That’s almost certainly going to be the only pathway forward. If his PD is worth anything (almost certainly not), they will fully utilize the public support for Luigi and hire the best legal defense team money can buy.

Surely there has got to be an alternative

Doesn’t even look like the same guy.

Not necessarily disagreeing with those stipulations, because sure, there is ways around those things.

However the point is that we know the ways they track down people fairly well, so there is no value to such a trial.

Just don’t use it by name, that is potential grounds for a mistrial.

The goal is to doubt everything the pigs say, because they’re corrupt as fuck.

Place doubt on evidence, on motivations, on testimony. Make it clear that there is insufficient evidence.

But also don’t say anything that would indicate bias against pigs, because that will absolutely get you booted during selection.

As /u/comfy said, we already know enough. We know that cops can break encryption on your phone, get everything from your social media accounts with full cooperation of the site owners, they can track your phone even if it is off, they can track your payment methods for your ebike get away vehicle to the CVS you bought your prepaid card with cash at, they can track you with the thousands of cameras they have everywhere, they can use gait identification to ID you even if you have gloves on and a mask on, they can plaster your face all over the internet, use thermal vision drones to find you in some field.

The police are militarized and have their surveillance tentacles in every crack and crevices they can. We know this already, and there is no value that such a trial would provide for that.

No, and if they do find him, the jury should vote not guilty and utilize jury nullification.

the means of returning to power - would be absent.

Unless the randomized reps decide they like their newfound power, and change the rules to allow them to maintain/extend/return to power.

Bribes would be a concern, so good pay and anti-corruption mechanicms would still be required.

Direct bribes are only part of the problem. Corporations would still do the things they’re doing now, where they bribe politicians with cushy jobs once they leave their government positions. Good pay on the job while at the government doesn’t stop that.

Randomized representatives can still be propagandized, bribed, and have hunger for power.

For me personally, it was easier to just write a few python scripts to parse the CSV files from my banks.

I switched over to this last month, and I’m already a fan of it. It did take a bit of time to port over my old shtitty excel tracking, and to write a few python scripts to parse the export CSV files from each of my bank accounts, but it is very clearly worth it.

One of the nice things is that it uses a SQLite db to store everything, so if shit ever hits the fan with one of my drives or the software, it isn’t the end of the world.

You can self host it so you can access it over the web, or you can choose to run it entirely locally. It’s pretty nifty, and I’ve elected to using it for the second option.

Tree Style Tab which I cannot live without. Firefox having something like that by default instead of an extension would be nice.

Been using TST for a while now, and I whole heartedly agree. Given that it’s essentially just some CSS, I can’t imagine that it would be difficult at all to support natively.

Like, you know he’s not personally involved in the design or manufacture of these things right

Not everybody does. I’ve seen some threads, mostly on insta, where people were fallomg over themselves to get on their fucking knees to slob on Elon’s nob. I get that the average insta user isn’t the brightest, but people like that do exist.

And it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, because there is a chance that the hard work of the engineers, laborers, and Shotwell will be used for Elon’s fame throughout history.

So yeah, fuck Elon. The tech is cool as fuck though.

This is exactly the thing I’ve been looking for. It saves everything as a sqlite db, and has csv export options. So you’re not fucked over if you need to switch to something else. It’s compatible for linux/windows.

And the import options seem pretty good too.

Congrats, you’ve made me spend the whole day switching everything over to that lol.

The only real issue is that one of my banks deals with more than one type of currency. So I’ve had to write a custom script to handle that. But all in all, this is a massive upgrade for me. Thank you for this recommendation.

If we don’t test for hurricanes, the problem will go away. Don’t look up.

When everything’s a logic block, nothing will be

Reject tradition

Embrace scratch

Don’t Be a Sucker

https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

This is an anti-fascism film made by the U.S. in the 1940s. It pretty much focuses on answering your exact question. It’s a decent film too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Be_a_Sucker

People commonly burnout and run themselves ragged trying to make ends meet. I know I did.

If that’s the case, then it sounds like people aren’t getting paid. At least not a living, stable wage, which was sort of the implication.

And this may at least be in a very small part be a good thing, because it incentivises creators to switch to direct from creator purchases, which we’re both in agreement is preferable.

CEO wages and capitalism doesn’t seem to care.

It still does seem to hurt them though. Because if it didn’t in some way hurt them, then they wouldn’t give a fuck about piracy.

Sure, the CEOs and execs just pass off potential lost revenue to buying users, but they can only do that to an extent. At a certain point, people are gonna say “fuck it, I don’t care to pay $80/month for music, I’ll switch to something else”.

At a bare minimum, piracy is an ever present threat to their business model, that if they push too hard with prices, everybody is gonna ditch them for piracy. Because at the end of the day nobody has a pathological need for any particular media. And if someone really likes a particular type of media, they’ll find some other way to get it without getting price gouged.

That’s the way forward.

I think we’re in full agreement of this section here. Fuck the current system.