Lack of growth isn’t the reason people in sub-saharan Africa (or anywhere else) starve. We produce more than enough for everyone, globally. It’s a distribution issue.

The issue is power itself. If “cop like people” are needed at all, they should be restricted in the power to the degree that they wouldn’t be recognizable as cops to anyone living in a modern state, (ie not having firearms, not having authority to arrest, etc).

Regardless of your opinion on the issue, cops being “unreformable”, and an institution that’s inherently shitty, is the anarchist position, and the basis behind the sentiment expressed in ACAB. Which is why its shitty to read cop apologist/bootlikers in sublemmies like that.

There’s also the part about “kids” not going to school, and, in contrast, “parents” not going to work. Subttly implying workers are parents and vice-versa.

I’m not inherently against this or anything, but the page gives me strong “hey, fellow kids” vibe.

Please tell me you’re a troll.

“At least I can exist” being “dangerous precedent” is low key advocating for genocide, btw.

“to starve the upper class if labor” - you’ll never do that with lifestyle changes.

Trying to minimize your participation in the rat race is a good idea, but not revolutionary in itself.

I broadly agree with this sentiment, however, I still find their uncritical support for demonstrably awful states (like states tend to be) distasteful.

Take the Uyghur issue, for example. Occidental propaganda wants us to believe that there’s a literal, Nazi-style physical genocide, which isn’t true. Tankies point that out and claim “victory”, when Uyghurs are living in pretty shitty conditions, and the Chinese state is doing everything it can to erase their culture, even if no physical genocide is happening.

I think I read recently in an anti-cop sublemmy (ACAB? I forgot the name) that being against “all” cops is problematic, because, after all, cops in “proletariat-controled states” exert the will of the proletariat (unlike cops in burgeois-controlled states). And thus, they’re good. 🙄

I get that these people are not a serious political force. And they’re certainly not as insufferable as liberals (and they do much less damage, if any at all). But still.

I didn’t get it and I feel dense :(

I’ve heard a gym membership (if you can afford one) is a good way to get access to a shower.

Tbh, I found your “article” unnecessarily provocative, and not at all specific to free software.

I do think there’s something to be said regarding minimalism in code and security, but I think a more insightful analysis would have been better here.

How does the repo size of these distros compare with Debian/Fedora/Arch?

Do you have sources that I could read? I’m admittedly not an expert in energy production, but a cursory search of nuclear energy seems to lead to a fairly good consensus that it is more expensive, more emmiting and slower to get up and running than equivalent renewables. I’d be interested in reading dissenting opinions.

Is that really still the case? With the huge gain in renewable efficiency over the last decade, I’d be surprised if it was. I also heard it takes a long time from the start of construction until a nuclear plant goes online, which makes them less than ideal in a climate emergency.

I’m a non-american (argentinian), and don’t really feel comfortable sharing a platform with literal white supremacists.

I don’t think it matters either way. There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, and we won’t dismantle capitalism by consuming “the right way”.

Doesn’t Wikiless get your IP address instead of Wikipedia? Idk if Wikipedia is the kind of service that requires a frontend, given that it’s not run by a data-hungry corporation.

If anything, you could just use Tor.

I don’t recommend going down that road, looking down upon “the world” is an edgelord attitude that will make you feel isolated and miserable. You might be neurodivergent, or have trouble expressing yourself, that doesn’t make you crazy or stupid, but neither makes the people around you crazy or stupid (or asleep).

Try to be empathetic towards people that don’t understand you, even if it hurts. You’ll be better because of it.

A “degoogled” world is still a “facebooked”, “amazoned”, “microsofted” world. We need decentralized alternatives in general.