420stalin69 [he/him]

Star Trek is what comes after communism

Sugangeese nuts

My ADHD interests: intensely researching a topic that has no prospect of financial reward and wanting to talk about it to people who don’t care

Days without a Boeing falling apart midair 5 0

USA spends decade after decade brutalizing South America, Central Asia, south east Asia, and the Middle East: yeah but China funded a port in Sri Lanka

Image being unhealthy and saying "it’s going to take more than a 20 minute walk once a week to get in shape.

Imagine being unhealthy and your doctor is doing genocide in Gaza

If the public are paying for it, then it becomes a subsidy.

And good luck getting the US government to require the code to be GPLed. That’s even less likely to happen than a public subsidy for OSS at all.

They typically do the opposite and require “commercialization” to ensure the benefit of the publicly-funded technology is captured by their donors.

This is how it basically works in biotech, for example. Government grants to study the medicine and then when the scientists actually find something important it becomes a “public-private partnership” often without even a royalty for the public let alone making it a public good.

That’s not how government funding works in a modern democracy, unfortunately. It would amount to a cash transfer to big tech to make the public pay their R&D costs.

So a public subsidy for big tech to get free code?

But Trump would shoot even more bunny’s

The presence of the Chud Tailgate Murder Fantasy is incidental.

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Boiling water feels really fucking hot which is why Celsius makes more sense

The rule is you have to post something before you leave

Training bots to talk on text generated by bots

VPNs are much cheaper than Netflix, torrents don’t have ads, it’s always perfect quality, and the content catalog is excellent.

There was that hot Somali who was Tik Tokking himself while boarding a cargo ship.

But he was enforcing a blockade enacted by his government within Yemeni territorial waters so unfortunately it wasn’t piracy.

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You do not gotta give it to them

Spend 42 hours making a professional quality message queue and entity component system then shelve the project because you got bored.

There is no Nordic model. The Nordics have substantially different economic histories and have developed in different ways at different times. Finland was poor until really very recently, Denmark was and still is a colonial exploiter, Norway got oil rich, Iceland was a haven for bankers and tax cheats, and Sweden only saw a recent blip of social progress from the 40s into the 70s and then destroyed the labor movement that built those gains over the previous 20 years with the impressive equality achieved in that period rapidly eroding back to the 1920s when you look at disparate investment in education and other ways of funneling public benefits to the already wealthy. And don’t forget that Sweden are colonial bastards towards the Sami as well, and still are looting their way through those spoils for resource wealth.

Anyone who tells you there even is a Nordic model is a fucking idiot.