This can be applied to anything, but the quote as I read it in a book by Piers Anthony (I know, gross, I was in middle school), was:

Power is a means to an end. Don’t let the means become the end.

I often think of it as:

Money is a means to an end. Don’t let the means become the end.

This is the way.

Most of the “militias” support this tyranny. They’re celebrating

WAT?

Having to work to develop treatment is one thing. Actively ignoring the existence of HIV/AIDS and just letting people die is an entirely different thing. Reagan was a piece of shit.

Vibe coding is a hilarious term for this too. As if it’s not just letting AI write your code.

We did the same. Amazon can get fucked.

Right! I’m having a blast with my server.

100% this. Why would I go back to another centralized corpo line must go up service that will inevitably enshittify when we got lemmy right here?

Careful with that you though. I thought the same thing but someone pointed out in another thread that depending on your system, it may update the firmware over USB when you do system updates.

Shit. I didn’t even think of that. I’m using fedora. Tomorrow I’ll be blocking firmware updates for the printer. Thank you for pointing that out.

Glad I’ve got an Brother laser that has no network connectivity.

FBI can fuck right off.

Also using joplin. It’s pretty great

Edit: Fixed Joplin, fucking autocorrect

Isn’t this all a simulation anyway???

Seriously though, I do know several people IRL that are Lemmy users.

Edit: nvm, found the comment with the link.

Where can I get some?

I feel like by the time Trump and Elon and the project 2025 gang have finished having their way with the government there won’t be any demand for COBOL or FORTRAN. It’ll all have been burned down to the ground.

Edit: Fixed twatboy’s name.

The masks are off. Fucking fascist racist pieces of shit

Yeah. I just can’t with this fucking timeline.

What the actual fuck.