Bill Gates? The Epstein guy?

Is this the second or third recently?

Right wingers love Sowell tho

Civility should be liberalism and they should be cheering it on to eat socialists in the second panel

What country do you live in and how much should you be punished for living in it?

On the contrary they should have rushed it. China in particular needs to get away from making its economy so dependent on exports, particularly those paid for in dollars. Its interests are so tied to the US that it is more likely to bail it out than let the empire crumble. And the empire will use such bailouts to fund its military to force conflicts against China’s interest. And Russia’s central banking is run by neoliberals that are squandering theit chance for proper reindustrialization, something that would be more challenging with a BRICS commitment to dedollarization. They are essentially betting on being able to create new foreign reserves in USD later.

Sounds a bit toi optimistic from the title. BRICS failed to dedollarize when it had its best chance.

Github is basically social media but for tech nerds. Social media networks naturally monopolize, as they primarily have value because everyone else is already there. If you put your project on Github and it is popular you might get 2k “stars” and regular pull requests. If you put your project on an alternative you might get 10X less of both. So people make decisions about the trade-offs between exposure and avoiding Microsoft

The US has been punishing open source contributors from countries they don’t like.

o7

Fun etymological fact: very long ago, tyranny used to refer to an autocratic leader that issued a debt jubilee, generally in response to a peasant uprising. A debt jubilee is where most or all debts are declared invalid, a clean debt slate for society, and was generally necessary to keep society functioning. The mini revolution that appointed the tyrant would be short-lived and the prior systen would more or less remain in place, just with cancelled debts.

The NYPD’s total budget is over $10 billion. They pull from other line items for things like buildings and benefits.

The NYPD budget would make it something like the third largest military if compared to countries’ military budgets. The NYPD’s main purpose is to protect capital which, per “stop and frisk” and similarly racist policies, are intended to harass minority groups. If there is a safety issue where minutes matter, they are only hours away. If a shop window gets broken they’ll be there immediately.

The classic case of “resisting arrest” by involuntarily responding to the violence done to you by cops. If a cop became a doctor they’d call your knee reflex test an assault on their person.

For academia I recommend having an IT cost center responsible for the hosting infrastructure, namely virtualization. Then let people have VPSes (or similar) as needed to run docker-based services. This makes it easier to handle network and security concerns. Most large universities already offer something like this to students and faculty.

Why do you want to host them? Usually the difficult parts are necessary because they’re needed to have the level of control, security, and privacy that is the reason a person is self-hosting in the first place. And there are not enough simple standards for running software securely so you do need to learn some nerd stuff to do it right - but no so much that it is impossible for a beginner.

Organizing a socialist movement doesn’t happen online.

Why are you still replying when you have nothing to say? Just be honest and run. I’ll help you: I’ll just ignore your next reply.

PS it’s, “touch grass”.

You’re typing out the words “lol” and “I’m literally laughing out loud” on a keyboard or phone, cognitive dissonance carefully avoided, hoping that by repeating yourself and ignoring what has been said to you, you can get away from this conversation purely on vibes.

You are running away and trying to taunt in bad faith while doing it. Go ahead, bravely run away, nobody is stopping you.

Coward