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[–] foo@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. FUD is what the opposition use to keep the revolution from happening, to prevent those who want to see change from believing it will work.

And as for accepting others, that's another big hurdle to overcome. People need to put aside their differences to work towards a common goal, and for that there needs to be organised energetic leadership. Something else that the opposition tries to prevent.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

According to this article, non-violent protests are even more effective than violent ones. Mobilise 3.5% of the population at once and you're free. If any Americans try it, let me know how it goes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

[–] foo@feddit.uk 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The way Mastodon and federated stuff works, it's a shame more organisations don't host their own Mastodon instances for their official announcements instead of Xitter and Facebook. They don't really take that much admin as only employees would need accounts to post. The BBC is trialling this I believe.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

At the other end of the spectrum, Colgate sell battery powered brushes for kids with non-replaceable heads. When the head wears out you have to scrap the whole device. I wrote to Colgate (Palmolive) via their website and got a crappy canned response about how they are responsible and the environment is important to them blah blah blah.

https://www.colgate.com/en-gb/products/toothbrush/colgate-kids-minions-extra-soft-for-0-3-years

Edit: I know they're not European either. I just wanted to call them out for how unsustainable they are compared to some others.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

More hate leads to more wars, and we could do with less of those in the world. If you hate them, and brand them your enemy, you push them further away.

Be better than them. Be stronger than them. Educate them and show them how to improve. It's harder than hating them but ultimately more productive. Hate is easy.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The OP was about an email account being deleted. It said nothing about Greenland.

I'm just trying to quell the hate speech. Hating a whole country because it's idiot leader says and does stupid things will only lead to bad things.

Using words like "enemy" and other hateful things about various countries and groups was how Trump energised and mislead people to vote for him. By meeting it with more hate we just make it worse. Surely we are better than this? The world has enough hate already without adding to it.

By all means, deride the actions of a madman and his puppet corporations, but to hate an entire country will just make this worse.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Here's a quote with equal relevance:

"When did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?"

... And by "equal relevance" I mean not at all.

Seriously though, a corporation cancelled the account of someone who should never have been using it for official business in the first place. More reason to be less reliant on US corporate services and develop open European alternatives. But, terms like "enemy" over this? I thought we were better than that. That's MAGA level escalation and hatred.

Let's rise above this.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago

The most recent info I can find (2020) is that he's using a Threadripper. I daresay he might have upgraded it by now, but it should give an idea what he goes after. There are a few links from reputable sources around that time, here's one.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/

[–] foo@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I use Shotcut for video editing. Haven't seen that mentioned here yet.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Same here. Running NixOS on mine, and despite not being officially supported they have pretty good channels on their forums and the staff are quite active on there too.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've only done a quick web search, but Anker don't appear to be European.

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