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some-are-betteron Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

Wow, re-read the fine article. He was NOT stating that he wants the outcome you think. He is afraid it is going to happen because the younger generation has no clue or ability to maintain FOSS.

some-are-betteron Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API

"The state wants to minimize budget"

This is a joke statement right? There is no state in the history of the world that attempts to do this.

some-are-betteron Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

See here for at least one example (funny that cops even noted to the man that he didn't display the press cred as the others standing right next to him) https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/1267669541452017673

some-are-betteron Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order

Maybe the word "lockdown" means something different to you. But in my state (IL), we never had a "lockdown" in any sense of that word.

In retrospect, in particular (to use an example from another area of the USA), the state of NY and NYC did not take COVID-19 seriously. Even while supposedly concerned about the spread of COVID-19, they were returning known-infected people to old folk homes. This was not a lockdown action...

The reasons that the USA response to COVID-19 was X and not Y are a lot more complex than the simple statement "because the administration is incompetent". The full history of how well the USA did (including internal geographic areas vs. others) vs. the rest of the world is still to be written.

some-are-betteron Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine events

>Some protesters want to get haircuts.... GET OVER IT.

Maybe they just want to get the same haircut that the mayor of Chicago got the other week, long after the state lockdown...