not a sponsored post, but saw this here: https://www.strikegently.co/products/become-ungovernable-penguin-patch
I don't mind being governed. I mind being governed by shareholders. Regulation isn't oppression. Exploitation is.
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I agree that things would be better without shareholders, but wouldn't government corruption still be a problem? For example, shareholders aren't profiting from mass deportation or tariffs. These sort of abuses would still happen without shareholders because they aren't motivated by profit, they're motivated by racism and nationalism. The way I see it, we need to get rid of all coercive hierarchies, government included.
Good news! You're about to learn about for-profit prisons and how racism is very profitable for shareholders, especially in how it suppresses wages and keeps poor people fighting other poor people instead of forming unions...
Maybe not right now tho. I'm done poo.... Uhm I'm about to do something other than googling "prison industrial complex" and "how racism effects unionizing"
Government doesn't have to be a hierarchy. Direct democracy would have been impossible in the past, but is very much doable in this day and age. But otherwise yeah, I agree.
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Become un"governable by compulsion" ??
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Kowalski, status report!
:(
Brb, adding alias kowalski="systemctl" to my homelab
We seem to be trapped inside a black canvas in a suspicious conflict between white and red lines of letters, Skipper!
Hack the planet
GNU the planet!
"shipped lovingly from our warehouse in LA"^*
^* ^Made ^in ^China
Everything is made in China, especially the things that made in the US.
Itβs also funny to think that China is making products that are illegal in China.
Fine. But companies shouldn't try to deceive customers with a bullshit "Designed in the US"
still throws money
I like the motto,
but... the image...
Better if it didn't have a huge blade and an angry malevolent facial expression.
Y'know, maybe something that speaks more to the likes of mutual aid, rather than to agent-provocateurism.
That's a machete dude little penguin's just out whackin bushes in the jungle. With attitude.
This is begging for a distro...
This is all the distros.
Just not Android or ChromeOS.
antiX?
graphine would be adorable with a legally distinct robot wielding a knife
wait.... I have a idea
I'm not crazy! Don't call me crazy! I...I'm just not user friendly!
HEYIIIIICHAAAAHHH HWOOOAHHHAAAA
I live in a democracy. I AM the government.
Can I get this on a t-shirt?
The Linux Hacker.
Pound for pound the penguin is the fiercest creature on the planet.
Source: Zoo Tycoon
This is why they say, "never turn your back on a penguin".
βIf it ainβt black and white kick scratch and bite!β βBender
drop systemd?
He should really be using a machete with a fully molded handle. And a forged blade rather than that stamped nonsense.
How can you tell the blade is stamped rather than forged from an embroidery?
No tang.
It has a full tang. You can tell by the rivet at the bottom of the handle.
I donβt understand any of this but itβs wonderful.
Actually I understand a fair bit from context clues but please go on.
A full tang blade is one where the metal of the blade extends all the way through the handle. Often, full-tang knives have "scales" instead of one-piece handles, where the two sides of the handle are riveted on and you can see the metal of the knife tang all the way around. Full tang knives are usually stronger than partial tang knives because the steel of the blade is stronger than the material used for the rest of the handle. A partial tang knife shouldn't have a rivet at the back of the handle (because it wouldn't actually be attaching anything); if it does, it's because it's trying to imitate a full tang to fool you.
Also, the difference between a stamped knife and a forged one is that a stamped blade is of uniform thickness except where the cutting edge is ground down to a point, whereas a forged knife is more of a wedge through its entire width and can have a thicker (stronger) spine, as well as a bolster to make it more comfortable to handle. (Some better-made stamped knives are stamped from a tapered sheet of steel so that they've got some of the "thicker spine" benefit, but they definitely never have a bolster integral with the blade.)
Genuinely, thank you. It confirms what I basically suspected based on context clues and gives me a deeper understanding, and appreciation, of whatβs in my knife block.
Cosmetic rivets exist
You say "cosmetic;" I say "fake."
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Have wondered if I should learn to make badges for stuff like this
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You mean by the user? There's already a king of OS that is ungovernable by the user.
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