zitsarethecure
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Comment · 11 months ago
It's already a system where unaccountable private monopolistic moralizing multinational middle men have the power to tell you what you can spend your money on.
Comment · 11 months ago
Sorry for your loss, but this experience is not universal in Toronto. I was visiting my (sick) older brother about a year ago when he woke me up calling out about chest pain. I called an ambulance and they were there within about 10 minutes and saved his life, for which me and my family are so very grateful. Had he been visiting me here in Ohio when he had his heart attack, the results may not have been as good.
https://fox8.com/news/i-team/i-team-more-people-waiting-30-m...
Comment · 1 year ago
It always was.
Comment · 1 year ago
Interestingly "no government" also appears to be exactly what is happening in the US with what some people might describe as end stage Capitalist society.
Comment · 1 year ago
New Mexico is experimenting with free child care. Canada has nationalized its own system and while it isn't free, it is heavily subsidized.
Comment · 1 year ago
Odd that so few folks supposedly opposed to those wars appear to be speaking out against war with Venezuela.
Comment · 1 year ago
ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/
Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).
Comment · 1 year ago
IMO FOSS "lost the plot" when we accepted the false argument that source code sharing was purely an engineering issue rather than an ethics issue.
Comment · 1 year ago
If it works well enough for the people who use it, why does it matter?
Comment · 1 year ago
Many people are saying it. Unfortunately the small minority of nasty people opposed to it are using violence to stifle free debate.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's the Stonecutters. They did it before with Steve Guttenberg.
Comment · 1 year ago
Absolutely. RTO mandates. Blanket AI adoption for developers. All these asinine trends done solely to make executives feel like they are still relevant.
Comment · 1 year ago
The blanket RTO mandate is peak cargo cult thinking and a great example of why executives should be the first employees that should be replaced with "AI", rather than the last.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been using btrfs on my NAS for years and have not had any problems. I suspect there are a hell of a lot of people like me you will not hear about because people don't generally get as vocal when things just work.
Comment · 1 year ago
A fun game is to replace "Donald Trump" in news stories with "Hillary Clinton" and to imagine the reaction if they were otherwise identical.