Hmm… i briefly wrote a column (it was … pretty bad) for Linux.com when it was an online magazine in like 1998, i think. I wonder if the address they gave me still works.

Probably not. Heh.

It’s definitely something that needs to be attacked at a systems level, not a personal one. Divesting your own investments is a small step. Writing your MP is another step. Telling your union’s retirement fund that you’d like them to divest is another step.

Many raindrops make an ocean, I suppose. But there are some people who control rivers that we can influence in a small way.

I just don’t see decoupling happening (in my lifetime).

This is a bit of a “all or nothing” fallacy. It admits to degrees. It’s like someone saying that they can’t be vegetarian because they like bacon. Dude, just cut out everything except bacon, it’s fine.

Countries reducing their exposure to USD is still a good step, given how unreliable a partner the USA has been the last decade. You don’t have to fully dump all your USD bonds to add resilience to your financial system.

US power stems directly from its dollar position. Its status as reserve currency is a force multiplier. The immediate step is to reduce exposure to it, which disproportionately reduces US power in the short term.

The longer this goes on, the more systems decouple from the USA and correspondingly the less power and influence they have.

Watched it. Good recommendation.

I’ve used a lot of sed but never ed. Should skim the man page at sone point.

*Memorial Centre. After Canada takes over.

I’ve been to Quebec. They’ll poutine ANYTHING. There are so many variations on the theme, nobody would bat an eye at that.

I miss boibgboing. Never been able to get into it since they paywalled commenting.

Developing the technology now is still useful. Waiting until we’re carbon neutral before even thinking about capture would also be mistake.

Clearly the way to combat this is to remove trans people.

Can confirm. Their builds were pretty bad.

The basic idea is that it can stem from the incel world, the attitude that if they can’t have women, they can become them. It can be a way to affirm hypermasculinity, not challenge it.

So it ends up being dominance, forcing men into subservience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQmpH9NHmjI

That could have been right out of a Bill and Ted movie.

Just a bit misgendery for my tastes. Also some right wing people have glommed onto the whole femboy thing. There is 100% a femboy-fascist pipeline.

I care to the extent that they care. If a politician is making bank on being moral and upstanding and against that sort of thing, I’ll treat them as they treat others when they’re caught with a side hustle.

I’m not sure what’s worse, the greybeard stereotype or the socks.

Lotta small businesses out there.

If it was sold at a loss, businesses would scrape the whole supply and pave them for windows desktops.

It’d be interesting seeing Microsoft in a position where the vendor isn’t automatically making their drivers for them. It’s a massive advantage they have.