Stallman, begging to be defenestrated.

All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

That’s not even true, because they don’t all have a GNU userland.

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It’s bigger than it looks: our data is spread across 64,000 worksheets.

When I make espresso at home with a La Marzocco GS3 I’m cool, but when I partake from a Costco tub of caffeine pills, somehow I’m the freak.

Our “big data” is ActiveSheet.Rows.Count big.

I don’t think this concern is justified in most cases, but I’m not really in position to argue. If this were a common problem, I think I’d have heard about it, but outside of the occasional sensationalist news piece or Hollywood/TV thriller, I haven’t.

I do know an old joke, though: Before visiting a foreign country, it’s important to memorize three phrases in the local language:

1. Where is the restroom?
2. How much is it for one night?
3. Power to the people! I support your revolution!

I don’t know what a “treat monster nature” is. I haven’t traveled much outside the core, so I can’t speak to this first-hand, but my impression is that most of the world is mostly a safe place to visit. There aren’t a lot of places that are going to punish you for renting hotel rooms and eating at restaurants as an American. Most people around the world know how to distinguish between America the empire and a civilian American spending money into the local economy.

I don’t fully understand your question, and I doubt that I’m qualified to answer, because I have virtually every privilege, and I’ve never thought about international travel but from my own easy mode perspective.

You say “travel the world,” but where realistically will you travel? Westerners tend to travel almost exclusively to other imperial core countries and to popular tourist spots in the periphery that cater to imperial core tourists.

Yes? “Consciously” and “knowingly” would be synonyms in the context.

I had accidentally replied to the wrong person and then immediately deleted it, but it looks like the deletion request never got processed by midwest.social.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Hate speech towards American citizens

This one takes the cake 😂 Won’t somebody please think of the imperial hegemon!

You might think so, but today’s NASDAQ & NYSE seem to imply that Trump is the better choice for empire 📈

That depends on whether you’re a US capitalist or labor aristocrat who benefits from US neocolonial exploitation of imperialized states.

It so happens that I do benefit, but I side with the workers of the world and against imperialism nonetheless.

It’s hard to say which would have accelerated it more, but for the sake of the global majority, it can’t end soon enough.

Trump won’t stop the decline of US imperial hegemony, but then neither would have Harris. It’s a process that’s been in motion for decades and has accumulated a lot of momentum.

This is the ideal tech worker. You may not like it, but this is what peak technology looks like.

Counterpoint: knowingly taking risks is valid and sometimes even necessary.