A Critical Role reference? In the fediverse? Nein! (Doch! Oh.)

Last I heard he was free.

Now I want to assemble a wizard counsel… with him and the German Mud Wizard… wooloolooooo!

Shadow wizard money gang are libertarians and not invited. It’s wizard time mutherfucker! Fireball!

Given that Nate Graham and Harald Sitter are talking about KDE Linux at the same timeslot in the other room (and that both talks happen during lunch), I don’t imagine too many people will attend.

He was quickly over run and the elephants trampled him into the earth and all that we found was basically a very large blood stain around the clothing he was in.

Metal

Ermahgerd! Pergnerrnt!

Some of those that work forces
are the same that burn crosses

He had one

Try to grow a moustache

And not just a little, like more than double.

Left “leaning” in the sense of seizing the means of production, arming the homeless and openly calling for the revolution to do away with capitalism.

It’s true!

Per gallon? Holy shit, no wonder everyone buys gas guzzlers over there. Germany is paying nine plus dollar per gallon for gasoline.

I’m okay with suicide. I also think there is a fundamental difference between that and killing another person.

Do you have a point in there in regards to killing consenting adults?

@protist@mander.xyz has already made my point for me. But let me add another layer.

We’re only talking here on the level of individual rights and consequences, and that tastes extremely cynical and libertarian to me. Both things I associate with an inconsiderate, overly individualist approach that is indicative of a failed state and a breakdown in societal cohesion.

I honestly think the more important factor to this question is societal. The real question is, what kind of society do we want to live in?

• One where killing another human being for personal reasons is endorsed or one were it’s seen as an absolute last resort of protectimg other people?
• One where the monopoly of violence rests with the state or one where we hold violence to be an individualist right?
• One where you have the right to kill yourself or one where you also have the right to kill a (consenting) other?

Yes, you have a right to consent to be killed. But from that doesn’t rise the right for somebody else to kill.

There is a reason the age of dueling ended when the enlightenment and humanism became something our societies adopted as a whole instead of those things being just the pursuit of some airy intellectuals. And it is that, with the rise of democracy, people became aware that they have the right, but also the duty to shape the society we live in to be better. This - for me - is the central point of civilization, to actively construct and shape a society that grows continually more moral and drives us to listen to “the better angels of our nature” to say it in Lincoln’s words, instead of listening to our baser wants.

Off Topic Rant: It is truly terrible to me, that all around the world politics has devolved from giving the great example of striving for (even if not achieving) a more moral, peaceful, unified and just society to giving the example of letting ourselves be governed by greed, egotism and our baser instincts.

That’s honestly the one thing I loved about Merkel and Obama, even if they were two useless, right leaning conservatives (yes, mainstream democrats are conservative, honestly the GOP is reactionary and fascist at this point. Fucking hell the Overton-window is so far to the right), they still inspired people to rise to our better nature. And that is also the biggest societal threat I see from especially Trump being in office. The example he gives for society as a whole is a return to criminal, amoral, egotistical and cynical barbarism.

ITT: Witness the decline of American civilization and the return to barbarism under the guise of freedom to do shit.

Let me make a counter argument with just two words: Peer pressure.

Apple, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, those are some of the pupeteers. The Orange Pedo, The Guardians Of the Pedophiles (GOP) party, and the corporate Fascism Lite Democratic Party (we promise to build one concentration camp fewer than the GOP, so vote for us Dems) are the lackeys.

Honestly I think the comparison with the 3rd Reich don’t go far enough. Like with the Nazi-Party the GoP is captured by corporate interests but also the people in power are running their own agenda. It’s a “dance on the volcano”-alliance which each side trying to control and use the other. Corporate interest put the Republicans in power and support them to accrue more money and power and dismantle the state that has regulated them. Meanwhile the MAGA-Movement is promoting corporate interests to enrich themselves, create the appearance of economic growth, ensure corporate backing especially in the media and dismantle the democracy that delegates power to the masses.

Both sides completely disregard how important the state, regulations and democracy are to create the freedom, stability and wealth they have build their power on and which they think they created themselves.

The problem both sides face is that their goals run contrary to each other in the end. The fascists want power over industry, the market and finance while corporate interests suffer under the isolationist politics of fascists. In the end only one side will come out on top and the other side will have been the ones furthering their own removal from power. Like big corporate in the third Reich was brought more and more under state control.

The real winners will be the people sitting at the junction of party politics and corporate power. The Trumps, the Musks, the Thiels and of course the military industrial complex.

I was honestly sooo incredibly proud when my boss told me: “We’ll do everything to avoid having to present a cookie banner. See that nothing links to Google or Facebook, I want the most information we can get about our visitors while as little as is needed to be GDPR compliant and give nothing to big data.”

The result is we’ll collect data about how visitors use the website without any personal information, completely anonymous until you log in. No ads, no tracking, no Google Analytics and no active social media snippets until the user themself activates them. And we were still able to see what was doing good or doing bad on the site.

Skipping Pixel 11 is the correct response imho. Graphene is security first and has a reputation of making no compromises on it. This underscores their dedication. It’s great really that the cooperation with Motorola means they will not need to rely on a single device series.

I really hope we’ll one day see a Fairphone that supports the security requirements.