No, it’s not. It’s a malicious goal with good branding. It’s not about protecting the children. It’s about massively invading our privacy, identifying verifiably human data, and laying the groundwork to tie all our online activity to our real identities.

I wouldn’t be surprised if support comes from a plugin rather than Vim itself. Plugins can do a LOT in Vim.

Of course, Vim also has a crazy base feature set, so I guess I wouldn’t be all that surprised if it did have base support.

The problem is the system, not the head count. As AI and automation advances, the capitalist class will have no problem causing just as much ecological damage with a hundredth of the current population.

Sure, I’m helping usher in the end of democracy in America and pushing for the same elsewhere, but what am I supposed to do, move out of this specific city?

Not a one time buy which would at least make sense. No no! Its a monthly fee AND half the time they require a Internet connection and checkin. Just to SELF HOST.

Yeah, the DRM has to make sure your subscription is up to date. For the service you provide all the hardware for. The service you will personally have to install and maintain.

A lot of the covid spending was supposed to be loans, not permanent expenses, though. But then Trump gutted the oversight of the loans and made it easy for businesses to plunder the funds and then get the loans forgiven.

Wild how that happens, eh? Total shame that all the workers were too distracted thinking about how they should be striking to notice how it happened, too.

We had a good idea early on for email spam, but we didn’t use it. There was a proposal for basically proof of work, sort of like what’s used in cryptocurrency, as a requirement to accept an email. While the threshold to defeat a lot of spam was low enough to not bother the average individual sending mail, businesses hated it because it would make it more expensive to bulk mail their users. Every time I see the thousands of bullshit emails in my inbox, I’m reminded that we endure spam to protect that.

Shit, those two are conservatives, even, from the party that LOVES their guns.

And then oops, guys, we couldn’t get this delivery canceled in time. The parts are gonna go bad if we don’t use them, so… Strike week after next?

Sure, but you can’t trap the heat forever. Eventually, it’s gonna get cold, and even if it doesn’t, people are gonna get annoyed when their orders slow way down.

I mean… They’re already basically collecting a 100% tax rate on “free”. They’re ahead of the curve here!

I’ll preface this by saying he should have taxed the fucking rich to close the gap, but that said, he was pretty much gonna have to spend a shitload of money. That’s the consequence of inheriting the 2008 crash. Economic stimulation by government spending is like the typical solution to an economic disaster. Had he not inherited 8 years of Bush, he almost certainly would have spent less. To be fair to Bush, if I remember right and I might not, I think some of the causes of the 2008 crash came from earlier, but I’m fuzzy on the details now. Bush also watched the problem metastasize for 8 years without doing a damn thing in the best case, though, so not much credit due to him.

So yeah, Obama racked up a ton of debt, but he did a lot of it cleaning up the mess of predecessors. He should have taxed the piss out of the rich, especially since they’re the ones who both manufactured and profited off the disaster, but fuck, NOBODY in the US government seems willing to even entertain the idea.