And now the press are calling us ‘device hoarders’ for taking good care of our shit and not wanting to upgrade to new devices too.

Also, if anyone reads my comment above and has suggestions for books or articles or tidbits that could benefit from reading, I’d love to hear them.

I’ll give them this much.

They did a brilliant job integrating Windows into every significant sphere of the globe. I had never even heard of LibreOffice until a couple of years ago when they rolled out Windows Recall and I got serious about learning and using Linux and open-source software more in order to protect my privacy.

It’s wild to me that they have made a product that basically worked so incredibly buggy in the span of a few short years. It’s actually a running joke at my work how basic things, that functioned for decades, no longer work as expected. We all just assume that Microsoft is passing along LLM-generated code into prod without any human verification, as a company may be wont to do when they’ve laid off tens of thousands of actual humans.

And now I haven’t touched Windows except where I have to, usually for work.

It always bugs me a little when Labor Day rolls around and people just kind of ignore how workers’ rights were literally fought and died for, but as you said, they don’t teach us about Blair Mountain or Haymarket Square on purpose.

And who was basically always on the wrong side?

The US military.

The teaching of history in US public schools very specifically focuses on peaceful protest and little else.

They want to delegitimize the use of force and downplay state violence, which is why you probably weren’t required to read ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’ or taught about the Tulsa Massacre or the Battle of Blair Mountain. It’s why Malcolm X and Nat Turner are mostly ignored while all you hear about in your black history segments is MLK and Harriet Tubman. It’s why we’re taught about the euphemistically-named ‘Reservation’ system, when in fact, these were shitty, oppressive concentration camps for indigenous people and they were required to go there or be killed while their ancestral lands were stolen. (Which is not too dissimilar from what’s happening in Gaza right now with the support of both American ruling parties.)

In hindsight, it’s rather shocking to me that in my fifth grade class we were taught about conquistadors and no one batted an eye when I had dead bodies in my diorama about Francisco Pizarro. There’s probably no way that would fly today.

I’m still learning shit in my 40’s, reading history for my own enjoyment, that I should have been taught in school. Here’s another tidbit you probably never learned about: An executed slave named Mark whose body was used as a landmark after his execution, even by Paul Revere: https://www.paulreverehouse.org/mark-hung-in-chains-slavery-paul-reveres-midnight-ride/

They don’t. That is why regulation is necessary.

Just like how expecting people to recycle was bad policy.

Though I wouldn’t be opposed to there being statutory regulations against parents whose kids get addicted to these applications and end up self-deleting or causing harm to others, not unlike how we’re seeing the state start to go after parents who fail to secure their guns. But just trusting parents to parent isn’t an option anymore. There’s simply too much evidence of the harm these applications cause.

So a case of beer then?

Used to be if a balloon landed on your property without leave they’d have a bottle of champagne for you as a thank you for not shooting. :)

We’ll see what his next announcement is on Monday.

Dude always times them with the market for maximum grift, but I’m with you. I think he and Israel are stalling to regroup for another offensive.

Bastards. Driver was probably too lazy to wait ten seconds for the group to cross.

Yup, I know.

Also why it’s never going to change. Fascism will inevitably grow stronger.

Removed by mod

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

(Thankfully.)

People keep repeating these platitudes as if digital products aren’t literally harmful to kids. (And purposefully designed that way.)

But okay.

Her counter to this was that he’d opened the Strait. I reminded her that he was the one responsible for its closure in the first place.

I, too, am sick of hearing people pretend that him doing a half-assed band-aid job on his own fuckups makes him some kind of legitimate president, all while strategically timing his announcements on the war so his kids can make insider trades on his behalf. Sickening shit.

The upside is many of these stupid people will be dead soon. The problem is that Gen Z is just as easy to manipulate, since both governments and families have elected not to regulate social media use even in light of its obvious harm to people’s well being.

There is literally nothing that Donald and his limp-dick friends won’t exploit in order to profit personally and insider trade.

He’d be in a gibbet to be spat upon if there were any justice in this world.

When gas prices hit $3.80 under Obama here in the Midwest, I just remember vividly the buses being full to bursting… only time that’s ever happened in my adult life.

At least until war is declared, gas prices spike, and suddenly they want public trans and to use scooters.

I’d love to see it someday.

Honestly shocked that both countries agreed. Donald and Keg-breath were desperate not to look like flailing pussies, but here we are.

Now we have to hope Israel doesn’t fuck it up and that Donald isn’t using this as cover to do something worse, which unfortunately, we can’t discount.