I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 2004. Waiting for everybody else to see it too. … See it yet??? Everybody???

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany moment now…

… it’s going to start to trickle down.

“Why was 6 scared of 7? Because 7 8 9.”

(that works better spoken, than in text. … 7 ate 9.)

Fuckit, lets all go install templeOS.

Alas, but, tragedy of commons and game theory [(and FOMO)] have us racing to the bottom (~ along with a dozen other things impeding an effective collective bargaining, or any of the other things that would otherwise allow us to have nice things).

Is there a queue?

Couldn’t we just have warning messages?

Thus preserving free speech and not setting a precedent that may [/ shall inevitably] come back to bite us.

Maybe even LLM could generate the warnings on the fly.

“Look out! Now he’s reading the plans off the teleprompter! … Look out! Now he’s spitballing freestyle! … Beware there are three fallacies per word uttered for this portion. … Beware of the fevered ego of a narcissist tactically noising up an evasive distraction, gaslighting, darvo, future faking. … Warning: This section contains fascist tactics of blaming the other, drumming up fear of losing an identity of a nostalgic past that never really existed, drumming up hate and racial groupthink to induce a divisive totalitarian mob eager to militarise under supremacist delusion of destiny to rule to be fulfilled by jingoist expansionism and total domination but wraps it in a euphemism of flowery language heavilly laden with superlatives. … Fact check: This portion makes false claims of having fulfilled promises. … Note: this is just empty tautological statements sandwiched between bragging and boasting and hard-sell. … Warning: This section contains a psyop to dupe you into thinking you should be blindly faithful to your leader, rather than your elected representative being faithful to the will of you the people.”

… Stuff like that. n_n

Or maybe simpler, just like on tobacco products. “Warning, listening to this may cause brain damage, emotional instability, cognitive dissonance, discombobulation, and totalitarianised fascistic supremacist persuasions of competing groupthinks, to divide and conquer your population with this, a weapon of mass distraction. Observe responsibly.”

Or maybe more compassionate, like a health warning… “this is what happens to you when you let yourself get played by blackmailers who want to wear your narcissistic ego like a puppet, and you stew your brain in excitotoxins for decades to induce a slow chemical lobotomy leaving you blissfully oblivious to how much you get played like a puppet.”

… Okay, I’ll stop. I realise I could probably do dozens of these, and they’re not really that funny or revealing or hot or useful to be worth it. n_n

Troubling, given how much the put-up-or-hack-up users-are-developers ethos having slipped as more and more come in enjoying the convenience wrapping, with their consumer mentality.

That is amusing if BSD do that. Being from there.

Them being armed will make it a lot more thrilling when you persist in asking them under what conditions are you lawfully obligated to comply.

War is good for business?

Yep.

Plenty bad reasons though.

Mostly around abuse of the vulnerable, data-mining, advertising/marketing/psyops/publicrelations, pedophilia, pedovoria, disempowerment, indoctrination, dumbing-down, wealth extraction maximisation, profiling, voter suppression, gerrymandering, insurance scams, etc.

Still struggling to conceive of even a single good reason…

… So it helps us detect the crooked politicians who would vote for such a thing?

If only all those agents hadn’t told us to not use the political compass, we might be less lost now. :3

Ahhh. Neo-liberal.

Gotta love that Orwellian marketing.

Neo-liberal. Neither new (neo), nor liberal.

Basically, same old fascist.

Yup.

Welcome to newspeak, USA-flavor.

Still drinking hair of the dog to nurse the McCarthyian redscare hangover.

Layers deep into the newspeak. Liberal, conservative, democrat… all these terms already many contortions and inversions distanced from original meaning. Soon, even “him”, “he” and “himself” too. Then even “is” and “not”, and then the CIA’s work will be done.

Armed thugs of the state break into every home, and install their bigbrotherware operating system, and kill anyone who flinches like they might be committing any acts of dissidence. There we go. Everybody happy. And of course, you wont own the software. You’ll be renting it. Like everything else. Own nothing, be happy. Maybe they care. :/

I wonder if that “this distro is not allowed in California” approach is even compatible with the various free software licenses.

No addresses or entities tied to the distro respins I’ve made.

That was not a requirement in the software license.

Or they made a law to attempt to ban operating systems with free software licenses.

No biggie. I got ready for this in minutes after hearing about it.

#!/usr/bin/env fish
read -P "Are you old enough?  (yes/no)  " input
if test "$input" = "yes" -o "$input" = "Yes"
echo "Proceeding..."
else
echo "You are not old enough.  Exiting." 
exit 1
end

… What? … Why are you all looking at me like that?