Not economic decline; spiraling inequality. Which is even worse, in some important ways.

Well of course, but they’re a roaring success for the people the instigators of the policies actually give a shit about.

Could very well be. I’m using OpenWRT and basically did the bare minimum to get it to work.

I read an article once about a guy who grew up in a poor rural area in the US that changed my opinion a bit. He talked about how progressive and left leaning people want to help the poor and uneducated, but typically only in major city centers.

I think I know the article you’re talking about (although I’m having a hard time finding it again), but I don’t think that’s quite what it said.

It’s more like progressives are perceived by rural people as not wanting to help them, because the type of help they offer is assistance in moving or retraining or otherwise changing in order for their lives to improve. This is because the progressives understand (correctly) that the jobs that used to sustain the small towns are never coming back, regardless of how much the rural people want them to.

The writer then pointed out (also correctly) that this “elitist” approach was not effective in solving the problem.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember what the author’s conclusion/recommendation of a better strategy was.

We’ve been doing the same policies since Reagan and they continue to fail and continue to be doubled down on.

You say “fail” as if they aren’t working exactly as intended.

Why is The Telegraph using “pc” instead of “%”?

Yeah, it’s only anecdotal but I feel like hobbyists like us, who do slightly unusual things without nefarious intent, who are the ones who get hit with these sorts of issues the most. For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)

Check the part about misinformation.

What Linux infrastructure? The wikis and torrent links?

Package database mirrors (i.e. the things you’re downloading from when you install new software).

Removed by mod

Unless there’s a miracle, it would be:

4 consumer are relegated to DRM’d-to-Hell-and-back smartphones

And that’s honestly why this story isn’t the good news it appears to be. An entire generation growing up used to (or rather, used by) locked-down devices designed for consumption is a goddamned disaster!

My other reply to you was literally entirely composed of a supporting link. Quit being disingenuous.

You are factually incorrect.

Liberalism has always been a right-wing philosophy

To be fair, not considering unicode support a priority is a pretty damn English-language-centric attitude.

https://youtu.be/wk7fYBw6PfQ?t=42

10000% pure copium. The fascists will NEVER see any semblance of justice unless YOU, PERSONALLY dedicate your life to making it happen. And even then, it isn’t likely unless millions of other Americans accept their individual responsibility as a citizen to do the same.

THAT is the level of effort required to bring a society back after it has allowed its democratic institutions to fail.

Same reason they picked Harris: they’re drinking their own kool-aid on identity politics. Just like how because Harris is a black woman they tried to sell her as a progressive feminist and not the bootlicking prosecutor she actually is, they assumed that because Walz was an old white guy he was only pretending to use progressive rhetoric and shat their pants when they realized he was genuine about it.

They don’t want to motivate a voter base. They want to continue collecting giant checks from corporate donors and the 1%.