… I think they usually do have a coffee shop.

My theory is that they realized it was going to happen whether they liked it or not, and going along with it seemed more profitable than trying to fight it in court.

she uses her comic as a front for her OnlyFans.

I haven’t really decided how I feel about this. Is it legit? I could see either opinion. It certainly drives her to make whatever comics that appeal to the masses. They function as an advertisement, and I know how I feel about advertisements.

If I’m curating something that I’d publish, there’s no way in hell I’d include her stuff. Banning it from a platform is a number of steps farther than that, though.

Artists need to make money, and there are certainly projects I appreciate where I’d encourage the artist’s method of making money. Where to find the line between the art as advertising for money and the money as funding for the art is an interesting discussion. You can absolutely tell in her case, but she shows that the line is blurry.

That was the norm for the past century. The norm for centuries before that was that the King could fuck whoever he likes, metaphorically or literally, for any reason.

They’re bringing back old norms.

Kind of. There was a reason to create the grand jury concept in the first place.

This is one of those guardrails that’s holding… so far.

Which is the whole point of grand juries.

We’ve gone for a century with prosecutors being afraid to test the grand jury because it’s embarrassing to miss and mostly pointless.

Now we’re seeking out fake prosecutors who don’t give a fuck.

I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.

It’d be a public service in more ways than one.

5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.

Sometimes they can, sometimes they can’t. It’s always a race.

Most likely the kids did this because it’s edgy, not because they’re really hardcore into Nazi ideology.

These kids know what the Holocaust was. Someone should explain to them that it’s coming back. For a few people, it’s already here, but it’s coming for more. They need to be sat down for a real history lesson. And they need to understand that there is very little in the way of the world repeating that history, or worse.

They should understand that they need to be more worried if they don’t get in much trouble, not less. They need to understand how jokes and pranks provide cover and acceptance for these kinds of things. They need to understand that their jokes are not actually harmless, because they pave the way for people to actually believe and do these things while believing they’ll have a group that accepts them for it.

And hopefully, on top of all that, they’ll still see some kind of punishment. Not enough to ruin their lives, because they are dumb kids being dumb, but enough to discourage this from spreading.

Is it, though?

I don’t even think it’s intended to be about that. I don’t think it’s that deep.

I think it’s just, “they always ask this question, no matter what.”

I like how we said the same thing, but I got downvoted for it because I didn’t bury the lede.

I don’t think I can get away from Windows, as a professional .NET developer

Because you have to use VS Code instead of VS? You can always deploy to a Windows VM if you need to be sure IIS works. Though everything will just run on dotnet and nginx through a reverse proxy if you want to stay within Linux.

They’re not trying to. They’re mostly trying to replace the need for wages and salaries.

The fact that they’re doing it with effectively “we have wage slaves at home” leads to your point.

AI can be a great tool. As an assistant. As a fancy search engine. And sometimes to do the most menial parts of jobs. But it doesn’t directly replace people. Even in the case of taking fast food orders, first that’s not a whole job, and second, it still needs supervision. It’s a tool.

anti-China and anti-Russia

Uh huh. Yeah okay.

We’ve had enough projection for a lifetime this decade.

Remember r/reddit ?

Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.

Probably more of the motivation than the listed offense.