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It's already a system where unaccountable private monopolistic moralizing multinational middle men have the power to tell you what you can spend your money on.

Sorry for your loss, but this experience is not universal in Toronto. I was visiting my (sick) older brother about a year ago when he woke me up calling out about chest pain. I cal…

It always was.

Interestingly "no government" also appears to be exactly what is happening in the US with what some people might describe as end stage Capitalist society.

New Mexico is experimenting with free child care. Canada has nationalized its own system and while it isn't free, it is heavily subsidized.

Odd that so few folks supposedly opposed to those wars appear to be speaking out against war with Venezuela.

ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/ Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way…

IMO FOSS "lost the plot" when we accepted the false argument that source code sharing was purely an engineering issue rather than an ethics issue.

If it works well enough for the people who use it, why does it matter?

Many people are saying it. Unfortunately the small minority of nasty people opposed to it are using violence to stifle free debate.

It's the Stonecutters. They did it before with Steve Guttenberg.

Absolutely. RTO mandates. Blanket AI adoption for developers. All these asinine trends done solely to make executives feel like they are still relevant.

The blanket RTO mandate is peak cargo cult thinking and a great example of why executives should be the first employees that should be replaced with "AI", rather than the last.

I've been using btrfs on my NAS for years and have not had any problems. I suspect there are a hell of a lot of people like me you will not hear about because people don't generall…

A fun game is to replace "Donald Trump" in news stories with "Hillary Clinton" and to imagine the reaction if they were otherwise identical.

I've been running a MythTV backend to record OTA content since the early 2000's and PBS is, by far, my most recorded channel.

I am following the development of a new company called Slate who are specifically trying to build low cost EV's by shunning gimmicky BS like "self driving" and selling them with on…

France's freedom of speech is as strong, or stronger, than the US.

Out of curiosity, is it a "smart" appliance that requires an app to function?

ICE just got a massive boost in funding, so the money is obviously there to pay for it.

And that person is "rebuilding" the FDA. https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-ai-will-approve-new-drugs-at...

I saw it last night. The cinematography of the racing sequences was interesting. The races they actually depicted were not, though. The human story line was trash, just a really ho…

Personally, I fully expect this to gradually become the primary method by which all ID is issued and used. Cell phones are already effectively mandatory to function in our society,…

Four years of air drying may not have been enough, depending on the thickness of the boards and the moisture level in the air. Also the issues of wood movement and grain direction …

"This time WE will be in control." is probably what they were thinking.