@mendedpearl I'd like to see all news cooperatively owned by their employees and viewers.
...but then again, I'd basically like to see all businesses cooperatively owned by their employees and customers, so...
...this is a goal for after the Revolution, I guess.
@cwebber Can it power itself from the laptop via USB-C? (I see that it mentions USB-C, but it's not clear if that's for power...)
RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115984575642434357
Someone is wearing a costume that is just a clenched fist with the middle finger extended behind them. This person is riding down a wide street (presumably sloped) on what appears to be an office chair, their legs visible below the knee. Behind them are half a dozen riot-geared thugs apparently trying to catch them and yet somehow unable to keep up with someone rolling down the hill in an office chair.
@wdlindsy One obvious plan behind this: he's telling his faithful that he's de-escalating, and then a few days later he can claim that he "tried to be nice, gave them a chance" but "the violence continued", so now he has to really clamp down. "Tough on crime", "the worst of the worst" and all that insane BS.
@catzilla I'm still working my way through "How to Access the Server Log Files for Dummies", so I will forward this question to @meatballhat who knows how to make the things go beep. 😅
Right on, sister! Remember: "OPEN-SOURCE JOHN MASTODON" was just a corporate trick to get us to give them free coding work.
(Little-known fact: the goons who arrested John Mastodon were not from ICE but DMCA (the Directorate of Mass Coercion and Arrest).)
@gildilinie What, did John Mastodon get arrested at a protest and deported back to Fediland?
@malcircuit FWIW, my feeling is that the overwhelming majority of factors which need to play into this decision are individual and circumstantial, and we each need to make our own decision.
I have friends who are leaving, friends who are trying to leave, friends who are trying to move to a friendlier state, and friends who are staying. (All of them see what's happening, and are horrified -- none of them are trying to pretend it away.)
We're staying, but there are several factors weighing in that direction for us. (...which I could go into if that kind of discussion would be at all helpful, but I won't assume that.)
More generally, though, I do think the trend isn't monotropic: even as one political corner seems to be diving headlong into a fascism event-horizon, the majority of us are finally breaking away from those systems and firmly jetting in the other direction for once.
We will lose much, and many will suffer and die (as many already have), but I don't think we're headed for a permanent 1984. Nazi Germany didn't last forever, Soviet Russia didn't last forever. ...and the internet has proved to be a huge game-changer. IMHO.
...fwiw. [/ramble]
@piarji Tentatively, the difference is whether you actually address criticisms of your reasoning (vs. using rhetorical tricks to avoid addressing it).
I feel like this practice should be a whole area of study that every kid should learn in school (and we've got a lot of remedial teaching to do).
Edit: now that my wife was arrested protesting in South Minneapolis, I had to take some time off work to support her and the babies, and things got rather more dire. Now we need help to pay for the car AND rent...
OK, this is #MutualAid / #BegPosting time.
The car needs a new transmission.
https://www.paypal.me/derpayatz
We finally got a car last month, after a year of bus and bike travel, but with the state of public transit where we live made it too difficult with the twins, who just turned two in October. It's a used car, in pretty good condition. Or so I thought...
Even though I'm employed (in this economy? Thank God), we are at the end of the rope financially. We are living paycheck to paycheck and very deeply in debt. This car repair bill is really more than we can handle right now, and I really hope that you can help me raise the money before the car just dies completely.
Please help. It's $900-$2000 for a used transmission, and $1000 for labor. I'm going to put the middle number here as a goal.
For what it's worth, I'm an immigrant and child of immigrants, and the only wealth I got from my parents is their love for me, and the love of learning they instilled in me. Insofar as I have anything at all, it goes back to those two things.
Please please boost! And if you see it after boosting, you can re-boost by un-boosting and boosting again. Or, if you had good interactions with me here, you could even quote-boost!
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@ariadne @futurebird "Maybe policing isn't for you." (...to paraphrase what the fash like to say about internetting, whenever we talk about moderation of online spaces.)
While "lose your right to vote" may technically be an exaggeration, it's closer to the truth than saying that your right to vote would be unimpaired (which I believe most people would assume if they heard "it doesn't remove your right to vote").
A right is only a right if you can exercise it in practice; being able to exercise it in theory, with sufficient resources and/or luck, is not the same thing.
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@tsyum I've always thought of it as "good-cop / bad-cop politics" but yeah, the Dem establishment needs to go.
