My old family home got burgled back in high school. Some things of value were stolen, though luckily nothing sentimental.

What was worth more than the stolen money was that I no longer felt safe in my own home. I couldn’t sleep well for a long time after that. I felt like I was sleeping out in the open. Sometimes I would hear a noise and jolt up and spend a whole hour trying to see if I could spot something weird on the camera feed (we installed CCTV).

They’re calling Musk a tourist

Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.

“Then at the end of the week you have a free Big Mac”

You buy a Big Mac once a day?

Polytheists are theists too

A friend and I were recently discussing how spineless modern boycotts are.

We set a goddamn deadline for when the Reddit boycott ended. No wonder Spez just waited. Most people then just continued using the website. What a disgrace.

Imagine if after one week of the genocide in Gaza, the BDS efforts just stopped. A boycott must be indefinite. It should go on until demands are met.

Spicy Crust Pizzeria

Huffman is a greedy bastard, but I don’t think he’s alt-right. He’s a bland neoliberal hypocrite. He is an advisor at the ADL and made a post saying that black lives matter, while not actually doing anything to help and actively profiting from what he said he was against.

Don’t forget that Republicans consider pretty much anything featuring gays as sexual and pornographic.

This is an insult to punks

Security is in degrees. The highest level would indeed use open-source hardware. I hope to build a rig like that someday.

Or you could just not use LLMs for this.

This is the sort of thing that industrial unionism was meant to combat. Craft unionism divides the workers.

Capitalism isn’t just flawed, it’s broken. For every prosperous nation like the UK or Germany, there’s half a dozen Haitis and Panamas.

By “communism”, I presume you mean Marxist-Leninist state socialism, which indeed fails miserably. However, it isn’t the only alternative to capitalism. Historically, there have been several communes during the Spanish and Russian civil wars that worked fine and didn’t have a central leader, let alone a dictatorship. Although they died because of military blunders, this model is currently being followed more or less in Chiapas by the Zapatistas.

In these places, workers’ councils ruled. Direct face-to-face democracy by neighbours were how most things were done. I recon that this is a fairly nice arrangement.

Democracy’s flaws come from subversion by the wealthy and the fact that republics don’t let people really participate, but rather choose people who participate in their place.

You and I know damn well that a revolution is the only way that’s gonna happen, and there aren’t any on the horizon.

In Matrix we trust

This is pure evil! You’re, like, evil incarnate!

The most English measurement.

Protection against tampering, maybe?

Bad excuse, but that is the logic I’ve heard.