I take it a sufficiently determined individual can bypass enough of redoit’s BS to get in.

You should choose wisely how to allocate your energies.

In this case, do you really want to lend your energy to an outfit that so actively disrespects your preferences? Think about what you are encouraging in your own world.

Even if you could get back on there, is it a good thing FOR You in the long run? Of course you could scratch the itch, but do you lose more than you gain over the long term?

Beyond just the personal energy budgeting, it also seems like we want a tech solution to a political problem. If we are to have a true tech public square, it seems very wrong to allow an unelected and unaccountable entity to own that square. So under no circumstance should you be banned from any public speech forum simply for speech (save maybe for making credible and actionable bodily threats). That’s a political guarantee that has to be enforced by a democratically accountable government. No single company can own and make admin decisions for the digital public square. That’s a political demand. Obviously that’s not how thing work today. But this may give you some ideas of what you may want to push for so that in the future you can avoid what happened to you recently.

All that meta info would need to be spoofed. Even spoofing the 80%, rather than all, might be enough.

Corporatuons must have legal limits to their size in people, capitalization, revenue, etc.

If we allow limitless growth then there won’t be a wall thick enough to hide us from all the bullshit.

Billionaires should not exist, and corporations must have strict limits too.

Having one corporation buy out every other one and get into every type of business is way too much power. Look at how things work in S. Korea where the president has to kiss the feet of the CEO of Samsung. Because Samsung is way too big and does way too many things. Corps like that are just begging to be split up.

Step 1: turtleneck

Step 2: reality distortion bubble

Step 3: massive profit

Look, I love the idea of a Linux phone.

But $500 and it manages my temptations for me? Fuck no.

The whole point of Linux is freedom.

Enough behavior shaping.

Even one billionaire is a policy failure.

The people getting tricked are CEOs and investors.

It’s at least a bubble if not a fad.

It’d be diffetent if the AI sales pitch were only tricking lonely people looking for text-only relationships.

I agree with you in a sense, but what a good trick it is.

Capitalism sucks:

• Private property fetishism (erodes the commons)
• Free market fundamentalism (prioritizes the freedoms of the biggest asset holders over the rest)
• Accumulationism (incentivizes hoarding far beyond where most people would have liked to stop hoarding if the system didn’t demand it)
• Consolidationism leading into economic royalism (mergers leading to monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, a two-tiered “justice” system, rules for thee but not for me)
• Transactionalism (no sense of society or priciples, but instead a system of backscratching where things only get done for their exchange value and for no other reason)

That’s the difference between libre software and merely open source software.

Libre licenses make it hard or impractical to close the source at a later date.

Open source licenses are much more permissive and allow any entity to produce a closed source derivation at any time.

Libre licenses are all about strategically protecting the software commons from privatization.

Is security of hardware pass or fail? And only Pixel passes while all other phones fail?

What makes Pixel so drastically preferrable?

I am starting to doubt GrapheneOS judgement here.

You’re saying even the 2nd best phone is a fail. I don’t buy it. Can a security researcher please comment?

Bring us some democracy while you’re at it.

if other phones met GrapheneOS’ security standards

This rhetoric is not OK.

Obviously security is important, but so is not financially aiding and abetting your enemy.

Graphene people are deeply unserious if they can’t understand the urgency of both points.

GrapheneOS needs to settle on the 2nd most secure system after Google, if Google is really the #1.

Cut Google’s hardware out NOW.

Problem is, what you call “surviving” is just kicking the can down the road.

I don’t think the onus is on you alone. Nor do I think you need to play hero.

You need to be honest. You are feeding the beast that will eat your family later. Yes, you get another day. Meanwhile your horizons just got narrower, as you assist forces in your world that are closing off (privatizing) your world.

Just look at it all in context. We certainly can’t just keep indefinitely playing along nicely in the name of survival. At some point your world becomes a place not even worth surviving in. Are we looking for that point?

Assuming the manufacturing costs (materials + utilities + other fees + labor + profit extraction) for the two types of batteries are equal, yes.

It’s easier to search online for WLBR than for Imp. It might occasionally force people to search for the full name “GNU Imp”, which might be a plus.

Other than that, I love your proposal.

Libertarians are in favor of maximum freedom for the maximally wealthy first and foremost. It’s an ideology promoted by the late Koch brothers.

It doesn’t take a genius to realize how this type of “freedom” shakes out for the less wealthy, and then further down, for the have-nots.

Basically libertarians are just undercover fascists.

Some notes.

Unionizing is great when you must work in a business with highly concentrated ownership. Unions, when they are democratic, counterbalance the concentrated ownership of your workplace.

An undemocratic union can be a tool for worker management as opposed to worker empowerment.

However, workers should aspire to own their workplaces. That’s what worker coops are for.

In a worker coop workers are the owners and the boss of themselves. That goes far beyond what even the best union can achieve for worker empowerment.

Also workers competing for scraps has been a thing forever now. AI simply pours gasoline on that fire. It’s bad, really bad, but not new.

The main problem is landlessness or assetlessness. When you own nothing, you will accept any conditions to survive. Owning nothing sets your leverage to 0. Even if you have skills, if you can’t say ‘no’ you cannot negotiate. To be able to say ‘no’ reliably and reasonably you need either personal assets, or incredibly useful and resourseful commons, which are assets in which you have an unshakeable share.

We should do away with the landless/assetless condition as a matter of principle. That means wealth accumulations must have a ceiling.

“Run the government like a business.”

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I’ve moved plenty and you don’t see me ever casually suggesting it to a stranger on the internet. Not once.

There is no one, no one ALIVE, who doesn’t know about moving. Likely the person you suggested it to moved 5 times already and knows more about it than you. It’s very possible.

Eat shit with your shit advice.

The person was asking about dating and you told them to move without knowing a damn thing about their life or preferences. It’s really dumb.

That’s advice on the level of “Just take a small 10 million dollar loan from your father.”

Laughably unserious.

You need to meet the people where they are at.

I moved recently, and nearly died as a result. It was hell. And I got lucky too. I’ve moved 10 times. Each move was hell. I never benefitted from moving. I just treaded water. I often moved because I had to, not because it was good, and by often I mean each time. Often one aspect would improve while another would go into the toilet. Not a single move was a pure win or a solution to anything. Fuck every trashcan out there that casually, completely mindlessly, suggests moving like moving is so easy, like it has no downsides, like moving is a solution, like moving is affordable to anyone any time, etc. Fuck that kind of “advice.” Fuck every trashcan out there with this kind of “just take a small 10 million dollar loan from of father” style of advice. Or like “just learn how to code.” Another trash advice. In fact 99% of all life advice is trash.