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  • I'm a fan of the documentaries of Adam Curtis on Bernays, but merely educating people about the history of Propaganda/Public Relations/Advertising provides no useful skills for liberating yourself from harmful thinking patterns that benefit the rich and powerful. Merely knowing about it does not immunize you from it, and worse, may give you false confidence.

    A good place to start to understand how propaganda works in a modern nation is understanding the propaganda model. A good documentary about this is Manufacturing Consent.

  • Protons orbit a nucleus now?

  • Worse. Wisconsin domain'd a bunch of people off their land and spent a billion dollars of state money, and Foxconn still nope'd the fuck out.

  • ¡Ya Basta -- con beber!

  • @disguy_ovahea has no idea what he's talking about. He apparently attended a couple of protests and thinks he's now an expert on social change.

    A horse race has about as much to do with women's right to vote as Stonehenge does with climate change, but that didn't stop Emily Davison's direct action at the 1913 Epsom Derby from being a watershed moment in the struggle for women's suffrage.

  • danb.me's criticisms and tone are valid, but it looks FUTO has taken down their ill-advised license page and are using an unmodified AGPL.

    I'm struggling to assign malice here; Louis is a hardware guy, and not every software person is really up on what distinguishes free software from freeware. FUTO seems like a pretty small shop; I'd give them a pass on this one.

  • Is this what you're talking about? Is AGPL controversial now?

    When did Louis "Right to Repair" Rossmann become the bad guy?

  • Who's on first?

  • Long live roof ninja!

  • My bad. I saw it in TIL, and when I reposted it, I used the article generated title. I'll update the title.

  • The Untouchables Union Station shootout scene was inspired by the Odessa Steps Massacre scene in Battleship Potemkin, making the 33 1/3 scene a parody of one of the oldest tropes in film-making.

  • Who’s laughing now whilst holding The Orb?

  • Yeah, most laws have nothing to do with justice and are merely threats made by social elites to working people. I don't need that explained to me. I think you misunderstood my politics from my initial comment.