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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't think cruelty is the point. I think it's a more calculated form of narrative reinforcement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

realizing none of the remaining staff know how to operate those persons’ functions

Anyone else see the Chinese movie "To Live"? The same basic thing happened, but in the context of a criticism of Maoism - guy's daughter is speech impaired and they take her to the hospital to give birth, but the medical students have denounced the older doctors, and botch the delivery, so they have to fetch one out of imprisonment. Ironic that we see the same thing play out under Trump/Musk, isn't it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I hit that in my mid 20s. Turned out my headlights sucked and I needed to clean the inside of my windshield.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Doesn't that work with just a big USB stick? I've definitely plopped a Linux HD in a new computer and had it work with almost no changes (fstab and maybe adding graphics card support).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Circulating Teslas is 29999 vs 30000. If there's 30k worth of demand, they'll make a new one. Oversimplification but that's the idea. "Raising more awareness", I mean... maybe? Actually, probably, if it was really a huge spectacle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Financially, this doesn't make sense. Decreasing supply without changing demand means more money goes to Musk/Tesla. Same principle as a stock selloff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Probably takes a whopping 5-10 developers to set up the systems in question from scratch with FOSS. "From scratch" as in, not accounting for whatever insane backwards compatibility requirements exist, though that's not some impassable obstacle either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'd say, of the ruling class. Said fascist movement being basically a stage production of their creation. Said neutered opposition (Democrats) likewise being a stage production of their creation.

People often disagree with this framing, but honestly, spend a few years comparing viewing events through this lens vs through the D vs R lens. Things will make a lot more sense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Americans are ruled by a politics of opposition. Anything Trump does, the opposite must be good. Anything Biden does, the opposite must be good. Nobody thinks about anything from scratch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

This is single-handedly the biggest contributor to the longest period of peace in our history.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Democrat" refers ambiguously to both the politician and party elite, and the general electorate that associates themselves with that organization. The latter is, in the majority, "against it" in the sense of responding to a survey question that they don't like it, but not nearly enough to actually do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

alias l="ls", I'm immune to this problem

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