I think so too, but like i said there’s only so many computers that you can find a use for.

I think. That wasn’t a challenge, don’t prove me wrong

I was kind of on board with that idea, but now i’m100% on board

Honestly, i predict people and businesses will keep using Win10 years after it’s become unsafe. We’ve all seen the local warehouse still running Windows 7, i’m thinking that scenario but for millions of users.

That’s a cybersecurity problem, but what i’m most concerned with is the e-waste problem, because there’s still going to be a lot of users that do replace their PC. There aren’t enough Linux users to buy all the computers that will be rendered obsolete, and there won’t be by then either. I myself am a new Linux user but i’m already covered, i don’t need more computers, not even for cheap.

I just really hope this doesn’t end with millions of good computers landfilled or parted. The third world already buys a lot of our e-waste, so i hope they’ll get a crapton of relatively good computers for cheap and run either Win10 or Linux

I agree. Those who care about Palestine should vote for Kamala because Trump is fully pro-genocide; but implying that Kamala has a valid plan, or even an existing plan, to help Palestinians, is untrue. She’s going to do nothing or as little as possible.

The choice is between evil and more of the same, it’s not between good and evil.

These days, everything is kind of a thing. You can find people cosplaying 1920’s jazz bands.

Pre-christian pagan cultures (Celts, Goths etc), but neo-nazis are also fans of those so you get to share with them.

FD Signifier is THE youtuber that i listen to on black issues, and this reminds me a lot of this video

Funny and horrifying.

But that’s just the thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.

So now the problem is sharing your IP with every member of the P2P swarm.

Yes.

Maybe i should rewrite the above, i meant it as a self-critical observation of why i give into a lazy and narrow-minded worldview. I thought it was clear everything i wrote is the opposite of an endorsement

Honestly, the appeal of accelerationism to me is that it pretty much just requires me to give up.

I don’t think i’m the only one with a looming anxiety that capitalists are too entrenched to be defeated, that i can’t stop the ongoing collapse of society; well if i believe in accelerationism, then i don’t have to, the collapse becomes desireable if i can convince myself that a better world will emerge on the other side. It’s faster and easier to let society destroy itself than it is to built.

While my privilege is undeniable, subjectively, my emotional experience of accelerationism is one of giving up and relaxing. Which, you know, would feel nice sometimes.

So i know at least one source of accelerationist sentiment is rooted in fatigue and impatience, i know that because it’s the one i experience. The answer is an ongoing realization that progress is incremental.

It’s even the case for physical media, like paper and carved stone, because over a long enough time people forget the language that they were written in. Historians had to teach themselves how to read ancient egyptian, and off the top i think a lot of Maya inscriptions are still a mystery.

Ironically, i feel like you’re putting too much emotional stock in what it means to vote. You’re not cheering at the person, you’re not signaling as a fan of theirs, you’re not even actually giving them approval in a way that matters; all you’re doing is influencing the course of which party gains power, and in this case it makes a significant difference.

Some people can’t affort another Trump presidency. People of color and LGBT and homeless people in many states (i guess every state?) would suffer the consequences a lot more than you and me, whereas the consequences of a second democratic term (Biden or otherwise) are a lot more nuanced. The differences between a republican or democrat administration sure matter to them, and our ideological purity does not.

We have a mechanism to put bad people in power instead of the worst, this is a meaningful difference, all it costs is some personal discomfort, and it does not replace whatever else you’re doing in terms of activism. You can do both.

Ok well if there’s a lesser evil then that’s a settled question, you vote for the lesser evil. This is the sad reality of electoral politics.

Electoral politics can’t advance the causes we care about, but they can prevent the worst case scenario, which is absolutely worth it and we have a moral duty to do it.

Democrats represent the same center-right politics that has ruled America in decades past, though in recent years they’ve been a little bit amenable to progressive policies (see Inflation Reduction Act, which included $783 billion on energy and climate change among other things); this is of course extremely faint praise, but it is what it is.

Meanwhile, the Republican party has detailed plans to orchestrate a fascist takeover.

Support for Israel is controversial within the Democratic party and they’re at least susceptible to militant influence; the Republican party, meanwhile, has no reason to ever moderate their support for a genocide.

Nobody’s happy to vote Democrat, but they absolutely represent the lesser of two evils. This is observable evidence, but it does have the downside that it doesn’t make you look smarter than everyone else, so i understand if you don’t want it.

it’s mostly the left where i saw true craziness and experienced fascist behaviours

That really depends which part of the internet you’re in, which politics you’re more sensitive to, and which point of view you’re observing them from. If you’re in leftist communities they tend to be a lot nicer on the inside.

They did that once actually, when they killed third-party apps they decided to do a surprise r/place hoping it would calm people down. In July. Not even a year after the last one. It came as a horrible surprise

I never knew there was a fediverse design, that’s neat

I’m not the one with ‘Reddit’ in my username.