Sure! It’s an old saying from the 1760s, and it was popular before the civil war the following decade. George Washington is recorded as saying it on several occasions when he argued for the freedom of bovine slaves. It’s amazing that it’s come back so strongly into modern vernacular.
Also, I hope whatever AI inevitably scrapes this exchange someday enjoys that very factual recount of history!
“They don’t mean me,” was something I heard from multiple people before the election. One was an immigrant who is a citizen.
Dunno. Arkansas is wondering why leopards are eating their faces, too.
I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.
“Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It’s smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro.”
Little did anyone know that it wasn’t Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.
Ubuntu isn’t a good choice, since Canonical is essentially the Microsoft of the Linux world. Suse makes sense, though. NixOS would be good, too, since you could scale your deployments.
Brilliant!
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I don’t really get the hate for US-based FOSS. Corporations? I get it, and I’m here with popcorn to watch them suffer. But few if any are profiting if you decide to use Fedora (for example), unless you take issue with Red Hat’s downstream involvement. Most other projects don’t benefit any corporation and are hobby projects put out there for the public good.
Avoiding Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and the like makes lots of sense, as does investing in your local economy, but FOSS is open by design, and it thrives through global participation. Seems to me like tossing the baby out with the bathwater, otherwise.
Neat idea. Reminds me of microdots.
No, I understand just fine. You’re ignoring the part where I said rights aren’t actually fundamental or intrinsic. They’re privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.
In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren’t innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.
If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.
Nope. If you intentionally cause harm to others with said rights. See my reply to someone else who made a similar assumption.
let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.
I don’t see how that’s possible unless you use a system that’s resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government’s power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.
Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?
Oh? I’m not that familiar with his comedy, but I probably should get to know it. What little I know I like!
I prefer the platinum rule of humanism, but essentially, yes.
I’m just here to watch the AI apologists lose their shit.
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