after i accidentally use the wrong pronoun i just add a contranoun which annihilates the pronoun resulting in a nonoun!

you almost got it. Power does not corrupt. Power attracts narcissists and psychopaths. Those people have been corrupt before. There are hierarchies all over the place where people higher up have authoritative control over the people (or even other beings) below them and the vast majority of those do not abuse this power hierarchy. Those people that do are mentally ill. It is just the higher you look the more likely you’ll find a mentally deranged narcissist because those are the people that really are into that shit and thus exert the effort to get there. For everybody else it is not worth it.

that is who is usually referred to as tech bros imo. It’s the elon musks, the people that are in charge and seem to have a superficial understanding of the technology (more than what tou can say about most CEOs unfortunately) but are actually only interested in money. The people that actually innovate and work on the technologies are often smarter than that.

Unfortunately someone needs to pay the bills and those people are passionate enough about the technology that they end up working for the tech bros and ultimately contribute to the problems

you mean like PTSD?

i was confused for a second why there are three hands but then i remembered that there are two persons in the picture… it is really hot today…

In a ship of theseus kind of way i guess you can turn almost anything into anything else :p

Are you bored? Did you just build a strawman version of your own community to argue about something that is trivially easy to answer for everyone in this community? I am seriously confused. I have never ever heard anyone say that you could turn any distro into any other. That is just obviously not true. And every single question on your bullet point list is equally easy to answer.

When people say that it doesn’t matter which distro you use what they obviously mean is that the desktop environment has the way more immediate and tangible impact on the user experience. So as long as the newcomer choses one of the many distros that have an intuitive installer (so obviously not Arch), are reasonably up to date, have a broad software package repository, and come with one of the major environments pre installed, it really does not matter that much.

i am in germany so i don’t think it should be much different for you. I don’t remember the exact time but the system said it was still on the 8th.

yay got my notification today. Reserved on the 8th. Just leaving this here as some hope to the people that haven’t received anythng yet

this goes for literally everything. Someone might still experience it as obnoxious and intolerable. Me included

I am with you on generally trying to understand the reasons for a particular behavior. Does not always help with being annoyed by it though. Especially if they apply their world view to everyone else around them and start to judge you for enjoying work/life balance

guys seriously … Science literacy is important. That especially goes for the incompetent editors at the guardian. This is NOT a study. This is a blog post describing that the particular UCL research group got a research grant accepted. In other words, they got grant money, so they can produce research on this topic IN THE FUTURE. Notice, that everything in that post is written in future tense except for the paragraph called “Research to date” and there is NO RESULTS.

Yes of course, this correlation is obvious. That is why there has been an abundance of research done on this topic already. But of course, as is the case with pretty much every field in science, this topic remains incredibly important and doing more research there will always remain important. Research is an ongoing process and most scientific publications are minute incremental improvements in understanding. So everyone who is saying “hurr durr this is obvious, so much money wasted on such nonsense”, please shut the fuck up and LEARN TO READ

Sorry for the profanity. Having worked in research, i am quite disillusioned by the common misunderstanding of the scientific process.

remember if you honk allyou at me i will honk honk if you get any closer u have to honk if if you will if i honk myself want honk if you ever been personally victimized by honk

edit: lol i missed the “honk if anything”

well not that shocked

not really working here in germany, no. Even though things like, e.g. health care and public transport aren’t as completely broken as in the US, they are still pretty broken and there is no incentive to fix it thanks precisely to the interests of capitalism.

turns out the term “late-stage capitalism” is over a hundred years old . It is difficult to argue that it has been working before that.

Honestly a bit of bait is good. I have enjoyed reading the discussions that emerged in some of those threads. I see this post for what it is: bait. You could make less provocative posts but even then some people just want to read it as tankie propaganda.

Maybe we should create a community called “tankie memes” for when you do want to go all out and trigger people

this whole community is pure liberal rage bait isn’t it? I am not complaining but you guys really do like to trigger

Piker, a liberal political commentator

Yes the famously very liberal commentator …

awesome photo! The horizontal and vertical lines form such a strong grid that i hat to zoom in to realize that they were in fact part of the scene.

What gear did you use?

my goto is “muss ja”