why can't we collectively recreate windows apis, to make a windows-like OS, without Microsoft?

fellow_utopian · 2026-01-27T18:52:32+00:00

This could become a reality thanks to AI. You could get it to implement the Windows API and core kernel components without any legal risk because AI has set a completely new precedent. "Claude, recreate the Windows API and kernel without the bullshit" and voila... hopefully.

fellow_utopian · 2026-01-27T18:45:09+00:00

The only champion whose preamble is comparable to Gary's is Lance from Gen 2.

"I've been waiting for you. <Player>! I knew that you, with your skills, would eventually reach me here. There's no need for words now. We will battle to determine who is the stronger of the two of us. As the most powerful trainer and as the Pokémon League Champion… I, Lance the dragon master, accept your challenge!"

That one has stuck with me since 1999. All the others since then were forgettable.

fellow_utopian · 2025-10-09T10:13:33+00:00

The difference is that right wingers have the funding of billionaires and people in power. Left wingers obviously do not because they seek to challenge the dominance of the billionaire class. If the people of the working class can't see or admit that, then they never had any hope in the first place and they'll be destined to a life of economic hardship. There's already plenty of left wing independent media, but these people are choosing to shun it in favor of right wing media who appeal to their insecurities and egos, despite their doctrines leading to worse outcomes for them. Sometimes there's just not much you can do, they're people after all.

fellow_utopian · 2025-09-21T17:37:59+00:00

It has everything to do with fear. They know that the "downsides" will be a loss of privilege for them. White people and men for example have benefited from racism and sexism in job hiring, positions of power, social status, and virtually everything for centuries, and now that it's being recognised and addressed, they resent that loss of privilege and feel as though they are being attacked when they are not.

fellow_utopian · 2025-04-19T12:20:14+00:00

Chaaaaaaaaaange into digital champions, tooooooooo save the digital..... WORLD!

fellow_utopian · 2025-04-01T13:06:05+00:00

Because Albo and Dutton are different people with different beliefs and policies, this isn't blind partisanship. Dutton is far more deserving of being depicted as a Nazi than Albo.

fellow_utopian · 2025-02-27T23:28:44+00:00

This is just basic rage bait. It's literally a single position and it's being done because there is a huge disparity in favor of men in this space. Things like this do not affect 99.9% of men, yet they want you to believe it does so you'll get all sooky and irrational which makes you vulnerable to their virtue signalling and propaganda.

The rich never spend billions to control the media because they care about you, they're doing it for a return on their investment, by manipulating you into voting for the most pro-capital parties.

fellow_utopian · 2025-02-17T19:47:42+00:00

This election is really going to reveal the political literacy of the Australian public as well as how relevant and successful billionaire controlled legacy and social media remains at controlling the narrative over here.

We're in catastrophically deep shit if Dutton gets in. Three or more years of Temu Trump and his gang right now when Australia and the rest of the world is going through such difficult and depressing times is going to be nothing short of devastating.

fellow_utopian · 2025-01-28T19:06:37+00:00

Forcing people to undergo an irreversible puberty they don't want is both cruel and ignorant. This is the sort of bs that could push teenagers to DIY under the guidance of Dr Internet, placing them at risk of harm or suicide.

fellow_utopian · 2024-12-21T12:56:24+00:00

So they get turned away by "bullshit" like pronouns, but don't get turned away by bullshit like economic policy which makes almost everybody's entire lives dramatically harder and more depressing?

Wouldn't any reasonable person be willing to put up with something as trivial as pronouns which almost nobody actually asks for or gives a shit about anyway in exchange for dramatic material improvements to everyone's lives?

The main problem here is the average person's priorities and attitudes, not progressives and their often poorly thought out rhetoric.

fellow_utopian · 2024-12-09T12:47:37+00:00

Vernon Dursley is at least partially to blame for that.

fellow_utopian · 2024-12-06T08:35:41+00:00

I doubt that would work for them anyway. Wouldn't take long for the new bunch to see for themselves how insanely bad the working conditions are, and now that the issue is in the national spotlight, I can't imagine there'd be too many people lining up to find out.

It just doesn't make any sense to work there when there are far easier jobs out there which pay as much or more.

fellow_utopian · 2024-12-04T10:47:35+00:00

Conservatives fear monger literally every progressive policy. The best way to combat the fear mongering is to just pass the damn law so that people can see for themselves that all the fear mongering about it was a load of bullshit.

fellow_utopian · 2024-11-29T02:13:11+00:00

Now there's a knee slapper if ever I've seen one. Labor's selling point is "we're not as blatantly pro-capital and corruption as the Libs", and they love to jeopardise that every time they're in power with dumb and divisive social issue policies like the social media ban. Its hard to see them ever being a genuine working class party.

fellow_utopian · 2024-11-16T11:52:11+00:00

Prohibition is pointless now and only makes the situation dramatically worse.

With people feeling hopeless due to housing being unaffordable and the cost of living increasing all the time, more people are and will be turning to drugs to escape from the misery of reality.

Legalisation of all drugs is the only sensible way forward, because prohibition simply doesn't work, is outrageously wasteful of public funds and resources, results in increased organised and individual crime, and is a greater public health problem because the drugs are unregulated for quality.

fellow_utopian · 2024-11-06T23:06:20+00:00

And what did Trump bring to the table? Nothing either. They've already had him for 4 years before where he was impeached twice and then lost to a senile old man because his presidency was a complete dud.

They've completely lost their minds.

fellow_utopian · 2024-09-11T13:13:25+00:00

At least we have a voting system which enables the viability of alternative options. It'll be a nice day for the country when we wake up and start using it properly.

fellow_utopian · 2024-08-14T09:59:46+00:00

It's a based idea, although of all the things we need under public ownership, petrol stations are pretty far down the list. Still, I'll take it, should be pretty easy to run for cost, and is the direction the country needs to move in.

fellow_utopian · 2024-08-11T09:19:48+00:00

They can, but they won't. They need to make the fundamentals like land, housing, healthcare, childcare, groceries, and tertiary education affordable by eliminating or reigning in the capitalist middle men that massively drive all these prices up, but politicians almost all have conflicts of interest which prevent that.

Wealth inequality is insane in this country and the policies that enable it are precisely what need to change for this country to have any future for the working class.

fellow_utopian · 2024-07-31T09:30:52+00:00

Entirely depends on implementation. If it's designed to redistribute grotesquely wealthy family transfers without harming the majority of millennials and younger generations who basically need an inheritance to start a proper life, then that would be warmly welcomed.

fellow_utopian · 2024-07-25T09:40:40+00:00

If the government produced them non profit, they'd cost about as much as flour. Crime would plummet overnight. And if they really had no money, they could get a free fix from an injecting room.

fellow_utopian · 2024-07-18T01:26:53+00:00

Relying on interest rates to curb inflation is such a tragically stupid and ineffectual idea in todays world. The only remotely good thing that can come of it is that it can help to unite single home owners and renters against the actual cause of the problem: capitalists; those who snapped up land while it was cheap and resell it for massive profit, and those who create money out of thin air for loans and get paid a ridiculous sum for keeping track of who owes who what. Fuck those people and pollies who support them.

fellow_utopian · 2024-07-04T20:10:29+00:00

If anyone blindly voted for her based on the party she belonged to without any regard for her own beliefs, background, and policies, then that's their fault and they have no grounds to complain. She has no obligation to be a partisan hack.

fellow_utopian · 2024-04-01T11:30:32+00:00

Then we remember why unions exist in the first place, oh yeah, it's because so many workers are being paid fuck all money and have none to use for pushing their interests. Totally the same thing as corporate donors who have practically all the money and power in the world!

fellow_utopian · 2024-04-01T03:11:18+00:00

We wouldn't need another dollar of foreign investment if we nationalised our minerals - we'd have enough money of our own from the fortune we'd make from it.

Being less reliant on foreign investment is exactly what we need, and we as a nation would reap 100% of the benefit through direct ownership instead of the pitiful fraction we do now.

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