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This reminds me of the whole privatisation vs nationalisation debates in the UK. Labour claimed when it nationalised the railways and other parts of the economy it was giving them "back to the pe…

I think there's degrees of democracy. There's the directly democratic model at one end and "not hidden away in a black box at $mega_corp" on the other. You can be in favour of demo…

What's wrong with both? A true democratisation of this kind of model would involve both an offline model for those with the resources to support such a thing as well as many different people host…

I cannot accept a policy where people are imprisoned within their borders and not allowed to leave as ethical. Free countries don't have laws to stop people escaping, and there's no threat o…

This isn't a partisan thing, the liberal/authoritarian axis is independent from the collectivist/individualist axis. I'm against authoritarianism full stop , I don't care abo…

The only power that’s safe from abuse by an errant politician is one that politicians as a category aren’t allowed to wield to begin with. I think the best guiding principle for government is to ask …

The only thing I find cringeworthy is people who revel in “Covid Culture”, making a deliberate spectacle of what a good, compliant, obedient individual they are and what awful crimethinking, irrespons…

This is why I’m an anti-authoritarian first and a democrat second. Civil liberties are more important than democracy, they’re worth too much to let the masses throw them in the bin at the first scent …

I'm using Firefox as the sole browser on a 2015 MacBook Pro, can't complain at all about the battery life even on that clapped out old battery.

This is just a long-winded way of saying $my_team good, $your_team bad. In my experience anyone who identifies primarily with a political party rather than a political philosophy is far more likel…

If we must live in a cyberpunk dystopia, I wish we could at least get sci-fi style "holographic" displays as a consolation prize.

I agree. The fact ProtonMail exists in a world that's pretty hostile to individual privacy is hardly their fault, I think they were pretty good at explaining what their limits are compared to a l…

Sorry, I should have wrote that one out! You're correct, it's the Royal Air Force.

The depressing reality is that your average person on the street couldn't care less. I've tried bringing it up to friends and family in the least evangelical way I can, and the most common r…

>It’s more efficient to launch satellites near the equator Perhaps one day from the very appropriately named Ascension Island? It would be pricy to ship things out there, but it's had an RAF p…

I suppose all problems of this world are caused by quantum mechanics in a sense.

>Vilification of the rich for being rich is much less old The idea of struggle between the lowly commoners and the powerful elites goes back to at least the Roman Republic if not even further. htt…

I think more people complain about the implementation of the GDPR rather than its aims and philosophy. Those cookie popups for example are an absolute UX plague, anyone who'd heard the words &quo…

Reminds me of hearing about how Crash Bandicoot was developed, as well as being something of a masterpiece in itself they successfully debugged an issue that caused the memory card to get corrupted …

You mean like the American citizen who ran down and killed a British teenager and will never face anything remotely close to justice for it? I’m usually quite an Atlanticist but even I think these ext…

I once saw an entire political debate about Welsh independence play out in graffiti on a pub wall. I certainly hope if it happens they’ll allow rump UK citizens to live and work there as Ireland did u…

Judging by yours and the sibling comments it would appear that my research into the subject of mechanical keyboards a couple of years ago was somewhat lacking!

Finding a good Mac-layout mechanical keyboard that I liked was a total chore, I eventually got the Vinpok Taptek which I'm really pleased with but I can't find replacement keycaps for the li…

I agree although having said I think there's one exception to this rule which is Kotlin, I use it a lot but I've never heard of a dedicated Kotlin hater or evangelist.

The kind of fossil fuels used by modern ships still aren't great from a climate change perspective though, which is usually the motivation for not flying. Having said that I expect it'd stil…