They don’t listen to him, my friend.

And “optimistic about technology” is different from “optimistic about US politics”. But either way, if people actually think there’s no hope, they often don’t bother saying anything at all. Listen to the words, look at the actions. Don’t read too much into tone.

Calling out horrible behavior openly is the winning move. Honesty and integrity matter.

My friend, you can’t have it both ways. If he “made a mistake” and then humbly and profusely apologized, then you could maybe pretend it was accidental… But that’s not what happened, right? He didn’t apologize because he meant it.

We will never, ever, look bad for calling out racism when we see it as clearly as we did here. But we would certainly be horrible human beings if we decided to pretend it wasn’t happening.

Anyway, of course you can do what you feel is right. For me, it’s simple. Fuck that racist motherfucker.

Remember that those evil billionaires don’t actually care about the money itself. If they did, they would have stopped at $100 million or some much lower number, because that’s already more money than anyone could ever spend. To them it’s about power, prestige, and control. They are addicts, and they’ll never give up the chance for more.

I think a lot of what he did actually is against the law, it’s just that the courts take a long time to catch up. In the last week we’ve seen dozens of lawsuits start to gain steam and probably many of them will successfully undo a lot of the damage that has been done.

We also have to deal with the problem that the courts have been stacked with MAGA judges who also don’t care about the law, but that’s something we need to blame on them, and not just on Mr. Orange.

Biden and Harris and many other traditional DNC candidates are pro corporate, and they did what their funders wanted them to do.

Wow, the authors of that article bury the lede… Trump sued Paramount because of what Paramount did covering Harris which actually means Trump doesn’t really have any case, but they might want to pay off Trump because it’s a convenient way to legally bribe him… That’s the real story, that’s what needs to be said, along with any other analysis they feel is needed.

Oh, my dear, Canada wouldn’t get any voting rights.

Of course it was sinister. Big important systems are delicate. You can change them, but you need to do so carefully. Everyone knows this, even Musk and Trump. It’s just that they don’t care about the risks and the damage.

All of their actions are incompetent, assuming you have reasonable goals. It’s just that they have their own selfish destructive goals.

Stupid headline. Yes, yes it was hacked. Jesus.

OK, great. Lock up all the CEOs and politicians who stole the money…

Cops don’t have a duty to protect you. Sorry, but you better build your own safety net, cuz the pigs will do whatever they feel like doing.

My dude, cops never gave a damn about pot. It was always a pretextual reason to screw with people.

Elon Musk is also an idiot. He thinks he’s smart enough to quickly understand complex situations and complex problems about which he knows next to nothing, within just a few minutes.

Most people would only try to claim that level of understanding in areas with which they have professional experience or about which they’re extremely geeky. He does it with everything, and nobody can be an expert in everything, and everybody knows that except for narcissistists.

I suppose for non-tech people it might be convenient to assume that because someone knows something about some kind of tech, they therefore know a lot about all kinds of tech, and the reality is that’s just not true. There are so many fields that are totally different. But if it did, actually he would look even more idiotic, because Twitter is a train wreck, so clearly he’s incompetent in tech field, right?

There already is a ton of great media out there, but many people are not looking for it. If you’re trapped by the US news cycle, start reading international news. It doesn’t solve all the problems but it solves many of them.

And more to the point, consumers have been willing to pay for subscriptions to newspapers for decades, and they’ve gotten burned by it. You’re saying that money is the answer, but it didn’t work before. It’s not working now.

They started reporting badly in the 90s (Fox News), if not decades or centuries before that. It is on the consumers to consume better media. The companies that failed won’t fix themselves, ever.

NextCloud.

And you can argue how it’s different, and that’s the point! You want something different, right? … Right?

Patriotism leads to nationalism, xenophobia, and racism. Not always, of course, but often enough to make it a horrible thing. Our communities are only as good as we make them, and any notion that presupposes greatness is antithetical to continued improvement.

That’s not how most state trespassing laws are written. You typically can’t wrap up trespassing in a contract like that.