whatiswrongwithyou

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[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

That section of the Wikipedia page is pretty weird looking right off the bat. The first two are the cedar in Lebanon and the Mirabal sisters which are circumstances that are hard to call nonviolent.

The cedar revolution can only be called nonviolent if you disregard the 01 protest wave that preceded it and established with violence that everyone was actually on the side of ending syrian occupation and not having car bomb attacks all the god damned time.

And el jefe was fucking assassinated by the military at international urging. That’s not nonviolent!

I didn’t look any further but it really seems like a bad list that’s written with incredibly rose-colored glasses.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m not gonna pretend to be a lawyer or expert in Swedish law. My understanding is that the framework for what amounts to free speech for corporations in Sweden is much more restrictive than in the us.

So what amounts to an easy win by simply saying “we’re against it” in the us may have consequences elsewhere.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago

So you’re on fedora, is there a specific keygen or cracked version of chessbase you wanna run?

I can make a vm and check it out later on when I get home.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

From the ops own admission it’s their fault.

I’m just saying scrape the dog shit off your shoes. Make a change.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If it smells like dogshit everywhere you go, check your shoes.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

E/os isn’t graphene and doesn’t have a duress pin feature.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Reach out to the Arbor Day foundation and see what kind of resources they can send you. There’s also a group called tree city USA that will give your municipality a gold star and a special sign and put them on a list if they have some number of trees. After you win trees you can fight for native wildflowers and reeds and become a bee city USA member too.

Getting shit done in local government is all about greasing your turd up so it flies out and lands with a triumphal plop. Almost all of that is planning and preparation because it’s not like you can reach up in there with both hands and rub castor oil on that stuck fucker.

So start by talking to people around you. Don’t tell them you’re planning on submitting some thing, just hear out what they have to say. Write it down afterwards so you can come back to it later. One thing people always bring up with trees is the cost and the damaged sidewalks and roads. It’s easy to figure out the cost, just call the municipal maintenance office and ask how much it would cost for them to take care of 200 more trees than they have to deal with now. Same thing for the sidewalks. Often times they’ll say something to the effect of “we’d have to replace em one year earlier than we were already planning on doing”.

Anyway figure out what you actually want to do, what it’s gonna cost, who’s gonna do it, what the effects will be, who’s it gonna piss off, how they’re gonna be ameliorated etc.

Once you have the effects of what you’re proposing all together you wanna bring it up to the right committee or board. For you the reason to do this as opposed to taking the tom goes to the mayor route is that the committee will have a bunch of people who can ask the right questions and get your turd perfectly shaped and lubricated. Once they like it they’ll do an up/down vote on a motion to move it to the governing body of the municipality.

The whole point of going through the committee is to take that path instead of having to be a person who gets on the nightly news yelling in meetings. It means your proposal will be part of the consent agenda, which is a bigass packet of “stuff we all agree on and have already decided to do” that gets a big up/down vote. People who have their stuff in the consent agenda might speak in support of their particular thing, but it’s usually more of a “we should all be proud that with the adoption of this proposal we’re increasing walkability, property values, safety, natural beauty and improving the lives of our community members” as opposed to “here’s my cockamamie scheme to plant trees!”.

Anyway that’s how you do it. Once the consent agenda you’re on gets passed you just gotta do what you said you were gonna in the way you said you were gonna using the resources you said it would take.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I don’t think I’m giving orebro the benefit of the doubt. I wouldn’t say it’s incorrect to call them fascist or far right either. I just think they’re pretty clearly not alt right.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Both. The first couple of sentences are about air and the rest is about how you gotta keep your head on a swivel when you sign up for proton.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 days ago

I think there’s a real problem with that line of thinking.

Without understanding a persons politics are just vibes.

Also condensing the bloodthirsty futurists who imagine totalizing war of all against all and honestly quaint ethnonationalists who want to have the third reich but without all those pesky wars is pretty clearly a stumble even if you were to recognize that they’re both the enemy of global communism. It’s worth it to recognize that praline ice cream and pickles are wildly different things even if you don’t like either and they both start with the letter “p”.

And that’s what the op asked about. “It seems like it’s this thing, is that correct?” “No, it’s not that thing”. Which would, to your point, make it neither unnecessary nor hair splitting.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Condemning the funding could (I’m not an expert or lawyer) open the company up to a different type of law intended for “terrorism” or “extremism”. I do not know what actually drove the publishing of such a fence riding post on their part but that’s a possible explanation that takes into account the conditions and foresight the company has exercised in the past.

Also as an airvpn user do not use it for security or privacy. It’s a really good piracy vpn just use it for that. If you’re concerned for your safety please consider carefully the consequences of your choices when you register for proton (don’t make a services account, don’t use a recovery email that can be tied to you or at all, pay cash). A lot of the services people hold up as alternatives have ways for the unaware user to accidentally screw it up and end up in a bad situation.

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