that’s one sturdy chair. look at the destruction around him. Jesus Christ Almighty, he sat down and did all that?

holy shit, did you write your dissertation on over-elaborating internet funnies?

shhh…Jesus is coming…open your mouth.

🙏

cool never will buy another seagate ever though.

how can Nevada hurt you when it’s not even real

kindly take your scarecrow to another field.

#HEY IT’S THE ASSMAN!

lets turn this around on them. they aren’t banning masks… they’re banning Halloween.

they’re trying to cancel Halloween! what’s next, Christmas?!

try longer if they’re not as dumb as they seem.

are y’all actually gatekeeping diversity?

there’s imperfections in the UI on the stove. like for example there’s no number pad. just up and down arrows. this means I can’t input a timer for 17 minutes, I can go to 15 or 20.

others features like using the air fry broiler will only work with the app, but the regular broil setting works fine. the difference is the fan runs 100% of the time on air fry mode vs intermittently on regular convection mode.

designed inconveniences are the rage for product development now.

I have made the shit demons mad, what the fuck do I do now?!

you jest but I recently bought a stove that breaks some UX functions unless you use their fucking app.

I refuse to. fuck em. it does 100% of what I need but that extra 15% would have made it the best ever.

now it gets 2 stars and a bad review for paywalled features.

huh…sounds like an invasion of privacy.

good thing I never used discord because of the toxicity and pedophiles.

nothing gained, nothing lost.

no it hasn’t. the first instance of open source anything was a major manufacturer(Ford) strong arming the patent office into forcing a patent holder to give up the rights to his patent effectively making it worthless.

only then to create a shell company (Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association) that would then hold the rights to the patent and share it with all motor vehicle manufacturers.

it was all a grift to get the patent away from the original holder so that Ford would directly benefit from it because they didn’t have an engineering team capable enough to design an engine that didn’t infringe upon the original patent.

because of this we have had zero to no true innovation on engine designs outside of a racetrack (which also directly benefits the manufacturer).

so don’t go spouting that FOSS has always been about being an equalizing factor to intellectual property rights, because if anything it’s the exact opposite.

idk, murdering people based on their genetic predisposition to healthy living standards seems more of a literal definition of it.

I do understand (and agree with) your point though.

I think killing people through apathetic business practices that are specifically designed to maximize profit over human life is not just murder, it’s genocide.

I also believe that a justice system that is curtailing law for the wealthy based on some sense of increased personal worth compared to that of a “lowly commoner” goes against the fabric of our nation and is a personal attack against the culture of our country. I also believe that anyone lending support to these traitors are themselves traitorous filth that deserves to be imprisoned in a public gallows to send a message that that behavior will no longer be tolerated.

short answer though, yes violence begets violence.

I think you’re misunderstanding the origin of the Internet.

I was there, I know what made the Internet amazing before it was sold out for corporate interests.

It was inspired by another technology that was, in many ways, the Internet of the early 20th century. I’m referring to HAM radio.

HAM radio is fun because of the strict regulations operators need to follow and the communities that are fostered in those regulations.

the early Internet was not only built by those same people, but had fostered the same kind of spirit behind HAM. corporate interests broke the dam on a lack of regulation and have been flooding the web for decades since.

if we want to return to any semblance of what the Internet supported at the turn of the century, we must increase regulations that prohibit the abuse and theft of online intellectual property.

If a company can be considered a person, then I see no reason why each of my online contributions can’t be one as well. and as such no reason why each of those contributions can’t be afforded the same protections of personhood giants like UHC, Amazon, OpenAI can benefit from.