Matty Roses

Worked as an American consultant for the Dutch government in IT, can confirm this absolutely. It’s a case of finding private companies to funnel money to instead of actually creating capacity, all because of the incorrect illusion that the private sector is magically efficient.

My unofficial advice to my colleagues while leaving my posting was “stop hiring people like me. Spend the money on developing good internal devs”.

Yeah, I would switch from my Framework to a Slimbook if they offered upgradability.

They could make parts that work to the Framework spec, that is open source, which would he awesome.

Balkanized.

Or maybe a worldwide workers’ state? Think we’re getting there now . . .

Do you not understand that just because something is to Russia’s advantage, and Russia wants it to happen, does not mean that Russia can make it happen?

If you think Brexit was to the benefit of Russia, and you oppose Russia’s government (as you should) - OK. Then why wouldn’t you want to address the root causes that are powering anti-EU parties all over? Take away the fuel.

OK, so you’re calling for Russia to be dissolved?

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Sure, and I get that.

But demonizing entire peoples is part of how warmongers get us to support this awful shit to begin with. It’s one reason why my take is no war but class war, personally.

Try this: “Russia is bad for this world”

is what I was responding to

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To aid it and make it worse?

The West pretty much showed to Russia in the 1990s and 2000s that it was going to consider international relations a zero sum game. So Russia is of course going to work to make the problems the US and UK have worse, as the US has done with Russia.

Are you suggesting Russia should be destroyed?

Lol what? You think that because Russia spread some money around Brexit only exists because of Russia?

It’s like the idiots in the US that ignore 70 million people voted for Trump, and want to pretend the only reason for that is that Russia spent $100,000 on Facebook ads. Because they don’t want to address the actual problems that’s destroying their societies. Much easier to just claim it’s all Putler or something.

Russia’s more than happy to throw gas on the fire, for sure.

But they didn’t start it. They’re taking advantage of the failures of capitalist neoliberalism in the West for their own advantage, but - and this is crucial - the existence of those failures is not something paranoia about Russia can address.

In the US, you literally had people from the Democratic party discussing how BLM was a Russian front, because the Russians were happy to show how the US treated people. But Russia didn’t put those racist cops, Russia didn’t give them immunity - Russia didn’t make the US have the world’s largest prison population that’s overwhelmingly minority.

You don’t want Brexit, don’t have wealth gaps and massive housing costs so people can be pushed to blame their shitty lives on Polish immigrants.

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Graphene and e/OS exist.

Problem with Graphene is the limitation of hardware to Pixel due to manufacturers.

e/OS is good, but the missing killer app for me is contactless payment. Which brings Europe back to the Visa/MC problem. Digital Euro could fix this.

heh yeah, Lemmy gives me old phpBB vibes sometimes

Exactly. It’s like people that move to Bluesky, which is under private control, and then are shocked when abuses start there.

The problem is exactly that social spaces shouldn’t be privately owned and a source of profit. Until you address that, the slop hellsites will always wind up that way.

Yeah, people seeing pictures of children being killed in a genocide and reacting badly is obviously just a conspiracy!