Calling democracy mob rule is really old. I would at least prefer representatives to be scientists or otherwise the most informed on the subject and policies they are deciding on. I would also prefer all policies to be tested to see if they actually create their desired outcomes. I would prefer the desired outcome to always be increasing human and environmental wellbeing.

He’s not the first but I was thinking about that. I can’t remember the critic but early on in the American experiment someone described it as mob rule.

Similar but I would prefer a representative democracy but where the representatives need to be national experts on what they are deciding. So for instance if it’s medicine then the representatives need to be physicians and medical scientists, and previous heads of hospitals. If it’s dealing with the environment then the representatives need to be environmental scientists, civic engineers, and so on. Aka have the most informed people for that which you are trying to make decisions. Even better, have their policies reviewed by a body of their peers the same way scientific publishing works to get a measure on how good or bad their ideas are. Even better, test their ideas when they’ve been implemented to see if they’re actually working.

You would be surprised, I’ve heard that response more than once already. They are just philanthropic and dump millions upon millions of dollars down the drain for the love of FOSS and the community.

Yup just tell group X who dislikes thing Y or group Z that X and Z are bad and you’re in like Flynn.

And it’s “free speech” protected by the constitution, god I love citizens united /s

As always the most valuable natural resource isn’t gold or diamonds, it’s minds. If you control enough minds you control the world.

That’s the plan, undercut funding for US AI labs, also the main reason they’ve been releasing open source models after spending millions to train them essentially getting zero financial return. They didn’t release them for the love of FOSS or just donate that capital for the lolz.

That’s why democracy is also known as being ruled by the hordes of idiots. It’s amazing when people are well informed on what they are voting on, the problem is that’s never happened in mass and never will. People will vote based on their feelings or just straight up not at all.

If you want system usages to be as low as possible you can skip a GUI all together, just use viu, mpv, w3m and such or you can look into projects like DSL (damn small Linux) and puppy Linux. If you’re trying to maintain a mostly normal experience you can look into efficiencies in compiling your kernel and software a la Gentoo.

Yeah, there’s a push to no ownership or everything as a service with user data collection and ads. A more than good reason to use and support FOSS and non-profits. We’re starting to see governments adopting Linux so that’s good, corporations will follow and maybe just maybe there will be a proper pushback on that trend.

Typically when a service is free you are the product. This is a good example.

Solar Punk, here we go!