The IRGC announced that photographic evidence and detailed footage of the captured US asset would be released in the coming hours.

Isn’t this kind of the funniest way to defeat an opposing MIC-based country? All you have to do is relentlessly study the technology and release detailed schematics to the world. Completely destroy the profitability of arms manufacturers by undermining their patents and making the companies worthless.

Damned map perverts. Your Antarctica is on a DIFFERENT PIECE OF PAPER

I’m guessing with the sudden attention they probably got haxxord

Oh very devious tankie Yeah they’re developing and manufacturing green tech, at what cost? Who’s doing the actual, real work of mass forestation, sourcing sustainable lumber and combating desertification?. You’d need basically a hundred million acres of fores-… oh

Can’t even pretend you’re supporting developers when you buy corpo games.

lol it’s just so easy, I manage about 5 mod accounts. All you have to do is yell “Tankie!” in some way every other day and people start modding you.

The government equally restricts what private healthcare can do…

I don’t want a national house building program, houses can set on fire!! Landlords only please.

Then I guess we disagree. I don’t think infinite convenience is actually good for people. Sometimes, not having cumin when you want it, is what leads you to try new and exciting stuff.

adapting to always make time for the people in my area and seeking out opportunities to help and or learn from someone. there’s not many of us, so we should periodically check on one another

I think this is a very important process, that perhaps comes more naturally in city-living as you just “come across” people. But in rural areas you have to go say hi, it just is important.

Apparently this post is not for me, as someone who enjoys living in the countryside. I respect your experience, I think it’s very real and there are definitely significant challenges that city-people underestimate.

Now, despite being uninvited, I will actively push back so many of your ideas - I honestly think all of these accusations are not applicable in most rural places. Now it’s possible you’re in a shit area with genuinely shit people, and shit I really empathise if so. But forgive me when I say this sounds likely to be in meaningful part because you’re living in the country with a city-dweller attitude and perspective, and that if you change your approach you might get more of what you want out of it.

I also say all this is a non-USAian so maybe it’s completely different there. But of what I have seen I don’t think it is entirely so. The working out part clearly is, however, as where I live there are legally enforced public footpaths and locally owned fields/forests all over the show in every direction, no shortage of running routes. I feel for you if there’s a lack of that.

• That your neighbours are anti-social / you’re isolated. Again, this will depend on your neighbours at the end of the day. My experience of the country is that I am in more of a community that looks out for each other than I have ever known to exist in a city. The difference is I had to make an effort to go out of my way to meet these people, say hi, bring a couple bits of homegrown veg or foraged fruit. And that people are less used to dealing with a diversity of people, so you typically need to be a bit more patient and understanding with where they’re coming from. But once you are, you make friends and neighbours and reliable community members for life.
• That organising is impossible. Closely related to the above. Obviously it’ll be impossible to easily get together a huge communist protest organised or whatever. But it’s definitely possible to have productive movements. In a city you can raise a banner and you’ll find people that come to it. In a village you need to engage people on an individual level. My tiny 100-person village has buying groups, free community food larders, about 50 people from here and neighbouring villages go and cause a nuisance at local towns in deliberate pro-Palestinian protest. One neighbouring village came together to protect a migrant resident from being deported by pigs. Organising happens regularly, but it’s only a product of healthy and active community activity.
• That it’s unsafe to play outside. This really does feel your most city-dweller-esque issue, but to live in the country you really do need a bit more of a “be smart about it” attitude rather than a “don’t do anything that could ever potentially be unsafe” attitude. Nature is lovely and 99% of the time will be no trouble whatsoever. Be aware of rattlesnakes, but be smart about them and you’ll be fine. FWIW most rural people feel the same about busy roads and unsafe neighbourhoods in cities.
• Being able to go buy stuff at a moment’s notice. Certainly a truething, but again such a city-dweller attitude. Is immediate ability to buy anything you want necessarily a good thing? You don’t have cumin? Then time to change tack and change the thing you’re trying to do. It’s a very city-attitude to consider that some meaningful issue. There is some flow-going that must be embraced.
• That you need to go travel for your regular haircut. To be honest I’ve never known a rural area that didn’t have a very local hairdresser, but you might need to be ‘in the know’. That shit might not be on Facebook or whatever. Plus is this really necessary? Just book it next time you’re going somewhere if you need.

With all that pushback in mind, I do empathise with your issues. It’s a shame you’ve fallen into these (fairly common) pittraps without realising them ahead of time. I say all this with two things in mind:

• That people who do consider the countryside don’t get suckered into thinking it’s inevitably an isolating and horrible way of living. I honestly do love it and despite having lived in a city, I cannot stand it, I really couldn’t live another way. Rural areas have the nicest, most accomodating people I know - and it engenders that attitude because we gotta enjoy each other, there isn’t anyone else around! This said, areas will differ, I’m sure there are plenty shit’uns.
• That I obviously hope your life improves, one way or another. But that I think there are some minor adjustments to your perspective and approach that might help alleviate some of your issues.

I’m not a farmer, but you still couldn’t convince me to live in a city or sizeable town by ruddy gunpoint. Just shoot me.

Fedora

Red Hat explicitly partner with the US DoW, actively work with the Israel military, raise funds for BDS’d anti-Palestinian orgs, were caught bragging about their ability to “compress the kill-cycle” - the list goes on. I would specifically argue against any communist developer getting involved with it.

I say this as a Fedora user, but I actively rally against any support for it. I do worry about your awareness of these projects if you’re promulgating it so.

Obviously fascists can use any FLOSS software, but Red Hat do effectively own Fedora in most regards and directly benefit from its improvement and uptake.

Debian had the coolest possibility of banning AI use, or at the very least limiting it and enforcing disclosure. Instead they’ve decided against it, sigh. Respect to Antoine.

This is what happens when FLOSS projects get tied up in big money - people start chasing the money, regardless of the consequences. Is there no refuge in the Linux world from this bullshit?

It’s been the propaganda tactic for at least decades now to deliberately incorrectly repeat accusations from the left ad-nauseum, so as to make them look ridiculous and leave people tired of hearing about it.

Run a bunch of stories like this, then cue the next three decades of alt-right grifters complaining about woke “accusing everyone of doing nazi salutes” (I mean, moreso). Now when public figures do more nazi salutes, people will gloss over it as an everyday story.

No token limits

If I was in South Korea, I’d be setting up my service to provide AI access to foreign commerce at unbeatable rates about now.

Much like ‘hipster’ and ‘tankie’, ‘troll’ as a term has slowly transformed from “person who says things for the sole purpose of aggravating you” (ie much like /b/) into “person I don’t like”

Ah, very fair point

the headline is misleading at Ubuntu’s AI usage

I mean, is it? Headline says the Ubuntu is embracing it. According to your linked article, that’s correct. They say it needs “utmost caution”, but also imply they’d even allow non-local AI processing if they "need"ed to, which is pretty wild.

Yeah, this is shitty and upsetting, but basically inevitable. Any popular VPN company with vaguely left-politics would be spied on/shut down to the Moon and back. From a technical and real privacy perspective, Mullvad is very good. If there’s another good VPN that accepts cash, I ain’t found it.

No doing own fascism, only our fascism

We desperately need to be moving off of fossil fuels for fertilizer anyway. Haber-Bosch process is slightly cheaper and portable, but not necessary (and is a huge contributor to global emissions), fertilizer can be made pretty well with renewable energy! I know that still don’t make living any easier, but there is at least an upside of being better for the climate.