Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@doctormo I wish (very naive of me, I know) that people would understand that sending auto-generated bullshit text to someone else and expecting the other person to read that synthetic text as if it was written by you, is incredibly disrespectful to the other person. It does not really matter if there is a big red box saying no, people should just think and behave with some decency.

It's all so sad. A huge gap between the things I think should be obvious, and how the world works now.

@saltywizard

> they can't 'just quit.' that would be desertion

I don't understand. Anyone who is employed within US armed forces must stay at that same job their whole life, they can never quit? About desertion, I thought that desertion was something that can be referred to in wartime, and that congress has not declared war. Obviously I'm ignorant about these things, I do appreciate if someone can explain it.

@peter

@vincent I don't really know what Loops is, but yes. Do it. Self-host more things!

@mntmn this is maybe not exactly what you're asking but anyway, there is in pmOS an awesome program called "signal-cli" that you can install by doing simply "apk add signal-cli".
@postmarketOS

@jonte tack, bra att veta.

@peter thanks!

I'm thinking that on one hand it would make total sense for all US military personnel to quit their jobs at this point, because they don't want to participate in war crimes and the current commander in chief (trump) is clealy insane and has no problem commiting war crimes. But on the other hand, that's easy for me to say, it's something else for someone who depends on their job in the US military to provide for their family. It's a really shitty situation for them.

@Foxboron I'm sorry, it was an attempt at making some kind of a joke.

@peter

> refusing an illegal order is a requirement under the uniform code of conduct

Interesting. Does that apply on all levels, not only for generals and admirals but all ranks all the way down to the private soldiers?

@svenskavanor.se det heter dammsugare.

@Foxboron you're so old-fashioned adding signatures to things!

In our bright future, I expect that signatures will be meaningless since every statement will be auto-generated plagiarism+bullshit. Concepts like "authorship" will be irrelevant, nobody will care or even understand what it means.

@peter

> hold generals and admirals personally accountable

What is the appropriate action to take for a general who gets an order like "sink that ship now" from the commander in chief? What exactly is the right thing to do, and are there examples of people who did the right thing in that situation?

I suppose the general should say "sinking that ship in the way this order says would be a war crime, so I'm not going to do it." If a general says that, then what happens next?

@jajo det kanske var bra på det sättet att det fanns vissa saker partiet stod för.