*with or without

FTFY

Yes.

I immediately achieved a reputation as the nerd who hung out at the Mom&Pop bookstore/coffee shop in town, did computer repair for half the price of the Geek Squad, and shared extremely "weird" ideas about politics with anyone that dared to ask.

Never did lack for business, but folks stopped talking to me about politics after I ranted to the local Republican party chairman that the Tea Party was just a bunch of rich assholes trying to astroturf them into lowering their taxes at everyone else's expense.

I was right, of course, but it was a red county in a red state and nobody around wanted to hear it. XD

Good.

Politicians should be terrified of the monstrous political movement they've created and/or worked alongside.

If they didn't want to fear for their lives, then they should have worked for the benefit of the people rather than the shareholders.

I disagree, a living martyr is the worst.

Actual left-winger here. We've been saying the USA deserves better than Biden since before the 2020 election. Don't lump us in with the centrists, liberals, and moderates who've only just pulled their heads out of the sand long enough to notice that the incumbent is expected to lose.

There's no point in starting to panic now, all this has been inevitable since the DNC won the right to rig their own primary after the disaster that was the "Her Turn" campaign in 2016. Either y'all start calling your reps and demanding a better option on the ballot, or start making preparations for the fascism and civil unrest in our future.

One doesn't have to go looking, there's lots of assholes who think it's "apolitical" to assume that everyone working in software is a dude.

You mean Orwell's classic anti-capitalist novel wherein a worker's rebellion against tyrannical bosses is betrayed by capitalist pigs who re-create the farm's original conditions for their own profit?

You should read his "Homage to Catalonia", Orwell fought against capitalists in Spain's civil war and wrote a book about his experiences there.

It varies by culture, but the short explanation is "Victorian morality".

She's right, but centralized services like BlueSky won't be it.

Social networks don't need servers playing middlemen, friend-to-friend networks with onion routing to pass messages to friends-of-friends would more accurately reflect the structure of real-world social networks.

Quit reposting this.

Corporations can't be trusted to run an apartment building either.

Apartment buildings should be owned by their tenants.

Big Autocomplete isn't "AI". This is not new technology, this is "We used buzzwords to hype up 20 year old EEG interpreters, please give us money"