yeah, but his FBI is now gonna be staffed by animal rapists, so . . .

intending to cross into China

This is simply not true. Source?

After the US had revoked his passport, while he was already in Russia, en route to Ecuador.

oh, did the new rotating villain drop early?

I believe it also includes international airports in the orange area?

that’s completely fair - would labeling then be ideal for you?

Just like a quality architect wouldn’t want to build a house

As someone who actually went to school for that before tech - architects don’t build houses.

You know who does, in the US? Del Webb and other massive builders, who give the lowest common denominator slop because that’s what the economics of the market demand, and the profits of the funding require.

The problem is almost always the power relationships behind the tools - it’s not that the plans are done by CAD or hand that matter.

Sure, but should we then ban any open source that doesn’t run in 10MB or less of memory?

Yeah, exactly.

As someone who has been working on a large open source project for literally years, while trying to support a family, the hardest thing is time to devote to this project (which, absent capitalism, is what I’d spend my life doing).

AI can allow me to instead increase the speed at which I’m delivering the project I’d already architected, designed, and laid out with my other devs. I don’t have the money to pay myself to work on it, much less other devs - and my bank doesn’t take repo stars as mortgage payments unfortunately.

I hate the AI industry - but that’s a problem with the economics, not the tool.

I’m happy to label that my project uses AI assistance, but bans just make me realize that wherever is banning it isn’t more concerned with shipping a solution instead of a crusade against LLMs.

Pity that the entire readme is a wall of generated word salad, apparently aimed at other bots rather than flesh and blood developers.

Sorry, which part is unclear? I’m the main developer on the project, and there’s also a few others that are adding in. The tone problems are probably mine.

There’s also a more concise website - currently moving it to the .org, but you can see it now at https://neighborsgoods.com/

The project has to balance between the very theoretical parts of library socialism as a whole, the ideas of the platform as a whole, and needs of a small library now, so it’s obviously not going to hit any part 100%. But I’m happy to clarify anything - and make sure the text gets updated to be clearer!

Familiar with BuyNothing - actually one of the future projects the platform has is to make adapters to treat BuyNothing groups as another library for federation.

Because, when you think about it, a gift is just a loan that doesn’t expire, so it fits in nicely.

We will have finders for things, we’re still on our first instance for development is why.

As was the tor address at the time

That’s literally what I’m trying to do.

Aren’t you literally voting for them in the general, with your lesser evil strategy?

You’re conflating your strategy with civic engagement, as if that begins and ends with getting the vote out for Kamala.

You seem to have given up on the idea it can be better.

Not at all. I spend much of my time working on developing community projects for food, sharing, and the like - including software to enable those to work together (https://neighborsgoods.com/).

I don’t think things will get better in the US with your strategy - and as I’ve stated multiple times now, it’s because I’ve been a part of that too many times. It is self-contradictory. We see that even here, where you’re telling me you’re voting them out by voting for them.

Please consider what you’re doing, and spend your efforts in a more productive way.

JPOD Don’s Five Year Plan is audacious but it’s working

This is nonsense. You’re claiming that saying, accurately, that Democrats support almost all the same evil positions Republicans do is “discouraging”?

Cool. Vote out the party leadership then.

You seem, like most Democratic loyalists, to think that if you wish really hard, THIS time your lesser evil strategy is going to work. Once again, you’ve been trying it for decades, and THIS is where it has brought you to. The GOP firmly in control of the government, while you continue to lose to an insane game show host.

I’ve told you how you can STOP doing that - and it STARTS with cleaning out the Democratic Party, and you ONLY do that by abandoning your lesser evil nonsense.

We’re done here.

and I can’t stress enough how much that’s a stepping stone and not, or even a significant part of, my whole solution or even what I advocate for

It will NEVER progress is exactly my point. You’ve chosen to always move to the right. The logic of why is not hard to understand.

Should the average person attempt to be more or less engaged with their political systems?

Of course. And that engagement should, in the US, primarily take the form of challenging the Democratic Party leadership as effectively as possible. They’re the largest obstacle to the left currently.

When I was growing up, Russia was the global boogie man

According to who? Americans?

The Soviets had lots of things bad with them. That said, the US was killing millions in Vietnam and Latin America. It just doesn’t compare.

What happens when the US is 100% “republican”?

The same as now? The exact problem is your supposed “lesser evil” strategy has wound up with them controlling all parts of the US government.

We’re like mostly there

Yes, you are.

how do we make this better

You overthrow your government and seize the funds of the rich? At this point, how do you actually think this gets better absent that? You’ve got wealth inequality worse than any other society ever measured, you’re the current leading cause of climate change per capita (maybe 2nd to Canada), you’re in so many wars I doubt you can even name every country you’ve bombed this year . . . .and it’s about to get far, far worse.

if you want my recommendation for what to do personally - yes, get armed, and get ready. Also create dual power systems. Organize, but not just in the failed political realm of the Democratic party. As you’ve seen, they will not do anything even if they have power.

'Get out or get guns" is not a plan I like

Yes, we’ve established that. So, since you don’t like that, your plan is to keep trying the same “vote for lesser evil” plan that’s been failing for decades.

In the face of an dying empire (dying much faster now due to the Iran War), climate change, and the rest.

In my opinion . . .

When the US implodes because every sane person fled, the world will not be better.

Meh, as we’ve seen for a while, the US is a dangerous force against peace. So maybe the chaos being directed inwards instead of outwards for once will be better for the rest of us.

I don’t think anyone is listening to your protest vote

Schroedengir’s leftist - apparently we spoil ever election by not giving the centrist Dems our votes that were promised to them 3,000 years ago. But we’re simultaneously not important enough to actually try to win votes from.

You can support whatever you like - but unless you make your vote conditional upon it, the party isn’t going to listen to you. Why should it? You’re giving them everything you have already - and so they can ignore you to court the (mythical) moderate Republican voter instead.

‘Get out or get guns’ is a reaction, not a plan.

No, it’s literally a plan, just one you don’t like.

The result of Kamala and De La Cruz was exactly the same. 0 EC votes wins just as much of the presidency as anything under 270.

You either pick a side or you don’t vote in a way that matters.

Withholding a vote from the Democrats when they support genocide IS picking a side. And is voting in a way that matters.

I’m really struggling to understand how you’re fighting me on ‘do least bad now; make next choices better’.

Because the former is precluding the latter. Everytime you vote blue no matter who, you broadcast one loud message . . . .“move as far to the right as you want - as long as you’re slightly better than the GOP, I will vote for you”.

Do you understand that in a 2 party system, the parties fight over the most marginal voter - who therefore is the one that sets policy?