(Also I’m still salty about Origin Systems in 1992!)

They are finally getting re-discovered by younger generations a bit more, but they are often missing from memes like this. Considering how groundbreaking their projects like Wing Commander and of course Ultima were, it is a true shame. They truly fell from the very top and slowly died thanks to EA. (And, admittedly, also in part mismanagement and not being able to overcome the prohibitive cost of physical media i.e. floppy disks and CDs properly)

🫡 Comrade Trump 🫡

Oh, I remember hearing a lecture by one guy from ZenDiS a few months ago, about how they want to cooperate more with other, similar institutes in Europe. Nice to see, that that is bearing fruit. They are tiny and almost invisible, but they have been doing the Lord’s work in trying their best to get German bureaucracy off the proprietary shit dependency.

Depending on the surrounding context, it actually isn’t that bad of an idea. I do think a lot of “shit that just has to be done” is better served as collective duties instead of “let the poor people that have no choice do it”.

That being said, it often also ends up rife with corruption (see conscription/draft dodging tactics) in current contexts. And it can be used as a punishment instead of a duty.

Also, in this specific case, it would essentially be free labour in service not really of the common good, but in service of privately owned farms, which I think are romanticised a lot. Homesteading is not the standard, most are actually already pretty big, and consolidation is still the name of the game.

I am pretty sure the solution the system will land on with the current trajectory of things will be an even more intensive use of prison labour. (i.e. legal slavery)

It’s good that you linked to their home instance, especially because it is canada-related in general, but just in case people missed this: The link I shared is of course already on a PeerTube instance (I run). Sharing gives you a link to the video as it appears on your home instance, and I guess I have been too lazy to pick the link to the original instance.

Here’s a neat tip for Firefox (probably only Desktop?) users: There is an add-on, that redirects you to your home PeerTube instance and, if you choose so, also to PeerTube whenever it detects a YouTube video also being on PeerTube:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/peertube-companion/

I am in this picture, how dare you to dox me!

Reminded me of this classic:

That’s so funny, my new girlfriend is also called Nicole, and you won’t believe it, I met her right here on the Fediverse! 😍