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ininewcrow

@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca

Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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*Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all (that the company will admit to without you knowing)— unless you opt in

ininewcrow,
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There’s not enough left for us to show you what happened to them.

ininewcrow,
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But the most important question our highly enlightened global leadership always asks and concentrates all their efforts into is to ask …

How will it affect the economy and our wealthiest members of society?

ininewcrow,
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That response is also very repetitive and tired at this point. It’s the age old knee jerk reaction that we have to maintain the status quo in order to find an answer.

When all along, it was the status quo that caused the problem in the first place.

I don’t believe in violent revolution in order enact change in how our global society has evolved. But I do believe we need a desperate change in how we organize wealth, money, control and democratic power in our world. The majority of all the wealth in the world is now owned by a very small group of people who hold all the control in how to make our world better yet they choose not to and instead want to maintain the status quo and increase their wealth and power at all cost.

We do have to do something about the economy … mainly discourage and disconnect wealthy elites from engorging themselves any further and help everyone else in gaining an equal share of all the wealth everywhere. It doesn’t mean all out communism, it would be a more practical way of delivering democratic socialism by limiting outrageous wealth that helps no one except small groups of people.

Once enough people everywhere gain a measure of wealth and control and no longer have to worry about fighting one another to find food, water, shelter or a decent life … then we are more likely to sit together and talk about global problems and actually do something about it all.

Otherwise, if we maintain the status quo, we will just keep endlessly fighting one another until our species dies out as our environment makes our world unlivable.

ininewcrow,
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My apologies if I exaggerated your response but it is one that I have often come across when I have this same debate with others around me.

My main point is that if we keep doing what we are doing now, then problems will persist.

We need societal change on a global level and although that carries a certain level of risk of whether or not it would make anything better or worse … I believe it is far better than the alternative of certain demise if we keep doing what we are doing now.

I would rather prefer we take the chance at global change … rather than stay where we are with certain future disaster.

ininewcrow,
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In terms of geologic history over millions of years, this has happened before.

This isn’t bad for the planet or the environment … it’s bad for us humans.

We have to stop thinking that we are destroying the environment. Even if we caused all out nuclear holocaust, the planet and the environment will recover.

We aren’t really negatively affecting the environment in terms of millions of years … we’re making the planet uninhabitable for us all.

It’s like having a couple of chain smokers on the international space station. They don’t want to stop yet no one wants to do anything about their smoking. And there’s a time limit on how long they can keep spewing smoke until the life support system fails and everyone suffocates to death.

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You heard . Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

  • Krita is your new design/painting app
  • Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
  • glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
  • digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

  • Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
  • Scribus - layout like a pro
  • GIMP - need we say more
  • Blender - ditto

@kde

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Throws old man cane to the side and starts dancing

Hooray I’m young again!!!

ininewcrow,
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Throws old man cane to the side and starts dancing

Hooray I’m young again!!!

… breaks hip because he is actually still old

ininewcrow, (edited )
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Thank God … I’ve been on Gimp and Scribus for the past 15 years, mainly because I could never afford Adobe products for the little bit of work I needed them for.

I was open source a long time ago because I just couldn’t afford paying for stuff for the little time I needed software. Now I’m happy to be fully open source and even contribute with donations to the projects I like the most. I donate annually now to projects like Wikipedia, Libreoffice, Scribus and Fediverse developers and projects.

This is one criticism I’ll always have with open source supporters … if you want open source alternatives, contribute with donations to them. Give anything you can afford … $1, $2, $10 … because they need money to survive and stay engaged and committed to their project.

If we all just stand aside and take advantage of free open software and not give anything, then we are no better than the corporations we were trying to avoid. Instead of corporations taking advantage of us, we are taking advantage of developers.

So if you want these open projects to live and survive, contribute to them with whatever you got. If we all just gave a dollar each to these projects, no matter what they are, the developers would have more than enough to maintain their work.

And whatever you contribute, it will be far less than the hundreds of dollars annually you would have given to a big corporation that would have just counted your money as profit and not directly contribute or support the actual developers.

ininewcrow,
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Great idea because the merch acts as an advertisement to support the project and create awareness. It’s the main reason why corporations like Adobe are so successful - they have a pervasive marketing campaign. We should do the same and wearing a hat, t-shirt or bag would help do that.

Now you got me thinking about what to buy from the projects I like to support. Thanks

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A good strategy is to pick the biggest one and boycott the he’ll out of it.

It’s doesn’t matter how, go with number 2, go with number 3, anything but number 1.

If enough people do that, it would destroy 1 or completely eliminate it. Then once it fails, move the boycott onto the new number 1 and repeat.

We can’t do much by going after all the big three because we all need to use someone’s services. Some people have choice but most of us who don’t live near a major city have no choice. So the only logical way to create an effective boycott is to target one company and put all our efforts into that.

Once the first boycott is successful, the next corporation will have to think about how to handle the situation. It makes an example of what is possible with organized boycott.

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For those who like Trek Trivia … 80 years ago today, Scotty lost his right middle finger on a beach in Normandy

ininewcrow,
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Tap root finds your motionless foot at your computer desk as you endlessly and mindlessly scroll through the internet.

Potato: this will do

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Coca-Cola, coffee, barbecue sauce, ketchup and hamburger juice … all naturally soaked and baked in the sun.

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