no. just to inclusive, non-male specific pronouns. and it was the way he handled himself in the conversation.

i’ve seen it. it’s so wild. people who were on board with him slowly losing their sympathies for him to fall in line with what the ruling class because cbs and nbc said the feds have strong evidence he’s a terrorist otherwise they wouldn’t have asked for the death penalty

this is what living in a terror state looks like. certain terror is tolerated, and therefor subsidized, and other terror is manufactured, not even terror. let me ask you this: are you, and i mean you, the person reading this, terrified of Luigi Mangione? because the powers that be want you to be. they want him to be a terrorist so they can wield special powers to “protect” “us” from “terror”. those powers will be a mechanism of inflicting terror on us. krasnov learned it from his handlers

we’re all so far away from eachother

yeah there’s a reason Obi-Wan hates blasters. it’s not just that they’re not artful, it’s also that they’re not very accurate. han manages to consistently hit his targets, but it’s also heavily implied he’s force sensitive and that’s how he’s able to perform his incredible feats of piloting. he’s probably also guiding his blaster bolts without even realizing he’s doing that

he’s debt juggling

one admin my partner and i have been immensely critical of is making $800k/yr. meanwhile he’s ballooned tuition to “restore the endowment”, increased undergrad enrollment, and cut funding to graduate students

they most likely do. but they were brave enough to call him out and risk arrest for it. what they’ve done is important. chuck schumer would rather ruin these people’s lives than do the bare minimum. this dipshit is out chanting “we stand with israel”, “we won’t lose” (after losing), and “we won’t rest” before pulling this shit. i’m sure there are still some democrat voters around supporting him, but it’s becoming less and less. his political capital is reducing, and for what?

this reflects something i’ve been seeing rising here inemy hometown. when i was 15 i survived a terrorist attack. the whole community had a conversation about the appropriate way to address thiseand how to be respectful of the direct victims. 18 years later, you’d never even know we talked about any of that. the memorial is a popular place to take beaming graduation photos. the terrorist attack has been renamed in the popular lexicon from “place massacre” to “date shooting”. the institutions that promised us they saw and heard our pain and they would help us forge a new future are international sponsors of terror now.

it hurts. it hurts a lot.

they’re not who they’re manufacturing consent from. it’s the ~55% of people who apparently listen to nothing but spotify and watch nothing but entertainment

not at all. trying to eliminate gay people from history, and also a nice convenient moment to sweep some war crimes under the rug

the whole entire conversation about pronouns was exactly a conversation about this. the request to change to more inclusive pronouns was a request that he make the project more inclusive to people like us, the queer community, who have been getting pushed out of open source ever since brandon eich was named ceo of mozilla. andreas kling’s response was that we were being too sensitive and he didn’t want to scare of contributors by getting too political. the problem is that in saying that, he’s saying he finds one set of contributions and politics acceptable, and another set not.

the same goes for his responses to people asking him to leave twitter. he says he would rather stay on twitter because mastodon is too political. and there it is again. twitter, at the time of the conversation, was already becoming a nazi cesspool that people were leaving en masse, but because his tweets got more engagement there than on mastodon, he stuck with twitter.

i’ll gather some links for you after work, but i’m just… a little surprised you were familiar enough with the situation to know it happened and not familiar enough to know the context for why it mattered

i think he’s referring to mozilla accepting money from google to let google be the default search engine for over 20 years, which 5 years into that deal, google started using any search made through not chrome to pipeline people to chrome

the ladybird dev wants to work with people who want me dead. so. yeah, fuck him. mozilla ain’t great, but they’re the least dangerous engine builders right now. servo would be a better engine for us to rally around, but everyone would rather talk about the less mature, more fascist accepting, project.

nazis are bad. that’s the hill i’m willing to die on. this is bigger than a browser engine.

the lead dev is a freeze peach absolutist. he’s said some ignorant shit about trans people and when people said “hey, let’s adjust this language” he was like “let’s not get political”

100%, this is either uninformed or some apologia

exactly! if you want what the cybertruck is offering, the hummer ev is better in every regard. if you want a truck for truck stuff, the ford, toyota, and rivian are all very capable, arguably more capable than ice f-150s and their ilk.

the only reason for someone not to cancel their cybertruck order is because they like that it’s their fascist propaganda wagon

it’s the weight and the motor. they weigh more than any other light duty truck on the market by a wide margin and the motor lacks the torque to make up the difference. to increase the torque you would need to make the vehicle more of a fire hazard than it already is.

all of this constitutes an extremely core design flaw which is that no one asked “what is a truck?” when they designed their truck. they never asked what the purpose of the vehicle should be, instead choosing to design a device for a paranoid ketamine addicted indoor boy who wouldn’t be capable of surviving the apocalypse he envisioned the truck for without someone else heating his canned baked beans for him

cybertrucks can’t get up hills. they’re slower uphill than laden semis

but not up a hill