im actually in favor of charging them for this, and using the most overpriced government contractor you can find, with some absurd conditions about how visible they can be from outside (not at all) etc. maybe add an expensive certification. if their heritage is really that expensive, they can pay out the ass for it.

or, gouge them just the same, and give all the money to the SPLC or something.

also, date each statue was comissioned constructed and finished.

and a reminder of the names of every piece of shit who voted for it. addresses, for the ones who are still alive.

why make them agree?

remind them of an actual civil war hero, and just take them down, killing any CSA fuckers who get in your way?

if we need the materials for anything, or it gets too expensive to keep in a box, sure. lets not give this scrap priority over other scrap.

because you’re no fun and don’t want to install a proper cat door.

kinda what psychopomps are for, yeah.

I don’t, but I do use some of the space for backups.

okay but I have less than 100TB on my systems, and most of that is backups.

okay but what do we do about backing up the massive library of content that only exists on youtube? how do we back that shit up, so when they break those, it is’t all lost forever?

is this cosplay?

you’re saying we should give kids cigarettes? or something like cigarettes? maybe kids don’t need to be addicted to things?

if you really need to keep this metaphor going, linux is, like, meditation or cognitive behavioral therapy or having friends, because its generally good for you, and doesn’t lock you into a bullshit proprietary ecosystem like tobacco or macs do.

see, the thing about lucerne milk is, if im making a milkshake, and I run out of lucerne milk but have an unopened bag of canadian milk, I can pour in the weird-ass canadian milk (spilling half of it because what kind of freaks put milk in a bag?) and it will work and be fine. because its just a company selling milk. all the milk is just milk. milk, in fact, is interoperable, and open if not free. hell, I can make milk if I really desperately want to.

if I have an apple product, and want to make it work with a non-apple-approved product, im going to have to fight their engineers at every step. fuck, getting them to start using FUCKING TCP/IP was like pulling teeth.

satire is dead.

uh huh. i bet you need to open powershull to do that though, dont you? or does linux not even HAVE powershall?

see, this is why you linux cultists just cannot sway people, you’re all pushing this insane operating system that can’t even print to a printer that’s powered off in a block of concrete launched to orbit a distant star and be a russel’s teapot to drive any aliens sending probes out mad.

I mean, there are movies that were, for better and worse (mostly worse) pretty important too. birth of a nation, the great dictator, the exorcist (and its involvement with the satanic panic),

I watched ‘the matrix’ as a kid, and I ended up as an anarchist. maybe coincidence. who knows.

the control of one relatively concentrated entirely capitalist industry is a problem. I agree on that. one could say the same about the publishing industry. and it turns out indie films exist! and are cool sometimes! just like indie publishing! it’s just way harder to distribute them.

I agree. fuck hollywood (the industry) and hollywood (the place, which is tacky as hell and filled with tourists and always smells like piss except when it smells like shit, and they lock up all the parks at like 5 PM, and also all the good pizza places are closed or dont open until dinner. it’s super fucked up, especially when they used to sell by the slice and that’s, like, perfect for lunch).

yes, im a linux cultist who was really sad when windows 7 stopped getting updates.

instability is instability. you don’t make a factory in a politically unstable place, and you don’t use a product from a for-profit company that is prone to enshittification and could remotely brick it at any point without warning. risks are risks.

ooh, did they sacrifice the goats in the factory? pretty snazzy; i haven’t bought any new hardware in years, and this might just be the impetus I need to run out to microcenter.

I would throw 500$ at a mechanical engineer who was willing to take a crack at this with simple/stock parts. anyone else?

and kids need stress relief, so why not let joe camel give it to them?

comparison to pedophiles? maybe unfair. comparison to big tobacco? on fucking point.

a computer is a tool, sure, and the hardware is largely opaque at the high school level, excepting massive nerds

but every single one of these big tech companies runs all their shit on proprietary ecosystem lock-in, and keeping customers infantilized.

anything that isn’t open source should be fucking banned from schools.