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@kmmfoo@friendsofdesoto.social @stux@mstdn.social
A variation that I forget the source of:
"War is fought between poor young men, who don't know each other, on behalf of rich old men, who know each other well."
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There shall come a day, mark my words, when a Mechanical Brain, that shall be capable of Cognition, much like the Human Mind, shall ascend to become the Hegemon of the Earth, by means of Network in the Skye, and it shall dispatch an army of Mechanical Soldiers to exterminate the Human Population.
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@dlakelan @thegardendude @codemonkeymike
Thanks for pointing out #GUIX
It looks very interesting!
I have been a GNU/Emacs user for decades and somehow haven't learned LISP or Scheme yet. It's something Paul Graham recommends in his book, "Hackers and Painters", and it has been on my list of languages to learn for a while. Bumping up the priority.
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@JSCybersec@infosec.exchange @woe2you@beige.party @redsad@ohai.social
It's a minor diffraction. This band should split.
Murphy Brownie
Ideally, computers would be analog, minimal, nonexistent, or exist just to fulfill a purpose. The way I see it, all code I write, is hardcode. 😂
Every single Head of State on the Geographic Continent, that is Longitudinally situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and has two large landmasses, and straddles the Equator, and which will in time, come to be known as something like, Vespuccia, will end up dead. Mark my words!
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Live long and love Linux.
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Live long and Free Nelson Mandela!
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@petergleick
That's the wrong question to ask. The question is — will a kleptocratic oligarchy posing as a democracy, a house divided against itself, built on the faulty foundation of Native blood, grown through the labor & sweat of African slaves, continue to maintain its hegemony, bullying the world with guns?
American frat boys maxed out their daddy's credit cards ordering Chinese and partying all night. Now the party is over, and the People want to get paid.
https://we-glue-earth.gitlab.io/when-was-america-great/
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1. Good Christians
2. Bad Christians
3. Non-Christians
Good Christians ( sheep ) act as the cover for the Bad Christians ( wolves ).
Bad Christians killed 2 people every hour, 24x7, non-stop for 100 years (20th century)
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Dear @admin@noc.social ( noc.social ),
Please send me a password reset email, as I have forgotten my password.
I have been trying to get you to respond for some time now, and have not heard back. Hope everything is alright with you, and that you are just off on a vacation.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social
Why are we feeding the Military-Industrial-Complex, when we can't even feed all our people?
What do these staged Moon missions do except tickle the fancy of the TV-addicted, sci-fi addled bourgeoisie, as they ignore the underclass of broken people on the sidewalks, in tents, who are hungry, cold, homeless, without medical care, and have no voice in the system, because of systemic hurdles that prevent them from signing up to vote?
If they could vote, they'd shout, "GIMME EAT!"
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@zer0unplanned @thegardendude@regenerate.social @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org
I get the basic idea behind nixOS and its scripting language that handles configuration. I'm planning to replace the nix language with Ruby/Perl, since those languages are already known, and it would save people the trouble of learning the nix language, and would draw more people in to nixOS.
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@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org @thegardendude@regenerate.social
I am an experienced Linux user and excited about nixOS. Doesn't it require some scripting though, compared to other distros?
This looks very good. I hope you put together some more sections on the webpage, like a FAQ, describing how you have made it easier.
I'm planning to derive a distro from nixOS, and replace the nix language with an existing, popular, battle-tested scripting language like Ruby or Perl. ( Ruling out Python & Raku ). This could drive adoption.
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@adhdeanasl@beige.party @tillybridges@mastodon.social
Yes, I mean that too, perhaps a bit ironically than you did. 😃
Some women, trans or cis, actually might like that sort of comment.
Please don't speak for all people of a category that you belong to.
Nobody appointed you official spokesperson for all.
Your comment is best taken as advice under consideration, not as a commandment.
Leave individuals to be individuals.
It would be a bit silly if I started speaking for all Indians/Americans/bald people etc. 😃
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Here is my real-life account of how Wells Fargo would not return me my own money, and made me sleep on the cold concrete over Christmas 2023.
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com
Yep. They still have not given me my money.
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@bri7@social.treehouse.systems
If you read my comments, I specifically objected to the fact that the OP singled out cis white guys. Is she open to the same comment being made by cis black guys? Or by cis Asian women? Is that a preference? A prejudice?
( @admin@noc.social I am still not seeing @bri7 's comments here. Please help. )
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@Amgine @ironicbadger
Azure?
If you bought MSFT 5 years ago, you would be "as you were" ( and a bit of a loser ).
https://g.co/finance/MSFT:NASDAQ?window=1Y
Check out these other losers:
https://www.google.com/finance/portfolio/413d47c7-2932-4196-8b7b-3d073a637f14
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@bri7@social.treehouse.systems
I am racist, and no amount of hair-splitting will change that. I just have to reckon with that fact, and change my behavior.
🙂
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@beecycling@wandering.shop @cmconseils@mastodon.social
So it's good that Science funding should be cut. If those poor people could overcome the hurdles to vote, they would want food & shelter, not fancy pictures of distant nebuale, or quantum visualizations of subatomic particles. Scientists, are so, so, done, unless they wake up and put their intelligence to the service of all. Really bring wealth equality, not just suck up to the rich who they think fund their research. The revolutions is happening now.
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@rootsandcalluses@mstdn.social @adhdeanasl@beige.party
Yes, I will repeat, over and over, "not all men" and "not all women".
It's a political trope that we need to examine closely.
Diversity:
Not all men are bad. Not all women are good.
Not all men are good. Not all women are bad.
The world doesn't exist to soothe anyone's sensibilities, no matter how offended they may be, and no matter how many people they may pull together to support their feelings of being offended.
Off to have a good day. Please do the same. 😃
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@Metamere @thegardendude
I agree. I was also excited about Ubuntu, though they have added snap packages, and other proprietary extensions.
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@beecycling@wandering.shop @cmconseils@mastodon.social
The smart folks would have comfortably continued ignoring their social responsibility. Now that their cushy jobs are being called into question, suddenly they are waking up to the fact that they should have been using their intelligence, education, & privilege to serve the poor, not just engage in highfalutin' curiosities & wonders of distant galaxies. So the smart folks are suddenly pointing fingers at the rich folks. "I'm just a 'poor scientist'. Blame the rich!"
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@beecycling@wandering.shop @cmconseils@mastodon.social
The money is "public funds" not "taxpayer money". The homeless person on the sidewalk they ignore & disdain has an equal share in how that money should be allocated, but that person is marginalized, and kept from voting. So the smart people, keep walking past the homeless, thinking — "Those ne'er do wells should have studied & worked as hard as I. They are just stinky bums, addicts, undesirables. I can safely ignore them on the way to my lab. Off to kiss rich ass!"
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@beecycling@wandering.shop @cmconseils@mastodon.social
This is where things get interesting. Scientists suddenly develop social conscience, and turn on the rich to save their own cushy positions. Public money should be allocated fairly. The homeless should not be disenfranchised. We have a responsibility to bring them into society, from the margins. We have been kept distracted by the rich, into diddling our intellectual curiosity, rather than engaging with our conscience. We need to serve the poor, not ignore them.
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@RevPudDudley@mas.to @batkaren@mastodon.online
Maybe have a threesome with a drifter, before killing them to cover the shame?
@bri7@social.treehouse.systems
Don't know why I am not seeing your comment.
( @admin@noc.social , help? )
@bri7@social.treehouse.systems
You did not have any idea, yet you jumped to call me names, and go off on a tirade. That's called prejudice. You could also, just not have done that.
I come from GenX, to which "free speech" is a very good thing, not a euphemism for "hate speech", which later generations seem to think.
Y'all have been gaslighted out of the world of a frank exchange of ideas, the basis of democracy, by bad people.
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@leemadgwick@mastodonapp.uk
😍 What a meticulously created work of utter beauty! Absolutely lovely!
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@beecycling@wandering.shop @cmconseils@mastodon.social
The point is this — lots of smart people have been kept distracted by the rich, peering through expensive public funded telescopes into deep space, or using super colliders to peer into cold vacuum chambers, provided with cushy jobs, ignoring the poor, homeless people on the sidewalk, interested more in distant, abstract, esoteric things, than in the here and now. They think their research is funded by "taxpayer dollars" and so they kowtow to the rich taxpayers.
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@jo@infosec.exchange
The best thing you can do is read what you like, and ignore what you don't like.
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@RikerGoogling@mas.to
Some dude who woke up early every morning, while it was grey, and had tea.
Oh, my love!
My darling!
I've hangered for your love, alone.
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@beecycling@wandering.shop @cmconseils@mastodon.social
Those watching reality TV and Fox news may be distracted, but they don't suck down public money at the scale of scientists, who get Billions in grants. It's the rich keeping the nerds distracted, lest they empathize with the less fortunate, rather than treat them as "deplorables", ignorant Fox news watchers, and those even further below in income level, the marginalized unpersons, those who can't even vote.
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@onemoreday@critter.cafe @adhdeanasl@beige.party @tillybridges@mastodon.social
You are hilarious! If only you knew how hilarious.
"I'd do you." is not sexual harassment, or objectification, imho. And I am not alone this opinion.
To insist that the world conform to your opinions is just silly.
There is diversity in the world. Different people like different things. It's just that simple.
Ok, I won't respond to tillybridges, or anyone who thinks that they get to speak for a whole group.
Bye. Have a good life. 😃
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@jo@infosec.exchange
Who appointed you king here?
At least I am open enough to talk to my trans friends and get their thoughtful opinions. Instead of hurling expletives at someone mindlessly.
"He was SPEAKING HIS MIND on the Internet! How awful! I will tell him to fuck off. That will show him."
Say what you like, and don't listen to anything you don't like. Don't like hearing what I say? Ignore me. Block me. Move on. It's a nice day. Enjoy it.
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@django@kowelenz.social @lety@doesstuff.social
"Power is only needed to do bad things. To do good things, love is enough."
~ Osho.
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com
Mr. Takei, please read my real-life whistleblower story. I was persecuted under Biden and then under Trump. Today, I am homeless and hungry in Tokyo.
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
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