I get the feeling that if this were on a globe, it would appear as a long, thin, and nearly empty circle.

Way to stand up for my alien homies, yo!

Then… wouldn’t it be false?

We have seen the future, and the future is weird.

…and you think noise pollution is bad now? Just you wait.

I could see how that might be motivating.

Excuse me sir… your trolley is sticking out of your pants.

That link does not work for me, I just get a captcha loop.

Trust is a very strong but brittle thing. Once broken it tends to shatter like glass. I’m sure this situation would feel like a sword of Damocles to anyone who has significant investment in the unity platform, and who would want to voluntarily walk into such a position now?

Remarkable 2, but the PineNote might be usable now.

In addition to advancing freedom, it’s also genuinely advancing the technology of the human race. Both philosophically (as any other tech is simply what they PERMIT you to do), and practically… as even the worst technofacist vendor-lockin saas’ers build their empire on the backs of open source stacks.

Have you seen doctor who, where an image of a weeping angel can become a weeping angel?