Now do fucking apartment complex’s so we can get back to local ownership, thanks. If I have to fucking rent, can we at least not have it be these faceless corporations that you can only communicate with via their website and not a fucking human.

(Forgive the joke, I actually really fucking hate that braille is dying in public spaces as well as people no longer knowing what those cane guides in pavement are for)

Serkis admits it didn’t have the North American launch he was hoping for, sparking “outrage” over what people perceived to be its political leanings (“anti-capitalist” and “not anti-communist enough” were some of the critiques, he says) and struggling at the box office.

Wow so he lost all the people who cared about the message of the book by dilluting it and still got shat on by people peddling McCarthy era scare tactics about communism and jerk off capitalism daily.

But we wanted to debate and boy, did we get a debate in the States. It was from both left and right, and they each had their own particular reason for reviling it. It was criticized for being anti-capitalist. It was criticized for being not anti-communist enough. It seemed to do what we wanted it to do, which was cause a debate, but what it didn’t do was encourage parents to take their children to see it. It literally got something like 60 million hits on the first trailer — and of outrage. It was a very very strange outing.

In the full quote from the interview he claims “the left and right both hated it” and then only mentions critiques from the right… Is it because the ones from the left are actually… good critiques? (like shocker no shit they are)

They’re also publicly admitting to wanting to be despots.

Of course the opiate for the masses is not for theirs. They know at this point the Internet is technically an infohazard. They made it that way on purpose.

Eminem & Dre. Eminem is the one sitting down to pee. Dre has to go number two.

I sit down when I pee
There’s nothing that crazy ‘bout me
I’m just takin’ a whiz, mind your own biz
Why is everybody always staring at me?

Hey bro, I gotta go
Let me through, I gotta go number two

No can do, I’m taking a pee
Sitting on the loo, having a good long wee

Are you sitting down?

I’m sitting down

And you’re not making brown?

I’m not making brown

Are you making iced tea?

Just lemonade

But are you sitting down?

I’m sitting down!

Why don’t you stand like a regular man?
Then you can pee in the urinal can

If you really wanna know why I’m sitting strong
I just can’t stand touching my dong

Who gives a shit about a fucking poll?

Stop I can only get so eShrekt

Best advice that I forgot to include because it’s been a while since I needed VNC for anything. @akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone, please follow @ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s advice here!

My point is a lot of those wouldn’t be possible without pre-existing policy.

So much of what we knew only as bitter satire has been turned into policy by MAGA.

My point is that I disagree with the idea that it was “bitter satire” that has been “turned into” policy by MAGA. Because they have decades of bad policy to lean on to help justify their Executive Orders. These things didn’t happen by chance, they’re purposefully exploiting holes in the system.

Free speech zones go back to the 70s at least, and Obama expanded Secret Service powers for tightly controlling any event where a person with SS protection might be, including denial of free speech and ability to make arrests.

When you made your comment, I was making a similar comment with a link to the ACLU talking about it and how it was worrisome in 2012. My point is that kind of policy that preexisting bad policy is what they are leaning on to make things worse. We don’t get to pretend this just happened by accident all at once when MAGA showed up.

I say this because I was one of those people in the Bush era who was warning about the dangers of mass surveillance and was furious that the Democrats didn’t do more to dismantle it and look now, that massive surveillance network is increasingly privatized and increasingly used to control and dominate the populace, just like people like me fucking warned was a significant risk back in the early 2000s. It fucking sucks to be right that institutionalizing some of the worst aspects of Bush’s post-9/11 policies are exactly the things that have helped Trump amass and keep power.

/rant

VNC server on her computer. VNC client on your computer. Make sure password is very strong since you’re opening this to the wider internet. Open a port for VNC to pass through on your moms router (and possibly your own as well), and then connect remotely.

TigerVNC seems to be available for all platforms, including Windows and Linux. TigerVNC includes a server and client. (Client is sometimes called “viewer.”)

https://tigervnc.org/

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc

Thanks for the clarification, I’m old and sometimes my memory is more fuzzy on those details. But yeah, it’s always been a license, and back then it felt more like ownership because of the honor system.

No, MAGA is honestly doing a lot of what Mamdani is doing just in reverse, using and exploiting existing policy to justify actions. Like how with the tariffs they claimed it was legal under one statute, and when the Supreme Court struck that down, they just used a different statute with slightly different rules, and kept the tariffs.

MAGA has had actually very few real policy wins other than the Big Beautiful Bill. Most things they do are by Executive Order and use novel (read: bullshit) legal justifications for it.

Mamdani is using on the books policy to help people. Trump is using on the books policy to strong arm people and force his decisions through any legal chicanery necessary.

And worse, they actually existed long, long before the Bush era, they just became more widely used and Obama extended those practices by giving Secret Service right to restrict speech and make arrests. Which in itself was seemingly in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. The problem is laws like these build up over time, allowing new and more abusive people to come in and further expand the powers of the government and reduce the rights of citizens.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/how-big-deal-hr-347-criminalizing-protest-bill

We’ve truly been a nation in decline for over fifty years now, at least.

“Piracy is a service problem.” Truer words have never been spoken.

NOFX’s “The Decline” came out in 1999, already at least 30 years into the US decline.

The people who cannot see we’re in decline have been ignoring it for five decades now. They won’t suddenly go “Oh shit, we’re a failing nation.”

Let’s be real though, technically software has always lived and died on licensing instead of ownership.

I remember software in the 90s having limits on how many computers you could use an application on (however rarely enforced), and making backup copies of software that you owned (like copying a CD for backup purposes) was a hard fought right when the DMCA was being implemented. But even the backup only helped so much because especially in the last 20 years tech has grown at lightning speed since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. A CD backup of Office 2003 isn’t really helpful in 2026 anyway.

I’m not arguing this is how it should be. I’m just clarifying that technically this is how it has always been. We’ve never had full rights to do whatever we want with the software we buy. It’s why Free (as in speech, not as in beer) Open Source Software is so important, and why open hardware is so important by extension.

The same companies that rose to dominance using an environment with weak regulation and enforcement while also maintaining that hacker attitude of “routing around bad legislation” have now been using their dominance to make an environment of tight regulation and enforcement, now that they’re at the top. They have spent endless amounts of lobbying money to get this environment to benefit them where you’re locked in via hardware and software to the companies rules on how you use your hardware and software… because the software was never really ours, and now they’re leveraging that to make our hardware not ours either.

The only way out is through. FOSS.

OH! Then he can parody MetaFilter’s own plannedchaos Scott Adams, who lost his ability to speak for about three years.