kottke.orgFarmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement
Kristy@kottke Maybe farmers should stop voting for the conservatives who keep allowing companies to do whatever they want. Imagine not having to sue in the first place, only to get back "somewhere between 26% and 53% of overcharge damages".
Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸@effariwhy @kottke Not sure how it's in NA. Here in Germany most farmers don't even manage to be part of a lobby group that doesn't openly shoot them in the foot, let alone *not* being WAY too hard right-leaning. This definitely is some cultural / educational phenomenon all over the place (or at least in western societies) that should be studied.
Fortunately there's a counter-culture to it incl. a proper lobby group, mostly carried by young farmers.
@Natanox @kottke there is a phenomenon here where people vote against there own interests because they'd rather have nothing than risk a non white person from benefiting. This most definitely infects white farming communities, many who once benefited from slavery. Some call this the politics of resentment and it's literally killing us.
@effariwhy @kottke "politics of resentment" sounds like a clear euphemism for what's essentially self-harm levels of racism. I heard about this concept though, in the context of all those fools who want to "own the libs" by any means necessary.