Notices by gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)

@o_simardcasanova when you go blind and are left entirely alone to figure out everything yourself with no help from those who called themselves a community is the worst of all. I removed everything I was doing and finally left that world at the end of last year. Soon I will leave the rest behind too.

@mekkaokereke SV does not like outside competitors or even commercial activity in the valley that are outside their control. Even real mobsters are better human beings than SV tech bros, and I have known both. But this world is definitely not for me, so I will soon go.

@freakazoid this makes me wish to imagine the timeline where we are in Sanders second term instead.

@lowqualityfacts You I will miss

@lowqualityfacts The Bob Newhart Show was intended to be an action series.

@lowqualityfacts they charge you for the echos, too...

@janrif @LALegault according to Israel itself, who initially helped fund it and even eased it's administrative takeover in Gaza, that was Hamas 🤣

@lowqualityfacts he was also bad at tic-tac-toe.

@wdlindsy other PoC in poor places I have seen who, maybe not to the same degree, seem to understand this, too. Living "white poverty", on the other hand, actually looks and feels much worse to me. I will leave you that to think about, because I think you do understand what is behind that better than many.

@wdlindsy at Pine Ridge (where avg male life expectancy is 47 years...yes, you heard that correct) the land is in "trust", and so no new house have been permitted to be built by the US govt since the 1970's. This is why sometimes we have up to 20 people living in a house. Often unrelated families. Because, hard as it is to do, really we will not let our people sleep on the streets.

@caffetiel @aral @LewisHarrington yeah, that should be funny, but of course they would. What a sick country.

@ubergeek @wdlindsy too often it's about which lies you are supposed to believe, the personal ones of Trumpistan, or the ones about "saving" democracy when clearly your merely perpetuating existing institutional power.

@wdlindsy I had meant to go 2 years ago since I was not getting any help with anything I was trying to do, before becoming sick and blind. Destitution is not as harsh in Indian country because people help each other rather than watch you suffer and hope to see you die in front of their eyes. While the IHS hospitals have very few resources, they also don't throw sick people too inconveniently unprofitable to treat out on the street like garbage.

@wdlindsy I don't, but will do so anyway. I can go back to Indian country, and we will continue to arm ourselves because we have no choice. I'd rather fight and die the deprivations there than live in this shithole.

@wdlindsy I am tired of living this hellhole, and I am out of this fucking country. I am not going to live a lala fake democracy or a nazi utoptia.

@wdlindsy vote blue no matter who is being just as much a hostage with a gun to the head. Is it even worse in some ways that other people hold it for Biden since it makes everyone else accomplices, too? I am not sure, but I know this is not democracy, and as much not democracy as Russia or NK. To pretend otherwise is to lie to ourselves, too.

@wdlindsy yes, actually, at some level, he is too. I don't like being a hostage. He could have stepped aside and said let's have a genuine primary, and then made rule changes to assure it too. That would have been saving democracy rather than exploiting the present moment.

@wdlindsy Biden telling people this is "saving democracy" is gas lighting and purely insulting. Telling people why we are stuck here more honestly, and then how or what you will try to do to prevent this from ever happening again would be a far more decent thing to do. Decency is dead too, it seems.

@wdlindsy the problem is "vote blue no matter who" is really no different. It is a gun held to your head telling you who to vote for, and so your not permitted to try changing who is in power, and this is true regardless of the circumstances it happened under. Voting in America is just as free as Putin's Russia at that point. Whether it ever resurrects or not, Democracy is already effectively dead in the US right now.

@liw this is funny. You list automated testing, twice. Yet so many still do not use it, even once!