It’s resistant, though, specifically because you can fork it. Don’t like where things are going? Like the features of a previous version? Fork that version and run with it.
It does mean extra work for somebody to maintain that forked version, but the option is nonetheless there.
It’s why I will never understand the “just burn it down” crowd. That burn is going to take decades, lifetimes to happen. It’s going to be slow and agonizing for millions as civil rights dwindle and fascism keeps creeping further into every corner of the country, until that becomes the next generations’ new normal.
He watched Starship Troopers like five times, okay‽ Now, he didn’t understand the underlying commentary, but he liked the shooty bang bang!
Spell: Veritatem Dicte
“Tell the truth!”
Nice, I hadn’t heard of this book. I will be reading it later!
Tldr: weirdos are saying she was making “devil horns.”
Not so fun playing with hyper-religious theofascists, after all…?
Remember when they said they wouldn’t do things during their confirmation hearing that they later did, like, a year later? Yeah…
Fuck them and their lies.
I dunno. It’s never happened in my lifetime, and certainly not with half of the legislative branch being complicit in the descent into fascism.
Like I said, I don’t really have a lot of optimism in their ability to do what is required. On top of that, the enablers aren’t gone just because Trump might be someday. Our collective work is only just beginning, and it starts with little actions like those of the judge in this case.
Agreed. Things definitely suck right now, but things aren’t hopeless. Only when we stop resisting will the fascism begin to ossify, and all the people being brave enough to resist, in both little and big ways, matter.
I don’t know if I can comfortably say “most likely,” but I’m not optimistic about that possibility. Since Trump won, it’s been my position that nobody’s coming to save us working class peons. We will not get a group of Avengers striking from the outside or a lone Adam Jensen fighting from within.
In reality, it will take all of us doing different things to resist, and hopefully, that collective effort over time will be enough. It will still suck in the meantime.
It’s not much, but this will be important as evidence should Congress ever find its spine and actually consider impeachment.
ETA: and waiting around for that unlikely possibly might be a fools errand.
It’s a way to do distributed parallel computing using consumer-grade hardware. I don’t actually know a ton about them, so you’d be better served by looking up information about them.
Maybe you want something like a Beowulf Cluster?
You may be right simply by Point 3 alone. It’s one i hadn’t considered.
Still, if that’s true, we’d be fighting a similar kind of adversary, but one that isn’t dismantling vital institutions like the Dept. of Education, USAID, etc. I wish we’d had that future to work with, because I worry about the children that will grow up having to deal with the consequences of their parents electing Trump; their paradigm will be shaped by the coming crises.
The fight could have gone on in both scenarios, but now, a lot more people (domestically and abroad) will get hurt in the short and long term, even as the fight does continue.
Anyway, thanks for the respectful reply. You’ve made some good points, and given that a lot of my side of the discussion is speculative, I don’t know that there’s much point in going much further. We have to deal with the current situation, awful as it is.
Stay safe. Stay strong. Hopefully we never have to meet on some frontline.
I actually think that was foolish for one reason: pick your weakest opponent to fight in future battles.
Democrats are weak and feckless. The majority of them can’t even unify around the active fascist takeover. I would rather be fighting for a better future against them than a fascist proto-dictator who has easily managed to get most of his party to fall in line and kiss the ring.
We killed our weaker opponent too early and made the stronger opponent even stronger.
I ultimately agree, but this is a good start
The current Democratic Party might be awful, but that doesn’t mean we can’t replace them with better leaders.
Fine. Most people here aren’t fans of the current Democratic Party.
Gotta have something to do when we’re unable to retire. 😉
I’m waiting for it to be inverted.