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crownoseyon The EARN IT bill is back. We've killed it twice, let's do it again

That branch of libertarianism would back down immediately if only the NSA were incorporated like the NRA

crownoseyon The EV Transition Is Harder Than Anyone Thinks

the transition to gasoline was hard too but it was forced through as a way for Pacific/Standard Oil to make a killing (of people who's land they were digging up)

crownoseyon Microsoft's Software Is Malware

Like tech bros who colonised the terra nullus of the work previously done by hidden figures then?

> proportion of women represented in the computer science field peaked around the mid-1980s and has declined ever since

crownoseyon Microsoft's Software Is Malware

I thought bigotry was scapegoating a minority group because of the actions of a few members.

Do you value the time and quality of life of the billions who can't drive a Chevy, nor will ever have a device that can run an Electron app or $10/month for Spotify?

It's not all free as in beer you know, free software is meant to serve a free society by allowing everyone to participate in the social construction of technology, not provide consumer luxuries. I think the term you're looking for is "open source"

crownoseyon Microsoft's Software Is Malware

Morally they are, not a popular point in the desert of instrumental rationality