420stalin69 [he/him]

A study just came out that was posted in Hexbear showing at least 15% of Reddit content is corporate botting so we should just have some fun with LLMs and AstroTurf it instead like everyone else is doing

Star Trek is what comes after communism

The sinister oriental never does things for their own sake but always with some ulterior motive.

Protect the people from COVID? More slaves for the machine because the communists cynically want more workers for their factories.

Build a hospital in Africa? Colonialism! Just like how when the British went to India they spent the whole time building hospitals, I guess.

Unilaterally and unconditionally forgive debt for the poorest 20% of nations on earth? Scheming for influence and seeking to sway Africa away from western bankers who just want to help :(

USA spends decade after decade brutalizing South America, Central Asia, south east Asia, and the Middle East: yeah but China funded a port in Sri Lanka

Image being unhealthy and saying "it’s going to take more than a 20 minute walk once a week to get in shape.

Imagine being unhealthy and your doctor is doing genocide in Gaza

If the public are paying for it, then it becomes a subsidy.

And good luck getting the US government to require the code to be GPLed. That’s even less likely to happen than a public subsidy for OSS at all.

They typically do the opposite and require “commercialization” to ensure the benefit of the publicly-funded technology is captured by their donors.

This is how it basically works in biotech, for example. Government grants to study the medicine and then when the scientists actually find something important it becomes a “public-private partnership” often without even a royalty for the public let alone making it a public good.

That’s not how government funding works in a modern democracy, unfortunately. It would amount to a cash transfer to big tech to make the public pay their R&D costs.

So a public subsidy for big tech to get free code?

The rule is you have to post something before you leave

Isn’t assessing the issue on the issue tracker “listening to input” though?

Your options are

• do it yourself and create a pull request
• make a suggestion to the devs on the issue tracker, who have every right to reject it
• start a discussion here if you believe a feature is important enough to have public debate

That seems like a lot of options for listening to input to me.

What exactly is missing that you want to see? How could you add what you see is missing?

array.whomst(element => element === needle)

You do not gotta give it to them

Bump.

Link those fucking documents you liar or admit you’re making shit up to justify an incorrect world view.

The coward didn’t want to be hanged in the red square

There are actual documents about Soviets sending Georgians to slaughter first hand.

ARE THERE THOUGH

The tyranny of the mob

Building a chip making factory is the modern equivalent of planting a flag.

Spend 42 hours making a professional quality message queue and entity component system then shelve the project because you got bored.

There is no Nordic model. The Nordics have substantially different economic histories and have developed in different ways at different times. Finland was poor until really very recently, Denmark was and still is a colonial exploiter, Norway got oil rich, Iceland was a haven for bankers and tax cheats, and Sweden only saw a recent blip of social progress from the 40s into the 70s and then destroyed the labor movement that built those gains over the previous 20 years with the impressive equality achieved in that period rapidly eroding back to the 1920s when you look at disparate investment in education and other ways of funneling public benefits to the already wealthy. And don’t forget that Sweden are colonial bastards towards the Sami as well, and still are looting their way through those spoils for resource wealth.

Anyone who tells you there even is a Nordic model is a fucking idiot.

It’s complicated.

I want to genocide Palestinians but I know that it’s evil to genocide Palestinians my emotions are very complicated right now please have some sympathy.

I have a SpaceX joke. It’s a blast.