See, in order to assume his act was "crazy," we have to start by making it a normative principle nobody should ever lay down their life for others. I think the divergence over whether his act was political or was he automatically crazy boils down to: are you a bootlicker?

Haley's campaign, while well-intentioned, was based on a false premise, namely that the Republicans are, in some way, actually better than Donald Trump.

You know, in a sane universe, the President could legitimately actually declare a national emergency over the ongoing efforts to overturn representative democracy in the open, but we live in this one.

How else are you supposed to stabilize a highly-developed postindustrial economy with increasingly rare opportunities to get ahead for most of the population? Didn't you people read your Friedrich Hayek?

The docs directory literally has a stub on getting the repo up and serving and also a note that they are cleaning up and working on the documentation https://github.com/ente-io/ente/tree/main/docs

As a type nerd, I'm slightly mollified. I've had to spend the last 17 years pretending Calibri is a respectable font and not Comic Sans with a suit and tie

Now, if the Democrats had picked someone who actually supported popular Democratic positions, there wouldn't now be a massive chasm between him and their base on various burning issues they now have to bridge during what may, ironically, in fact be one of the more important elections of our lifetimes.

I appreciated that the police made it a point to mention they searched the entire area for bombs, like they thought it was most likely the protest was somehow intended as a distraction. Like they actually think it makes sense in their head that some crisis actor would actually light themselves on fire for like $50 so the real terrorists could.... you know what, it's too crazy and stupid to even finish typing out. Police departments are just jobs programs for violent idiots.

I don't want to derail the thread, but this detail absolutely leapt out at me like a hungry puma:

Law enforcement also drew a gun on the burning man during the incident, while he was screaming in pain.

For perspective, global annual GDP is $105 trillion, which means Altman is asking the world to invest 6.7% or so of the entire world's economic output for one year in his company.

Right to repair also has an environmental angle. Consider which one uses more resources and likely produces more pollution:

• The RAM in your laptop dies, you take it to a repair shop, they swap out the dead RAM. Dead RAM goes in the bin, laptop has years of life left in it
• The RAM in your Macbook dies, the RAM is soldered to the board, you throw the whole thing away and buy a new one, and when a single component in the new Macbook dies, lather, rinse, repeat

Considering how much extra e-waste is generated when people can't repair things, there's really no way to buy Apple and call yourself an environmentalist.

We're all so fucking broken by consumerist propaganda we think adhering to the fundamental laws of capitalist economics is "boycotting" now. When prices go too high, you're supposed to stop buying. What's happened to people is so fucking sad. We think it's somehow radical for consumers to adhere to the laws of supply and demand.