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So why isn't my glass of Campari drifting randomly across the table, under Brownian movement??? [/shitty drunkard joke]

Serious now. On economic matters I think that you're right.

You probably know it, but just in case that you (or anyone reading this, who might agree with you) don't: give the texts of The Fabian Society a check. They're rather close to what you're proposing with a peaceful transition; I have my criticisms against it as a Marxist strictu sensu, but I bet that you'll have a blast with it.

Applying the concept from the micro (enshittification of the platforms) to the macro (enshittification of the economic system) is brilliant.

I don't think that there is one yet, otherwise it would get famous. Not sure though.

They're still providing the code for people who buy the compiled software. And they are not restricting their ability to redistribute that code. So it's still compliant with the GPL in the letter. However, if you redistribute it, they'll refuse to service you further versions of the software.

It's clearly a loophole because they can argue "ackshyually, we didn't restrict you, we just don't want further businesses with you, see ya sucker".

I think that the RHEL example is out-of-place, since IBM ("Red Hat") is clearly exploiting a loophole of the GNU Public License. Similar loopholes have been later addressed by e.g. the AGPL and the GPLv3*, so I expect this one to be addressed too.

So perhaps, if the GPL is "not enough", the solution might be more GPL.

*note that the license used by the kernel is GPLv2. Cue to Android (for all intents and purposes non-free software) using the kernel, but not the rest.

It's worse than "very ignorant". It stinks malice and stupidity at the same time - because the person is rushing conclusions (aka assuming, aka making shit up) about another person, based on little to no information.

I never saw this in real life, but if some acquaintance told me that they avoid dating people without social media presence "because it's a red flag", I'd look for further signs that the person is unjust and/or assumptive and consider avoiding them altogether.

They were women. Not minor female children.

At least accordingly to this link, the trend for dial-painters was to be teenagers. Some started as early as their fourteens. It makes sense considering the 1920s, when adult women were expected to stay at home and take care of children, not to be part of the workforce. So odds are that "radium girls" is accurate, because most of them were not adult women.

Wikipedia, and the sources that Wikipedia is relying on, are also rather consistently calling them "Radium girls". This is clearly a fixed expression, that shouldn't be decomposed like you're doing.

And even if we disregard both things above (we should not), your "small correction" boils down to "I'll vomit an «ackshyually» to boss the other user around on language usage, disregarding what they say to whine about how they say it". This is simply not contributive.

(I don't care about USA enough to discuss its specificities. I'll talk about fascism.)

It's a mistake to conflate two enemies. Even if you hate both for the same reasons, once you conflate them, you lose the ability to fight against at least one of them.

And what the video describes as "friendly fascism" has barely anything to do with fascism. And it has already a name - plutocracy, or "government of the rich".

Once you disregard witch hunters and their brainfarts, fascism has a rather consistent bundle of traits:

0. "strength through union"
1. conflation between a government, its population, and a "nation"
2. persecution of minorities as "harming our unity"
3. a "strong leader" taking decisions for you
4. hate against separatist movements
5. emphasis on traditional values
6. a discourse of a "glorious past" to return to
7. usage of force to silence dissidence

By far #0 is the most important trait of fascism, as the others come from it. In the meantime plutocracy (or "friendly fascism") would fit #3, arguably #7. And the contempt for liberalism and electoral politics appears for different reasons for both - ideological and pragmatic respectively.

Once you make this distinction, this video becomes specially interesting to watch, as it allows you to notice how one of your enemies is using the other to kill you with a borrowed knife.

Misleading name, on the same level as calling water "non-explosive hydrogen". That said the material looks promising, as a glass replacement for some applications (the text mentions a few of them, like armoured windows).

(It is not a metal; it's a ceramic, mostly oxygen with bits and bobs of aluminium and nitrogen. Interesting nonetheless, even if I'm picking on the name.)

I'd probably look for an instance that does not federate with instances that federate with Reddit. Yes, two levels of separation.

Because only a small part of my hate against Reddit is about the stupid, backstabbing, obnoxious and disingenuous administration. Most of it is about the userbase. I do not want to deal with 90% of the Reddit userbase and its stupidity.

It reaches the point that I don't know if "I dun unrurrstand, u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is zero? dats dumb lol lmao [insert same emoji 10x] EDIT: WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!" exaggerates or accurately represents their [lack of] reasoning.

Probably mayo, but I need to know on what.