capitalism: a simulacrum that signifies the absence of value

that comment was dumber than pepsi.

part of me would like to see it involve pitchforks. maybe some torches.

we can be really california about this. I might still know where my old childhood pitchfork I used to turn compost is, and I can make it an acetylene torch hanging off a drone, if you want.

you’re saying we should give kids cigarettes? or something like cigarettes? maybe kids don’t need to be addicted to things?

if you really need to keep this metaphor going, linux is, like, meditation or cognitive behavioral therapy or having friends, because its generally good for you, and doesn’t lock you into a bullshit proprietary ecosystem like tobacco or macs do.

see, the thing about lucerne milk is, if im making a milkshake, and I run out of lucerne milk but have an unopened bag of canadian milk, I can pour in the weird-ass canadian milk (spilling half of it because what kind of freaks put milk in a bag?) and it will work and be fine. because its just a company selling milk. all the milk is just milk. milk, in fact, is interoperable, and open if not free. hell, I can make milk if I really desperately want to.

if I have an apple product, and want to make it work with a non-apple-approved product, im going to have to fight their engineers at every step. fuck, getting them to start using FUCKING TCP/IP was like pulling teeth.

and kids need stress relief, so why not let joe camel give it to them?

comparison to pedophiles? maybe unfair. comparison to big tobacco? on fucking point.

a computer is a tool, sure, and the hardware is largely opaque at the high school level, excepting massive nerds

but every single one of these big tech companies runs all their shit on proprietary ecosystem lock-in, and keeping customers infantilized.

anything that isn’t open source should be fucking banned from schools.

“hey honey, here’s your first computer. no parental controls, but you’re only allowed to run arch, and im doing a pen test every weekend, with an attack that will disable features I can reach for three days. good luck!”

edit: alternatively: “there are parental controls on the router and I’ll be switching them up regularly. you’re not allowed to look at porn until you’re a better hacker than your parents.”