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I do agree that the focus of argument should really be on dismissing any claim that voting (in the current system) makes a difference. That being said, I think part of that argument can be composed of “look at the choice that voting has driven us to, genocide or genocide”.
I don’t think EelBolshevikism was saying “you must not vote”. You can criticise the idea of voting as effectively pointless, and still vote PSL for the tiniest mind bogglingly little almost-nothing it will achieve.
I do think it’s important not to concede to any argument that voting in the current system is important in any meaningful way.
I don’t need a supermajority of representatives to say “genocide is bad”. Weird that the Democrats seem to still be unable
Still a fun game that I play time-to-time, just to cheat and go on a round-the-world rampage. There’s something serene about having Classical music play as you blast in every direction with your tank while zoom zooming through a city.
So long as the foundation and the official “owners” of the kernel are US based, then the real answer is “because it’s the law”. Despite the fact the kernel is maintained and used throughout the globe, other countries’ laws are entirely irrelevant, but people who employed in a country are typically held to its laws.
The real mistake was having a registered company in the US that they’re unable to realistically move abroad.
In a world with sense, someone vaguely accountable in a new country will fork the kernel, that just becomes the de facto new kernel, doesn’t seem likely. We can only wait and see.
From that same mail thread:
Moreover, we have to remove any maintainers who come from the following countries or regions, as they are listed in Countries of Particular Concern and are subject to impending sanctions:
- Burma, People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
- Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Comoros, and Vietnam.
For People’s Republic of China, there are about 500 entities that are on the U.S. OFAC SDN / non-SDN lists, especially HUAWEI
Some patches are linked where it looks like they’re trying to remove vast swathes of Chinese maintainers as well. If they insist with being a US lapdog like this then Linux kernel (as maintained by the Foundation/Torvalds etc) is fucking dead, no contest.
This is kind of a necessity of capitalism. There must always be “better” things/activities that the proles can’t have, otherwise what was the point of money? Doesn’t matter if they’re only better by an entirely arbitrary standard, the point is that it must be overly wasteful and consequently too expensive for others.
See: Every car that costs more than like, 10k tops. Utterly wasteful and basically never meaningfully better. But a good social signifier of wealth.
This is the sort of thing I’d really enjoy playing with others in theory, but with strangers I’d just feel too much pressure. Interested in how it goes, though, and how many international communist alliances will be forged.
I love and truly adore a niche Space RTS game called “Star Ruler” that came out 10-odd 14 years ago. With the ‘Galactic Armoury’ mod, it’s so fucking cool. You get to run your empire while designing and build ships of increasing complexity, and eventually insane sizes, custom fleets with a mothership with a repair bay with a big laser (or ten thousand tiny lasers) or you can harvest/blow up a star and eventually you can build giant thrusters on your planets and fly your planets around like they’re spaceships and fill them with rocket silos and shield generators and ugh. The only game I’ve enjoyed to seriously incentivise fundamental tech tree specialisation, too.
Star Ruler 2 had none of that, and made me spend most of my time dealing with a frustrating diplomatic cards system, and it had a decent ship builder, but it just wasn’t the same. It’s probably objectively an okay game, but my disappointment was huge, all I wanted was a better engine, sleeker UI, tighter interfaces, nicer graphics, etc. and it was instead basically just a different game.
I still regularly replay SR1, something about it captures an aspect of my imagination nothing else has.