There’s the joke-joke that inflation caused price of buying elections to skyrocket, and then there’s just that inflation is so bad that 60m in ads cant save you

Double-entendre even, nice

You’ve met me at a very Chinese time in my life

Nokia CEO statement doesn’t really matter…

Yeah as a Dane, (different from dutch above) mobile’s usually between €8-15, we do have plans that go higher, but 4G 30GB per month I figure is pretty survivable unless it’s your only net (mine’s 10GB :P)

hundreds of dollars per year? That’s how much a carrier is over there??

Violence isn’t the answer!

The answer is… checks history book

wait not that one… starts flipping pages

uhh if you hang on a second uhh furious page-flipping

Well, the propaganda seems to be working into the Always Online so I think it’s best trying to plant the seeds before that anyway

Absolutely stunning background work, what the hey

My parents had some of the ancient ubuntu (or ubuntu based?) distros that they let me play with, I myself tried Manjaro in 2017 for a month (very scuffed back then), and then full Arch Linux since March or Apr 2021

Haven’t bothered switching since, but if I did, I’m lightly curious on the NixOS hype. Why yes, I just installed Arch Linux for the archbtw, but also it feels like it just works for me at this point (yknow, till the next fuckup akin to the grub2 fiasco)

e: yeah i flipflop

I empathize a bit, but it’s not like democrats haven’t been getting more leftward either.

The truth is though that ultimately, politicians are gonna be malleable to those who are going to vote, both because of the very simple “if I focus here, I will be more likely to get the most votes while providing due change”, but also because the idea of democracy is based in the trust that publics will emerge to voice their concerns to the politicians.

Most politicians are just not online enough to gather the discourse that we would be experiencing, and also there’s the whole issue of not knowing how much of it is foreign interference in a trench-suit pretending to be the voices of the locals. That’s why direct calls to voicing these concerns to local politicians, and being willing to hear them out as much as they hear you out matters a lot. Some do forget over the years, but a lot join politics because they genuinely want to make life better.