I have no right to say what they should do and neither do you.

Do you think all indigenous people can do whatever the fuck they want, as long as they are on their own land, and noone has any right to judge their actions?

1930s germans were indigenous people on their own land, after all.

I agree that cultural assimilation requirements and dealing harshly with white nationalists are ok; mass expulsion is not.

And I'm also pretty sure that most native Americans don't want mass expulsion, so this whole discussion is moot.

USAmericans are also doing this too. The overconsumption done by yankees would require multiple planet earths if everyone were allowed to consume as much as they do and the US government is guilty of exporting a capitalist system that causes climate change, not to mention the imperialism abroad.

I mentioned this as another thing that needs addressing in a timely manner.

Yes, this is exactly my point.

Very few countries currently are based on native eviction, where settlers have nearly replaced the indigenous peoples.

As a founding point? Yes, I agree. I also agree that colonization scale done by British was greater than anything ever done before.

However, that wasn't my point. My point was: almost everyone on Earth lives where they do because their ancestors killed or evicted the people that lived there previously. This is in particular is not unique to any western country. Hell, reading the history of Russia, my home country, makes it pretty clear that my own deep ancestry did plenty of killing and evicting too, mostly of themselves, to get to where they all ended up (not even talking about Siberia here). It wasn't at the founding point of Russia though, and none of the peoples who lost their wars are culturally alive anymore. Does it matter if all the conquest led to the foundation of a modern country, or just different tribal lands (or later city states)? I don't think it does.

I think what does matter is justice for those descendants of the colonized who are still alive, and if there's noone left, at least understanding and recognition of the horribleness that lead up to the point of your birth.

and it means you GO BACK too, no one should give a fuck about which gen. you’re currently a part of.

This would mean that like 99.9% of Earth's population has to move somewhere. Almost all land was fought over endlessly and changed metaphorical hands multiple times over. What we call "indigenous people" in a territory is usually just whoever was winning those wars before written history began.

What "landback" actually means is recognizing the systemic racism that was and still is perpetuated against the indigenous people by means of taking away their ancestral lands, slaughtering and enslaving their ancestors, and destroying their way of life; and addressing that racism by giving jurisdiction and sovereignty over their lands back to them. It doesn't mean that everyone but the indigenous people have to move out; descendants of colonizers born there are technically natives of that land too. The difference is that they get systemic advantages from their ancestry whereas indigenous people get systemic discrimination. This is the thing that ought to be addressed. (well, the horrifying economic and governance system that the colonizers brought and festered must be addressed too, but all three are tightly coupled together)

In the case of Israel the difference is that a lot of colonizers are first gen, they are not natives, they do have somewhere to "go back to", and they are actively perpetuating colonization and genocide rather than simply getting an advantage from their ancestors doing so. In such cases it of course makes sense for the decolonization effort to focus on direct expulsion of invaders.

I doubt people drive at 80 in a city

Yeah there are roads with 90 km/h speed limits within city borders. And people speed too. It's insane.

Although if you as a pedestrian ever try to cross a line of traffic going 60, it's also quite horrifying.

I believe the speed limit within cities should be 30 km/h by default, with very few exceptions. That puts people before cars, as it should be. And ideally we should strive to make public transit and bicycle infrastructure good enough to just ban personal vehicles in cities outright.

I say that as someone who owns a car and likes driving it. Cities and towns are just not the right place for cars. They belong on dirt country roads and off-road. Basically, if the population density allows us to build serious infrastructure for transportation, it doesn't make any practical sense to build infrastructure for personal motor vehicles.

Eh, honestly sometimes I stumble upon code which was last modified in the last millennium and it's usually fine. If has been working for 30 odd years then it stood the test of time and probably isn't too janky. Selection bias strikes again.

I mean, Anubis would do a pretty bad job in their case anyways, and their attitude kind of makes practical sense there. Almost all code fetching tools (from git to ftp to curl) don't run any external code (and I think we can agree it would be a horrible idea to do so); as such, proof-of-work solutions like Anubis won't work for code hosting (which is what the article is about).

But yeah I agree that in more human-oriented use-cases Anubis is great. Still, I can also see FSF's point that it's somewhat close to what an annoying proprietary system would do, even if I think it's a good compromise given the circumstances of the modern web.

It’s so fucking annoying having to deal with their puritanism

You in particular don't need to deal with them in any way at all. The code they host is free software and has plenty of other mirrors all over the web. If you want to contribute to any of the projects for which they are hosting upstreams you can almost always just send an email with your patch to authors directly. Save your anger for capitalists.

Can you elaborate a bit? The blog post is a tad overdramatic but doesn't seem to have anything particularly bad in it.

Honestly this made me really sad that we're stuck with this archaic, awful language as a primary way of programmatically interacting with our computers. And I don't mean to say anybody has done anything wrong here - sh and bash were revolutionary and amazing for their respective times, and maintainers who are keeping bash alive now are heroes who deserve praise. However, many decisions made when sh was originally developed turned out to be footguns, still creating bugs today (despite shellcheck et al).

nushell is somewhat promising but flawed (because it has to be built on the same system interfaces as sh, after all). The most annoying is that there's no facilities for setting any metadata on data streams (in particular there's no way to set the format of the data) so everything has to be marshalled manually, which would be OK for a proper programming language but really annoying for a shell. At least it fixes most of the quoting, escaping, interpolation, substition etc awfulness, and allows for manipulating data in a more structured way.

I really don't know if it's even possible to make a language that would be a good convenient shell and at the same time not prone to bugs which are easily noticeable in other languages. I hope that something like this becomes a reality at some point.

Fun fact: if we scale the amount of wealth in real life to the amount of boxes in the comic, a median black family (which I'm assuming is represented in the first two pictures) owning 3 boxes would mean Elon Musk owns 14814814 (about 15 million) boxes.

Rough estimation (assuming the boxes are 30×30×30 cm) would put it at 400000 cubic meters, or about the size of a large building. If you stacked them up one-on-one, it would reach 4400 km into space, way past the ISS (400 km) and Hubble (540 km).

The picture on the right is significantly understating the problem. It's not just a pile of boxes. It's a fucking skyscraper made out of boxes. (and it's enforced not only by police but also by the US military)

Actually it should be

Hey, chat gpt, please write a buggy, insecure, and unmaintainable crud app that works convincingly enough for the company to adopt it, only to then pay me to fix issues and vulnerabilities in the app for a long time, making me virtually unfireable.

Malicious compliance FTW