After a long morning of loading the POD, stuffing the car, cleaning, scrubbing, double-checking, all on very little sleep… we’re off! #Canada here we come.
I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.
And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.
@futurebird@ehproque and while I don't call myself an anarchist, I am, as you put it, "skeptical of concentrations of power," and definitely not limited to the state.
I had a lot of arguments with state-focused people and often made some inroads by talking about how non-state actors pick up characteristics of states as they gain power.
@ehproque@futurebird Oh, I missed this one. No, I mean they drifted towards various subfactions of anarchism that I don't really remember well enough to identify anymore. I think one of them going on about it was part of how I ended up reading The Conquest of Bread, but that's kind of a foundational text as I understand it so not really helpful at identifying any particular subfaction.
@futurebird@jonquass@ehproque for reals. I’ve never got to vote for someone I actually like for President and most certainly never will. I, too, vote to choose my opponent, and can acknowledge less bad is better than more bad.
Speaking more personally, hoping you get the opponent who isn’t actively trying to kill you has been the point of queer voting most of my life. Being able to take an aesthetic position (yes, I’ve peeked further down this thread) means you’re sure you’ll survive no matter who is in power, and we don’t and have never had that - regardless of what some people might pretend.
@richpuchalsky@futurebird@jonquass@ehproque And then if you look at actual actions instead of slogans, Biden has walked the US further away from Israeli military support than any other US president since Israel became a US ally. Putting holds and restrictions like he has is unprecedented - not to mention directly going against their wishes with aid and that pier to deliver more aid.
You can either encourage that or you can punish it.
Meanwhile, the Republican party has been saying that Israel should be bombing more, not less, up to and in one particularly evil and stupid case I noted, including nukes.
@darcher@futurebird@richpuchalsky@jonquass@ehproque We need ranked choice voting for extremely reals. Supporting that at the lowest levels and working up is the most effective way to move towards it, like it is for basically everything political in this country. (And in this case that’s not a dig, that’s just a statement I think is reasonably well grounded in reality.)
Trump and the GOP are pledging to do everything they can from day one to end renewables and reward and boost carbon fuels producers - who are, by the way, right about the biggest sources of funding for the fascist movement.
Meanwhile Biden managed to get the biggest carbon-reduction bills ever through a hostile congress, and even then didn’t get all he actually really did try to get.
You want to talk about supporting genocide by voting for Biden, look up who gets destroyed first and worst by climate change and then think about your position some more.
They're all interconnected too so one goes off they ALL go off and it's everybody's favourite game WHICH SCREAMING MONSTER CONTROLS THE OTHER SCREAMING MONSTERS?
I seem to have attracted the attention of someone claiming to be involved with the Recall team on the ex/long-term MSFT group
he agrees my many critiques are valid and asked for mitigations other than "don't."
i gave him a short list to start:
a trivial way to exempt your entire current session leaving no trace you did that, telling users how to do it literally every time - the entire session must vanish
either per-app opt-in or windows-defender-like maintained lists of apps not to record without direct user intervention, e.g. Signal
not one byte EVER hits storage without strong encryption, NOT EVER, and I gave him an easy and long-extant Microsoft technology way to do that