Phoenicianpirate

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

What scares me is that the US and Canada Postal services might turn private... and trying to make them public again would have someone insist on debating 'but how are we going to pay for this incredibly expensive service? It failed before' when nothing about that was ever remotely true.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Their views on women are worse than the worst Muslim views. The most they have on Muslims is the hijab when Muslim countries have the highest rate of women in STEM fields in the world, and Muslim countries that haven't been destabilized by the US and Israel also have them exceed men in advanced degrees.

I am not saying that it is all hunky dorey in the Muslim world, but it isn't what they say it is.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You haven't been banned.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Upgrading is never simple or straightforward. But it is something we need to do otherwise we won't have a planet to live on.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What is fucked is many other countries with healthcare have powerful privatization lobbyists also working their asses off to privatize essential public services. The Canadian and British healthcare system has been in jeopardy for years due to that.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Didn't the triangle waistshirt fire happen because the employers were fucking assholes and locked the fire escapes? This is like that, but with water instead of fire.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Most certainly. I mean why can't Israel just put all their military assets in one very clearly cordoned off area in the desert with a big neon sign that says 'all our tanks, artillery, airplanes, small arms, and ammunition for everything is right here' and make abso-fucking-lutely sure that no civilian is within 10KM of the area and anyone working there is 100% military and also armed.

Oh and they can't live on-base. Because that is still using them for human shields, too. Oh and nothing 'civilian' to transport them either. Regular cars and buses? Nope. Only armored vehicles. Anything else would be perfidity!

I mean if they have a single area that is put in secret it is like them being worse than Hamas. Actually it means they ARE Hamas all along! Bomb them! Bomb them to the stone age!

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 43 points 1 month ago

This is why I still download movies and try to keep them. They make up the bulk of the crap I keep on my hard drives.

And there was a time when the computer science world wanted to avoid this... and it was 1990 (yes, almost 35 years ago) when the term digital dark age was coined. It was in response to several things. Firstly: the first voyager probe was sent and the code used to store the information could not be disciphered by (then) the latest computers, which resulted in a problem. The second thing is that governments all around the world were starting to be heavily computerized and the older computers used in the 1960s were 100% incompatible with newer systems.

In the US and UK in 1960 the first census were done by computers, and by just 1976 there were only two computers in the world that could read that data, and one of them was a museum piece.

The FOSS community has done far more to combat this with emulation over the past 30 years than any corporation has ever done. Whether it is for video games like MAME, MESS, or whatever console emulator you want to mention, or by OSes like MS-DOS and Amiga Lemon and countless others that emulate almost every system ever created.

Now these fucks are just shitting all streaming media and forcing normal people to have to break the law by pirating the stuff just to keep the stuff from vanishing into oblivion.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Didn't China have a community use lots of solar and they ended up with such a glut of excess power that they didn't know what to do with it?

All communities should have that. Electricity should be free and it would be plausible to make it free. Except for maintenance costs, but that would be peanuts compared to what we pay now.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Let's tell him to eat shit.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Unfortunately there are too many fascists and too many Christian fanatics who believe that Israel and the wars it is doing are necessary for the rapture to happen.

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