Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • One of the defining things about American power was that they were so big and powerful and all present everywhere in the world that you didn’t need big military parades of helicopters, jets, tanks and armies marching through the streets. The world knew they were powerful.

    No better sign of respect than to have the world know you are the strongest by not saying or doing a thing to announce it.

    It’s like a mafia … you don’t need a big display of cars, guns and things to know that they are top dog and control everything.

    Wanting to show a big display of military hardware and big groups of soldiers is something a third world or developing country does to show a bit of strength.

    It’s like the US wants to announce to the world that they are strong … because they know they’re losing ground.






  • 99% of the world’s problems could be meaningfully dealt with if we got rid of billionaires … and the biggest problems we’d be dealing with after them would be trying to solve interstellar travel. Instead we’re fighting wars to try to figure out which small group of idiots get to own all the imaginary money in the world.











  • Beautiful work … I wish my school had done that when I was a kid.

    The great thing about it is that now you are helping to generate a new crop of kids who will learn how to use Linux. Sure, they will try to do stupid things on it like install games or figure out how to bypass things or install or uninstall … the great thing about that is that they will learn how to use the system in order to try to break it. It’s the same way I learned how to use Linux and probably the same way you learned how to use it.

    You’ve advanced the computer department for those kids more than you know.


  • That’s one of the great things about switching to Linux … it forces you to learn something new and for kids that is a very good thing.

    All those kids in the school that OP described were getting stagnant in a settled environment of living in Windows … now that they have Linux in front of them, they will go on to learn how to subvert the system under Linux. It’s not a bad thing in my opinion, it will create a whole crop of kids who now know how to fool around with Windows AND Linux.

    I wish someone would have introduced me to Linux when I was kid.