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I'm more interested in how many of these people are winding up working for ICE.

Or it's something a tech bro pitched to try and kill the rail line AGAIN.

This depends on whether actual programmers are involved in the hiring process. If it's just HR, nobody involved in that is going to know what an open source project is, why they should care, or whether it matches what's on the job listing.

Designs should've never progressed past the F-104. Change my mind.

Yeah, a situation like this can easily wind up where even if you're asking for consent on every little thing, and making them know they can say no, there's no real way to KNOW certainly whether or not they're actually consenting eagerly, or just think that saying no isn't allowed or whatever. They might even justify it in their heads that "I signed this contract" or "I've got nowhere to go" or whatever.

The son of Ferdinand Marcos, who literally robbed the Philippines blind, is currently the President of the Philippines. There's a Mussolini in charge of Italy. The US right, during Trump's first term, was "joking" about electing either Eric Trump or Don Jr after Trump's second term, and then electing the other one, and Barron Trump after that. Hell, Bolsonaro was literally openly praising the military dictatorship of Brazil.

This is the real issue. Their values systems are broken because you can literally do ANYTHING with that much money. Wanna become a world class athlete? So long as you're choosy with your definitions of both world class and athlete, you can hire people to teach you, hire chefs and nutritionists and doctors to plan every single thing that goes into you to make you good at your Thing.

Money is truly a superpower, but that superpower is reality warping. After you've created your fourth harem and played poker with Einstein, metaphorically speaking, what else could you want to do? It's part of why all these guys believe in some sort of apocalypse, space travel, AI God, or metaphysics - with money alone, they can basically shape their entire world to their whim, so you want something that you're still nominally able to ride out, but that will radically alter your reality so there's SOMETHING new you can experience.

Like I said in another thread, this is going to be a black hole where you toss unwanted trans kids, to either rot and die, or get trafficked, or both.

State funded conversion camp and human trafficking hub. This is gonna be a hole for unwanted trans kids to disappear conveniently into.

A lot of this is just the loss of proper third spaces where kids can get outside. Now if you and your friends are walking around the mall, you get security hassling you. Hell, even if you're just in a park or wandering your neighborhood, cops/rangers/randoms will give you shit if you don't have a specific reason to be there. Don't even think of trying to hang out at your school after hours, or using their fields/playgrounds to play on.

Yes, some of it IS cultural. But at least from my N=4 between my nieces and step nieces, kids really enjoy playing outside weather permitting. It's just that they don't have places to do that. Sure, you might have a park in your neighborhood - does it have sidewalk access? Sure, your kids might have bikes or scooters or skates - can they safely ride them without getting turned into a speed bump by a high-line truck or SUV?

Chemotherapy drip?

Actually, Vance is next in line, and considering Vance is as much of a spineless worm as Mike Johnson...