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Depending on how liberal is being used, i wouldn’t disagree. Objectively for many they are the more active threat. But fuck camping with ML who fantasize similar things. The ML our fascistic Epstein class are eagerly cribbing notes from.

In the west and US specifically we’ve had our language actively manipulated and poisoned. By ghouls like but not limited to Frank Luntz. In the US most that would call themselves liberal would actually be socially liberal. Not acolytes of economic liberalism, which is what liberal historically and still currently to a large geographic area still means. Socially liberal people aren’t an a problem, but also aren’t liberals. Economic Liberals like Musk, Trump etc are an active threat to everyone. Themselves included.

I use it under Linux. Looks descent. Nice for batch encodes. Tagging and library management.

Dafuq you even talking about? What I literally replied to, politely might I add was

can we stop conflating leftism with social issues such as queer acceptance please?

Absolutely fucking not.

Politely trying to nudge you into acknowledging that economics != freedom. The person you were replying to had a point, whether or not I agree with their reasons for making it. Economic systems don’t care about social acceptance. You can have jackbooted socialists (ML) just like the fascists. Being technically socialist doesn’t mean you are good. Having social acceptance does. Regardless of your economic leanings. Though those that are more accepting would tend to naturally be socialist. It isn’t a hard concept.

Literally no. Read again. I literally said socialism serves society better. Literally. The whole point being there are unsavory and authoritarians on the left.

I will entertain debate about the benefits of economic systems to a limited point. But not the inclusion of minorities, vulnerable, or other traditionally outcast groups. They must be included.

I think we should, but for different reasons. And let me explain. Economic systems, left or right are meaningless if you don’t have access. Ie liberty. Fascists and Leninists will trample any class, quash every liberty in pursuit of their desired economic system. A system that serves their petit bourgeois.

Socialism while absolutely more beneficial to society than capitalism. Only benefits you if you are included in that society. Which only happens in inclusive societies focused on freedom of individuals. Socialism, capitalism, neither guarantee that themselves.

Technically it is. Effectively it isn’t. This administration has done more illegality and committed more crimes than most individuals would ever be capable of in their life. And they will face no repercussions for it.

Oof that one. Hah they’ve made that claim before. And I didn’t believe it then. But that theory, is turbo stupidity.

Really, that’s actually interesting.

Aaaah so even less reason to use it sadly.

On Linux there is Falkon. Windows too. (QT WebKit) And the reason I won’t use this will likely be the same as Falkon. Missing plugins etc. Other than that they are fine. Bitwarden has a desktop app. (Electron? Dunno but it would be ironic) But no auto fill ability. Darkreader? Nope. There may be some limited adblocking, but no greasemonkey type functionality.

A maxed out Mac has never been a good value proposition. (For non professionals) But in years past it wasn’t a horrible one. The M series is really changing all that. Right now, you can get unupgradeable M1 MacBooks for the cost of a low-end laptop PC from the same year. Low-end PC laptops that can often be upgraded with cavernous hard drives, voluminous RAM, and even faster networking. Unlike the M series.

And on that decade of support. That’s nothing special in PC space. I have a 2009 MacBook that became unsupported by Apple before the end of the 2010s. Microsoft technically stopped supporting the hardware… last year. When they started following Apple’s bad practice of forced obsolescence. The reason many aren’t upgrading to windows 11.

For an SBC, Apple’s M Hardware is pretty impressive if overpriced. The system I run the most is a 2015 skylake i7. I seriously contemplated a base M4 as an upgrade for a moment because of up front costs. But I just couldn’t make long term ownership make sense. So I spent 300 dollars on a 16gb PCIE 5 9060XT for a PCIE 4 system instead. Far better compute and performance than the Apple APUs, even bottlenecked. And able to last and run comfortably to the next generation and a bit beyond. Something that base M4 could never do.

And I admit. I’m not the average user. I run 20 year old systems 24/7. They have this really neat trick. 2 years ago I maxed out the motherboard RAM for 20 bucks a pop. And doubled the core count for 40 each along with clock bumps. Something you can’t do with Apple hardware anymore. Hell, even other ARM SBCs are more upgradeable in many ways. Apple has really lost a huge part of their value retention lately. And that’s sad.

Apple tax pays for that. None of it is free. Doesn’t mean it’s an awful value proposition. Not always a great one either. The new M hardware is… interesting. The M4 Mac mini, despite being needlessly un-upgradeable future ewaste. Definitely gives you more short term than cheap laptops which are becoming worse to upgrade as well. Even some cheap towers. If all you need is a basic computing appliance they’re a reasonable value proposition for the moment.

They’re a non zero chance. Maxwell was apparently a power redditor, they were very online.

Somehow this is giving me Ben Garrison flashbacks 😆

Yep. Another good reason not to be on reddit heh.

Yeah, I was looking for a better source. And I don’t blame you. Unfortunately there’s much bigger fish that most are talking about. So this isn’t getting the recognition and coverage it might deserve. But Finding out that Epstein has connections to Moot, 4chan, and possibly /pol or Q. It’s not inconsequential.

It’s definitely on the more plausible conspiracy side.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74vgz1n0w2o

Heh, they never really cared either way. Also, there’s a non zero chance Epstein is Q.

Also fun fact, apparently Chris Poole is mentioned in the files. Extra fun fact, apparently /pol on 4Chan was opened within days of the two meeting. Maybe no causation, but it’s a fascinating correlation. Was Epstein Q?

Piefed has two user rating systems. Your attitude, which is public, and allows people to see what your ratio of up votes to down votes is. The other being reputation, which is generally reserved for administration and moderation iirc. Which is an accumulation of how other people upvote and downvote you. Basically the sort of thing anyone could get just by looking at the public information just condensed all in one spot.

Anyone calling it social credit score is being disingenuous. The most controversial feature it has is its content filtering system, which is disabled by default.