“And you, young engineer, you who dream of improving the lot of the workers by the application of science to industry - what a sad disappointment, what terrible disillusions await you! You devote the useful energy of your mind to working out the scheme of a railway which, running along the brink of precipices and burrowing into the very heart of mountains of granite, will bind together two countries which nature has separated. But once at work, you see whole regiments of workers decimated by privations and sickness in this dark tunnel - you see others of them returning home carrying with them, maybe, a few pence, and the undoubted seeds of consumption; you see human corpses - the results of a groveling greed - as landmarks along each yard of your road; and, when the railroad is finished, you see, lastly, that it becomes the highway for the artillery of an invading army…”

Peter Kroporkin, 1880

A hundred years later engineers are more jaded. They know what they are doing. At MIT in the 1980’s it was called “get your fingerprints on the murder weapon”.

For the past 50 years, Democrats have been supporting environmental protection laws and Republicans have been against them.

It is equivalent to compare “But Nixon started the EPA” to “Lincoln ended slavery.” That Nixon started the EPA 50 years ago is irrelevant to all the following decades where Republicans have been consistently against the environment. It’s no different than when Magas say they aren’t racist because of Lincoln.

If it’s a straight line from Nixon to Trump as you say, then why claim Republicans are environmentalists with Nixon as your example?

Autism is a spectrum. There are autistic children that definitely need more help. The problem is that anyone on the spectrum identifies as autistic when there are thousands of children with serious disabilities.

It’s like if everyone nearsighted identified as blind. “Don’t help the blind! I have 20/200 vision and I’m not a burden!”

Just because RFK is a looney doesn’t mean anything he says should be considered bad.

It’s also just factually wrong to say, “it was so long ago, its like saying they’re the anti-slavery party.” Nixon represents the turning point for the Republican party, where they abandoned their support for Civil Rights and embraced the Southern Strategy.

Those two sentences are in exact conflict with each other. You say “it’s too long ago when Republicans were different” isn’t a valid argument." Then in the very next sentence you say, “it was long ago when Republicans were completely different.”

WTF?

Mid to late 90’s was Tories, no gay marriage, and no immigrants. She’s a Terf. Everyone focuses on the Trans Exclusionary and ignores the Radical Feminist. Radical Feminism was not “status quo” of the 90’s

“I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were discriminated against on the basis of being trans. At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not believe it’s hateful to say so.”

https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy

She’s not horrible. But she could be better.

Microsoft is in it for the money. I think they’d rather get $30 a year every year than get $30 one time from a PC manufacturer who bundled Windows.

They’re still supporting regular Win 10 but will start charging $30 a year for patches.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates

Cheap Asian solar panels is literally handing free money to Americans.

Trump: “NOT ON MY WATCH!”

Emotionally I’m still sad she turned out rotten.

She’s not rotten. She only not perfect.

She hates Trump. She donates to the Labour party. She is pro women’s rights. She is pro gay rights. She is pro trans rights with one exception. She doesn’t want trans women in women’s sports.

So there’s a long list of Left views she aligns with and one that she doesn’t. It’s indictive of leftists that everyone must meet absolute cultural purity or be evil. Meanwhile the Right will pick one thing such as hating foreigners and anyone that’s on board with that is good no matter what other ideas they also have.

If you have to go back 50 years to find an example of when Republicans were good for the environment, you proved my point.

It’s no different than, “Republicans are the party of Lincoln!”

Your list supporting Republicans means you must support Trump. right?

I mean you can’t have it both ways. Nixon created the EPA, Nixon was Republican, therefore Republican policy is to put the environment first. That’s what you are arguing.

I read that as asteroid Don Johnson

No one is trying to say Biden was worse than trump.

The meme isn’t that Biden was worse but that he did nothing. It’s proveably false. Trump himself proved it by criticizing Biden at inauguration and immediately undoing Biden’s orders.

“Both sides bad” is why we have Trump.

Democrats took America from gays are illegal, to full gay rights with marriage. Environmental laws have been all Democrats. If Democrats did nothing, Trump wouldn’t have signed 76 executive orders reversing Biden orders on his very first day.

Many Catholics voted for her and this won’t change their vote. Nothing matters to them but a nationwide abortion ban.

Paywalled

This experience has also made me consider changing the license of Spegel, as it seems to be the only stone I can throw.

Dude used MIT license without knowing why GPL exists, then got upset. If you use MIT, you use it because you absolutely do not care if your work is appropriated by others, especially corporations.

It’s like he put furniture on the curb with a “free” sign on it and now is upset his stuff is being sold at an antique store.

He has no reason to be salty because he had in effect told Microsoft to take everything and don’t give anything back. So yeah, he should change it to GPL like yesterday. GPL was created because of the problem he has now faced.

That’s what Melania did.

I don’t understand what it gives you over playing MarioKart with your friends on a Switch 1?

Yeah, you can swap more on a framework laptop than the mini PC he’s using.

However glasses, a mini PC, keyboard and battery is smaller than a laptop. Using whatever keyboard you want instead of what came with the laptop for forever is also nice.