If Mastodon wanted to be preferred, it should have been better. I moved to Mastodon over a year ago when the Twitter sale first happened. It was not great then and it’s gotten slightly worse since. I created a Bluesky account two days ago and it already offers exactly the experience I missed from Twitter before Elon.
Would it be better if Mastodon was good and the federated FOSS option was superior? Sure, absolutely. But, that scenario isn’t even close to the case we are presented with.
I know posts like those feel good, but the objective fact is that the political conversation and (much more importantly) public policy has moved drastically leftward in both shorter terms (the last decade) as well as more medium-term measurements (the last fifty years).
Arch on my desktop and laptop, Debian stable goes on everything else.
It won’t be. Because: fuck everything
Legal memoranda are not just an interoffice note. They are policy interpretations and internally-governing documents. The memorandum is from the Office of Legal Counsel which is an independent subdepartment — neither Garland or the President himself can overturn the policy.
Because the cause for his appointment no longer exists. The OLC memo regarding the prosecution of sitting Presidents means that Smith’s appointment is frustrated at its most basic level of inception.
Bernie, who ran behind Harris in his own state? Yeah, ok buddy.
Take a long look, this is what leftist victories look like
Dems and Repubs are so entrenched as the 2 primary parties that it would take a miracle to get enough voters to follow a 3rd party
They’re not “entrenched;” they’re ideally situated for the American electorate. There is not a single issue where a third party could take a position that captures larger vote share than those already taken.
The entire population except for fringe groups of terminally online leftists: Yes.
> Democrats: Run most leftist administration in the history of the country
> Democrats: Pass law after law and EO after EO that are a wishlist of progressive and leftist policies
> Democrats: Put officers from the most famous leftist movement in a century in high and visible positions of power in the government
> Leftists online: We never get anything by voting for Democrats they have betrayed us and move to the right constantly
TBH, it’s long past time for the Democratic Party to actually start ignoring the fringe left and work for the American people.
It’s the explicit definition barred under the 13th Amendment. So, it’s the appropriate one to use.
Your other definition similarly doesn’t work with your argument. It’s not “for the profit of another” it’s as punishment for a criminal act and even if the primary goal was profit, it’s not “for another” it’s being employed in the service of society.
The final definition also fall short. It’s not exploitative, it’s not coercion. It’s forced and delivered by the established system of justice.
Here’s the thing, you don’t have to like labor as a criminal punishment. But, your distaste for the practice doesn’t make it slavery.
We don’t call it slavery because it’s not. Slavery is private ownership of a person. Forced labor is a form of carceral punishment meted out by society.
I wonder how much Trump is going to sell the Seventh Fleet for. I’m sure it will be the best deal ever, right?
This meme speaks to a level of civic education from which we can draw a direct line to electing authoritarians like Trump.
Corporate support of development, and I’m not just talking about Redhat and SUSE. Hell, Microsoft is a major contributor to the kernel.
Just in time for a federal ban, whee.
Bullshit, quit providing post hoc justification for your own shitty behavior.
You should look up a lot of things