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  • Going through the lyrics would be a wild ride. “What are you raging against?” It’s either going to be legit right wing hate spewing, or it’s going to be anger against things that the right wing media invented, or that the right has actually done and blamed the left for.





  • Many do. Others don’t. It’s not required for living generally, and it isn’t needed to validate a vote. This is an invented problem to try and control who can vote. One party has to do that to survive, and they’re very good at minimizing turnout of people who might vote against them. As you can see.








  • As a (still) Linux novice, this is something that I noticed with later distributions but never thought about your valid point. I did always wonder why there should be different places to install things in the same OS. It would probably be fine if they handled things the same, but then all you’re doing is changing the UI. It never “felt” like they did things the same.


  • People don’t change. Some people look at what they’re repeating and try to understand the why, others blindly do what they are told by whom they deem as authority. LLMs are the latest, earlier were various websites (which LLMs were trained on, uh oh), still before that were the computer magazines with things to type in and the later versions even maybe a free CD of stuff. The printed media was less likely to have malicious things in them, but lord did they have errors, and the right error in the wrong place could ruin someone’s day if they just ran it without understanding it.


  • It occurred just like gasoline shortages occur. If the media doesn’t make headlines that suggest buying as much as you can immediately, even if there is a supply chain problem things can adjust to meet normal demands. But when everyone takes all the stock at the same time, even a running production can’t keep up with that demand in a just-in-time system. I experienced a local fuel shortage before because of news of a damaged oil pipeline far away, and gas became unavailable for a few days, then started filling back up, all long before the pipeline issue would have affected us.

    “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”