adding cameras and tracking and survelliance is what weak, lazy, bought-off-and-paid-for leaders do, to trade liberty and privacy for additional arrests
kicking the can down the road, spending money that could have gone towards any number of positive things, like supplies for kids in schools, or even just additional human employees to help the existing ones who claim they need cameras everywhere to do their job
real leaders push plans that address the problems that lead to crime in the first place
like massive income inequality
but people don't want to hear "your system sucks and needs fundamental change," for a myriad of reasons
and so here we are. a massive number of disorganized workers, argung and seething at each other over belief systems, ancestry, skin color, gender expression, where exactly on the planet you popped out of your mom
treating each other less than human
less than we would demand to be treated and repected
while, from their mansions and yachts and private planes, a tiny number of people pit us against each other so well, a majority of us can't even decide what someone truly competent and representative of our collective needs looks like
until the people personally gaining from things like decades of corporate propoganda about climate change face any consequences, things like this will keep happening
but, sure, lets focus on making a bunch of lawyers rich by punishing a collection of capital on paper :shrug:
GTA 5 was beautiful in the way Forza Horizon titles are- as a realistic looking arcade-driving game. Id enjoy hours of (modded in) old school taxi missions. And its a great world for MP servers.
lazy, spoiled cowards who are complicit in Israel's actions because they can't be bothered to make the choices and demands necessary not to be.
Columbia university wont agree to your reasonable demand? Collectively stop providing labor for them.
or, maybe realize the students and the teachers dont run that school like they should- the people actually using the thing, as usual, have no real ownership of it. I say pack up the teachers, pack up the students, abandon the tainted, corrupt organization, start your own that isnt controlled by rich fucks
Thats C&H Sugar in case you were wondering who to add to your ever growing list of "not buying anything from you, or who you sell your product to, if I can at all help it" list
Also only takes a few minutes to click on any email address or feedback link at their site, and send a quick note telling them we see what they're doing, we stand with the labor, and they can go fuck themselves - this helps more than you may think!
ed: im not sure why I bothered. of course c&h is owned by domino, which is owned by the descendants of a last century sugar empire, who own most of the sugar on american shelves, and give zero fucks about labor or customers, just maintaining the status quo of them having more than us.
just like most of the products owned by a private company youll find on a chain grocery store shelf
americans have a lot more work and a lot more sacrifices to make than just taking back all three branches of the government from oligarchs. without ownership of our companies and factories, we are nothing more than peasants. if we continue to choose luxury and convenience over choices that show producers we actually care how they do business, things will only get worse
"what am I supposed to do, not buy sugar if thats all they have at the store?" I dunno, would it fucking kill you? Or is "i cant be bothered to find sugar another way than the absolute cheapest and most convenient, or do without at least until the union busting stops" enough of an excuse for you to hand your money over to union busting assholes?
"but im just one person, and individual action-" just miss me with that obvious fucking propaganda, I dont have time to school you, go read a history book
im a broken record but we're cooked if everyone doesnt stop being offended when they hear " whatever youre doing now OBVIOUSLY ISNT ENOUGH - sorry, try harder" like, nobody is going to do it for us
"Too big to fail" breaks our current system where consequences are necessary to check certain behaviour. Take bad risks for profit that dont turn out? Go out of business, and more importantly, hopefully teach a lesson to every customer, investor and employee
Grandpa went from 40 years of GM cars to a toyota when the 00s bailout happened, and they were right. These ancient monolithic companies are horribly run, there's very little if any ownership from the bottom up, and the more we bail them out, the worse their purely short term profit motivated decisions become
decisions that inevitably hurt those of us doing all the actual work, and never the rich who are running this place into the ground to line their pockets giving quarterly-profits-line-go-up presentations
If there's not a majority willing to step up and do whats right, then we get what we deserve.
Im tired of the idea of legislating good behaviour
If people en masse want to try to blame other people for their choices, that's on them. Bringing the legal system into it just tells everyone "hey, dont bother being responsible for your actions" without addressing the issue: people dont give a shit about making good choices
The simple solution is for people to choose wisely with their dollars. If they choose to support shitty producers thats the problem. No need to make being assholes illegal
It should ve obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission
co-founder
a corporation isn't some entity that exists separately from the people who work there- they are the ones actually doing and saying things as, and making decisions as the corporation
so, yes, it is obvious that a corporation's active co-founder's values ARE the corporation's values
or is there some outside entity separate from daniel and the other ones running mullvad making the decisions, and profiting the most from our business? no? ok.
also I dont like doing business with people who spend my revenue in ways I dont like- yes, youre free to live your life, doesnt mean I want to be one of the people supporting it
its not like (ed: at least some of) the money Daniel used to make a private donation didnt come from Mullvad customers...
people who run companies are like "hey please stop boycotting my business just because some who profit the most use your money to work against your interests" and it's like... do they even hear themselves?
Those are all good questions, about the vendors the companies I buy things from, and my responsibility in their actions
Maybe I should use less products that use AWS and you could consider your impact when using large language models to publish open source software. I'm almost certain both are in fact true statements, and if you knew me, you'd know I think "should" is strong language
If you want me to make a list of the products and services I avoid? How about this: I feel guilt when I use a service or buy a thing from someone I know I shouldn't. I try not to do it out of pure convenience, and I don't try to defend the behavior when I fuck up
Im truly sorry you suffered the ire of those who think your use of it is both wreckless and purely conveience based, but thems the breaks when you want to cut corners, dont care if its a hobby project or youre curing cancer- we can break the planet in scales previously unimaginable with our short sighted behaviour and Im about damn tired of "but everybody else is doing it"
why not try building a community around coding and maintaing an AWS stack replacement? maybe other human beings would help you with the parts you could use some help with?
you are the one person presenting this app. defend your personal choices, and maybe take longer to consider everything said here before you do it again.
that's often how things bigger than one person change- one person at a time
Rep. Lauren Gillen (D-NY), one of seven House Democrats who voted last week for a bill that further would further increase funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
primary them. all of them. no incumbents.
they. do. not. care. about. you.
stop fawning over the stupid fucking D next to their name and have some self respect!
every american who does not run themselves, or does not help someone other than the incumbent in the next election is complicit in everything. youve seen what they do and who they care about, and you choose them AGAIN to represent you? im left with no alternative but to assume this is the extent of how much youre willing to work, or that you dont think things are that bad that replacing your representative is warranted
complicit, lazy ass, selfish mfs gonna vote in these career politicians AGAIN and then claim it was the best choice- YEAH after you sat on your ass and did NOTHING when you had the chance
my entire life, same fucking excuse, over and over and over, for decades, and they want you take them seriously when they whiiiiine and complain
oh this system for me, by me and of me, its so corrupted and broken and twisted around worshipping profit, whatever can we do- MOTHERFUCKER LOOK IN A MIRROR IF YOU NEED TO FIND WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
no. those federal agents murdering people are our employees. we pay them, those that can handle violence and those that cant. everyone needs to own what people are doing IN THE NAME OF AMERICA, in our name, with our money, and with our blessing if we dont stop them, all of us
watching people you employ kill someone makes you uncomfotable?
im sorry. im exhausted with conversations over just how radical we should be acting. and im so tired of forgiving selfish people who marched us into this mess for paychecks. literally physically and mentally exhausted with trying not to be so fucking pissed at how surprised everyone seems at how decades of complicit behavior has led to such dire circumstances
yup sorry Im all for building communities, but I have no sympathy for anyone working for google. this didnt happen overnight, add now theyre actively helping the sad excuse for trumps secret police to kidnap people.
i guess you draw the line somewhere else. does blowing up babies do it for you? helping kidnap people off the street with no due process sure, lets think of the poor, bedraggled tech bro- but surely if google starts blowing up babies am I allowed then to start calling the employees selfish and complicit, and call for radical action?
you just let me know where the line is. because apparently actively supporting an out of control police force terrorizing the country isnt far enough
shut it down. ignore the epa. fuck the national government, act in open revolt. its over, stop listening to them out of some sort of misguided sense of "well if we just go along with it now, later we can deal with the consequences" OR we can stop.
its our government. we made the rules. we can break them in times of need. this is that time. close the fucking coal power plant as planned, fuck what these people who EVERYONE KNOWS has bullshit intentions says. just ignore them. they have no power if we all stop listening
"but they have guns"
they cant kill us all. and if you think itll get to that point, then youre to blame for letting it get this bad in the first place. the time to sit the fuck around and watch football and wait for the midterms nd hope it doesnt get too much worse is long past- by a few decades at least
stop listening to the stupid bullshit the administration says. states, gang together, fuck the national govt until it gets its shit together
why is this so hard- this is what we get for voting career politicans into office. theyre all too scared to do something that could get them primaried- not by the will of the people, but of their party overlords- and so this is what we get, because we were too lazy to participate ourselves. in true american fashion, instead of taking turns in the government before returning to our nornal lives, as was the plan and makes sense, we outsourced the running of our communities to career politicians who we vote into office time and time again, politicians backed by the factory owners we've been fighting since factories came about
not with a bang, but with a pathetic, lazy, spoiled whimper
Ill say it every time this comes up:
adding cameras and tracking and survelliance is what weak, lazy, bought-off-and-paid-for leaders do, to trade liberty and privacy for additional arrests
kicking the can down the road, spending money that could have gone towards any number of positive things, like supplies for kids in schools, or even just additional human employees to help the existing ones who claim they need cameras everywhere to do their job
real leaders push plans that address the problems that lead to crime in the first place
like massive income inequality
but people don't want to hear "your system sucks and needs fundamental change," for a myriad of reasons
and so here we are. a massive number of disorganized workers, argung and seething at each other over belief systems, ancestry, skin color, gender expression, where exactly on the planet you popped out of your mom
treating each other less than human
less than we would demand to be treated and repected
while, from their mansions and yachts and private planes, a tiny number of people pit us against each other so well, a majority of us can't even decide what someone truly competent and representative of our collective needs looks like
until the people personally gaining from things like decades of corporate propoganda about climate change face any consequences, things like this will keep happening
but, sure, lets focus on making a bunch of lawyers rich by punishing a collection of capital on paper :shrug:
same- never finished the single player story.
GTA 5 was beautiful in the way Forza Horizon titles are- as a realistic looking arcade-driving game. Id enjoy hours of (modded in) old school taxi missions. And its a great world for MP servers.
But now I have BeamNG
yay someone else who despises normalized subtle manipulation
COWARDS. lazy, spoiled cowards.
lazy, spoiled cowards who are complicit in Israel's actions because they can't be bothered to make the choices and demands necessary not to be.
Columbia university wont agree to your reasonable demand? Collectively stop providing labor for them.
or, maybe realize the students and the teachers dont run that school like they should- the people actually using the thing, as usual, have no real ownership of it. I say pack up the teachers, pack up the students, abandon the tainted, corrupt organization, start your own that isnt controlled by rich fucks
Thats C&H Sugar in case you were wondering who to add to your ever growing list of "not buying anything from you, or who you sell your product to, if I can at all help it" list
Also only takes a few minutes to click on any email address or feedback link at their site, and send a quick note telling them we see what they're doing, we stand with the labor, and they can go fuck themselves - this helps more than you may think!
ed: im not sure why I bothered. of course c&h is owned by domino, which is owned by the descendants of a last century sugar empire, who own most of the sugar on american shelves, and give zero fucks about labor or customers, just maintaining the status quo of them having more than us.
just like most of the products owned by a private company youll find on a chain grocery store shelf
americans have a lot more work and a lot more sacrifices to make than just taking back all three branches of the government from oligarchs. without ownership of our companies and factories, we are nothing more than peasants. if we continue to choose luxury and convenience over choices that show producers we actually care how they do business, things will only get worse
"what am I supposed to do, not buy sugar if thats all they have at the store?" I dunno, would it fucking kill you? Or is "i cant be bothered to find sugar another way than the absolute cheapest and most convenient, or do without at least until the union busting stops" enough of an excuse for you to hand your money over to union busting assholes?
"but im just one person, and individual action-" just miss me with that obvious fucking propaganda, I dont have time to school you, go read a history book
im a broken record but we're cooked if everyone doesnt stop being offended when they hear " whatever youre doing now OBVIOUSLY ISNT ENOUGH - sorry, try harder" like, nobody is going to do it for us
This time when one of them fails, let them.
"Too big to fail" breaks our current system where consequences are necessary to check certain behaviour. Take bad risks for profit that dont turn out? Go out of business, and more importantly, hopefully teach a lesson to every customer, investor and employee
Grandpa went from 40 years of GM cars to a toyota when the 00s bailout happened, and they were right. These ancient monolithic companies are horribly run, there's very little if any ownership from the bottom up, and the more we bail them out, the worse their purely short term profit motivated decisions become
decisions that inevitably hurt those of us doing all the actual work, and never the rich who are running this place into the ground to line their pockets giving quarterly-profits-line-go-up presentations
If there's not a majority willing to step up and do whats right, then we get what we deserve.
Im tired of the idea of legislating good behaviour
If people en masse want to try to blame other people for their choices, that's on them. Bringing the legal system into it just tells everyone "hey, dont bother being responsible for your actions" without addressing the issue: people dont give a shit about making good choices
The simple solution is for people to choose wisely with their dollars. If they choose to support shitty producers thats the problem. No need to make being assholes illegal
a corporation isn't some entity that exists separately from the people who work there- they are the ones actually doing and saying things as, and making decisions as the corporation
so, yes, it is obvious that a corporation's active co-founder's values ARE the corporation's values
or is there some outside entity separate from daniel and the other ones running mullvad making the decisions, and profiting the most from our business? no? ok.
also I dont like doing business with people who spend my revenue in ways I dont like- yes, youre free to live your life, doesnt mean I want to be one of the people supporting it
its not like (ed: at least some of) the money Daniel used to make a private donation didnt come from Mullvad customers...
people who run companies are like "hey please stop boycotting my business just because some who profit the most use your money to work against your interests" and it's like... do they even hear themselves?
Those are all good questions, about the vendors the companies I buy things from, and my responsibility in their actions
Maybe I should use less products that use AWS and you could consider your impact when using large language models to publish open source software. I'm almost certain both are in fact true statements, and if you knew me, you'd know I think "should" is strong language
If you want me to make a list of the products and services I avoid? How about this: I feel guilt when I use a service or buy a thing from someone I know I shouldn't. I try not to do it out of pure convenience, and I don't try to defend the behavior when I fuck up
Im truly sorry you suffered the ire of those who think your use of it is both wreckless and purely conveience based, but thems the breaks when you want to cut corners, dont care if its a hobby project or youre curing cancer- we can break the planet in scales previously unimaginable with our short sighted behaviour and Im about damn tired of "but everybody else is doing it"
why not try building a community around coding and maintaing an AWS stack replacement? maybe other human beings would help you with the parts you could use some help with?
please, speak for yourself.
you are the one person presenting this app. defend your personal choices, and maybe take longer to consider everything said here before you do it again.
that's often how things bigger than one person change- one person at a time
primary them. all of them. no incumbents.
they. do. not. care. about. you.
stop fawning over the stupid fucking D next to their name and have some self respect!
every american who does not run themselves, or does not help someone other than the incumbent in the next election is complicit in everything. youve seen what they do and who they care about, and you choose them AGAIN to represent you? im left with no alternative but to assume this is the extent of how much youre willing to work, or that you dont think things are that bad that replacing your representative is warranted
complicit, lazy ass, selfish mfs gonna vote in these career politicians AGAIN and then claim it was the best choice- YEAH after you sat on your ass and did NOTHING when you had the chance
my entire life, same fucking excuse, over and over and over, for decades, and they want you take them seriously when they whiiiiine and complain
oh this system for me, by me and of me, its so corrupted and broken and twisted around worshipping profit, whatever can we do- MOTHERFUCKER LOOK IN A MIRROR IF YOU NEED TO FIND WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
:/
no. those federal agents murdering people are our employees. we pay them, those that can handle violence and those that cant. everyone needs to own what people are doing IN THE NAME OF AMERICA, in our name, with our money, and with our blessing if we dont stop them, all of us
watching people you employ kill someone makes you uncomfotable?
im sorry. im exhausted with conversations over just how radical we should be acting. and im so tired of forgiving selfish people who marched us into this mess for paychecks. literally physically and mentally exhausted with trying not to be so fucking pissed at how surprised everyone seems at how decades of complicit behavior has led to such dire circumstances
yup sorry Im all for building communities, but I have no sympathy for anyone working for google. this didnt happen overnight, add now theyre actively helping the sad excuse for trumps secret police to kidnap people.
i guess you draw the line somewhere else. does blowing up babies do it for you? helping kidnap people off the street with no due process sure, lets think of the poor, bedraggled tech bro- but surely if google starts blowing up babies am I allowed then to start calling the employees selfish and complicit, and call for radical action?
you just let me know where the line is. because apparently actively supporting an out of control police force terrorizing the country isnt far enough
:/
sounds like its time to make google employees a "vulnerable group" who fear being outed publicly for their fascist shit, too
yay! this is fantastic news
resist. resist. resist.
shut it down. ignore the epa. fuck the national government, act in open revolt. its over, stop listening to them out of some sort of misguided sense of "well if we just go along with it now, later we can deal with the consequences" OR we can stop.
its our government. we made the rules. we can break them in times of need. this is that time. close the fucking coal power plant as planned, fuck what these people who EVERYONE KNOWS has bullshit intentions says. just ignore them. they have no power if we all stop listening
"but they have guns"
they cant kill us all. and if you think itll get to that point, then youre to blame for letting it get this bad in the first place. the time to sit the fuck around and watch football and wait for the midterms nd hope it doesnt get too much worse is long past- by a few decades at least
stop listening to the stupid bullshit the administration says. states, gang together, fuck the national govt until it gets its shit together
why is this so hard- this is what we get for voting career politicans into office. theyre all too scared to do something that could get them primaried- not by the will of the people, but of their party overlords- and so this is what we get, because we were too lazy to participate ourselves. in true american fashion, instead of taking turns in the government before returning to our nornal lives, as was the plan and makes sense, we outsourced the running of our communities to career politicians who we vote into office time and time again, politicians backed by the factory owners we've been fighting since factories came about
not with a bang, but with a pathetic, lazy, spoiled whimper