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Greg Abbott enters 2026 Teas governor’s race

Well, that’s eciting

Carney must be so relieved not to have to waste time to decline politely himself.

I’m paying for my open source preference and the support / community instead of the most modern fancy features. I want both, but I’d still choose the former

I try to apply the same logic whenever I can too.

For instance, my laptop is a MNT Reform: it’s a very good laptop, but it’s literally 6 times the price of a comparatively-specced laptop from a big-box store.

And my cellphone is a Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch. I chose the Fairphone for the repairability and increased openness, but it’s also 2 to 3 times the price of a more common brand cellphone with similar performances. And Ubuntu Touch itself comes with its own set of restrictions, but that’s the price of trying to be as free from the Android ecosystem as possible.

So yeah, you can do open, but the choice is very limited and you pay a lot for the privilege.

They’ll settle, Trump will add a few ill-gotten millions to his net worth, same as always.

Nothing to see here.

This is what awaits the ICE goons and the Nazi wannabes running the Trump regime. They’re cocky now, but one day their uppance will come - and not a minute too soon.

I have a Prusa XL, and the reason is, Prusa is (still) mostly open-source. And quite frankly it’s the only reason why I stick with Prusa, because technically they’re behind the curve.

That’s Washington state, not DC.

Surveillance capitalism and the fascists always find a way to debase everything good that people like.

ICE agents in Minnesota have taken President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown to a shocking new low, detaining a 5-year-old boy after using him as “bait,” according to school officials.

Of course they did: to an ICE goon, a latino little boy is a baby animal you can use to attract bigger game.

Why go to the trouble of finding this picture when Trump is kind enough to provide his menacing mug on his official portrait.

Hmm… What does that remind me of I wonder…

The onus is on us consumer to make sure the corporate collaborators lose more in sales than they gain in tax breaks.

Vote with your wallet folks: it’s very effective and it won’t get you into trouble with the SS ICE.

I don’t think Jesus would want to be associated with this dump.

How would Denmark know about the deal? They don’t have access to Trump’s demented mind, which is the only place it lives in.

That’s nice that he knew. But here’s the thing: the quiet but very real strangehold major US monopolies have on everybody’s lives on Earth reached five-bell alarm levels decades ago, yet nobody seems to be even dimly aware of it.

I now live outside the US, and in all the countries I’ve lived in, I kept thinking “If I was this country’s leader, I would be alarmed that a single US tech monopoly can, at the push of a button, at the whim of their CEO or the US administration, effectively stop my country functioning normally.”

Worse, in many countries, the powers-that-be seem really proud to push the internet and promote online services for essential state services, healthcare, taxes and such. Yet all I see is those countries gleefully putting their collective heads into the US lion’s mouth without even realizing it.

Being more independent from US monopolies isn’t just a nice-to-have that has gotten a bit more pressing lately: it’s been an absolute emergency for decades, and nobody gives a flying fuck. This has always been utterly baffling to me.

It’s more complicated than you think.

Take cellphones for example: since everything is connected nowadays and people virtually need a cellphone to lead a normal life now, everybody’s balls are in the hands of the US: if the regime decides to squeeze and tells Google and Apple to disable Android and iOS in Europe, it will disrupt the affected countries to an unimaginable extent.

Same thing with EMVCo (Visa and Mastercard): if the regime tells them to suspend payment processing in Europe, the European economies will instantly collapse.

And the weird thing is, I’m Mr. Nobody and I’ve seen this coming for decades. Yet all the world’s leaders without exception decided to look the other way and figured the US would always be the nice guys. How short-sighted…

That’s because ICE isn’t police. It’s a private paramilitary with zero rules and zero accountability controlled solely by the Dear Leader, like the SS.

It’s not very productive but it feels good to hear out loud what everybody think.

1600 parties per cow

Oh yeah, those cows are party animals 🙂

One time I asked a cow if he wanted to be slaughtered

Was it a transgender cow?

It’s one of those social media posts to get people who don’t think for more than 10 milliseconds riled up.