Never attribute malice to that which can be easily explained by incompetence

YES SIR I’LL DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! YES SIR I’LL DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! YES SIR I’LL DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!

Reciprocal tariffs on American cars honestly sounds like a pretty good idea now…

“he’s history’s greatest monster!”

It’s been over twenty-five years, but I still lust after Corel Linux

Yes I know my enemies. They’re the teachers that taught me to fight me. Compromise. Conformity. Assimilation. Submission. Ignorance. Hypocrisy. Brutality. The Elite… all of which are American dreams…

I am extremely unkeen on handing control of all food production to large corporations.

I liked them. I also really enjoyed playing 3D games on the 3DS, especially the 3D-ified 16bit games.

I use AIMP. It’s available for PC also. It’s like what Winamp would be had development continued, and it’s pretty great

Edit: I’m pretty sure it’s not open source, but that’s very low on my personal list of priorities, tbh

Then you are a good agent! My last job was for the ATO, processing tax returns & activity statements, managing written-off debt, doing the call centre stuff. I got a pretty bad taste in my mouth from some of the tax agent stuff I saw going on. Especially those big firms, especially eTax. Agents like yourself with business tax returns and activity statements were almost universally legends to deal with.

So many of my current colleagues absolutely insist that they must use a tax agent because it’s all so complicated. “Do you have investments? Rental income? Run a side hustle? No? Then just go to myGov”

…only to find out that they just went straight back to their dodgy agent.

You missed the “for my use case” part. I won’t go into all the details, but browser and search are pretty much the only things that I can ditch at the moment.

Unfortunately, degoogled Android is still… Android. That OS has been made considerably less fun and enjoyable over the last few years by Google themselves, regardless of any of their additional services. :(

It’s almost like you didn’t read my post at all…

Electricity distribution/supply networks

It’s not just the media that gets this wrong, but politicians (who should absolutely know better). The whole reason the grid is such a mess is because capitalist types come up with some fever dream for extracting more value from consumers, and then this is sold through the media as “more choice” when the reality is that there’s literally no choice being made anywhere. You can’t choose your generator, distribution network, or metering provider. You can choose your energy retailer, but the electrons coming out of your power socket are the same. Your smart meter absolutely does not allow you to save money, any more than Amazon sales do when they Jack up the prices immediately before said sale.

Taxes

Good god there’s a lot of misinformation out there. In Australia at least, you almost certainly do not need to see a tax agent to do your taxes.

I am slowly switching back to Firefox since Google are nerfing ad blockers in Chromium. I’m switching to DuckDuckGo since their search results have become almost unusably bad recently. Unfortunately though, there it’s no usuable replacements for the rest of the Google ecosystem as far as my use case is concerned. I’d even ditch Android if there were a reasonable alternative.

Start and Back, respectively. Now it’s “Menu” and “View”

…or possibly “hamburger” and “restore window to smaller size”. Because that’s logical?

Yeah, same. It’s also part of their mindset that “progressive = immature” which I’ve always found really confusing.

Yes, the idea that my taxes should be spent for the benefit of all is immature. Gotcha.

I also love that all of the greatest Toyota car engines have had Yamaha heads.

Windows, by contrast, was built for descendants of the Intel 8088, period.

This is not quite true. Windows NT was built to support multiple architectures from the start.

The only way B is correct is if the people are launched as a pink paste from the forces resulting from the instant acceleration, and if the trolley also at least slows

The energy would come from the trolley.

Has the trolley come to a complete halt, or even showed down? If not, then either no energy has been transferred to the people and they just flop out, or we’ve just invented perpetual motion.