait until the constitutional order is re-established and actors that routinely violate it are punished, and when the Overton window moves back … it’s not really to the left, it’s more towards democracy itself, then you discuss the flaws of the Constitution.
This presupposes that the form of democracy it will move “back” towards will be the same as where it was before all this. There is no reason to think that will be the case, and certainly major political events of the past in the US (Civil War, Civil Rights movement, WW2, 9/11, etc) have often included large constitutional shifts either through amendment or interpretation. This is certainly a major political event.
We could go on a tangent about whether political capital is real, and whether (if it is) we are capable of returning to where we were before even if we wanted, but suffice it to say that many people would likely disagree with the premise that we can ever perfectly revert to pre-2024 Election America. A lot of people (even in the Center) believed that our checks and balances under the Constitution would prevent a dictator. Now that we’re seeing otherwise, I highly doubt most Democrat voters will ever again fully trust the Constitution to protect them, without serious amendment.
So discussing what those amendments might be, how that reform could work, or whether those protections are even possible to regain via the Constitution without e.g. giving congress or the judiciary enforcement abilities (or via some other means entirely), seems like a pretty important discussion for people to be having.
Pretty damn big.
Not being able to name every expert in every field doesn’t make you unintelligent.
“[in]capable of choosing” could either mean “at this time, without full facts”, or it could mean “intrinsically”. The former is fine, but any rhetoric that only our “betters” should be voting, whether that be measured by wealth, intelligence, ethnicity, gender, or anything else, is at best elitist, and at worst bigoted and authoritarian.
I don’t think that most people are capable of choosing who is well suited for a given task.
Just to clarify, do you mean that you just don’t think most people are informed enough as to every person who is an expert in something, or are you meaning that people are not intelligent enough?
This already happened in conservative circles back circa 2016ish. Lots of Republicans got tired of being called morons for denying climate change, and pivoted to, “well it’s too late to do anything anyways”. This is just businesses adopting the same rhetoric, for the same reason; if it’s too late, there’s “no point” trying anything, so we should all just keep on polluting and let someone else fix it later.
8th amendment
Oh, don’t worry, they’ll axe that ‘weak shit’ as well. Remember Trump telling cops to not “be too nice” in his first term?
Yes, but the architectures they are dropping are older 32-bit ones. That’s why I said support is “dying”, not “dead”.
The changelog itself notes that this is about 32-bit support:
Debian’s support for 32-bit PC (known as the Debian architecture i386) now no longer covers any i586 processor.
Understandable, but still kind of sad to see support for 32-bit dying. Mostly because it makes me feel old. :P
Stewart has always had way too much faith in our institutions being inherently positive, and I fear it’s made him feckless at this critical moment. An institution captured by Nazis is a Nazi institution, and must be treated accordingly.
Esurance
My experience is that OSS security scales upwards based on increased contributors, while commercial software is the inverse.
A small gift repo with a couple contributors is likely very insecure compared to one with 5000+. An enterprise tool from a company with 70 devs is probably far less bloated and insecure than one from a company with 1000 devs.
My 2 cents.