Because they’re smart and they want to establish free, open-source software as the norm.

It’s getting to that point.

Our only option is going to be killing them.

I think the stark colors of this album cover affected the way I heard it when I first listened. It sounded like just a straight metal album to me.

I had to listen to it a few times before I realized that it had a lot of tonal/genre variety just like most FNM-Patton albums.

Fascists get very, very upset when the rest of us, the reasonable people, don’t want fascism. They are disappointed in us when we don’t want to be ruled by their rulers.

They are truly stupid and harmful human beings and they should be loudly ostracized in every community in which they dare to advocate for fascism.

Thanks!

I’m thinking of an app for musicians to upload their music too. Bandcamp was good, but it’s been taken over by corporate power now.

Bandcamp does some pretty cool things even though it’s now owned by a Business-2-Business music licensing company. Makes me wonder how many Bandcamp artists have had their songs ‘licensed’ by Songtrder (the ‘biggest music licensing platform in the world’) to other companies without the artists’ consent.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/is-bandcamp-as-we-know-it-over/

p.s. if anyone knows any good alternatives to Bandcamp, please let me know!

All the apps that collect user data that has nothing to do with the actual function or purpose of the app.

Like–why does this solo word puzzle game need access to my contact list, camera, and location?

Yeah, there have been numerous studies on this, and your impression aligns with the outcomes of those studies:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-four-day-workweek-reduces-stress-without-hurting-productivity/

https://www.4dayweek.com/research

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/01/rise-of-4-day-workweek

Given that the research shows a four-day workweek gets better results for everyone (including employers), it’s worth asking why we don’t have one–who is preventing it?

The most important outcome of this, of course, is that it makes for better worker conditions.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/what-countries-have-4-day-work-weeks

A handful of countries have four-day workweeks.

If we’re not going to get rid of the system in the United States where we all have to work for the majority of our lives just to survive, then the four-day workweek is a good starting compromise.

We could easily do so if not for the billionaires.

There is no system of government in the world that has been able to stand up to individuals with billions and billions of dollars.

The billions and billions of dollars have all the power and no system can escape that power.

We need to stop the billionaires.

Exhorder once got kicked off a tour with Dead Horse in the 1990s because one of their band members took a shit in a styrofoam container and put it on the lunch buffet with all the other food. The first person who opened the container was not amused.

Here’s what an auto-translation gave me: “If you are a squirrel, then I am a sinner.”

what did the turtle type while crawling across the keyboard?

maybe it was a secret turtle message

This is so good.

1990s TNG had a good heart.

Other than the paltry poverty-wages they pay employees, almost every dollar that locals spend in a big box store leaves town and travels straight into some billionaire pocket.

That was a great feeling–taking something locked in, programmed, something that used intentionally deceptive description and design, and finding a way to make it your own. To, basically, break the deceptive design and make the device better by “breaking” it.

When I rooted my first Android phone I felt that way. It’s a shame how much of the computing power in phones is used for nothing but harvesting our data and profiting from our use of the computer.

There’s so much more we need to break now.

Also making giant rebar craps all over

I don’t think things like greed are endemic to our species, and particularly not like the greed that is so all-consuming that you take necessary things for life from less powerful people.

I do think, however, that without a massive change in mindset, that this capitalist viewpoint, the viewpoint that says I can take whatever I want from whomever I want, will persist. We might not be hardwired for greed, but we are hardwired for hierarchy.

And, if that hierarchy is one that valorizes this poisonous type of greed, that the lower primates will mimic it to rise in the hierarchy.

But, we have so many other available hierarchies. The capitalist one is dominant now, but we can change that.

Yep. A Linux build + Firefox (with Privacy Badger and ublock origin plugins)