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none of this ending the price in 99 nonsense

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

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

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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?

we were already in deep shit before AI and nobody

please, speak for yourself.

that is much bigger than one person

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

It doesnt hurt when they also use their mountains of cash and control of mass media and news production and outlets to champion voices supporting them, silence dissenting voices, stoke nationalism and xenophobia, and generally bend and warp popular culture to make fun of those who spend their time learning and doing well in school, educating themselves about history, gathering as workers, making patient, informed purchases-

the whole thing collapses when you look behind the curtain, everyone just hopes it’s not that bad, that the next big one happens after they die, and their kids can’t come knocking on their door to ask what the actual fuck were they thinking

“There’s no emergency,” said attorney Kelly Wood with the Washington Attorney General’s Office.

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

If they don’t have to explain themselves, then they shouldn’t expect one when the angry mob shows up at their door 🤷

I admit unexpected downtime sometimes frustrates me, too, but SDF is community funded and volunteer operated. I always assume there is someone working to fix things (as soon as they actually know something is down), but I also know crashes, upgrade woes, hardware failures and the like will happen. Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?

Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, it’s more than likely going to continue to happen 🤷

She says ‘it was clear’ the airline and the union ‘needed another tool’ to continue negotiations after the union went on strike.

Arbitration isn’t a fucking “tool” that somehow magically facilitates negotiation; it’s a weapon used to bypass the legal system and force parties to agree to a resolution. Take your fucking doublespeak and shove it. If parties can’t reach a resolution within the legal framework, it’s not the damned government’s job to step in and force one- that totally negates the power labor has to refuse to work.

This Jobs Minister clearly cares more about perception and finding a resolution ASAP than she cares about labor and our rights as workers. Never forget who actively works against us as workers.

“Someone should tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative that we worked out a long ago to breaking down the factory owner’s door and beating them to death in front of their family. I feel like they forgot.”

If there arent enough people to sign up, the settlement wont be large enough for the law firm to bother pursuing a small settlement. If enough people only signed up for these if the firm was willing to seek actual punitive damages, theyd have to do that if they wanted the case at all.

If the firm is only going to get 100 people to sign on, ATT wouldnt agree to a $177m settlement in the first place. “So a mass movement to force a fundamental shift in this system? that’ll never happen” - Im trying to point out that we’re the ones enabling the system to fail us as consumers, and we collectively have the power to force law firms to seek higher settlements (or actually try to win cases), which would deter companies from cutting so many corners when it comes to our private data.

Im saying legitimizing the behavior that leads to these class action lawsuits is the downside to joining them. Companies do not see them as any more than the cost of doing business since the settlements are insignificant. With no real consequences for the behavior, and both sides considering the matter settled, joining them is an endorsement of the whole, corrupted process. We’re the ones enabling law firms by signing up to have then “represent our interests,” when really no class member ever gets anything anywhere near compensation, companies aren’t deterred from their actions, and the only people who profit are the company that gets away with bad behavior and the lawfirm which continues to look for more lousy settlements for income. We should be demanding more, or refusing to join.

“Compensation” you mean probably a pittance of maybe an hour’s wage and some “identity theft protection” from a credit rating company that’s also suffered data breaches?

these class action lawsuits are nothing but performances that line the pockets of law firms (and the lawyers at the companies) while allowing investors, c-suite executives and board members to direct employees to penny pinch when it comes to keeping private data safe, respecting existing laws and regulations or really caring at all about anything but maximizing quarterly profits.

no one should be initiating or joining any of these class action suits- firms always settle, don’t give two shits about the size of the settlement (so they are never large enough to actually discourage companies, nor compensate those affected), only caring about getting a company to pay their salaries and bonuses while denying theyve ever done anything wrong.

If you qualify, maybe take a moment to contact the law firm and tell them to either actually try to win these cases - seeking penalties that actually deter behavior - or be labeled as obviously complicit in the shitty behavior of the breached company by accepting a settlement that does nothing but pay the law firm and allow ATT to continue to do more of the same. don’t be a willing participant in their sad grift passed off as justice

I love the pi zero version- it’s a great toy and occasionally a useful tool. was hoping the CM5 version would use 18650, but Ill still buy this with the flat battery.