MangoCats

They delivered their promise: they were at least not evil, at first.

Too late, they own my soul already. I have successfully resisted Meta, X, Microsoft, and any number of lesser daemons, but the one true G has shown me their light and I am unable to look away.

They can't make up their minds, on most things.

Grabbing as much ~~puss~~money as they can get away with, that's a constant.

These giant, greedy corporations are fucking pathetic…

Boycott, whenever you can. Research your choices: https://www.goodsuniteus.com/

“How can I cause the most disruption with the least harm?”

If you haven't voted in the past, start immediately.

First participate in the existing process fully.

There are very few young politicians, we need more.

2 years. Think positively, act positively, make it happen.

2/3 control of the House and a clear majority in the Senate. Not enough to make an impeachment stick, but more than enough to stop the madness.

I'm reasonably happy with XFCE/Xubuntu - it's not as slick of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, and in some ways that's a great thing.

Docker in a snap is too meta for me.

Agreed, not a secret, and not wanted. I uninstall Firefox and install Google Chrome from a .deb - disadvantage: you have to update it manually. Advantage: it doesn't update itself automatically.

All in all UBI would be a huge win, the poor could do more with a STABLE small income than they do with the unreliable sources most of them operate off of now. The whole needs testing bureaucracy can just die, saving Billions in administrative costs. Services and stores for low income people could do much better when their clientele has reliable income instead of being flat broke most of the time.

In my view, if UBI is good enough, there's no more need for minimum wage, let people volunteer if they want to, pay to work in some highly desirable jobs, that's fine.

I believe the primary objection comes from the people who hire the poor, they can't imagine people working without the imminent threat of starvation and homelessness. If that's how your workplace operates, that needs to change. With UBI I believe a lot of workplaces would self-regulate better, because if they don't their employees will just quit.

Florida is making some progress on the early childhood side, they've been funding "Free VPK" for 20+ years now, and unemployed parents get automatic "Florida KidCare" insurance (basically Medicaid) for their children. Still, could be better.