GPLv3 is less proprietary than GPLv2, in the sense that it does a better job at protecting end-users from being abused by device makers that would try to close up their Linux-based system.

Imagine having such a hard-on for letting corporations exploit your work in abusive Tivoized products that you stoop to retaliation against a company that’s actually trying to protect their customers.

They know it’s better than v2.

Here’s a Captain Disillusion VFXcool episode about this special effect, specifically as applied to Back to the Future (which innovated having a split screen with a moving camera): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhNDsPMaK_A

And they’re even stupider.

Wait 'till you find out that Hayley Mills isn’t a twin.

These tactics are not always a guarantee to have things go your way

See also: Atlanta city council voting for Cop City despite over two hundred people showing up at the meeting, in person, to speak against it. (Not to mention a petition for a referendum that got hundreds of thousands of signatures but was illegally withheld from the ballot anyway.)

You’re right that actually talking to your representatives works surprisingly often, but sometimes it really blatantly doesn’t.

It was the Democrats’ failure to differentiate themselves from the fascists in a way that actually mattered to the working class.

then that’s the rule and there’s nothing you or I can do about it.

That is NOT true!

There’s nothing legal we can do about it, but that not the same thing.

Anticopyright diatribes are the important part!

Does this mean they’re Alex Jones’s boss now?

Ah, the usual disguised !orphancrushing@lemmy.world. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy a clever hack (especially a money-saving one) as much as the next guy, but there’s no legitimate reason the grandmas shouldn’t have had easy access to proper hearing aids to begin with.

(In fact, this is double !orphancrushing@lemmy.world because it’s also about how they had to defeat Apple’s anti-property-rights location restrictions to do it.)

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Noth Korea, for instance, is lasting just fine. And it’s hardly the only recent example of a dictatorship whose leaders have died comfortably of old age.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw

There’s no checks and balances left,

There is one left, but we’re not allowed to talk about it.

Exactly what? Be specific.

Man, you’ll really say anything to avoid admitting that progressives win elections, won’t you?

Not to mention, it’s easy to say that before Inauguration Day. None of Trump’s tyranny has had a chance to happen yet.

The sheriff disagreed.

“She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or ‘anything’ could have happened,” recalls Patterson.

And I didn’t (I voted for Harris, and also kept my mouth shut about her sprint to the right, like a good little Democrat, until after the election).

So you can take that accusation and fuck all the way off with it.