Zompist Bboard Again

Thanks, hopefully it all goes well

I just sued my... what's the word for padrastro ... stepfather? you know, me mum's guy after she split with me dad. It's a long and truculent story, featuring extensive wage theft, covid laws that allow you to neither fire not pay a worker, violation of said laws, failure to pay legal severance, and...

Now I wonder how bad things will get in Brazil. Talking to a Brazilian person in another forum, it would seem that in many ways it’s a lot less bad than it was in the US: the media is uniformly condemning them as ‘terrorists’, and furthermore the Congress building was completely empty when they sto...

Install Linux, or better yet, a BSD. hahahaha. reminds me of my years of unironically typing windowze . I'm not commited to the cause enough to want to go with BSD, but I have a linux machine at home and I use it for web browsing and coding and so on. It's lovely, but a) for work I need to use SPSS...

Sooo... anyone know of some antivirus that's both free and doesn't spam you every six hours with notifications and ads and stuff? Install Linux, or better yet, a BSD. hahahaha. reminds me of my years of unironically typing windowze . I'm not commited to the cause enough to want to go with BSD, but ...

Sooo... anyone know of some antivirus that's both free and doesn't spam you every six hours with notifications and ads and stuff?

Pretty much, yeah, ancapistan is a theoretical ancap country. Gremialismo, the official deology of the biggest right wing party of Chile, is not far off... except it doesn't leave *everything* to the market: the church, neighbourhood associations and other civil society organizations have an importa...

voting *used* to be compulsory in chile, as one of the various authoritarian enclaves of the political system alongisde, say, pinochet being senator for life, or the military having veto power over the laws. Then, it became voluntary, and we had politics for a while. now it has been made compulsory ...

in more chilean news, recently the politicians passed a law making voting compulsory overall, and the new constitution, according to an agreement between most of the parties which, will be written by a team of 24 "experts" designated by both chambers of parliament, vetted by 14 more such d...

Back to social media, I decided to ditch Twitter and give Mastodon a try. I'm @mathieumri@piaille.fr if you want to say hi. (I'm not terribly active on social media, so there won't be a lot of activity there :)) how's that work? I understand mastodon is like an archipelago of servers, kinda like di...

I understand the rationale of lesser evil voting, i've been doing it for years... but eventually, sometimes, a lesser evil is evil enough that it's not very meaningfully different from a greater evil, except in like controversial-but-not-very-transcendent issues.

just at a glance, I'd expect that -given that this planet have similar general wind patterns as earch, and that's a big if- the southern coast of the Sekheq sea would be rather drier than its northern coast, cause the dominant wind would be, i guess, going from land to sea <as opposed to where you h...

It's convinced me somewhat that perhaps electoral politics is too rigged to be useful. Things happened out of protest, and ceased happening when the votes channeled that energy. But my own conclusion is less expansive. I've run some numbers out of the electoral service (you know, the guys that count...

be thou welcome, good sir, though I remember thee from the days of yore, pickles and tea nontheless

sorry if it was a bit rambly. but yeah, "ancapitstan gives itself the most progressive constitution in the world" is a much better news story than "thanks to fake news et al rich oligarchs win yet again". the germans made a nice headline out of it, though, "people celebrate ...

omg we lost the damned plebiscite wtf happened aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa wacky shit, huh? if you've not been following the chilean process, on sept 4 the chileans w...

Well, sure, after all Elisabeth the Second of England and the First of some other places just died and that didn't remove the unelected (but not authoritarian any more) system in place. But nothing's perfect. There is, though, better and worse. All three people you mentioned no longer being in powe...

Old people are quite able to hold on to power until they're really really old: a good example is the us! of course, no one old person is as central to the government of the us as Putin is to russia. Still, the concept of 'dictatorship' may be misleading here: unlike Franco, Pinochet or Hitler -which...

huuuh... like, again, did I say "ZZZ SLAVA ROSSIYA ONWARD WITH GLORIOUS DENAZIFICATION ZZZ" without realizing it? like, just to clarify: I don't *like* that russia is invading ukraine. the fact that I don't participate in the pro-western cheer-our-troops deluge doesn't mean I'm participati...

I do think of Russia as our enemy; I mean, besides all the rest it's gotten into, it has tried its best at destabilizing my own country, and succeeded. Our politics is now a contest between between the evil and the insane; that's a direct result of ten years of propaganda efforts. I think you're ri...