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Profesionally, our counsel suggested filing criminal charges federally and it’s likely we’ll be proceeding this way.
Sounds like a decent but elaborate troll, I think this line gives it away too much.
I’m also not sure what legal recourse they actually have. Nobody forced them to update their dependencies without checking them. What crimes exactly are broken by an open source developer modifying a package to do something like this? If their modifications otherwise broke this NGO’s data collection/deleted files by accident, is the developer liable? Almost certainly not, I haven’t checked node-ipc’s license but I don’t think you can spin a CFAA charge if the code is open and the developer is free to modify as they see fit…
Idk, I got fired for not getting jabbed (from a remote job in the US where I would conceivably never go to an office) and I’m still very much a leftist. I never told HR directly that I’d already been pozzed up at some point in the past, since I had antibodies already when I had routine blood work done, as early as Jul 2020 I knew I’d already had covid but no symptoms so no idea when, but I don’t think they would have cared.
They denied my religious exemption, an earnest and deeply held opposition to intellectual property that prevents me from taking any patented medical products. I had explained there were upcoming vaccines that would likely be compatible with my beliefs, but that didn’t interest the corporate masters there so I ghosted them and they ended up paying 4 months severance in exchange for my silence. Considering the lack of labour protections in the US preventing employers from requiring their employees receive totally unnecessary medical procedures, I took the money and took a month off having two jobs. Now I once again have two jobs, but this one pays a lot more and I now own 2,% of an airline after my shares vest.
PRC, in some cities at least, is back in lockdown. My partner is Chinese and her daughter-in-law keeps us in the loop on Pudong. She works in hospital so she has a little card to get out and about, but everyone else is limited to since extent in what they’re allowed to do at the moment.
We’ll see how long they can keep the zero-COVID strategy up.
For one of my jobs, I worked for a foreign company as a consultant and my actual job title in English in their HR system/email signature was “Superior Talent” - I guess to remind the trogs in their employ that they had failed and required external resources to get things done.
Found the badge lol https://i.imgur.com/niNXkiQ.png
That would require an alternative to capital with which change can be affected, and that doesn’t really exist. You can point to some amount of collective conscious coming out of online discussion, but it’s not worth jack shit in a situation where Capital has decided to invest.
My 59 year old Chinese lover gets really happy when the succulents in the house are doing well.
" Allll meat~ "
I don’t imagine the US will forgive any amount of student loans. It’s obviously only near the table when Dems are in power, which they won’t be for much longer and then for a while afterwards. There’s a big focus on “fairness” in public handouts in the US, warranted or not, and forgiving debt for people who have it at some point in time ignores people who did repay it. I don’t see how politicians square the circle with the domestic constituency, people will go apeshit if someone’s loans are forgiven and someone else just finished paying it off while forgoing x,y,z to do so. There will be 10.000 media accounts of such unfairness aimed at turning every Gen X and older millennial who did pay off their student loans away from such radical leftism…
Put me in the camp of people who opted not to go to school because of the costs, I absolutely do not regret that as I’ve been doing the work-from-home multiple-jobs scam for the whole pandemic but I’ll always wonder what could have been.
Capitalists, particular in the US, love to dunk on Revolutions which had purges of any kind (even the very inoffensive purge of Batista-loyalists in the early years of the Cuban Revolution). Or state censorship of any variety.
They’re deliberately missing the point, by avoiding any meaningful discussion of what rights to autonomy a Communist state has. Ignoring the historical context in which the US invests billions upon billions of dollars in anti-Communist, pro-capital propaganda in these countries to the point where it’s necessary for the state to clamp down. Absent massive amounts of buying power/capital, what mechanism does a state have to fight incredibly well-financed, insidiously crafted and emotionally exploitative foreign propaganda? The only option is force, which the capitalists then decry as inhumane… I have a background in developing anti-censorship software, so I usually surprised people when I’m very neutral on Chinese state censorship (even today, in the very much not-Communist PRC).
Naturally, I make similar concessions for removing those financed by foreign capital. And I understand the deep paranoia that this stuff breeds. It’s hard to allow a “marketplace of ideas” the closer in time you are to the Revolution, because it’s impossible for the Revolutionaries to tell if you’re just a harmless thinker misled by capitalist propaganda, someone who is genuinely worse off under communism because you were part of an oppressive class or just because you were a skilled labourer, or if you’re an asset of foreign capital. It breeds deep paranoia which I think persists in the policies of states which shouldn’t really be considered communist any longer. It has a lasting effect essentially, PRC and Russia are good examples of post-Communist states with lasting censorship regimes.
Things are reasonably going to be unstable post-Revolution, capital will immediately seize on that uncertainty to propagandize a population with the best outcomes of capitalism, and the state very naturally lacks the tools to combat that with 0 use of force. But the truth is much harder for most people to accept: Those capitalist states are naturally unsustainable and do as much as possible to obfuscate the human suffering inherent both domestically and within insidious neocolonial if not outright colonial systems of enslavement.