I’ve never heard of communism being an economic framework before, I thought it just meant a system without capitalism or a state. Do you have something short I could read about communism being an economic framework?

Well, you already got them aplenty, so why not go all the way? Maybe people’l change their mind!

Afaict there is no definitive proof or conviction of SA. All evidence available comes from Pieke and exurb1a doesn’t seem to want to publicly engage with the accusations. Here is a third perspective that covers the most relevant pieces of evidence. It looks bad for exurb1a and the evidence to me seems to show some level of manipulation and drug-related bad behavior on his part, but as always, for any severe accusation, it is good to trust victims, but one should also withhold definitive judgement on the accused until proven guilty (either by undeniable evidence or legal proceeding).

I would agree if ads were the only sustainable way to fund content on the internet. They’re not. Direct fractional funding should be the universally accepted scheme and until companies figure that out, adblock all the way!

You are literally the kind of liberal smuglord this meme is about.

Forgive me, but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to engage in some liberal smuglordery :P

I want a society where the capitalist class is abolished, so that it no longer leeches off the labor of the working class.

Very cool goal! I wish you luck. However, to achieve your goals you must be rational and pragmatic. The situation in the context of this thread is thus: we have for-profit company Framework making laptops that are highly repairable, friendly to third party mods, and open source software (all things I hope we all agree are “good”). We also have the rest of the industry, most of which are also for-profit which does not do these things. I view the rhetorically pragmatic choice here, given the assumption that Framework contributes to some higher individual utility compared to anything else, is to support their mission, as opposed to dissing them as that in theory may put people off and they may stay with the less ethical companies instead. Or start your own laptop company that’s even better than framework and then diss them ;)

Haven’t used micro since I discovered vim!

And use secure open source ROMs!

And the days go by!

It is one of the rules I think, the 34th?

The plot though, its got plot!

Was that J.J. McCullough?

Holy Satan!