I’ve read The Guardian article about the situation, and what stuck out to me was this:

The US president, Joe Biden, said he was aware of Israel’s plans to launch an operation into Lebanon as he urged against such a move. “I’m more aware than you might know and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” he told reporters at the White House. “We should have a ceasefire now.”

Thank you Biden, just wag your finger and keep feeling “comfortable with them stopping”, that is ought to give you some moral victory points which is all that matters (and not thousands of civilians being killed by Israel that’s funded by US).

Yeah, though there’s also the phenomena of older folks generally being more against change and clinging in the past more, the idea being that you have less future to look forward to (since you’re closer to death than your birth) so instead you look towards the past and become nostalgic about it.

Welcome to the club - after starting to use window managers around 3 years ago at this point, I haven’t gone back. Whenever I’m forced to use Windows or a regular DE, I start instinctively abusing virtual desktops feature lol

I read it as AI somehow making more people sick therefore more of them needing to go see pharmacists, therefore pharmacists seeing more patients

Man, I wish. The problem nowadays is that denuvo is actually effective - many titles that are rather popular but have denuvo DRM haven’t been cracked for years at this point, so the only practical choice is to wait for years until those game companies stop their contract subscriptions and DRM gets removed.

Same, as soon as I have to scroll in order to navigate my tabs I just instinctively go on a closing spree

“Enemies are people who’s story you haven’t heard, or who’s face you haven’t seen” kind of energy right here

Same as you, I was somewhat already leaning towards Linux but seeing Windows 10 EOL announced around 3 years ago and seeing what new “features” are going to be implemented to Windows 11, I decided to hop ship.

The main reason for switch was privacy concerns, got redpilled by Mental Outlaw while he was still making regular Linux videos.

I remember making a comment once on .ml about how a news source they linked isn’t too credible, with mediafactbiascheck as source for that claim (as the site had historically gotten their news wrong), and the comment got removed for “blogspamming” or something lmao

There’s certainly a degree of powertripping going over there with the mods, and I do feel like this one is gonna be removed as well for “bigotry” against mods or something

As a non-american, is this really a big deal? It doesn’t disqualify him from going for presidency and it’s possible that he doesn’t serve any time at all due to his old age and no criminal record, as the article suggests.

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The west, so afraid of strong government, now has no government. Only financial power. Slogans such as “governments have limited power by design” come from well-paid researchers, think tanks funded by big businesses. It’s privately funded propaganda, like the Trilateral Commision in United States, for instance.

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Damn, I had a malicious version installed on my Arch machine. I’ve since done a system update which removes the backdoor, but looking more into it, it does seem that only fedora and debian(?) are affected/targeted but better safe than sorry.

I also bought into the bit flip theory but it was confirmed that the hardware was somewhat faulty which is an infinitely more likely cause than cosmic rays. There’s also the fact that there aren’t any bits that could be flipped which would perfectly reproduce the glitch.

Right, in a sense I’ll give you some points, as the current left (as in the parties, not the theory) is too disorganized to propose a viable alternative economic model. However, your entire comment comes off as rather disingenuous when it comes to arguing why “Capitalism can’t be changed”.

You can kick against capitalism all you want, god knows there are good reasons to, but you will never replace it with anything better. If you think life was good during primitive tribalism times, you should only be forced to try it and see.

An alternative to capitalism doesn’t mean we go back to monke at all. When looking at things historically, such as the Roman Empire or Feudalism, people didn’t live in tribalistic huts or whatever. Technology gave us the ability to build houses, to harness the power of electricity - not capitalism as an economic model.

I’ve seen parts of the world where people currently live in partial cardboard boxes with dirty mattresses as their only furniture. They still live as if the are not part of the modern world. And it isn’t pretty, life there is harsh and the reality of subsistence is extremely difficult.

This has literally nothing to do with Capitalism, but rather just with a country being poor or without proper government/order, though it’s way more complicated than that and I’m just simplifying. Also, there are countries in the world under Capitalism who are still developing and have people still living in the conditions you describe, such as in India or parts of Southeast Asia/South America/some African countries.

We kick against capitalism because we want to be moral warriors, but in truth we get a lot from our capitalist way of life; great food, good housing, nice furnishings, a place to hang out hat and plenty of leisure time. Just saying, it’s not all bad, and it’s really better than the alternatives.

First of all, criticizing something bad and/or wanting it to change doesn’t make you a “moral warrior”, by that logic a cancer researcher who tries to think of a cure is also a “moral warrior” which isn’t true. Also, you do realize that in most capitalist countries, things such as “good food, good housing” that you describe are only accessible by middle class people and above, right? If you’re poor (which is the majority of people under Capitalism), you might not be able to afford such things or be constantly at risk of losing your housing or whatever. Proposed alternatives such as Socialism have a lot of support because it often aims to bring these things (as in, stable housing, food) to more people when compared to Capitalism, so if you think that

Also as an aside, a very influential author who also stated that “Capitalism is the endpoint there can’t be anything better” was Francis Fukuyama, and he wrote a book in 1992 outlining just that. However, even he has changed his views since.

Sorry for the wall of text and if what I write isn’t clear - English isn’t my first language.

There’s pretty much only two ways you can go about it in my experience:

1. Fail forwards and try cobbling something together, constantly using search engines to fix errors or finding libraries or getting help with those libraries. One thing you’d have to figure out is an order of operations - what do you code and in what order, which might be tough for someone new but I’d say it’s well worth it.

2. Find some tutorial to a project and try following it (those that have step by step guide on what you should do without letting you copy paste code), then using the knowledge you gain to do the way #1 above to hopefully have an easier time figuring out the order of operations, plan out your program and what you’re gonna be coding.

Don’t think you can avoid getting hands-on and coding something up by yourself. General coding tutorials can only get you so far and are often harmful if abused too much (aka being stuck in tutorial hell).

The same media then proceeds to spread pro-israel propaganda that is often easily debunked with 1 translation or just basic fact-checking.

No surprises there

still hurts after all these years

Wonder if that’s the “alienation of labor” thing Marx was talking about