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Yeah, but if those low IQ dudes wanted to overthrow democracy and they wanted to tell other low IQ dudes about it they could just shout it out real loud. The media will ignore it. Law enforcement will do nothing. The courts will do nothing. The public will do nothing.

How people have reacted doesnt make sense to me. Like the only reason people would "joke" about such shit is because they are really fucking serious about it. Its a declaration of intent being broadcast to like minded people.

When the president of the US "jokes" about being a king my reading is a constitutional crisis is more of a when than an if.

Who jokes about these things?

Exactly. Have you ever heard an elected president joke about being King or invading their peaceful neighbor? Ever? Anyone? Animal fuckers. Its the only thing that makes sense.

I was reading or watching some news story once and it was about these two blokes getting arrested for fucking farm animals. And it started a train of thought. How do two strangers meet who are into fucking farm animals? It isn't like it is socially acceptable. Its probably not on their dating profile. I get that if you are part of a comparatively common group experiencing social repression you learn ways to communicate. Even pedos. But animal fuckers? Are they that common?

Now call me autistic if you like but suddenly I realized some of the edgy race jokes I had laughed at when I was younger and dumber might have been actual racists looking to connect with other racists. The sexist and homophobic jokes might have been actual bigots. And the guys joking about fucking animals. Well most of those are just jokes because obviously nobody does that. But perhaps some of them are looking for a special friend because how else does that convo even get started without the plausible deniability of "a joke".

So now when I see a fascist dog fucker "joking" about their not meant to be serious fascist memes and symbols the illusion is broken for me. And when I see Presidents joking about being Kings or invading neighbors, it isn't my type of humor any more I guess.

It isn't relevant to the Linux kernel at all. Even though Torvalds wrote git to support Linux development they operate on a different development model (email, patch sets etc). It is very relevant to the wider ecosystem (Linux distro vs Linux kernel). Most open source software development is hosted on one of these platforms and even non-developers sometimes need to interact with them. Anyone starting a project or looking to share it finds themselves asking the same questions.

I prefer this sort of engagement farming question to the ones asking which laptop to buy or which distro or desktop environment is best. Though it is arguably healthier and more productive for me to be doing almost anything else with my life. I increasingly feel like I am filling out a captcha every time I answer such a question. It feels like something any reasonably competent human could discover trivially hitting a small number of websites and reading. Even the people who cut and pasted low effort LLM responses pretty much nailed most of the facts - arguably more than good enough. What is the point of participating here really?

In my opinion Github in its current incarnation mainly exists to steal the IP of programmers and lock it up in proprietary AI services controlled by Microsoft. It dominates for the same reason Facebook or Youtube dominate. It is the only platform normies know and it benefits from massive network effects. It is US owned and operated which is becoming an issue for lots of people. Github is a proprietary closed source platform. I believe it was originally mostly written in Ruby but they have likely replaced all the performance bottlenecks using other languages. In my opinion their site is a usability nightmare.

Forejo is a fork of Gitea by Codeberg, a community run non-profit from Germany (still a liberal democracy under the rule of law) and hosted in Europe. They provide free hosting for open source projects or it is easy to self host. Gitea is a fork of Gogs and remains active. All those forks are written in the Go language and it requires a single exe, a config file and an sql database to run making it very easy to self host even without containers.

Gitlab is a service like Github or Codeberg that can also be self hosted but it is written in Ruby, a slow and inefficient interpreted language, which like Javascript or Python has lots of crazy fragile run time dependencies. The open source project was originally a work of Dutch and Ukrainian programmers and it was a Dutch company but they took VC money and IPOed and I don't know that I would assume it is European controlled. Some open source projects like Gnome moved there as it was the main alternative to Github. Can't recommend vs Gitea/Foejo for self hosting.

For single developers, small groups, arguably all you really need is git and email if you don't need or want all the extra fluff. That can work even for large projects like the Linux kernel. Sites like github tend to serve as single points of contact for lots of projects. It is their front page, issue tracker, everything which is one hell of a dependency on another company. It has Facebook-ized the code ecosystem. I think it also sort of serves as a linkedn for some people.

Yeah, sorry. Its a bit much. I have read about school teachers frustrated with the situation..I don't know how common it is.

I have two teenage boys. It is a worry.

I know that older men have been targettimg boys for over a decade now, seducing them with edgy memes, porn or whatever then exploiting their social awkwardness with appeals to misogyny and twisted versions of gender roles which is a pipeline to other bigotry and the whole alt-right movement. Radicalised young men are the emerging threat now as boomer power dies out.

You hear of little kids talking about their favourite social influencing sex trafficker rapists like it's socially acceptable now. I worry that the social progress women have made is going to go backwards, perhaps a lot, and I have a daughter as well.

Despite being very competent gamers and consuming plenty of online media my boys seem to have escaped with their critical thinking intact so far. I don't hover over them. They could be into stuff of course and I wouldn't know. We have walked into this with our eyes closed.

Just did a rewatch with daughter. She wanted to watch after seeing the musical episode. Still stands up in my opinion even though we know Joss and some of the cast weren't perfect.

The Season 6 rapey tech bros were still a very hard watch and skipped an episode or two in that season but hard not to see it as a bit prescient - it was before Gamergate and the right wing radicalisation of young men online. Should have paid more attention. It went a bit over my head first time.

Working through Angel now. Will see how that holds up. Has been a long time between watches. I kind of started House again though so ...

Wife can watch unlimited Supernatural and I think she might hold a record for rewatches of Voyager.

Ensemble comedies like UK Ghosts and Community seem popular for rewatching with family. I think that is probably a general theme along with animations. Less serious shows tend to do better I think. Psych and Monk are probably more likely to get a rewatch than a serious procedural.

Prosecution only happens for criminal offences here and copyright infringement would be a civil matter. I have not heard of civil actions against downloaders for years though I may be out of the loop. The notices scare people off and some ISPs might kick you off under their terms of service but they don't take people to court.

I have never seen a copyright warning. My old, old ISP never forwarded them on principle. And now there are VPNs.

Reply that you work for Meta and Mark said it will be ok.

I do understand disenfranchisement a little, living in a rural electorate that has voted conservative, state and federal for over a century and the only vote I have that counts is a proportional one in our multi-party senate. Many people feel frustrated around the world at the moment, not least because of the impact US domestic politics is having on us all.

We have our own election coming up here and it might be all we can do to keep the Trump quisling to a minority government. We all have our problems.

I hope you can understand why I don't think the rest of the world can rely on the people of the USA to stand together against tyranny and why I don't have a lot of sympathy for posts asking for our understanding. The US couldn't commit collectively to action on an ongoing national tragedy that should unite everyone regardless of faith or politics. What could be a more pressing issue for a country than years of senseless massacres? It doesn't inspire confidence.

Your nation's collective justification for sacrificing all those kids was so you could have a well armed militia to defend democracy from tyranny or some such nonsense. How is that working out so far? Perhaps the US could have just saved the kids and been factually good people and then they wouldn't have needed to worry so much about tyranny and justifying their actions. What I am getting at is there is a bit of a reap what you sow theme going on and while I can empathise with individuals like yourself I can't collectively make sense of your country or your weird attitudes. How do you even give up on school massacres?