I think this is a pretty fair analysis overall: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=GCHzlvbmhYk

Sadly NPF cannot and will not agree on anything because it’s a big bag of contradictions with a liberal majority.

Same basic argument I hear from US shitlib media 🤔

From the little I’ve read of his work, Jung attempted to weld a kind of mental science to his fixation with animal mysticism. I think that produced something of an esoteric fantasy view of the world that feels romantic to some people, similar to our fascination with ancient mythologies. I think the modernish pop-psych stuff is an attempt to export those vibes as some kind of product.

I honestly just want him to just try to live whatever life he has left for himself and his family.

Apologies if my Poettering rant was worded too strongly. I guess I just mean that there are very good reasons people dislike him so much. He’s earned far less animosity than he deserves imo.

s6 is cool, though I’ve not played around with it too much. I’ve mostly stuck with runit on my Linux systems since it’s simple, fast and I’m happy with it. You might take a look at dinit, too, if you haven’t already. It’s still maturing, but dinit is probably the most syntactically similar to systemd. Both are very fast.

KDE (kuserfeedback) is spyware you cannot remove.

Honestly, I wish there was an alternative to Wayland

I’ve been happily using the alternative for more than 25 years so far

Edit: Choosing to stan Poettering is a weird choice. You know he works for microsoft, right? The gigantic fascist software monopoly place that has been openly destroying human rights for decades, collaborates with the CIA/NSA/FBI and US state as a mass surveillance apparatus. He’s also always been an arrogant child, picking fights with principled engineers and working against the efforts of unix philosophy to insert awful windowisms into our ecosystem. Poettering is a disease on FOSS and his legacy is using RedHat/IBM to insert systemd (which is basically CIA bloatware with a massive pid-zero attack surface) into Linux will never be forgiven.

likely that the US balkanizes and descends into civil war between multiple factions that will occupy and go to war over different territories

That might even be the best realistic outcome for such a stupid and vicious culture; letting them bomb themselves for a while at least creates a reprieve for the rest of the world.

Any capitalist system will eventually succumb to it’s own contradictions. The US is presently amidst their own collapse as the pressure of infinite growth meets the critical limits of finite systems.

This shit would tilt me right off the planet.

This seems like a good opportunity to put a legal challenge to this system, though. I don’t know canadian law, but I’m fairly confident there’s no law on record that can compel you to use any particular operating system on your personal property. The implications of that would be far too big and problematic. Taken a basis for your argument, you are legally unable to comply and cannot be legally compelled to do so. Contacting your party administration shows a good faith effort to satisfy the disclosures through an alternate means. I’d also argue that closed-source/proprietary software meets the common definition of untrustworthy software. A web form might be a reasonable remedy, but I’d probably ask for paper forms because then there’s no software requirement at all to participate in bourgeois electoralism.

I see it as an irrelevant question. We’re affected by our material conditions, whatever the unresolvable scientific or philosophic nature of the universe may be. Asking what the nature and cause of our conditions are is the only thing that is really useful to us as human beings.

As a statement of fact, China has done more to alleviate poverty than any country in world history, and is continuing to do so.

Meanwhile US cities are spending millions on filling public property with spikes, bollards, sawblades, boulders, and other vicious devices everywhere to keep the poors from committing the crime of being alive. The US state of California has a higher GDP than most countries; take a look at a public park, sidewalk or under any bridge there. You can even be arrested for feeding homeless people in the US. Pretty big difference between wealth extraction and distribution.