Just leaving this here : https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
This is battle they can't win and it just makes everything stupid trying.
jabjoe
joined 2 years ago
If the US falls apart, it will be a bloody civil war. The only winner will be competing world powers. Of which, only the EU is really a beacon of light of enlightened values. In no way is that a good outcome for US citizens or the world. What is needed is a concerted effort to evolve the US from where it is. Two parties is not really a functional democracy. Law is bought and sold, and there is massive inequality.
Dysfunctional regulators/legal system. Plenty of non capitalist cultures had that issue too.
How is that legal?
How very Trump/Musk. Straight out popularist's handbook.
Labour have a good few years to get themselves together before an election.
I agree they are unlikely to do what the country needs, and membership wants, with voting reform. Maybe if they are sure they will lose and Reform would win. Doubt it even then though, because "we might still win".
If everyone can agree on another left party fine, but it will be split over Green, SNP, LibDems, Plaid and Labour. That's how we, a left leaning country, get endless right wing governments and their madness.
My thoughts is that this is how Reform get in. Until we rid ourselves of FPTP, splitting the left vote so much means a Reform government. Until such time, we have to vote tactically. Vote to keep out the worst. Perfect is the enemy of the good.
If Labour put country before party, they would be killing of FPTP like the membership want.
Right to repair, and openness, is absolute must for devices being put into peoples bodies. The fight seams to not even started yet. Most people are completely asleep to issues right now.
Karen Sandler did a great talk on closed source software medical devices many years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1h1s_ojpM
This even more the case if it's your brain! It probably won't work for decades, but we should get house in order long before it does.
It also has the network problem now. BlueSky quickly got the numbers because it was easy at the right time. It was perfect for the Xodus. Mastodon missed that window. It can get easier and sexier, but it missed that window and will need another.
Odoo does CRM quite well. It also does project management, but sure yet it's as good at it as OpenProject.
And those tiny number of edges cases need to be highlighted to show it does indeed happen. With biology, there is rarely ever truely binary. Biology is too mushy.