Ducks are used to it, female ducks developed curled vaginal canals to deter forceful reproduction but male ducks simply evolved corkscrewed dicks so now ducks never reproduce without inflicting great agony.

I doubt the fascist pin pricks can hurt them.

Does this include users of other platforms like Piefed?

If left wing is progressive then they’re still fairly progressive, imo. For example, making railways public again and banning no fault evictions were some recent things they’ve done.

Hang on, arent these the same fuckers who greenlit AI training on IP they don’t own?

It might be the future but it’s probably not very effective given how much lower quality the ads become as a result of AI.

That’s around the time in a season that a TV shows run out of budget and are 80% soft spoken dialogue while the coffee mug magically teleports around the room.

It’s a lost cause, then.

In case I change my mind, send me their website.

By definitions of words capitalism and communism are not conflicting ideologies unless applied to the extreme.

The dictionaries tell us this:

Capitalism means private ownership of production of goods and services.

Communism means worker owned production of goods and services.

Obviously you could argue that all Capitalism is Laissez Faire and that all communism is some abominable mix of Marxism and somehow dictatorship, but then we have no terms to describe the 99% of industries that fall anywhere in the middle as anything except “market system.”

Anybody know a good place to buy cheap motors at various sizes? Like servos and stuff?

You can add things to the definitions of words all you like but it just puts you on the same level as those tankies screaming bloody murder about Capitalism.

Communism is an economic and political ideology of “workers owning the rights and means to productions” as opposed to investors and upper management not specifically beholden to those workers, so yes publicly owned services and also cooperatives are “communism”.

That’s not to say that communism is in any way a solution to the problems of greed or corruption, though, because centralized authorities managing those public goods and services can be as bad or even worse than a monopoly.

My stance is plainly that communism or capitalism is a pointless discussion to even have on the topics of inequality, civil rights, or wealth concentration because it makes no difference compared to the discussion of democracy vs antidemocratic ideologies like fascism or tankies.

By bare definition a lot of things are communism, like public roads and libraries, public housing, public insulin production, etc.

But most people on here use the word to describe west v east divide and not what the word means.

That tracks actually.

The insinuation is that the USA citizens would learn and then somehow magically overthrow the world’s most powerful military.

Nowadays it wouldn’t surprise me if a secondary system was hidden on a chip on a router, meaning you could replace the main firmware and still be spied on, it’s better to have hardware you can trust top to bottom from the country you live in, but as far as what the risk cited by US officials is then it’s probably something like being used as a sleeper device that will later be included in massive botnet attacks like the AISURU botnet well documented to be made up of compromised consumer devices.

My money would have been on Cisco rather than TP-Link, though.

There are bigger and worse threats than the USA out there, and it’s more beneficial to trade with the USA than to not trade with the USA. You could rationalize that the USA might be more likely to fix itself while sanctioned, make them realize their mistakes, but you would at the same time be severely lowering the West’s military capabilities in a time of eastern aggression.

Replace the firmware on your current TPLink devices with OpenWRT, for a temporary solution.

Tbh any router that lets you replace the firmware with OpenWRT is pretty good, but only if there’s been an OpenWRT firmware version made for that very specific model.

Other than that, buy within your price range made within the last 2 years.

FR even though I hate Republicans and this admin when I saw this headline I thought “good shit, regulate the industry.”

I am also trusting instance owners and software developers to implement an open source automated bot detection and filtering algorithm. I think forcing users to manually wade through and filter out threat actors we can identify with 99% certainty is nothing but a waste of their valuable time and disruption of the community and conversation we support and enable here, especially when false positives are easily rectifiable.