re: eupol, violence against immigrants@0x4d6165 human history is a bit bleak in some respects. we can only do what we can to improve things going forward.
@0x4d6165 can concur as a european- our country has been pushing billions into supporting immigrants after years of neglecting its existing citizens, and now a bunch of weird racists have pushed the narrative that those two things are somehow related. the discourse around immigration here is a cognitohazard.
like, no, our government sucked long before we started taking in refugees. read a book
@alice@julia not the angle i was going for; apologies if it came off that way! i'm not applying moral judgement to what you do with your own money- the economy is in shambles and you are within your right to spend it how you want. i'm just saying it's also not gonna solve the problem in the way you want. my argument is purely practical. take that as you will!
nazi government takeover society molded by corporations for corporations home of the planet is on fucking fire in america if you are transgender they confiscate your passport
@alice@julia beyond reaching out and/or contributing directly to development, not necessarily!
i wasn't necessarily telling you "don't do this", either. if you don't like where the project's going, you're absolutely within your right to pull support.
but FOSS doesn't work like publicly traded companies. it never has. if income goes down enough, there isn't a bailout, there isn't course correction- the project just dies.
@alice@julia do what with you like with your money, but please be mindful that you aren't exactly incentivising the developer to turn down AI in the future
@BetaRays so, kinda sounds like linux 5-10 years ago on laptops! that gives me some hope though- linux had to go through those awful growing pains before becoming the lovely desktop environment it is today :3
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