GnuLinuxDude

Elbakyan is an immeasurably more virtuous, noble and honorable person than these Dylla and Greco worms.

Classic case of scratch a lib and watch a fascist bleed. But I've been friends with a few people that have flipped to full-on socialism from prior reactionary beliefs. It's possible.

but then they said anti-immigration and racism are just human nature, and I’m like “wow how did I think this was a good person with a few bad ideas?”

I had to try hard to not go off about how racist that is and how they are so racist there is no hope for them.

It's indeed good that you did not do this. Some people just see enough examples of anti-immigration and racism sentiments growing in popularity that they just cynically conclude that that's how it is, missing the parts where there are well-funded reactionary drivers of those anti-immigrant and racist sentiments, led by a capitalist system of exploitation which is designed to set people into classes.

If your response to every time someone espouses a right-wing viewpoint (whether they harbor it personally, or believe that "that's just how it is") is to go off on them then you will lose that person, because they'll stop listening to you once you're attacking them personally.

Well that would simply be a continuation of their actual objective of annexing the entirety of the Gaza strip, so... yeah.

Alternate headline: How one man spammed Wikipedia

I think 10 years ago this would've been unpopular, but today maybe not so much:

systemd is great software. I don't use distros that refuse to ship it. Especially the init system. Thanks, Lennart!

Did they rewrite the headline after you posted? It reads now:

European Union to boost PA funding with $1.8 billion over three years

Between Steam promoting Linux and GOG promoting DRM-free software, I will never purchase from another storefront that doesn't even pretend to do something good for the broader community (Origin, Uplay, Microsoft Battle.Net, iOS App Store, etc).

I also suspect ArsTechnica of running sponsored AI stories these days.

For people who aren't American, I can understand it. They rightfully should be mad at us for allowing this to happen.

For people who are American, they need to start thinking fast about how it is even possible that the Democrats failed in their one job which was to ensure Trump would not win in 2024. It's long past time to stop thinking about individual voters and start thinking about feckless party leadership. Examining this fully would be like a whole textbook's worth of words, but I think the one microcosm example that's really worth interrogating is why Nancy Pelosi pressed the lever in favor of Rep. Cuellar in Texas (the most Republican-voting Democrat in the House in one of the most solidly blue districts) over two-time challenger Jessica Cisneros, who came within a stone's toss of beating him in a primary.

That's my point. Joe Biden was "the only one" who saw it, because it didn't happen.

They don't even have a Steve Mnuchin type character this time who at least has a clue about how things work. This time Trump surrounded himself with all of the dumbest and most loyal kool-aid drinkers.