Even republicans don’t want fascism.

A “Trump Boat Parade” in Jupiter, Florida, on Sunday was joined by neo-Nazis waving swastika flags, shouting “White Power,” “Heil Trump,” and “Make America White Again!”

What’s been truly revolting is in watching how many liberals have jumped on the fascism bus. Kristen Gillibrand is fully in bed with the Silicon Valley techno-fascists. Richie Torries can’t get enough genocide, whether its via our migrant concentration camps at home or our outsourcing of genocide to the Middle East via Israel and Saudi Arabia. Sitting Democrat NYC Mayor Eric Adams has gone all in on MAGA, after receiving pardons for his chronic misuse of public office and funds from the President. Gavin Newsom is flirting with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon as a podcast host. Half the 2026 Texas Dem Congressional slate is fully in favor of turning the US/Mexico border into the new Iron Curtain. The Florida Democratic Party wants a Bay of Pigs 2.

It’s Italy in 1924 all over again. Oops! All fascists.

they didn’t inherit their immense wealth

Except even that doesn’t hold up under close scrutiny. A big component of the market cap of any Fortune 100 company stems from equity and debt held by the generationally wealthy, typically through family funds managed by private equity groups. Amazon and Tesla aren’t worth $1T without the Vanderbilts and the Carnegies and the Adelsons and the Waltons bidding up asset prices. Microsoft doesn’t exist today without Bill Gates’s mom sitting on the IBM board of directors and handing her son the contracts for their 1980s OS. Hell, Berkshire Hathaway is owned by the sons of a Congressman and a federal judge, respectively.

What’s more, the biggest source of market capital is inevitably government contracts. You can’t tell me that Michael Dell is “independently wealthy” when the bulk of his fortune came via the Texas public school system buying all his company’s computers. Particularly when the governors, legislators, and board members making these decisions are (a) big shareholders of the Dell corporation and (b) legacy scions of wealthy Texas families.

The ship was never at that port.

Reddit was using bots and vote manipulators back to the Digg days, as well as scraping/reposting akin to what 9gag became famous for.

You have a better, equally integrated solution?

I mean, we do. Linux OS, Libre Office, Apache servers, Linux Cloud Service of Choice, PostgreSQL.

But you need techs familiar with those systems and businesses eager to implement Linux at a foundational level early on in the company’s development. Because a lot of businesses outsource their IT early on, and because a lot of end-user hardware has Microsoft pre-installed, and because the major IT outsourcers all get big kickbacks from Microsoft to be the default solutions, and because Microsoft has embedded itself at the university level at a global scale, and because Microsoft has successfully lobbied itself as the premier US contractor of choice for federal and state IT setups, it can be harder to find professionals willing and able to configure a Linux environment. This is assuming the company founders even think to ask for alternatives.

That’s not to say it never happens. FFS, some of the biggest competitors to Microsoft - Amazon and Google most notably - have relied on Linux/PostgreSQL architecture to keep their overhead low and their integrations non-exclusive. But they’re exceptional precisely because they laid the groundwork early.

The problem isn’t that integrated solutions don’t exist. The problem is that most CTOs don’t embrace them early on in the company’s development and find themselves trapped in the Microsoft ecosystem well after the point a transition would be easy.

which tech-giant is the default choice

Meanwhile, on Lemmy, I suffer under the tyranny of Big Penguin

You should add peaches to give your dish more sweetness

The dish:

• One cup carrots
• One cup flour
• One cup butter
• One fuckton sugar

Truly, a master of his craft.

If you make sweeping generalizations about an entire ethnic group, you might be a racist.

Broadly speaking, sure. I think the “Afghanis didn’t want Americans holding their nation at gunpoint for two decades” is empirically well-proven, though.

The rest of the shit is just ahistorical nonsense. The primary appeal of the Taliban is rooted in their opposition to the secular warlords and opium cartel bosses who were backed by the US in place of civilian government. Just like in Iran, after the takeover by the Shah, urban liberals were either ingested into the American murder machine or exterminated as disloyal opposition. What opposition was left fell to rural religious conservatives who spent the next generation resisting the occupation.

When the Taliban was suppressed they had schools for girls and nobody forced people at gunpoint to go to them.

When the Taliban was suppressed, a few major cities had schools for the families of occupying soldiers and civilian bureaucrats. And some of the Afghanis were permitted to attend, as an incentive to remain compliant. The women and girls in the rural backwaters weren’t invited to these schools. The young boys weren’t invited either. The country was plundered, the bulk of the population subjugated, and individuals who resisted were arrested, tortured, and executed.

The idea that Kandahar was transformed into Boston under US occupation is absolutely farcical. Poverty was endemic during most of the US occupation, percipitating multiple famines during the '00s and '10s. 36% of the country experienced extreme poverty under US occupation. One in five children died under the age of five years old.

How Taliban insurgents initially managed to win support in those early years was by rebuilding the domestic supply lines that the '02 invasion had flattened. Only after they’d revitalized the western provinces could they shepherd the manpower to repeal western forces. And, in the end, it was those who could supply the bread that made the rules.

Like: Why don’t these corpos just use a PIN system, god damn it? (rhetorical question, they probably don’t care)

This is what a Zero Regulations For The Last Forty Years government does to the business sector. Very simple, obvious solutions that you’d think multi-trillion dollar tech companies would have no trouble implementing aren’t worth the effort.

Why bother doing anything for the consumer when you can just spend another $1M on advertising to make your shit service irrelevant?

Still an ugly pain in the ass for the person who wanted to exchange currency for goods and/or services.

I do find it amusing that Doordash itself seems so blaise about this misuse of their services. Like, what an amazing racket. Get paid by one of the biggest retailers in the country to not-pay drivers so they can not-deliver expensive hardware.

Look for someone who also wants to Netflix and Chill. No shortage of other people who feel the same way.

Putting Ken Cheng and Dril in a room together to see what kind of babies they make.

Its full but not cluttered and it looks cozy as fuck.

I guess we’re operating on different definitions of “cluttered”. Although, I’ll happily cede it looks cozy, I would be afraid to swing my elbows without knocking over something extremely rare and expensive.

That’s crazy, especially considering rental rates.

Where are you living that the unit doesn’t come with a dishwasher? I’ve been all over Houston, on the rich side and the poor side, and I’ve never seen a unit that doesn’t at least have one of those bargain basement whirlpools.

If you’re paying rent, you’d think the unit would just come with the kitchen basics.

Do you have a refrigerator, at least? A stove? Or is your landlord making you use a shared root cellar and chimney fire?

So, the art is a bit deceiving. We have a few things that can’t go in the dishwasher - the espresso pot which would be ruined in the machine, a few bigger pots and serving bowls that don’t fit neatly, some of my son’s high chair components that get gunked between meals, our nice set of enameled chopsticks that need to be hand-washed - and this works great to keep them out of the sink while we’re doing the rest of the kitchen.

But I agree, there’s no reason 90% of the image art stuff can’t just go in the dishwasher normally.

A clean kitchen is a triumph of the modern era. Show this to a caveman or a renaissance era scholar and claim two middle-age adults with at least one child and a dog accomplished it in less than an hour. They will praise it as a miracle.

BBC tier neoliberalism.

“Real victory is when you stop trying to resist” might as well be the Keir Starmer campaign slogan

Outside and touch grass?

Wait till this guy finds out about cell phones