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I agree. That’s why it’s called “having the courage of one’s convictions”. The people who are protesting are willing to accept the consequences of their actions in order to shake up the system.

But when the system makes up and applies consequences retroactively, it starts a very slippery dilemma where a person can’t protest for fear of “hypothetical” repercussions.

You can’t have the courage of your convictions if you don’t know what the consequences of those convictions are going to be. And you can’t know what the consequences of your actions will be if they’re just made up ex post facto and applied punitively in order to stifle debate rather than following an already established protocol.

disrupts the parliamentary process

That’s the entire point of a PROTEST though…

I’m sure he only means it as “this is the shitty way the world actually works”. Not that he personally believes it himself.

Been running Manjaro for years. Don’t really know what would make me change.

I guess maybe if I suddenly started getting more and more dependency errors when upgrading packages from the AUR it would make me consider jumping to put Arch.

But right not that’s not the case. So the benefit of switching is out weighed by the pain in the ass of having to say Everything up again.

I’m not interested in a homelessness solution put forward by someone with “Green” in their title…

This is basically going to make the population choose between smoking and having kids.

Hell I’d start smoking again.

Someone please put razor blades in this fuckers twelve daily bigmacs already please.

I don’t drive an F-150. I drive a quarter-tonne specifically because I wanted to balance my need for a truck while lessening the impact as much as possible. That’s called “working within the construct of reality” because as a homeowner, I need to make those kinds of decisions.

Solutions need to be based in reality; and the reality is that getting rid of vehicles for bikes doesn’t change anything in the real world because 20 people sharing a single truck for an hour each week to do their shit uses just as much fuel and causes just as much pollution as those same 20 people using 20 trucks for an hour.

And that single truck, seeing twenty times the usage, will wear out faster and end up using exponentially MORE fuel and causing MORE pollution as it ages and wears out; eventually needing to be replaced 20 times faster.

THAT is what I mean when I say “really real world”. Saying some hippy-dippy bullshit about how let’s replace trucks with ebikes isn’t contributing to any sort of serious discussion about realistic solutions. It only exists to make you feel better about yourself without needing to examine the long term repercussions.

Have fun getting groceries. Have fun renovating your house. Have fun taking a load of household recycling to where it needs to go.

Basically have fun doing anything actual real adults have to do in the really real world.

I swear to god, you people who think that replacing vehicles with bikes is actually feasible are so laughably naive about how the actual world works that you must just live on a commune somewhere drinking ayahuasca and playing fucking bongos.

Bikes are great. Ebikes are great. But here in the real world, adults need to do adult stuff. You might as well be telling people that we should all be skateboarding everywhere…

If anyone still thinks the path back to power doesnt include a rebel army and plenty of guns, they’re naive as fuck.

The right has zero intention of giving up control ever again. And the sooner people realize it and start making IED drones, the better.

Management pulled similar shit during the Christmas strike.

Union offered a rotating strike so as to affect christmas package deliveries as little as possible. Management refused and then did whatever they could to blame the workers for “ruining Christmas”.

Fuck corporations. Even government ones.

Anything whose primary motive is profit should be bombed.

Trump will be dead and in the ground, either by bullet or by hamburger, long before any of this ever reaches the functional stage anyway. I can virtually guarantee it.

The only thing that has kept circling my brain for the last half a year has been the scene in Demolition Man when Wesley Snipes says:

“Please just kill this guy already…”

Why is the ICC not on something European like Proton Mail?

Perfect example of the causation fallacy.

If one were to look at that map out of context, once could say that if the temperature is too cold or too hot, murder rates increase.

We all know of course it’s a map of economic disparity, and a whole host of other societal concerns contributing. But without the context of any of those things, we’re liable to think that correlation equals causation.

It’s an important lesson.

I wonder that myself. I’m I’m disappointed in the answer so far because I suspect that people have been utterly programmed to follow irrelevant trifles over substance.

Billionaires always win until people realise it’s time to stop being civilised and time for guillotines.

if not for foreign interference

I guess that really depends on your definition of interference. Conservatives lost because Canadians took one look at the reality of Trump and decided “fuck that…we don’t want a politician who acts like him, even in any small way.”

Poppingfresh was leading only because the only person we were more sick off than him was Trudeau. Once Trudeau was out of the picture, voters basically said “Oh thank Christ…we don’t have to vote for Maple Maga.”

Trump being an ass doesn’t count as interference. And it’s ultimately Poppinfresh’s fault that he refused to pivot away from Trump-style rhetoric and polemics when even his own advisors were telling him it was a losing strategy.

If you wan’t to use FOSS I get it, I want to. But when it comes to professionnal workflow you sometimes have to put your ego on the side. When I tried to ditch the Adobe Suite, the Free(dom) alternatives didn’t worked for me or the proprietary alternatives were simply better.

Then, I would argue, the alternative isn’t to sign petitions to make the corporate guys make their proprietary stuff available on FOSS operating systems. The alternative is to contribute to the FOSS alternatives in order to make them as good as the proprietary.

I’m not saying that you in particular haven’t contributed (either financially or developmentally). I don’t know you, so this isn’t particularly directed at you.

But in general, the “FOSS isn’t as good as proprietary stuff” crowd has overwhelmingly never actually tried to fund or contribute to the development of the software itself and their complaints amount to “Why isn’t my free thing as good as the thing they make me pay for?”

In which case the answer is “of course it isn’t…you’re telling me the software developed on the evenings and weekends by enthusiasts doing it in the spare time for NO money isn’t as polished as a fully funded business software!? NO WAY!!! I’M SHOOKETH!!!”

The alternative to the (perceived) quality disparity between FOSS and Proprietary isn’t to go begging at the Corporations doorstep; it’s to make the FOSS alternatives good enough to take the throne of “industry standard” away from the corporations.

It’s not impossible…hell, Blender is the poster child for pretty much doing exactly that. It’s not the “industry standard”, but it’s accepted in the industry in ways that GIMP and Inkscape still aren’t. And the reason is because it’s good enough to be there.