Notices by keithzg (keithzg@mastodon.club)

@ajroach42 That you absolutely took

@garbados Joe Biden has been trying and failing to become president for so long he's caught the accelerated aging that afflicts presidents just by sheer force of desperation.

@gargron Pshhh, it doesn't ruin anything to know ahead of time that Podrick kills Thanos.

One of the ways package management with shared libraries is way better than how the dystopian mainstream software platforms do things, on normal Linux if a package is 14MB I'm like "whoa that's a big one" while on my phone I think "oh that app is nice and tiny actually"

For all hoping the Dem establishment wouldn't own-goal themselves into another presidential loss in 2020, well, here's the current frontrunner and party favourite:

'"The younger generation now tells me how tough things are—give me a break,” said Biden'
- https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-says-millennials-dont-have-it-tough-780348

As a bonus, it seems clear who they'll blame if/when they lose again.

Question of whether they even *want* to win is salient.

@ink_slinger I know there's at least one active outright communist group, Fightback, and in general if there's gonna be anyone protesting for the right reasons in Alberta it's liable to be in Edmonton!

"Please keep your e’s to a minimum, folks, there are people trying to perform capitalism here." https://linuxwit.ch/blog/2018/12/everything-that-lives-is-designed-to-end/

"Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay."

Fun little Choose Your Own Adventure from The Beaverton: "You’re Jason Kenney. Can you find an excuse to get out of going to Calgary Pride?"

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2017/08/youre-jason-kenney-can-find-excuse-get-going-calgary-pride/

"Back in 2002, rapper and artist Boots Riley appeared on Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect and warned the panel that America was about to ransack the Middle East, turn Afghanistan into a banana republic, and enter a new era of Islamophobia, government surveillance and police brutality. These goofy predictions earned him scorn and ridicule..."
https://jewishcurrents.org/review/sorry-to-bother-you-liberal-america-dont-be-fooled/

I knew our immigration lottery in Canada was kindof fucked up, but . . . wow. https://gizmodo.com/canadas-random-immigration-lottery-uses-microsoft-excel-1826711895

Finally, a properly minimal smartwatch watchface ;)

Hey you know when after the San Bernardino shooting we all figured the FBI and DOJ were cynically following the maxim "never let a crisis go to waste"? Yup that was 100% true. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180327/15444939518/fbi-officials-were-angry-that-iphone-hack-blocked-them-getting-court-to-force-apple-to-break-encryption.shtml

A good synopsis of how modern capital has ridiculously forced the closure of Toys R Us, a profitable company with a ridiculously solid market share: http://www.oafe.net/articulation/1803.php