John

He’s been impeached twice already. What will a third impeachment accomplish? We’ve already shown that it’s just theatrics and he doesn’t give a shit…

I like DDG but it just uses bing under the hood.

I actually prefer Brave. (Though brave has been caught fiddling the results)

They all kind of suck in their own way. Brave or DDG gets the job done 99%nof the time.

I used to feel dread when I logged into reddit and saw that someone had replied to something I wrote.

I get that too. I turn off comment notifications now. It’s almost always just some negative basement dweller trolling me.

Less stuff overall and less interesting and active communities

Once you realize that 1) like 80% of reddit is just bot slop and 2) a handful of accounts post the majority of “content”, you kind of don’t care that reddit has seemingly “more active” communities.

Interesting, thanks for the link!

For me:

Error

Not enough activity to generate a wrapped summary.

I wouldn’t call this failsafe though, I’m sure some of my posts slip through and get archived. No idea how often those mirror sites copy the data.

Edit: my script doesn’t just delete, it also edits the post and inserts “.” to try and fool those deleted post viewer sites (can’t remember the names)

1. What could be done with this information that can’t be done just by looking at user’s post history?

2. I routinely (weekly) purge/delete all my posts with a python script. How would this affect my summary?

I’m a hipster.

Question: why would they want to block trump? For a lot of Democrats the system is working as intended. Heck, 75 dems just voted to congratulate ICE on a job well done: https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-ice-gratitude-resolution-backlash-2084004

I’m of the opinion that they don’t want to stop trump at all.

Yep, good point! I was trying to think of examples. Ace Hardware isn’t a workers coop either.

the FBI would make sure they fail.

This is kind of the point. If any of these things remotely threatened the capitalist status quo, they would be obliterated by the CIA, etc.

I think you already read the reason/s but in a monopoly capitalist society, but companies can just smother smaller ones by leveraging their exploited workforce (more output for less cost), out-competing, buying up all competition, much better economies of scale, and access to capital and market forces.

Just take an example of a small business owner who sells sporting goods (I use this example because I love Freak and Geeks lol). How can you possibly compete with Walmart when Walmart has bigger and better inventory, cheaper prices, more locations, basically no competitors, better advertising, etc? Sure lots of people value ‘small businesses’ from a moral/ethical point of view, but enough for this company to grow and grow and grow and compete with friggin Walmart? That just doesn’t happen often.

Now, something like REI, which is a coop, does compete with Walmart in a very niche market. REI has a strong brand and loyal customer base, allowing it to compete effectively in the outdoor and sporting goods sector. However, its focus is more on quality and specialized products rather than mass-market items. Do you think Walmart couldn’t just destroy REI if it felt like it was being threatened and it wasn’t one of the largest mcap companies on the planet?

Because they cannot compete with the economies of scale, the availability of capital, market power, an exploitable workforce, etc.

It’s like asking why you can’t win at checkers when your opponent is cheating at 4d chess.

Read: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin

Do find it interesting that every anti-capitalist society was achieved through revolution? Not by voting or incremental changes, but by ugly, violent, revolution?

By all means go and create some coops! I became a member of a local food coop. But I am under no delusion that this impacts capitalism whatsoever.

Capitalists aren’t going to just let the system slowly change. The mass murder campaigns waged by the CIA have taught us that (read The Jakarta Method).

Employee owned businesses are the realization of communism within a capitalist society.

Right, but we want the whole system changed. Coops are inherently at a disadvantage in monopoly capitalism.

I will continue to fight, annoy, and agitate the capitalist status quo. Majority of Americans do not agree with current politics, our current “leader”, or oligarchs controlling everything.

I looked for a reasonable Linux laptop for my wife and either it was European (large shipping costs) or ridiculously marked up.

She just went with a windows laptop 🤷‍♀️

Proton has cooperated with subpoenas on multiple occasions leading to the user’s arrest.

My thinking is, if the CIA (or whatever country’s equivalent) is on to you, it’s pretty much jover.

I use Proton currently since it comes with my proton subscription. But I used mullvad for years and prefer it. They’re both good, you can’t go wrong really.

I like Debian + flatpaks. 🤷‍♀️

I like the philosophy behind Debian. It’s not a corpo distro

I’m just blocking you now. You’re just trolling