I don’t really get the whole NAS thing i must admit. Most of what I read about what people are doing is enabling slacker family and friends ? (That’s not a critisism, just an observation)

I have a TV, a HDD connected on the router and Kodi on the Nvidia Shield Pro. Any music is stored on my phone, or streamed via Netradio

I very occasionally copy media across to my phone to watch and then… it sits there and I dont watch it.

My parter uses Kodi on the TV occasioanly.

I don’t stream anything aside from some YT occasionally (DIY etc)

I get people do endless shit with their NAS, or server but I’m am retired and don’t have the time

Books are managed via Calibre on a a Kobo.

Today… Tomorrow brings a new low for sure.

Any suggestions ?

Duping a good.job yourself; Brexit etal

Shame that couldn’t’ve been bothered to listen earlier,

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…

Producing what?

Feyntanal make it in the good ol UsA, in biggly factories

This iai going to be as drawn out as the SCO thing isnt it

Or maybe more like the Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Dicken’s Bleak House

Apple is apple. They don’t make false claims about how walled off they are.

That’s doesn’t make it a good thing.

Canada is paying for it with tariffs

I think we should just go the Swiss-route and do direct democracy;

That’s literally the Anarchy system. I.e Laws and no leaders.

As an Australian who has ranked choice (we call it preferential) it’s not the panecea folks here seem to think it is to bring about the enlightenment.

I’m 58, have voted in every election from when I was eligible through to this year. We don’t have ICE but we have Border Force and we routinely deport non citizens, we inspect digital devices at the border, we off shore legal refugees in internment camps, we have zero care for the enviorment and love penis shaped defence spending, we are a car dependent shit hole with few redeeming qualities… It’s ever been thus, Donad Horne oponed on this in the 1970s.

We don’t have feedom of the press or freedom of speech, so often these things are unable to even be reported on at all and our most egregious atrocities have widespread support amongst the broader population. In that respect its not as big a divisor as. n the US as we’re all arseholes :) We’re happy to allow religious scumbags to discriminate against LGBQT folks, happy to have our privacy removed, are quite fond of fucking over our indigenous peoples and the wider enviorment and near zero concern for exestential issues like climate change. We’re happy to shit over homeless people and have unaffordable housing and racism is broadly endemic.

We have never elected a government that i think is anything but objectively fucking horrible, we have our tongue firmly stuck up the US foreign policy asshole and follow them into every stupid dumb shit military action. We have had the occasionally decent poltican but then so does the US (Bernie etc) .

Like us, your people are broken and you’re not going to cure what ails ya’ with RCV.

This reminded me.of this incident in Australia where a 95 yr old.woman with dementia using a walker was holding a knife and they tasered and killed her

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66229582

Fascinate the fools then muzzle the intelligent. (Bertrand Russell)

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. - Bertrand Russel

Yeah, went Mint 18 months ago. Started at MSDOS in the 1990s, ended at W10.

Not defending the OP but his argument is that here in Australia the government is doing the censoring, he’s all for platforms delisting it if they wish. As an aside, that’s effectively the same thing (as argued by people like Philip Adams here in Australia)

As an Australian, I find government censorship of the arts problematic, this case is glaringly easy to agree with but there are a plethora of edge case issues that leave me feeling uneasy and I’m squarely on the side of Karl Popper with this.

As to everyone “disliking nazis”, thats not true. Russia is led by one, as is the US and India, the current Austrian Government is led by a a political party set up by literal Nazis, across the border the AfD is praised by the US.

Look at Hannah Ardent and Albert Einstein’s letter to the newspapers about the horror of Israel. So I’d suggest there is broad support for nazis, unless u mean literal nazis from Germany circa WW2, of which there aren’t many left but we had one in charge of NATO, another designing rockets for Nasa and on and on, so there is that.

https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948

Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.

Indeed, Trump ironocally doing more for the enviorment then any owtjer President was not on my bingo card. Recession, people buying less shit, less tourism etc

What a world :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.

If thats true it just reinforces that people can’t think/reason and Cipolla was right about stupidity - A stupid person is someone will harm even themselves, even when trying to harm others (the very definition of this sub I guess)

and if there are so many conservatives like that, then John Stuart-Mill was right in saying stupid people are attracted to being conservative.

That doesn’t mean all conservatives are stupid, it just means that if you’re are stupid, you’re likely to be conservative and as Cipolla also points out there are a lot of stupid people.

As Hannah Ardent opined, she was there to observe and document, changing peoples mind wasn’t her objective.