Refurbished Refurbisher

I can in cases where you already bought the product. Fanboys are a thing for a reason.

My nickname in high school was “big chopstick”

What is this “soap water” you speak of? Is it a new magick spell?

Different sects of the same religion hate each other (catholics and protestants, shia and sunni muslims, hasidic jews and every other jew, etc). It’s not that much of a stretch that different religions under the same umbrella also hate each other.

They’re also brainwashed to believe that Palestinians are all subhuman terrorists who want all Israelis dead.

Not that much different to post-9/11 anti-Muslim campaigns leading into Iraq and Afghanistan, Red Scare propaganda, Nazi antisemitic propaganda, etc.

Israel’s government is basically being run by Dick Cheney’s clone. If Netanyahu actually cared about Israelis, then this genocide would have never happened.

Not even just Israel. Saudi Arabia attacked the US on 9/11 as the declassified documents that Obama released showed, and the US proceeded to go to war with two unrelated countries instead, and the US is still allied with Saudi Arabia. Hell, nobody even talked about it on mainstream news, and the public seems to have completely forgotten about it.

What is this “reading comprehension” thing? Is that like when you copy and paste something into ChatGPT?

I can use dd after running “lsdvd” on CSS protected DVDs.

I have no idea why it works.

A foot is 12 inches.

I still think PWAs are a good idea instead of needing to download an app on your phone for every website. Like, for example, PWAs can easilly replace most banking apps, which are already just PWAs with added tracking.

Looks like somebody has a case of the Mondays.

I call that Tuesday.

Everytime I hear about the need to pay to do a job, my mind immediately jumps to pyramid scheme.

It’s also totally possible to survive on a cross for three days and for someone to take you down while you’re unconscious and put you in a cave.

Twice

Cartridges cost a lot more to produce than cheap, plastic discs or modern, SD card-esque flash storage.

Democracy isn’t the problem; it’s the money in politics, which is an intended effect of capitalism.

Capitalism is the problem. Capitalism by its very natire is a system of economic distribution where you have an owner class who control a working class via wages, where the working class will never be paid what they are worth due to the profit motive that the owner class has when it comes to the profit of their business. Shareholder capitalism makes this even worse, as the profit year-over-year must ALWAYS go up, as that is how stock price increases. It is to the point where shareholders sue companies not for losing money, but for making less money than they did the year prior, and they win.

Imagine an alternative where you could have democracy in your workplace (worker-owned coops). You would be able to hire and fire your boss with a vote. You will be able to determine the direction of the business, also with a vote. This could be the reality if we just forced all corporations to be worker-owned coops.

This, combined with a hard wealth cap and a UBI, will prevent any one person (or small group of people) from gaining enough power to buy a government, and the addition of democracy in business will also make business interests harder to corrupt as well.

Yup. Mass organization is the only way we can resist anything, as workers and even consumers have the true power in a capitalist society, but only as a single, large group.

The way that the robber barons were able to tear us apart is through very simple divide and conquer schemes. Turning people against immigrants, black people, trans people, Jews, etc. instead of people turning against the robber barons/people in power, who were always the ones doing the true damage in societu.

That’s not even the Confederate flag; that is a more modern flag created by Jim Crow-era racists who wanted to symbolize that black people aren’t welcome in that location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_battle_flag

More generally, the founders wrote the constitution as if every leader will act in good faith. That has proven to be a bad idea, but also how do you even account for that? Their idea was a system of checks and balances, but that failed to account for when one party has control over every branch, and for when one branch goes rogue and starts ignoring the other two branches, as we are seeing now with the executive.

IMO, limiting power (money in the case of a capitalistic society) is the only way. The founders had the right idea with the limitation of power, but they didn’t take that idea to the economic side of things. Force all corporations to be worker owned coops and have a hard wealth cap of $50 million by taxing anything over at a rate of 100%.