@bjoern_tantau I’ll keep that name in mind for the next account I create. In the meantime, which would be better?

Take dividends and donate them to Fediverse servers. As your enemy gets stronger, so do you.

Sorry for the delay. Suffered another job loss a few months ago and had to work my second job like crazy. A couple accounts are in collections. I flew to see family in Japan, got another job and am looking at ways to boost my income and get ahead. No one’s going to do it for you.

Try it. Not everyone responds to opposing views like that.

Campaign finance laws

Not saying we shouldn’t donate to worthy causes, but if we’re going to call using free software without paying abuse, then there are many technology users to round up.

Google sometimes deplatforms people as well. Regardless of one’s politics, one can’t be positive it won’t happen to them should the winds change.

/m/whoosh

Reference?

I’m missing the rage over the switch. I like GNOME.

Points for civility in vehement disagreement.

IKR especially considering the space program, shipbuilding and aerospace & automotive manufacturing explosions down South in the last 30 years. To name a few:

• Airbus

  • Mobile AL
  • (somewhere in FL)

• Austal USA - Mobile AL

• BMW - Spartanburg SC

• Boeing - North Charleston SC (whoops…bad example)

• Ford

  • Atlanta GA
  • Norfolk VA

• GE Aviation (somewhere in NC)

• Geely (owns Volvo Cars) - (somewhere in SC)

• GM:

  • Shreveport LA
  • (somewhere in TX)

• Haas F1 team (somewhere in NC)

• Honda:

  • Swepsonville NC
  • Greensboro NC
  • Lincoln AL
  • Timmonsville SC
  • (some transmission plant in GA)
  • (some parts facility in GA)

• Hyundai - Montgomery AL

• Kia (somewhere in GA)

• Mercedes-Benz - Vance AL

• Nissan

  • Canton MS
  • (somewhere in TN)

• Volvo Trucks - Dublin VA

I’m probably missing a Toyota plant in Texas. Ole Miss aided with the HondaJet program.

All right. It shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

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1. Yes.

2. Providing context doesn’t magically make something morally correct. It illustrates the circumstances.

There are all kinds of circumstances under which people commit grave wrongs in the face of adversity. If we’re going to punish everyone for every wrong committed regardless of surrounding circumstances, there’s far more punishment to dispense, regardless of political stripes.

Yeah. For-profit prisons need to go. Privatization works on many things but not this.

The Bill of Rights included an abolitionist amendment, but they were not confident it would pass, hence its exclusion.

Not defending it. Don’t shoot the messenger.

I believe slavery is an inexcusable, horrible stain on our nation’s fabric, but it was the economic engine of the day down South. Not saying that doesn’t make it reprehensible: I am merely giving context. Dismantling it at the speed Washington demanded would have ground things to a halt. That’s a big reason the South fought. Another issue was gun control.

No, I have never affiliated with any white supremacist or southern heritage group.

With all due respect, there was Candace Cameron Bure…

I have a CS degree and spent a couple months in my backseat.

Eh…they’ll just pay the ransom like everyone else.

There are two markets for cybersecurity:

1. Private companies who get it
   (of which there aren’t many)
2. Federal government
   (who lives on the nonstop taxpayer gravy train)

The manufacturing and engineering worlds still need people, and it dovetails well into our existing skillsets.