Mayhaps, but you can also do this:

sudo chown me /usr/lib

Owned the Libs 👈😎👈

(doesn’t ‘usr’ mean ‘universally shared resources’?)

(also Boureoisie is hard as fuck to spell)

So I used editing to turn the wildebeest into a Nazi. Now I’m glad that it’s dead

Nah the right has one or three pet billionaires they outright worship.

Darn, you beat me to it.

Gimme that papayussy

Been a long time since last I’ve seen a good honest Snafu

I guess it does feel like 2016 in here with neofascists on their way back to power in the US and all that.

One mostly exports the genocide to the third world

The other wants to bring it home.

I make a point to just not open any thread that mentions US Politics.

Clairvoyance and kids shouldn’t mix

There’s that whole “children of Dune” book that tells us why.

The thing is

“The law says it has to happen” doesn’t mean it happens.

And the weaker labour protections are in your country, the more bosses can walk all over their employees.

In the US, with their so-called “at-will” employment system, you can be fired at any time for any reason, and if you need the job to like, live, you won’t even bring up your legal rights.

Mind you even on countries where polling happens exclusively on Sunday (like mine!) there are other subtle ways The Poors ^tm are kept from enfranchisement. “Voting happens on a work day” is just one of the ways it happens in one of our world’s oligarchies.

It really depends on how much you need that job to like

Not be homeless

And how hard it was to get the job in the first place.

You can make your legal rights count if you have options.

If you don’t, you let your boss walk all over you and thank them for it.

Because they don’t want the workers voting.

If you “can’t go to the ballot because you need to work” you are a plebeian, and so they have a way of excluding you while technically not excluding you.

A lot of modern oligarchy is powered by these technicalities. Technically everyone has a “right to” participate in the system, but the whole apparatus is rigged in such a way that in material reality only the same nobility caste that has called the shots since the bronze fucking age gets to call the shots.

I feel like Microsoft fully intends to remove the TPM 2.0 requirement in the nearish future

Otherwise it wouldn’t be so easy to disable when writing an iso to a USB drive.

Looking at it from a capitalistic point of view, they gain nothing by keeping people from installing their OS on the long term, the lock out was just for the short-term gains they got out of OEMs selling new computers for Windows 11 and such.

Golfussy

Opponent

Reposter is still OP, as they are the original poster of this thread

Creator of the OC is OOP, Original-OP, as they were the original poster of the OC

I learned some years ago that Rand wrote erotica before she wrote ““philosophy””

Then I read some of her porn. And everything clicked.

She let her self-indulgent porn fantasies leak into her philosophy, that’s all.

You got any idea how easy it is for those with power to convince a few thousand suckers to defend their evil interests, WHILE genuinely believing they’re doing the right thing? That’s like 90% of content on social media.