Germany’s Left Party wants to halve billionaires…
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55·6 months ago“Did you hear about that crash in Washington?” “Yeah, the Republicans took $3.8m in bribes from Delta to let them cram in an unsafe number of flights, and now 70 people are dead”
That’s it, that’s the response. No Republican will read this if you send them a link. Just give them true sound bites.
If they say DEI, just ask them about the bribes. If they say terrorism ask them about the bribes. If they blame Biden ask them about the bribes. Don’t engage with any sentence that doesn’t include the word bribe.
9·6 months agoI didn’t say “Websters Dictionary defines” - I showed that the word is in common usage as a non-perjorative by Jewish sources
A simple search of DDG found multiple Jewish sources using and explaining the use of the word ‘zionist’ as an adjective for individual persons e.g.
The Times of Israel: “To be a Zionist means to recognise the land of Israel as the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people and to believe in the existence of a Jewish state in the land of Zion, or Israel.”
Life, uh, finds a way
Every Best Picture Winner Ranked by How Good a Muppets Version Would Be
“Imagine this. Kermit the Frog in his little Columbo jacket and tiny fedora, backed up by Fozzy, Gonzo, Miss Piggy, and Rizzo. What are they doing? Uncovering the sexual abuse crimes of the catholic church. Billion dollar box-office.”
A summary (no AI, I actually read things then summarise them):
The digital world is the real world - It’s where most people in Western society spend most of their personal social time, and a lot of other time (e.g. work)
But it’s shit. It wasn’t always shit, but it is. Platforms don’t do what you want them to do, or even what they used to do. Cory Doctorow’s enshitiffication describes one mechanism, but really the problem is the rot economy - a mindset that causes technology providers to consider only growth and profit over anything that might be important to real people
This has made technology (and by extension much of everyday life) traumatic. As a tech savvy person you may be aware of some or all of this, including the effects and motivations, and may even be able to avoid some - but by being in the readership of this article, you have to acknowledge you are in a privileged minority
Take the example of someone buying one of the most sold laptops from a big retailer - a common and necessary way for large numbers of people to access the digital world. By the time you fight the kludge of Windows with its integrations and bloatware and updates, then try and use a browser on this underpowered machine, you’ve already been bludgeoned into accepting that everything digital is just terrible, with no way of knowing or understanding that this is not your fault
This is not a trap you can easily escape, and any suggestion that these users are to blame because they bought cheap technology is just another example of the lack of economic awareness and empathy that lead to recent US election results. Similarly, blaming users for a lack of digital literacy when the technology is actively thwarting them would be inappropriate
So what’s the answer? I don’t know. At the very least we need to be empathetic, be aware, and raise awareness that this is happening. Why is this important? Because the digital world is the real world, and it’s being stolen from us
A summary (no AI, I actually read things then summarise them):
The digital world is the real world - It’s where most people in Western society spend most of their personal social time, and a lot of other time (e.g. work)
But it’s shit. It wasn’t always shit, but it is. Platforms don’t do what you want them to do, or even what they used to do. Cory Doctorow’s enshitiffication describes one mechanism, but really the problem is the rot economy - a mindset that causes technology providers to consider only growth and profit over anything that might be important to real people
This has made technology (and by extension much of everyday life) traumatic. As a tech savvy person you may be aware of some or all of this, including the effects and motivations, and may even be able to avoid some - but by being in the readership of this article, you have to acknowledge you are in a privileged minority
Take the example of someone buying one of the most sold laptops from a big retailer - a common and necessary way for large numbers of people to access the digital world. By the time you fight the kludge of Windows with its integrations and bloatware and updates, then try and use a browser on this underpowered machine, you’ve already been bludgeoned into accepting that everything digital is just terrible, with no way of knowing or understanding that this is not your fault
This is not a trap you can easily escape, and any suggestion that these users are to blame because they bought cheap technology is just another example of the lack of economic awareness and empathy that lead to recent US election results. Similarly, blaming users for a lack of digital literacy when the technology is actively thwarting them would be inappropriate
So what’s the answer? I don’t know. At the very least we need to be empathetic, be aware, and raise awareness that this is happening. Why is this important? Because the digital world is the real world, and it’s being stolen from us
2·9 months agoThanks, I ended up going with virt-manager and it was relatively easy
I used to provide tech support for the family, and tried to move them to Linux to make them easier to support (similar simple use cases)
Thry weren’t interested so now requests for help get a genuine “Sorry, I don’t use Windows so I can’t help”
I haven’t booted into Windows since
What do you use to run the VM? I run Mint and have been meaning to get a Windows VM up but there are too many options
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