Ildsaye [they/them]

Varoufakis sure does like to blame Capitalists doing Capitalism capitalistly on other modes of production. It’s as if he doesn’t want people to recognize that Capitalism always reaches a monopoly phase and no configuration of it is capable of making a livable future in the real world.

I wish I was one

In order to have a control to test this hypothesis, we must make a world where Nazis are no longer even marginally topical

It’s just science.

Frustrating how no distinctions are made between daily and occasional usage. A study that could lead to better studies; not news.

With regard to flimsiness, M-disc Blurays and DVDs are capable of serious long-term storage, but they are very expensive. They require an M-disc-capable burner.

Speech Note - Speech to text, text to speech, translation, and the voices and translation modules appear to all be FOSS. After downloading modules, everything it does is local.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with miniaturized computers with transceivers either, but companies managed to design one from the ground up to obscure and restrict its full functionality and covertly betray user data - the smartphone. The designs that get pushed under capitalism are biased in this way, and all the more so in late capitalism.

None of our individual strategies are “the answer”. The situation won’t be turned around by individuals making personal choices, but by organized efforts. A world in which Terms and Conditions don’t supersede your rights is possible.

Another factor is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Late capitalism has to keep finding more and more shameless ways to squeeze regular people as the easy money recedes. Lobbyists are pushing harder to lock people into a few big services and subscriptions so they are forced to yield more personal data and spending money.

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In case anyone is curious, an M-Disk burner can make optical backups intended to last long-term. Can be costly though.

I rung in the new year by making the switch

Deserters have the right to defend themselves (by fragging officers)

Wile E. Coyote should be US president

He would just spend all his time pursuing the Roadrunner instead of doing imperialism. He would have all the resources of the military-industrial complex at his disposal to that end, but he would just keep crashing F-35s into cliffs and shit chasing the Roadrunner. And his vice president and cabinet would be no better - all hand-picked cronies from the Acme corporation’s revolving door with the government, only there to help President Coyote devise new contraptions to catch the Roadrunner with.

Attention, fame, encouragement, and engagement are also currency, and aiding fascists is fascism. We all deserve to live in a world where fascists don’t feel safe openly declaring themselves.