Craigslist

Hasn’t changed much at all, and their app is exactly what it needs to be, nothing more–i think the only thing I wasn’t able to do in the app was clear a saved search, but there’s no bloat, no ads, don’t need an account unless you’re posting or saving searches.

The people in charge dislike Antifa because people who align under that label oppose those in power.

I hesitate to use the argument “‘Antifa’ means ‘anti-fascist’ therefore if you don’t like Antifa you are necessarily fascist”–not because I don’t believe it’s true, but because I believe it’s more correlation. The “National Socialist” party was not as its name purports, nor do many of the “Protect the children” laws actually do what they say on the tin; therefore a deeper inspection on acts, means, motives, and results is warranted over a mere “literal definition of the name.”

Context

Disney allegedly lost 1.7 million customers after suspending Jimmy Kimmel. He was very quickly reinstated.

It’s not that boycotts don’t work, it’s more that they require a critical mass to work and that can be hard to achieve.

Also hardware continues to improve at a rate fast enough that we can just let it chug through software issues for a long time without significant perceived issues.

They are optimists, oblivious, fighters, or have found peace.

So you just missed the part where not all parties are likely to adopt burdensome practices if they can get away with it? What happens if two parties decide not to dump industrial waste in the drinking water and a third party who’s further upstream realizes that dumping industrial waste in the drinking water doesn’t hurt them, is easy to dispose of in that way, only impacts parties they don’t have agreements with downstream, and they just don’t care?

There is benefit in centralization in ensuring standards (such as rail gauge, radio frequency bands, V AC, flight paths, what side of the road you drive on, cohesion of communication symbols, baud rates, pollution mitigation, food quality, etc) and resolving inter communal conflicts, and facilitating complex research and development that would otherwise be unachievable by a smaller group alone (like pharma or clean energy research).

While standards can arise naturally across disparate small groups (such as US rail gauge) a central body can expedite adoption, and enforce standards that are unlikely to arise of their own volition (such as pollution mitigation, and food quality).

That’s not to say we ought to exclusively have a monolithic centralized control structure, but that there should be something to help the small groups work together and do what they otherwise couldn’t.

That would be the first proposal:

replace the government by force

I agree, how do you propose we do that? In my comment you just replied to I laid out two options–did you have a third?

Current US government is shutdown down because the two sides can’t come to an agreement on a budget to include if health care protections should be stripped from some of the most vulnerable.

The people engaged in that decision are there because they were chosen in elections. Trump is president because he was chosen in an election. SCOTUS is stacked with Republican justices because the people that get to pick them were put there in elections.

America still has elections and though the choices may not be great the results are not (yet) predetermined; one of those options is undeniably better. My next election I get to vote on if all children in public school should have access to food.

Yeah, the electoral system is deeply flawed but there’s really only two ways to change it–replace the government by force or replace the government by electing people willing to push reforms in enough numbers to do something about it. It’s the system we find ourselves in and participation is not an endorsement, but a means to an end.

It should never be “just Vote,” but instead “Vote and.” If you can spend hours at protests, feeding those in need, hosting theory book clubs, studying, engaging in activism, etc then you can take 1 hour a year to vote.

Charitably? Upscale a thumbnail.

Practically? Almost no reason.

Technically? I work on document viewers and there are times I need to inspect rendering times for “large files.” Being able to produce files of arbitrary size is beneficial for troubleshooting, but falls short of actual customer docs.

I don’t know if you’re involved in activism at all, but I heard some advice from an old Food Not Bombs head. Don’t trust the person that is always available, always has a car, or is down for anything. This is especially true if they are new or always wear bland or name brand clothing.

I guess more generally, don’t trust people that seem like they really want to be trusted.

Regarding surveillance online, yeah, there’s absolutely no privacy anywhere and there’s nothing you can do, so just be boring.

There’s a significant number of them in my mutual aid group. You could try to see if there’s an existing group in your area-if you are having trouble finding one you could help out at a food kitchen for a while and keep an eye on who comes to donate food regularly or chart with other volunteers about other groups they may be a part of. You could also see if there’s a DSA (or similar for your country) chapter and ask some of them if they know any other groups that might be more in line with what you’re looking for.

At least in my mutual aid group a lot of people volunteer at multiple orgs from food kitchens, animal shelters, clothing upcyclers, bike repair, etc.

You could also try to arrange a book club for something like Dean Spade’s “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).”

He also used an AI video to hide his location.

Yeah, all it takes is for others in power to either not despise them or recognize that connecting with them anyway allows continued execution of their power.

The rest will fall in line with the right motivation.

I had to put my Prusa i3 mk3s+ in storage for about a year when I was looking for a bigger place. I tucked it under the couch’s cushions when I moved from the east coast to the Rockies, and literally only had to blow the dust off the build plate before I was able to print again.

I can’t imagine most other printers going through that without needing at least a recalibration or leveling.

That reason alone will have me strongly considering Prusa when looking for my next printer.

With the rapid rise in accessible media tuned to everyone’s personal preference there’s not really a single artist that is capturing attention across the board, but that doesn’t mean there’s not protest bangers from several artists:

• Dropkick Murphys
• Grandson
• Durry
• Otep

I’m quite fond of my spouse and our pet cat.