refuse.

That’s just not practically possible.

OP said they’re running a small business. It’s great that they want to fly the flag for FOSS, but they’re not in the business of promoting and advocating for FOSS. They still need to do the things they need to do.

Refusing to file your taxes on the grounds that the software provided is not open source is a great way to no longer be in business.

Perhaps.

I’m less optimistic. The world over voters seem to be drawn towards these populist assholes, and I think it’s important to note that the UK is not an exception, despite the labour victory.

I fear that next election reform is going to do much better.

In the mean time, Labor may not have much of a mandate for progressive policies, they’ll be creeping to the right to quell support for reform party.

I think people think of fascism as specifically “murdering minorities” or something rather than a form of autocracy.

My partner of 12 years and mother of my children got citizenship in my home country a few days ago. It’s been a long and difficult road to get here.

A winning horse?!

It’s hard to imagine how you could pick a horse less likely to win.

This sounds an awful lot like doing nothing

What does that even mean though?

As long as the rule of law and checks and balances can be continued afterwards

Historically that never happens and it’s naive to think that it would.

Even if that were true, and it seems unlikely, that’s still an order of magnitude more than the ladybug devs.

Of course it’s arbitrary.

It doesn’t take much self awareness to realise that having a president pick and choose which SCOTUS rulings they think are ok, is exactly the type of authoritarian autocrat you’re trying to avoid.

Arbitrarily rewriting laws you don’t like sounds pretty fascist to me.

These threads are awash with comments like this but you can’t avoid fascism by becoming a fascist.

Shit is fucked but arbitrary killing is not the solution.

You can’t beat fascism by becoming fascist.

Sorry mate this is just bonkers.

It might seem that way but it’s a fairly arrogant assertion. They’re a sophisticated organisation with a lot of well experienced people guiding them. As an outsider it’s easy to criticise their seemingly endless series of bad decisions, but I’m still confident that internally all of these decisions seemed like a good idea at the time.

Besides which, this would be a good reason to fork their codebase rather than starting from scratch.

Nice. These look great.

Do you know if it will turn off entirely if the temp is low enough? Or they just idle away at 300rpm or so.

I’m sure it was just one flea.

Idk but it’s dope.