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If you have a reading mode in your browser it works well on that site. :)
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piefed 1.8.1As He died to make men holy
Let us die to make things cheap
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I keep on thinking of pmOS as PMS OS, which is also maybe not ideal. I guess it is bleeding edge.
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Cool! I always love keeping up with GIMP, thanks for working on it!
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Apparently it was added in GIMP in 1999 to sample that bitmaps could be used as brushes, and nobody bothered to remove it. At this point I guess there would be an outrage if they did.
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"workers admitted to sabotaging their company’s AI by [...] intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it"
Lol. Sounds an awful lot like the company is sabotaging itself in this case.
Pretty tragic story of a man who knows for years he is doing evil, but is unable to get out of his comfy bubble of exploitation before being actively laid off. It reads as a case study of how evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
- Be informed. Read books rather than endless snippets of doom. Arendt, Orwell, Graeber, Steinbeck—there's plenty of options. Avoid spiralling into ideological rabbit holes—reading Marxist literature is good, exclusively reading Marxist literature is deeply concerning.
- Share quality content on the open web where fascists cannot sensor speech. Focus on building communities.
- Encourage others by being kind and supportive, and understanding of differences. Inspite of popular opinion there's still a big gap between centrists and fascists—welcome the centrists with open arms, take their points seriously, and debate on reasonable terms. You can both learn something from each other—just because you understand the contours of the system of oppression it doesn't mean you've got it all figured out. Remain humble.
- Take care of yourself, if it feels heavy maybe make some tea and craft something or read a pleasent book.
That would be my advice, I guess. In general I think there's more positivity to be found in long-form content, as people have had time to think about issues beyond the initial shock and disgust of the state of affairs expressed in daily news and short form content.
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I find I mildly interesting that X is still launching new features that are technically unrelated to declaring itself to be mechahitler and generating non-consensual pornography of unknowing women and children.
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Gaël Duval, the lead developer behind /e/OS, has been recommending an app called Zettle on his blog. It at least work on degoogled /e/OS, probably GrapheneOS as well. I have no personal experience as I prefer sticking to cards.
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The hitlerjugend fetish starter pack is gonna be a hit. Those guys must be in disbelief of how lucky they have gotten with recent social media developments.
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Yeah. Companies running on state subsidies competing with others who are not is not capitalism “working”, it’s just another rug pull leaving us all fucked.
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The only thing it means is that at least they’re afraid. I’d be surprised if this money made it into actual humanitarian aid considering how Kraft seems to be best buds with Netanyahu and still insists that opposing genocide is antisemitism.
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My first reaction was to think the same, but this kinda assumes class mobility. Which is rare.
I think it’s more likely that upper class kids are more likely to be entitled and grow up to become entitled adults.
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Chinese cars are heavily subsidized by the state. The reason they’re so cheap is because China bets it can squeeze the competition out of the market before charging basically whatever they want.
I’ve seen Starbucks do the same thing to independent coffee shops.
Edit: This is a post about real car companies like Nissan, Volvo, Mercedes, Renault, whatever. I don’t care about America. Nobody has for decades.
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I love how criticizing the Chinese car industry leads people to asssume I love the American one.
The US hasn’t produced a decent car since the 60s. I don’t even factor them into the calculation.