I don’t game much but I’d try to stay closer to the debian ecosystem, or one of the more well-known distros. There are a lot of cases where there’s a debian and ubuntu installer for something and otherwise you gotta compile or hope for an appimage or flatpak. Ubuntu’s out because snaps are horrible, although you can get rid of those. Personally I install debian on all my boxes. It’s a really minimal distro and things tend to go pretty fast because of that. Debian or I hear Fedora’s great.

Nothing But Trouble, so they don’t come back

Always has been https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/new-york-times-nazi-correspondent

In the US she’d get a Cabinet seat

It’s one of those, you’ve seen enough articles, time to get on the email list, kinda things.

no paywall https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2024%2F03%2F29%2Fdeconstructed-gaza-war-social-media-instagram-tiktok%2F

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If a billionaire is in actual trouble, he’s in China. US would have bailed out Evergrande.

The existing auto industry would squash this as quickly and effectively as possible, we’d absolutely need a command economy to put something like this through.

So business as usual?

They say “never shit a shitter”, but apparently it should be “always shit a shitter”.

I wonder which gym this is.

We made an automaton clerk. It has neither arms nor body, but it works all day translating physician’s documents, so they may be stored with uniformity in a library that has neither shelves nor paper.

I bet they’d be doing a lot better if the US hadn’t stolen $7B USD from their central bank, or you know, bombed the country into oblivion for two decades, or armed and trained the Mujahideen (including Osama) against the Soviets when they wanted to assist Afghanistan’s socialist development. No, blame it all on the Taliban, an organization that profoundly reflects US involvement. That way Western capitalist press can manufacture consent for more US involvement. I’m sure Afghani people are hoping we’ll “help” more. There is no price too great, if we can raise revenue for US arms manufacturers.

Bottom of the ocean. Better yet, recycling plant.

I mention the space industry because there’s a lot of overlap between that and the defense industrial complex in engineering terms. NRO had a couple hubble-sized telescopes laying around they built and didn’t use. USAF has their own space shuttle. They’re currently planning to update all of our ICBMs. They could move other payloads to orbit. We don’t even need ICBMs, with submarine-launched missiles, even the new ones will be obsolete bulls-eyes for nukes in the midwest.

Melt them down, liquidate the arms industry and move all their talent to aerospace.

We could have had a Startram for that money. We could have skipped fueling a few proxy wars and gone to Mars instead.

Speaking of deceased sex traffickers, the anthem for the Nazi SA was memorializing a dead pimp, Horst Wessel. They named a boat after him. It’s now a US Coast Guard training ship.

Christ they’re gonna be 10 miles offshore, who the hell cares. NOAA says there’s no known link between offshore wind and whale death.

The animal industries have their own lobbying and disinformation campaigns. The pro-corporate media environment is an inextricable part of capitalist society. Their CEOs and those of Exxon et al are all basically saying “we’re doing what we’re permitted to do, it’s your job to reign us in for any social good whatsoever”. Any rational actor in a society that permits this will do this if given the opportunity. They’re products of their environment. Sometimes they’ll get ratioed on X, and agree to some small concession, a mere unconscious twitch of the power of the people causing multibillion $ companies to yelp in terror.

In a way, he’s right. You can’t expect a trillion dollar private company to do anything but maximize profits any way they can get away with. It’s in the interest of the public to overthrow capitalism and the responsibility falls on us to understand this and do this. ExxonMobil exists with the consent of the masses.