punksnotdead

On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.

There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

• 1984, George Orwell

In my eyes a mandatory read for anybody opposed to authoritarianism.

Available here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

All they've got is Diamonds And Rust

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah

https://youtu.be/LQUXuQ6Zd9w

136 upvotes to 6 downvotes for a piece of shit like The Telegraph and a bullshit divisionary piece? I thought Lemmy was better than this

He lost, it's been generating power since 2018! 😄

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Offshore_Wind_Deployment_Centre#Objections

I think you're forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professional environments are to adopt it.

Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.

Don't let perfect get in the way of good!

What does this mean?

Originally I thought you meant 2 million out of 15 million people but Turkey's population is 86 million

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Inches closer every day

The good news, if you can call it good news, is that Trump and co are so evil, and incompetent, that it's waking people up to the awful system they live under.

Harris and The Democrats would've been able to continue with business as usual and nothing would change. At least now there's some hope of a left surge in the wake of all this right wing hatred, pain, and suffering

The head of the security service isn't just a meathead bit of heavy muscle there to jump in front of a bullet.

Martial law also isn't some obscure policy, it's an internationally understood term that replaces the democratic civilian parliament with military rule.

This is definitely something someone in his position should be very aware of and should be willing to do something about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law