brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 52 points 10 months ago

I had that computer, and it was much more than a calculator, unless you mean a modern programmable one. This one could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a receipt-sized printer you could get.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NQheo52J3BM

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

You may be right, but it seems to me that sleeper cells need direction. Otherwise, they'll interpret their ideology divergently. They may block progress pretty effectively, but it'll be hard for them to make gains in a shared direction.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

I thought it was interesting and original until the pointless cat scene and the complete lack of an ending.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is all true, but there's not clear line of succession after Trump, so they'll splinter. Redirecting the fervor to some new dear leader will take a long time. The Trump thralls are entirely invested in him alone.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 27 points 10 months ago

As I've said elsewhere: I wonder what controls Mozilla has in place to prevent gradual takeover of their board by those with an interest in removing Firefox as a competitor. We've watched the sleeper cell in the Supreme Court transform that body into an illegitimate partisan puppet. Mozilla's actions over the last few years would make much more sense if it were being manipulated into self destruction.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This was also my recent experience on PopOs!

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

Mobs cannot be reliably wielded for long, as Mussolini found out.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's literally impossible to fully boycott Amazon, I've been trying for years. Even if you buy elsewhere, often you'll find out after the fact that Amazon does the shipping or payment processing.

We should nationalize their monopoly or break it up.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 191 points 10 months ago (5 children)

…while you can.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Not only do [the old trucks] only get 9 miles per gallon, they’re also noisy, smelly (I have to close my window every day when the mail truck comes around), have no air conditioning, hard to stand up in, and their only safety feature is mirrors that constantly fall out of alignment. AP also points out that nearly 100 LLVs caught fire last year – a common event when it comes to internal combustion vehicles.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There was almost a Mormon Navy?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So it sounds like you don't believe progressive taxation works. I guess that's an understandable viewpoint. But if you think complexity is the problem, I have a hard time accepting your assessment of me as naïve. People that want simple solutions to complex problems are showing the lack of sophistication that defines naïvety.

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