Is your name Claude-ia by any chance?

If you want us to believe you're a real person, post from a known account, not anonymously.

In the USA it almost certainly would. Remember, even our glorious alleged liberal Obama's health care plan literally wrote health insurance company profits into the law. (Meanwhile he got a Nobel peace prize for drone strikes on noncombatants without judicial process, including killing one American citizen, though that really shouldn't be the bar.)

In elementary school they taught me that Columbus discovered America, and that I should pledge allegiance under god, so our free education is equally indoctrination.

Is that enough shame for you?

You'll be providing phosphorus whilst you rot. They won't need you. Your billionaire worship won't save you: They don't need you, so they will never appreciate you. They think you're the dumbest dogshit on the street, especially for supporting them, double especially because you have concocted this fantasy for yourself on their behalf. You epitomize internalized abuse.

Your bias is typical and boring. The rich are stealing from all of us all of the time with their tax avoidance, and they own the businesses that steal wages, and wage theft exceeds all other theft combined.

You'd suck an awful person's dick for free. We can see that because you're doing it right here in front of all of us.

You literally can.

You mean like giving them money so they can exist in our society which requires you to have money if you don't want to be treated like vermin?

You mean like not giving them enough money to go on holiday?

Alone, those sentences are worthless. Together, they are confusing. Make up your mind.

The average SSI/SSP recipient is living on $1233.94/mo.

Yeah, mostly a bunch of people who know fuck-all wrote a bunch of ignorant comments about something they know less than dick about. Thanks for your worthless contribution.

This is, of course, complete bullshit born of ignorance. I note it doesn't stop you sharing your shit sandwich with the class. Nobody wants it, thanks.

The only reason they're "stuck" is because of a system designed to require a percentage of people to be stuck. Basic income programs try to remedy that.

Nothing as long as we have to deal with obstructionist dickwads who vote down every attempt to improve anything. Don't be one.

Comments critical of the established economic order have been ruthlessly downmodded on Slashdot for literally the entire time I've been here, at least. I've been observing that those comments are aggressively targeted for my entire posting career. Anything that asserts or even implies that nerds might on average be part of a privileged class is shat upon with a quickness, presumably so that certain people can avoid ever engaging in any introspection whatsoever.

There's little evidence it will ever fly in Europe, either.

In what way is it a positive thing to make more people more reliant on corporations?

What does that have to do with raspi, where every other version they fuck up something basic like USB or power and then clearly don't do any testing before releasing it on the user base?

Refurb? What are you talking about? You can buy a used dual-core NUC with 4GB/16GB for $50 any day of the week, and when it shows up you plug it in and load software on it and you're done. You don't have to play any stupid games with bootloaders, you don't have to run special snowflake arm versions of anything, you just install and go.

What's daft is your marriage to this straw man bullshit about refurbishing. I have no idea what hole you pulled that out of to try to make your argument valid, but it's literally insane and I'd like you to stop trying to gaslight me.

That depends on how you define good. If it's helping people and making a better world, you're right. If it's hurting brown people and being allowed to marry children, then the reich wingers are getting what they want.

Actually you can watermark sufficiently long samples of text, but the watermarking won't survive any significant and worthy editing process.

I only care about how they vote. And they vote like jackals.

You don't know how to argue, or debate, or even answer comments, do you? Mindless passion is still mindless.