Poor Isreal. Why won’t their victims just let them steal their land and rape their families in peace, eh? /s

Jesus, I thought he might be losing support because of all the death, destruction and rape. But no - it’s not enough for them. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

Good question OP. I never thought of this and I’m enjoying the answers.

Briefly, my own answer would be: I would hope and expect that we can still communicate when essential using technology.

Food textures are a problem for me. I’d expect a solar punk society to prioritise not being ableist (and minorities should be elevated too).So just as I can go to my local market now and get diced food marinated in a sauce I like, I’d expect that to continue as a service.

The solar punk part might be how it’s done (emissions etc) and who gets paid. But I expect niceties such as our food prefs to still be available.

Excellent illustration. Thanks!

I see. Keeping with the Netflix example, and given the difficulty people seem to have moving to alternatives, service providers seem to have refined the balance of reducing offerings while retaining users.

Good point. There’s a subjective element to it too.

Well have you seen the price of groceries lately?

My question is: for who will they fight back? Meta employees have shown us they only fight for themselves as employees, not the victims of their work. And then there’s what Microsoft did to those who opposed involvement with genocide and colonialism. Many more examples too.

I have mixed feelings on this. Tech workers are often the henchmen of borderline evil organisations. They’re looking for a place at the table, rather than to hold the companies accountable.

Of course, if it’s not as easy to lay them off maybe they can afford to risk holding them to account. I’m sceptical though.

Yes, someone did suggest this to me at the time but it was too much for me then to figure out DKIM, DMARC and SPF then. Not something the average person can do.

Nations providing free (or at least consistent) domains is an excellent idea.

@_elena@mastodon.social This might interest you.

I wish I switched to these guys when I left google. I chose a large provider in India because I just wanted to support them.

But I did not realise that the Indian government has gone so fascist that they are even ahead of USA, and far more authoritarian than Britain.

It took over a year to get everyone to switch to my new email address so I can’t really ask this of people again. But I’ll suggest it to others who are looking for recommendations.

I’m glad I read those lyrics. Thanks for that, and the link.

Hello my friend. Sorry for the late reply.

I recognised the Finnish writing, even though I only know some basics, and I listened to the song.

Thanks for sharing how significant the lyrics are for you. I’m sorry for your struggle. It was a problem for me in my twenties and I was lucky to be able to mostly deal with it (therapy + medication + positive life experiences). I know many others are not so lucky.

I hope you choose to continue to stay for the beauty, in spite of the struggle.

I don’t want to live in a world where humans—employees or otherwise—are exploited for their training data.

Does anybody read the job description anymore?

Possibly the best day of that foxes life so far.

The BBC really is run by a bunch of rotters.

I don’t believe it. It worked! Thanks!

In what format?

The move to black and white was forced on Calbee by disrupted supplies of naptha, an ink ingredient derived from petroleum.

So the bright colours we see on shelves involve fossil fuels too. The dystopia knows no limits.