Urist

Did not know you were also heavily involved in another project that I have relied on for many years now. For my part it really serves to show how few people in the open source space can really make an impact on other people's lives. Obligatory thank you for your effort o7. It mattered to me.

I substitute æ, ø and å with ae, oe and aa because it gives me trouble writing code. Does the programming language I write in and almost everything else support UTF-8: Yes. Does some obscure thing always fuck up the encoding of special characters: Yes.

Especially converting files and moving them between different OS sucks.

This is kinda what my joke is about, taking the parent comment "seriously" because someone, an American I presume, did not take encoding seriously once sometime and now fucks up my workflow for eternity.

Who is to say I am being totally serious here?

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

I guess I should refrain from writing text in my own language using non-ASCII symbols due to American exceptionalism and piety.

NixOS and ext4 user here with no problems. Care to elaborate?

I am living in a liberal (social) democracy and can give numerous reasons as to how and why it is currently failing, even as it is internally miles ahead of any shithole capitalist hellscape such as the US. Goals and ideals matter if they are based upon a factual understanding of material reality.

I am much more interested in a qualitative argument about socialist policy founded on proper material conditions, rather than what you deem to be the historical, and thus I infer the inevitable future, truth of a socialist system.

I am also not going to engage with effort if I do not see some effort in return, which I really do not at the moment.

"OK FINE! You can own the means of sexual reproduction if you stay the hell away from the means of production, ya pleb!"

The extraction of surplus value is usually done with no regard for and to the direct detriment of the well-being of the foundation on which value is being created.

The corporation is the weapon the capitalist class uses to make liberal democracies into dictatorships of the bourgeoisie.

US liberals are conservatives where I am from.

The only wealth redistribution they allow is from the poor to the rich. Bonus points if they can:

1. Increase tax pressure on the poor.
2. Make it so the poor vote for tax cuts.
3. Hand out said tax cuts to the rich.
4. Profit from "donations".

The liberal play book is so dumb and yet so effective.

EDIT: To all those that got offended by the dunk on liberals, consider this: When did your liberal government in practice and in a meaningful capacity increase tax pressure on the rich and allocate the increased funds to the benefit of the poor? Also, if you are not for more equitable redistribution of wealth, what are you even doing in this community?

There is absolutely a corrolation between being stupid and being a neo-nazi. However, in this regard smart people are even more dangerous since they are not only capable of fooling themselves but others as well.