Endymion_Mallorn

When he says “We”, he means the Trump org, or the side of the Kushners who are with him. Remember - either it directly and immediately benefits him, or he doesn’t know it exists. When he says “we”, he always means “I”. He doesn’t do much business with Canada. Therefore, he wants to buy it so he can shit out slums all over it.

TFM isn’t worth the R. It doesn’t describe failure states or bugs in a way that a normal user understands or can work with. Either it works perfectly, or there’s basically no way to figure out exactly what went wrong and how.

I’m glad everyone is getting away from the Apple tax.

I mean mainly fighting against the standardization of DRM, or tolerating anything that allows corporations to demand their “features” (anything that removes privacy) become standard. The difference between a good browser and a bad one shouldn’t be whether you can finagle a Widevine license for cheap.

Or, more generally, they should be actively blocking anything that would benefit corporate interests over the rights of the people. But since the Linux Foundation threw in with Google, Microsoft is a Google client, and Mozilla Corp runs on Google money, the W3C has been a joke for years. Mozilla has made themselves irrelevant, since they were just seen as a means to prevent the Google antitrust cases.

Hopefully this breakup of Google, and the loss of the money, will get the CEO (currently earning 1% of the total of Mozilla’s money - no one person should do that unless there’s less than 100 people), and that whole bunch to leave so that volunteers can take over.

You know, with the destruction of the EPA and the way public concerns are going up again… maybe it is the right time to bring Toxie back to the people.

Maybe, just as a crazy thought here, jwz was right. Mozilla and Firefox exist for 2 purposes - to build the standard reference browser, free of corporate crud (like, say, Google WebExtensions); and to be an absolute attack dog against ridiculous corporate desires.

This is only uplifting because it’s ended. It’s horrifying that it ever happened - and I will be very happy if every person complicit in the program gets prosecuted for animal abuse.

Please, embargo US food. If it doesn’t leave our borders, it’ll either go to waste and lose all profit for the manufacturer, or flood the market and lower our food prices. Either one is an acceptable outcome.

Without a doubt, they are - but we also know that everything this guy does is to benefit a company one of his patrons owns.

i respect your opinion. The issue is that without causing severe economic pain to businesses, they’d never change away from the way they’ve been accustomed to doing business. So, businesses essentially have to be forced to do business as they’re told, or else close because they can’t make a profit in the regulatory environment. There must be a cost to looking outside the country for anything whatsoever which makes the act of searching so onerous that they’ll have trouble making a profit.

Frankly, it needs to be both costly and labor-intensive if this is going to work. Every business should have to justify to the government every foreign purchase, sale, or labor. And they should have to pay more for it than for any possible domestic version.

Can we make sure that we define non-US movies as any movie that’s got a primary non-US investor? So that, given the amount of money China has poured into Disney, it makes them non-US? And all the Chinese film companies that have been sniffing around and snapping up productions that should be US based?

It used to be, and it should be. Anything that has to be made or produced outside our own country should be seen as a luxury.

Good. It should remain illegal.

And which private jail company is he going to immediately sell it to?

Okay. Companies that raise prices, and use foreign labor and materials, are just going to get less of my money than those that are wholly domestic.

So like a poltergeist, but created by an entire population?

No kidding. Not counting games I play ‘any way I can’:

• Oolite
• Endless Sky
• Nethack
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon
• Dwarf Fortress
• Liberal Crime Squad
• Mindustry
• WarZone 2100
• OpenTTD
• OpenRCT2 (though this requires some investment, you need the files from the original 2 games)
• FreeCiv
• EDOPro
• Card-Forge

That’s just what I have on this machine. If I check my GOG account, I’d have more. And I don’t give money to Valve.

That makes it a challenge. If you defed from them, you might lose access to upstream patches, or beta features. I’d love for Mbin to become the standard-bearer for the threadiverse, but Lemmy has gotten name recognition.

I’m on Mbin and started on Kbin, so I’ve tied my cart to a sequence of single devs. But, are there any Lemmy devs who aren’t connected to ML?

Thank goodness. Ever since we got rid of the asylums, things have been going downhill, and I’m glad to see that someone’s getting sense back.