Oh to have them, at the snap of fingers, be freed from their toxic political philosophies, and have to live the rest of their lives trying to mend all they broke and live with what they cannot and in full conscientious cognisance with a repaired moral compass and empathetic aptitude.

Have them face the horror. The disappeared don’t learn.

… And besides, if they all disappeared… would you really feel better? Or would you then live in heightened stress from all such devious demented domineers suddenly becoming invisible? Better the rotters we can see than the ones we cannot. … Though, I wonder, … at first I thought this would diminish their opportunity to learn better lessons and unlearn bad lessons from encountering fewer discussions that challenge their totalitarianised fallacious philosophy, but, maybe if their lurking, immersed, invisible, like ghosts or spies, perhaps they’d encounter even more. … But then if they’ve disappeared, because they’ve left to plot and scheme in some echo chamber somewhere out of sight… Yeah, I’d rather they all get converted out of their bad ideas and mal-ment, and we can know who they are, where they are, and have a chance to make sure the mending sticks and they don’t relapse with more bad ideas that hijack their psyche.

I hate those things too. And that passports these days are loaded with toxic tracking tech.

:)

Glorious to see “consumers” not omitted like usual where “workers” are seen as the be all and end all.

For so long as we hold our only strength our work, our servitude, we’ll never be able use our strength to emancipate; to break free of slavery.

Been boycotting Amazon since 2004.

Still waiting for everybody else to catch up.

Surely they’ll see it soon…

it will be replaced by systemd-dated soon

Not on my machines.

I distrust the tech and the corporation behind the tech being pushed on us as the one true way.

I have no room for the one true way in the Free Software paradigm.

Amen for choice. Grateful for init freedom. … Grateful for date freedom. … And whatever else systemd attempts to embrace-extend-extinguish.

… Just realised, I can’t tell if that[“it will be replaced by systemd-dated soon”]'s satire. Systemd, so bad, one can say horrible things they’ll be doing, and listeners will not be able to tell. Systemd, so bad, it’s beyond susceptibility to satirical reductio-absurdism, already reduced to the absurd.

Are these percentages of the population, or the electorate?

A quick couple websearches suggests that 80% is the turnout as a percentage of the electorate, not of the population. The electorate in Norway’s about 75% of the population.

Election reporting I’ve seen seems to always almost solely focus on only the % of votes from the turnout. Not only are the no-votes not being counted, but the not-registered-to-vote and not-eligible-to-vote likewise are dismissed without mention.

I recall some elections and referendums where I’ve been, where there was a close result between two options, around 51-55% to the victors. That’s a win, with 51% of the vote. And that’s all they’d say. Oft even outspoken in their intent to have you think this 51% of the population… when the turnout may have only been 50% of the electorate, and the electorate only 50% of the population. And so once one has done the maths during various votes, taking into consideration the turnout, and the electorate, one can find some winners do not have the majority of the population (slim majority or otherwise) as the media present, and instead may be claiming the right to power (dog-whistlingly euphemistically “the right to represent”), with as little as 11% of the population having voted for them (/ for the proposal in referendum). “Majority rule.”? Not nearly as much as the corporation wants us swallowing the placatium.

Already have a program that does that one thing, well. For stuff about dates, try the date command.

As in the case of wanting to know the day of the week of some distant future event’s date:

date -d "YYYY-MM-DD" +"%A".

Had that before systemd existed.

… Since “systemd is all you need” do systemd users uninstall date?

90% of people?

Or 90% of electorate?

If 90% of the electorate, that’s still surprisingly high.

In many places, many seem not realise a no-vote is taken as a vote for “any tyrant will do”, and the no-votes are the majority, ignored.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t? I’d keep complaining, and not accept the notion I can’t complain, regardless of voting status. Better than complaining, coming up with better solutions.

moral of the story, learn to prompt better.

28 days and counting, until inferno

I’d watch that movie.

A bird on a plane.

“Ce n’est pas un oiseau.”

There are (oh so ironically) so many to choose from in Astronomy.

Planet for example, or Asteroid…

But seriously, it’s in their name, that they name things, which, as the name’s typically used, encompasses so much more… They name themselves as that which names stars, and they cannot even get naming themselves right…

Misnomers so normalised, many people don’t even realise.

Nommy irony of astronomy.

Not mutually exclusive dogmas.

:O

How deep does this go???

No Ceres?

How are you?

Reminds of when I worked in advertising, “just doing my job” [“to the best of my abilities for my client”], until Bill Hicks saved me by telling me… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

Can’t get good from inside the machine.

Sadly Zionism always assumed the displacement of other people, so that some could build…

Since the crooks conjured their plan, yeah.

fundamentally conservative ideology

There’s another bag of fun to etymologically explore, seeing the contrast of how each of these words are commonly used, and what lurks shallow beneath the contemporary euphemisms. Perhaps not least the whole “conserve what” thing. Worse things than the milder interpretations some associate with in the broad conflation

… a better “both ways” you can have.