It’s like you’ve never used an ARM Mac.

8GB M1 MacBook Air (an equivalent spec) can do all kinds of crazy things you wouldn’t expect it to.

It’s not “absolutely kneecapped” unless you’re doing pro stuff. It’s fine for home movie HD video editing or audio production that isn’t tons of tracks or any kind of basic administrative task you need. Even chrome with 20 tabs, if you must.

Oh that’s rich coming from NSA-land

A similar but not quite as retro endeavour would be hosting a Hotline server.

• menus
• parking in Vancouver
• theatre schedule

3 mundane and common things that are locked behind a smartphone interface, that I have run into recently, and I don’t even live in a city.

I didn’t say make the sentence community service, which you seem to imply. New justice systems will be complex and results-oriented. Yeah responsibility for dangerous jobs needs to focus up the ladder. Jail as punishment doesn’t solve any of the problems except preventing interaction with free society. Victims don’t see justice or restitution, only vengeance. The expense is huge. Accomplices go free.

Onoff, eh? ‘I can’t think of an easy answer so there must be none’

That lack of nuance combined with an aversion to improving shitty systems that don’t work, and an aversion to whatever the science says in combination with front-line problem solvers, characterizes conservative policy.

They do run on an old fashioned and unscientific yearning for vengeance-as-justice, yessss.

An empiricist government might address the whole ‘16 hours of continuous driving’ that is rampant in the industry, make sure he never drives again, and make the sentence include some kind of restitution.

But performative punishment is more fun yeah? Stockades and then chopping off a hand might satisfy those folks.

Yess yessss let the Algorithm flow through you

No don’t.

Tear the grass up and plant a tree.

Reverse the Algorithm!

I have been a media literacy advocate for decades, and believe it is a life and death issue for the planet. This is a decent take on media consumption principles. Your consumption habits put you into a web of relations.

There are some cases where revelations about a creator retcon their entire body of work, usually when it involves a fundamental falsehood in their artistic posture.

The are rare, but a premier example would be Buffy St. Marie: her music is generally imbued with a proclamation of her identity and the reveal that it was a massive, sixty year fraud makes her amazing songwriting and performances just unlistenable, as long as you are aware it’s a lie being pushed in your ears.

I’m happy to listen to an artist who’s a massive jerk, because most famous people are anyway. If M.I.A. is a brain damaged magatroid, whatever, she’s not getting anything from me and her first album is full of bangers.

I buy CDs directly from artists I want to support. SNRK just got $60 from me and I bought two poetry books yesterday. Otherwise, corporate publishers and famous dorks with good art are going to get their stuff pirated.

Too many years on bbedit to change now. But Kate is great, too.

Well, we do extract and refine our own gasoline in canuckistan, so maybe it’s that.

My 520ST paid much of my way through university using PaperClip to format documents for other students.

It led me into exploring TeX on the school mainframe, and unix.

Later, I worked with possibly the very first gui granular synthesizer program, developed on a ST1040, which was kind of old at that point.

• economic injustice - they think they give too much profit to the rest of canada; in essence, they think the natural resources are solely theirs not the people of Canada or FN, and ignore how much of the profits flow to the USA
• cultural distinctiveness - such bullshit, the culture claim is canadian prairie but flavoured with texan bravado and is ideology hiding behind lightly coded white nationalism… the separatists are all too right wing for the rest of canada, and (cf. D Christie) racist at heart… listen to this group talk about indigenous folk when they think you’re one of them
• drill baby drill - separatism is driven by fox news style climate denialism… “oh look you use plastic you hypocrite” - yeah right ok

And that’s pretty much it, a thin veneer of argument over a desire to be american Republicans and join Greater Idaho while catching trickledown dribbles from oiligarchs.

Some governments use self-managed Rocketchat and similar.

You can also run a Matrix site federated but fully private and get similar security with more features.

I don’t think we should adapt in a cooperative way to foreign interference.

I grew up in Alberta and still have lots of family there. In the 1980’s there were a bunch of texans in Calgary advocating for a move to the USA and backslappingly loud about it. People who flew back to houston every month.

Decades of advocacy and cultural pressure has built up and normalized the traitorous bullshit. Now we have social media and astroturfing and backroom funding.

The separatist movement has never been sincere or honest, and always seditious in spirit. Alberta wants to be an oil colony to oiligarchs and a large number of middle managers and employees are useful idiots.

Let’s hear some honest complaints that aren’t full of entitlement.

The issue preceded Trudeau, Harper, etc. The oil sands are dirty production that is being massively externalized by (mostly) American companies and the strategic unwillingness to meet regs and lose a bit of privilege and margins is part of that.

A failure to tax them is one remove away from direct payment.