Retrospectively, wasn't a lot of the space-exploration-based SciFi from the 50s 60s 70s serving the purpose of justifying massive government spendings in big rockets, mainly used to build ICBMs, to justify imperialist policies and the cold war?
were we (the scifi afficionados) the useful idiots of this missile race?
yeah you need to know the password or secret handshake (like a protocol handshake) to be let in! :)
US government: “Make us an app that people can use so we are the only ones accessing their meta-data.” Developer: makes Signal US Government: 👍
PInephone! A bit of work, requiring to not being shy opening the hood of a linux system. but totally worth it, the reward is freedom and its continuous cycle of collective learning...
(although the Pinephone is not really a "smartphone" in the sense most people use that word: a restricted computer that allows to run wallgarden applications.... a pinephone doesnt natively run "smartphone apps" and is more like a full-blown, general purpose computer running GNU/linux that also contains a modem enabling calls, sms and data...)
It may have traces of "Linux" but it's not GNU/Linux, or any other flavour of Linux that is free-as-freedom.
Having a free software kernel base (heavily patched with proprietary extensions, drivers, blobs etc.) in the middle of a close environment is like saying that one is having "some freedom" within the confined space of a prison cell...
Linux phones r0x! long live to the pinephone and postmarketOS! :)
I understand your point of view... I hear that your intention wasnt to provoke or to encourage hatred.
Yet, the very notion that there would be "races" here is err.. a very definition of "racism" (ie. who sees things according to supposed "races")... there is one race, the Human kind... the rest is physical differences.
So somehow, inevitably, making jokes based on these physical differences, on sorting people (even jokingly) according to them (especially implying that there would be a "good" configuration for the, and another that would remind a state that everyone has experience, the last step of a cube where "omg omg i am almost there!!!" feeling so good as something that inevitably needs fixing...) is further re-inforcing discriminatory mechanisms.
Imagine that you would see an image that would make you say "there are 4 skinnies and 4 fatties on that (virtual) picture" -> if your conception of the world, if your way of looking at things is to see "skinnies" on one side, and "fatties" on the other, if you call them that and sort them according to that, well it's a discrimination based on physicail aspects.. isn't it?
whether it bears a name ("fatism"?) or not doesnt matter so much as how it is a way of looking at people and at the world, that in turns can bring about further simplifications, de-humanization (if someone is "a fatty" or "a xxxx" they often are less than just "a person"), discriminations, and as history showed, often violence...
Does it make any sense to you?
thanks :)
can I just ask this: do you see or not a racist undertone to this image? (i am not trying to entrap or judge your or anything, it's just curiosity)
I am glad to be part of such a cool anti-racist bunch! :)
well maybe people don't like racist crap?
go figure...
When people make a joke about a name in a different language than theirs, based on not being able to pronounce it correctly, is it just stupidity, or stupidity AND racism?
(i guess answer depends on whether or not the different language is spoken by a minority in the space stupid people make that joke?)