Posts by QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AkzdNlvGkAM4tZZ42y by QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
       2024-08-15T13:57:30Z
       
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       @aral Is not the amount of money one possesses; it's that person's intrinsic nature which is either virtuous or harmful. Take Taylor Swift and Elon Musk as examples.In the U.S., there's this preoccupation by the GOP, their voters, and their apologist talking head commentators with "company decisions are good and represent efficiency, and government is bad". To me, this stylized hijacking of American libertarianism is as deceitful and harmful as it is ironic, given that what  ↓
       
 (DIR) Post #AoN3eTXbyt7f54WRPc by QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
       2024-11-24T14:39:32Z
       
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       @cemedia The inability to distinguish between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of a government and/or government officials is pathetic and dangerous. Also, Biden has nothing to lose: he's not staying in office or running for re-election with the prospect of maybe winning or maybe losing, and as Kamala lost, she has no election prospects for him to (hypothetically) tank by calling a spade a spade.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqobaHHZREkwu3s3vc by QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
       2025-02-05T14:09:16Z
       
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       @libreoffice I love Libre Office. I used it for a bit when I was still a Mac person, and after switching full time to Linux with Linux Mint, I then used it with my job almost every day for six years. I found building tools in LO Calc was significantly easier than Excel.Congrats #schleswigholstein for making the right choice!
       
 (DIR) Post #AqobaIF7roOXsljcky by QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
       2025-02-05T16:19:50Z
       
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       @libreoffice One other point I'd like to make is that, given the current political and Wall Street climate in the U.S., the EU's response through passing the ACI, etc., I think breaking and eliminating dependence upon Microsoft and, in practice, any other American tech corporation, is in national, state, and even city-level security and economic interest. I think adopting LibreOffice is a good first step, but you also need to switch to Linux, and Germany's own SUSE is an excellent choice.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArnsRak4Te8plyrV2G by QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
       2025-03-06T18:42:59Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #Ay6mAU73qEgdOaw3aC by QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
       2025-09-11T20:56:43Z
       
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       @stux Ultimately, that segment of the population we generally refer to as "the right" or "MAGA" or "pro-authoritarian", etc., is a cancer which will continue to eat away at the body politic until it is cut out and removed as well as until our education system is revamped to be logic, ethics, science, math, language, art, history-focused as well as stripped of being used to teach stone-age superstition.
       
 (DIR) Post #B05mdNM5LcSPnv1ROS by QuarkMaker@mastodon.social
       2025-11-08T20:14:02Z
       
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       @futurebird The level of illiteracy when it comes to the practical arts explains at least part of why so many can listen to what Trump says and have no issues going along with it, even when it's total idiocy.An uncuriousness about the world around them is one indicator of a right-winger.