Ban spears, knives, pipes, cars, fertilizer, aluminum, bows, blowguns, poison, fists.

Or, just run a decent society where nobody feels opressed, and has no desire to lash out.

Tax the billionaires out of their billions, or put a tight leash on everyone to allow the billionaires to become trillionaires. Which is it?

Let’s not forget how Gavin Newsom vetoed universal healthcare in California. Also, Gavin Newsom gave prepaid phones to a bunch of CEOs and told them to call him if the CEOs need anything. Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/18/newsom-ceos-burner-phones-00235044

They will need to ban breathing while poor soon the way they are going.

Can’t ban your way out of the greatest wealth inequality since the Great Depression. But they will try, won’t they?

Has anyone tried a Murena (/e/os) phone?

I am thinking about it.

Linux is way more similar and familiar than you likely imagine.

Of course, learning is inevitable going to Linux for the first time. But learning is not scary or bad. There are helpful docs and the community. Everyone here was once where you are now.

Also, try Linux risk-free on Windows in a virtual machine.

Next you can dual boot.

Next, you can resort to running Windows apps via Wine and other virtual evironments.

And only last but not least, can you go 100% pure Linux.

So there is a gentle and gradual migration path available. It’s not an all or nothing commitment right upfront.

You only have your chains to lose.

The irony is that Google uses FOSS software in a huge way since its founding.

Free and Open Source Software for me, but not for thee, Europe.

Fuck Google’s hypocrisy. And fuck Google/Alphabet.

Never forget for a second that it is because of the billionares, free market fundamentalism, private property fetishism, wealth consolidationism/royalism, that the ICE exists (and many other bad agencies).

They want us angry at ICE while the consolidationists are trying to convert the world to rent-only slavery, because they want to be trillionaires and make the line go up forever, no matter what.

Every time I see “ICE” I think fuck all the billionaires.

If only instead of each one micromanaging our purchases there could be a system set up to thwart the bad corporate behavior in a broad and systemic way, with the dedicated pros doing oversight professionally.

If the billionaires are hard to target, their help will be easier. Once people learn that associating with the billionaires can be bad for one’s health, two things will happen:

1. Less available help.
2. Much more expensive and much more short term help, to make the risk/reward sensible. If I can work for a month doing risky bodyguard duty for a fascist scumbag and get paid 20 mil, if nothing bad happens to me in that month, I am set for life. That kind of calculus can work up to a point. Just imagine managing this process tho, lol, looking for risk-hungry new fools every month. Not fun, not good for the morale.

We can make shit that wears out after a week of use. Then we need an endless amount of shit.

Powerless?

Or is it learned helplessness?

They tend to hire body guards.

A saying I love about this:

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

The bigger the asset, the more sacrosanct are that asset’s interests.

That is a system of nearly unlimited milking of anyone who is not themselves represented through a multi-hundred billion dollar asset.

Fighting this in the business or legal arena is a complete waste of time. Those battlefields are favorable to the biggest assets.

And fixing this problem is going to require a similar attitude from the people tired of this.

We need to rep our interests as ruthlessly and as sophisticatedly as our enemies.

Whatever the current “administration” billionaires touches turns to shit, dies, and rots.

FTFY

That’s one of the problems.

The other problem is that the billionaires want to use AI to make censorship and kill decisions (see Palantir) to lock up their olygarchy.

It’s winter here, and I wear two or three layers with a sweater on top, because I am saving electricity.

We’ll have ourselves our first trillionaire, and silly me hates all the people with 500mil+ net worth, and their bootlickers.

My point is that what you are saying is simply a convention that for most of us made sense for a long time.

I contend there do exist conditions under which that convention goes away. And at bottom we are all capable of violence.

Doesn’t triangulation depend on an antenna that broadcasts 360°?

If the signal is silent in most of the space most of the time, it won’t be easy to find.

Let’s say it transmits a directed 5° beam to 278° for 1 sec, then random seconds later to 96° for a sec, then after a random interval a beam to 28°, that won’t be fun to look for. Then after an hour of this it rests for 5 (also randomized) hours, while a different transmitter elsewhere takes over.

Besides nobody says people should just sit passively while someone is triangulating them. We have been damn obedient all this time because we believed in the system. What if that belief goes away? Is everyone going to just volunteer obedience? Even if only a few break the norms, while the majority supports those resisters, at some point it will be too costly for the olygarchs to keep raping their way to trillions damned be the bottom 99.9%. The fucks have been ruling us on the back of a buy in from us. Only.

Not if Elmo owns all the sattelites, then it won’t be the Internet.

Nobody has a monopoly on violence.

Might does not make right. But might does make policy.

The good people need wisdom and might, both. Then we will set policy and it won’t suck.

The world has to work for all its denizens and not just for the “top” (only in some sense, not in every sense) 0.01%.

I don’t want to build a gallows from which I myself will be hanged. I am not a masochist. I don’t hate myself.