This feels contrary to the spirit of the union. We’ve gone from including everyone and respecting minorities to being so fearful of our internal enemies that we are willing to throw our liberty and freedom away on the notion that it will solve the problems.

There are plenty of right wing academics but they are a minority. It probably varies by field too. In the core sciences that minority is probably the smallest and is greater in the humanities. My professor was a right wing scientist and we often clashed on values. I felt sorry for him at times because it would be his point of view Vs the entire research group. He is fundamentally a good person that can hold illogical and contradictory opinions that felt like they were emotionally based.

The enshitification is real and the way to fight this is by collective action and escalation. When the mods took action collectively it shook Reddit and forced them to ban the offending users. If the userbase maintained the pressure with a boycott there is no way Reddit Inc could withstand the pressure. However, the asset owning class have configured our society to prevent collective organisation and protest. Power is being concentrated in fewer and fewer white mens hands. This Epstein-class of people tend to be psychopaths and narcissists because those are useful attributes for amassing power. We see the effects of this everywhere we look in the form of censorship, punitive legal statute, lobbying, corruption, inflation and the rise of fascism. Open source projects such as Lemmy, Wikipedia, Mastodon, Linux, Signal, etc, form the basis of an antidote.

Draw a picture of Santa Clarita except in this timeline they are still prescribing thalidomide

What happened to those kids, is Santa Clarita a nuclear waste storage site?

President Donald J Trump

Is Trump-Hitler2028 still available? I will settle for hotBillionaireGulag.

Turns out Balloon Land is a gigantic plastic waste island floating in the ocean.

The billionaire class are conspiring to concentrate all the wealth into as few hands as possible.

It is simultaneously the same axe and not the same axe. In a strict material sense, the final axe bears no relationship to the OG axe but in the figurative sense it is the same axe.

We must accept this paradox in the same way we must accept that our bodies are in a constant state of renewal and the person we were seven years ago has been completely renewed at a cellular level (maybe bones are exempt but brain cells don’t last forever). We tend to think of ourselves as a continuous process and our identity persists and is stable. On the other hand, it’s easy to argue that we are not the same person as we were seven years ago, we have grown and changed physically and spiritually. Only our identity documents contend that our identity is static. We seek stability and certainty everywhere and find it nowhere. If we can accept the ever changing nature of the universe at large we can find solace in constant change because that’s how it will always be.

I like to rip one out that lifts the bed clothes

As a prophylactic?

Is the hairstyle a regulation?

grepist

They put him in prison for being a whistleblower so he at least has some scruples.

Survival of the fattest

One thing that seemingly doesn’t rely on the internet is Iran’s masterful ability to make the American bullies look criminally stupid. It’s already hugely impressive, imagine what they could do with a bit of WiFi.

Approximately 0.1 years out of 3 billion years, truly a crisis. Precisely what people occupied themselves with for 3 billion years before the internet existed we may never know. Some claim they spent quite considerable time as single cell organisms, then multicellular aquatic organisms, until the species reached it’s apogee, a flabby orange real estate pedo fraudster.

Those are some good examples, more of that please. Most of the lithium powered devices I’m using currently are power tools and they are exclusively repackaged 18650 and 21700 cells. It’s really not much of a technical challenge to make these things standardised but if there is no regulatory pressure it’s easy money for the OEMs and more toxic waste for us.

It’s a similar problem to lead acid batteries. 2V cells are arranged in a way that will deliver 12V at sufficient current for a particular application. However the solution we have landed on is completely different to li-ion because you can take any suitably sized car battery from one brand of vehicle and put it in another. The reason for that is the interface is common to virtually all cars. This technology pre-dates enshitification. There is no good reason to tie any battery to any device other than it helps the shareholders. They are busy inserting barriers to re-use and modularity everywhere in technology, particularly software.