You know what? I’m gonna provide an alternative view. And I don’t even know how serious I am about this, but here goes.
If you use Linux, Android, especially de-Googled Android, you are supporting ableism. You are supporting big organizations that prioritize the success and privacy of the elites that are abled and have the training and knowledge, and the time and energy to obtain more of this, over those who are disabled, and generally have to work through life’s challenges along with their disability, and who do not have the time or energy to bring themselves to a point where they can utilize FOSS, let alone enjoy and be productive in it.
If you use FOSS, you are supporting gatekeepers. If you use FOSS, you support the locking out of people that do not perceive like you, look like you, act like you, think like you, are even move or use objects like you. You are supporting the hejimony of elites that, if things were just a bit different, would be working at the big tech companies you profess to hate so much. Why support that? Why would you even tell others about that? You think foss developers want to help you? No. They help those who help themselves. If you can code, that’s great for you. Welcome to the elites that can literally design our current digital world. The one where, because the physical one is so inaccessible to many disabled people, we disabled people must use. Technology has changed our lives. You know which one, for the most part, that hasn’t? Foss. Linux. Android. KDE. Gnome. LibreOffice. Emacs. Vim. Linux on mobile phones. You know which ones have? Apple. Microsoft. Google. Microsoft Word. Ulysses. JAWS. VoiceOver. Apple TV Plus (audio description on just about everything they put out.)
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Again, I get so tired of these pro-foss and ableist posts that hell, why not make some shit of my own. It’s just so tiring to see the holier than thou attitude as if their shit ain’t got flies all around it and is sitting in the middle of the walkway.
So, I see a lot of folks going on about how kbin is an awful community, or how the .social instances are cancer, and yet I've had nothing but pleasant interactions with people on this board. Any time I get drawn into a pissing match, it's always somebody running a ten-user instance, or some fool out there who thinks account age equals validity. What the fuck is up with that?
I'm seeing plenty of people respond to the recent article about how Mastodon is hard for new people by saying different versions of "well I like keeping people out unless they want to fit in with me", and it makes me sad.
"Linux neckbeards" built the fucking tools and run the fucking instances, so it's little wonder we're currently everywhere. If that bothers you, then you know where the door is.
Nice attempt to move the goalposts. I thought we were dick-waving about account age. You done with that nonsense already? Now I can't have an opinion unless I built everything from scratch? Go drown in a puddle of aids, dude. /blocked
Dude needs to check his pocket constitution, if he plans to make that argument. Most of the powers that the SCOTUS has have been assumed over the past dozen or so decades -- there's precisely nothing in the main text that establishes it as an equal branch of government, or as the supreme decider on the constitutionality of laws. If Alito brings the constitution into this, he may lose his court altogether.
Don't want 'em. Too old at this point, but even when I was younger it was a no-sale. I come from an abusive family, and I'd never wish that on a kid, so, out of a preponderance of caution, I decided early on to have none, lest I visit the sins of my father on my progeny.
Students at dozens of Houston ISD schools will return in a few weeks without librarians and to former libraries that have been converted into disciplinary spaces.
You know what I want AI and robots to do? Sort trash so we can just dump everything in one bin and not be confused and paralyzed every time we throw something way.
One of my former employers had a setup like this. I once watched the trash folks come by late at night and dump them all into the same bag, then off to the dumpster. /csb
Most of the legitimate "block sunlight" proposals involve cloud seeding or spreading long-lasting particulates high in the upper atmosphere. The goal of these projects is to reflect 1-2% of sunlight, which would significantly cool the climate, but plants would hardly notice. In fact, organisms like reef systems would greatly appreciate it, as they're dying off at an extraordinary rate.
I'm not playing defense for anyone. I'm recognizing that deconstructing the corporate money-making machine will take longer than we have to fix the more immediate problem of killing off our biosphere, so working with the system, broken as it is, may be the only way forward.
Believe it or not, it's a laudable goal. Cow feces is responsible for about 40% (yes, really) of methane production worldwide, and methane is several times more impactful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. I called bullshit (heh) the first time I heard these stats, too, but they're real.
The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot (www.eurogamer.net)
The executive producer on Netflix's The Witcher has blamed American audiences and social media sites such as TikTok for…
Methamphetamines (lemmy.world)
"It's time to CHEW ASS"
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Udon [OC] (lemmy.world)
Udon noodles with shrimp.
Houston ISD to eliminate librarians and convert libraries into disciplinary centers at NES schools (abc13.com)
Students at dozens of Houston ISD schools will return in a few weeks without librarians and to former libraries that have been converted into disciplinary spaces.
Fertilizing the oceans with iron could help remove a gigaton of carbon dioxide per year (interestingengineering.com)
Phytoplankton absorbs carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, and there's a relatively easy way to boost the world's populations.
Cow poop emits climate-warming methane. Adding red algae may help (www.sciencenews.org)
Adding a type of methane-inhibiting red algae directly to cow feces cut down methane emission from the poop by about 44 percent, researchers report.