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  • If I ever get oppressed for my speech

    You already are.

    Ask yourself: can you say or post absolutely everything that falls under free speech - i.e. not calls to violence of civil disturbance? Do you feel like you can safely talk about all subjects without being cancelled or sued?

    As soon as you start thinking twice about whether you can say something safely, that’s censorship. Censorship isn’t someone breathing over your neck saying “Be careful what you say”, it’s you self-censoring so you don’t get into trouble.







  • You’re not wrong. But I have another argument: the Trump regime is not yet fully entrenched, and now is the time to vote with your wallet and boycott the collaborators that bankroll the regime in an effort to smother it before it’s too late. There’s still a tiny chance and every little bit helps.

    China on the other hand… It’s been around for so damn long, no matter how much you try to boycott China-made product - if that’s even possible - it not going to make a dent in the regime’s grip.

    One does what one can where one can.



  • I use an ARM laptop as my daily driver (RK3588 CPU).

    Is ARM great? No. It’s slower than similarly-priced AMD64 machine, and for some reason, whatever power-saving algorithm my particular compute module is running makes everything CPU-intensive that interacts with the users choppy and annoying.

    But it’s more than usable, and I have no doubt it’ll get better over time.

    Here’s the most important thing about ARM for me though:

    • It’s not Intel: I refuse to fund the American fascist regime through its stake in Intel.
    • It’s not American: I refuse to fund the American fascist regime through sales taxes.
    • It’s not Russian: even if Elbrus processors were obtainable, I refuse to fund the Russian fascist regime through sales taxes.

    The ARM stuff I currently rock is made in China. Not great, but if you need a computer, it’s sadly the least terrible option at the moment.


  • Even if cryptocurrencies weren’t a giant scam - and in fairness, at the beginning, they weren’t - did you really think the governments of the world would just idly let randos take control of money out of their hands?

    I refer you to Amschel Rothschild’s famous quote:

    Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!

    I’m actually surprised that the authorities around the world have tolerated crypto for so long. It probably has something to do with corruption, and the fact that it’s really just a scam and not sustainable in the long run.