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@HeckinChonker
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If it were possible, I would in fact download a car

A fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.

This urge is crucial to understanding politics. Yet hardly anyone seems to recognise it. Hardly anyone, that is, except the far right, who see it all too well.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth

Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian
looted from imgur
where it was looted from instagram
"so you didnt hafta go there"
Write code stoned, unit test sober.

This is especially true with digital media, which can be copied, effectively, instantly and infinitely at virtually no cost.

Once you’ve shared an idea with someone, it no longer exclusively belongs to you—it belongs to anyone you’ve shared it with, and anyone they might share it with, and so on, forever. It does no harm to you to have your ideas shared, any more than it does harm to me for you to read these words right now.

Clears throat, then says it loudly for those praying in the back of the room.

There are continued calls to legislate the BC dock workers back to work. And of course employers don't need to negotiate; they just need to wait for the federal government to make the move.

But why do we always opt for 'legislate them back to work'? Why is it never 'legislate the companies to pay them what they are asking for'? That would also resolve the strike.

Government intervention isn't necessarily bad. It's the one-sided nature of government intervention that is.

I wish the front page wasn't full of posts about Twitter and BlueSky.