Yes. But, we are conscious beings and we can choose our spoonness.
Are you trying to accomplish something? Some work you need to do? Be like spoon. You have one purpose—to accomplish that objective.
Choose to be like spoon, and have a blessed day.
Right there with you.
Yeah, I have an older Motorola phone that I’ve used to try and get Android alternatives, and none of those three systems will work on my phone. It doesn’t look like any of them will work on my new phone either, but that might just mean I have to try it.
Google/Android also seems to make it as difficult as possible to install any alternative system. The easiest I saw was /e/OS because it was all automated, but after about 10 minutes it informed me that my Motorola phone just wasn’t supported.
There’s such a long ways to go with this sort of thing, but I think it’s pretty clear that the world desperately needs a user-friendly, non-corporate alternative to Android/iOS.
It’s really a bummer that we’re all carrying around powerful little computers with us but the corporate operating systems for them use much of that processing power for their own data collection/profits/purposes and tries to prevent us, those of us who own the phones, from using that power for our own purposes.
There’s a lot of good stuff on F-Droid, and it’s nice to see a university doing a project like this.
I’m still waiting on a solid, consistent alternative to Android. It seems we might be getting there with tiny steps.
It’s 100% fascist rule, pure and simple.
We have a handful of national politicians who are trying to resist while the vast majority of them are simply playing along to preserve their own status and power. Democrat/Republican haven’t meant anything substantial for a while now–you have to look at who’s paying them (via ‘donations’ or otherwise) to know.
We can hope that they start killing each other (which they’d do if they had any backbone). Otherwise, our options are both extreme and extremely limited.
When regular working people eventually win, we’re going to have to reinstitute all the controls that we had for decades preventing single corporations from owning too much of the media. Break it up into little pieces. One of the first things corporations did when they got their first man, Reagan, in power was consolidate the airwaves; they know that’s the tool necessary for them to repeat and spread lies, and without this tool, they’re going to lose.
It’s not an accident that Sinclair owns most of the local tv stations broadcasting to rural markets and that all the AM radio stations are run by a small handful of Conservative propagandists.
We’ve gotta get that shit shut down–a limit on the number of stations any company can own, massive fines for violating standards of truthfulness, etc.
100%
With all the money in politics now, and the fact that the campaigns with the most cash behind them almost always win, our representatives don’t have to be answerable to voters any longer. They just have to be answerable to the people spending the most cash.
Even then, the corporations and foreign entities that fund most of the campaigns right now just throw their cash behind the winners if the person they initially supported loses.
In the minds of people like Leon, you can literally buy elections simply by outspending the candidate you don’t like–and, looking at the statistics, he’s right. Then, even if they lose, they just chuck a bunch of money at the winning candidate. These people have no ethics, no respect for law, and they would rather destroy our institutions than have them work against them. And, unfortunately, they’re so wealthy now that they can, in fact, destroy our institutions.
And this will hit the people hardest who voted for them.
Back in the day, Wells Fargo would intentionally run higher charges first in their cycle so that people couldn’t skirt the edges of overdraft. Like, if someone made a $35 purchase, and three $1 purchases over the same two day period, they would immediately run the $35 purchase and then charge three overdraft fees for each of the $1 purchases instead of running the three $1 purchases first (even if they came first) and then charging a single overdraft fee when the $35 purchase hit.
I believe they got a fine for it.
This is the truth.
Politicians need to learn to fear repercussions from the people they are supposed to represent.
They don’t fear the vote any longer because, consistently, the politicians who spend the most money win. They just need to promise billionaires enough ill-gotten profit and they believe they’ll win. They don’t need to care about us at all–unless we force them to care.
Truth. There’s a reason why they don’t have any art, don’t have any music, don’t have any movies worth watching. They lack all creativity, are almost completely devoid of imagination, and their frontal lobes just consume energy without doing any frontal lobe things. It’s a very specific type of person who obeys like this, and they just mimic their leaders; if their leaders are shitty human beings, then they think they’ll rise in the hierarchy by being shitty as well.
It’s a pattern that was primarily established when the Reagan Administration (and Don Regan, the CEO of Merrill Lynch) took over in the 1980s. Most of the ideas come from Lee Atwater who was an absolutely horrendous human being.
They have been running almost exactly the same playbook since then.
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It’s amazing how consistent this is with fascists.
You can look back at their statements and it’s true like 86% of the time–every SINGLE THING they accuse others of doing is something that they, themselves are demonstrably engaged in.
When those people post on the internet, it really should just be a long line of regular people replying ‘Every accusation is a confession.’
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We fully entered the realm of the hyperreal, a world where simulations of reality seem more real than reality itself. Our digital representations of reality have more influence over us than our actual material conditions…at least until we can no longer afford to eat or have a home.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the people who made this decision at Columbia are, themselves, wealthy. They are behaving as wealthy people do–they only respond to power, they only care about power, and they will do ANYTHING to maintain power.
It’s never about non-monetary things with wealthy people. They don’t care about other people, even each other, or about high-falutin’ things like academic freedom or free inquiry or free speech because unless those things bring them more power, more money.
They will sacrifice everything, anything, and anyone to maintain their status and they will ALWAYS bend the knee to anyone with more power, more capital, than they have. They have no investment otherwise. You can’t keep your power if you have any focus other than your own power.
Nothing run by wealthy people is ever safe for the rest of us.
Shit, I remember degaussing monitors. I also remember picking up a power supply I was working on before lunch, not remembering that I had powered it on earlier to test it, and the shock throwing me against the wall.
Ah, the good old days.