Hard disagree. Corporations taking L’s due to consumer choice is just about the last non-violent message we have that ever gets a response. Calling reps doesn’t matter at all, and I have no idea how changing shopping habits is expected to be harder than the degree of protesting required to achieve anything.
Many of our lives are improved by ditching the abusive relationship with these giant corporations, anyway, so the idea that it’s even strictly a burden is just not accurate.
The problem with making that assumption is that it downplays the very scary degree of spying technology (evidenced by contracts with firms that supply such) they are using.
It’s a new degree of surveillance escalation to this fascist organization, and it’s bad news for everyone.
That’s how it reads to me too, accidentally saying “hurry up and riot already, something’s gotta piss some of you off enough to do it”.
Wild that this is where we are - our president trying to bait us into helping him justify massacring us.
Not quite the same type of jackboot here, but nonetheless “Uvalde” is all we need to know about how heroism LARPers pick and choose their violence in the most vile ways.
Guarantee if we ever see an armed response to one of these ICE raids, the LARPers will fall into chaos and shoot everywhere, likely killing a WHOLE lotta people by accident, probably including a lot of each other (all of which will be blamed on the targets of course).
And you’d imagine if there were any of these hardened criminals among their targets like they claim, at least one of em would’ve tried to shoot their way out of deportation by now. Weird!
Honestly, with some tweaks, sounds like not a bad way to start getting your random corporate social media enjoyers to care about privacy.
This is such a strange and out-of-touch comment (to me) that I can’t tell if it’s bad sarcasm or…what.
Ah yes, chiming in from the “arguments containing the useful content and maturity of an unripe melon” department, thanks for your input
Oh wow that is a subtle but juicy detail, sure looks like exactly that to me, nice catch!
3 were killed in one of those on the same day, one state over in Colorado.
The Democrats’ stated party strategy, after putting their heads together following the most recent L - is to go more hardcore center. Try to peel votes from Trump by going a little more right. I shit you not, this is what they took away from the last election, about why they lost and what to do about it.
Democrats are not going to save us.
(though I acknowledge that for now someone actually decent basically has to pose as a Democrat for any hope of success)
Feel like saying more about what ya like?
Just in the name of completeness, I wouldn’t say that’s the only downside. I definitely have some stability issues with Bazzite, only when gaming though. But game crashes, occasional OS crashes, that hasn’t been exactly rare for me. But I will say, gaming is about the one thing in my life I’m almost unwilling to troubleshoot these days. Could be something specific to my setup that is uncommon for others, making my data point unhelpful.
And by and large, I’d absolutely recommend it for any Windows user who wants an easily transferable user experience and broadly fantastic gaming support with minimal fuss.
Would you be willing to say more about what you know / experienced about the removal of Discover? Preferences included? I only noticed it recently, been away from things for a bit, and you sound like your brief info would probably be at least as fruitful as the reading I was gonna look for :)
Mark my words, they are hoping and expecting reactions, from this especially, but from everything they do.
The actual accelerationists, the ones who mean it, who aren’t cosplaying on the weekends, and who actually have the means to achieve it - are in the White House. Every new instability they cause, and every single violent act from anyone of any stripe, contributes to the chaotically ramped up, militarized, unhinged climate that they precisely want for the next election cycle.
It’s been less than a year. You’re not being paranoid - naive, if anything. You and everyone else should start preparing for the worst - they are really going to try it, and we’ve seen very little opposition from the rest of the US government(s).
I’ve never met anyone in the broadly tech fields (and I’ve been through quite a span of them) who regrets completing an even somewhat relevant degree. I’ve met, many, many people who lament not starting or finishing one (and many of these were very competent, capable people, good at their jobs).
It’s expensive and difficult, sure was for me, but it is very useful (and the learning is fantastic too if you do it right).
Either spell the word properly, or use something else, what the fuck are you doing? Don’t just glibly strait-jacket language, you’re part of the ongoing decline of the internet with this bullshit.
Interesting. Good to have a less rent-seeking option, not sure I love the idea of the Fed just (assumedly) having access to all my transactions, though.
What a great way to frame it, I love this! I typically spend something like 60-80% of time available for a given task thinking through approaches and trade-offs, etc. Usually there comes a point when the way forward becomes clear, even obvious.
After that? Bliss. I’m snapping together a LEGO set I designed, composed of pieces I picked (maybe made one or two new ones!), and luxuriating in how it all feels, when put together.