He does content? He can be a bit aggressive about his topics, that can rub people the wrong way.

I don’t think he did anything offensively, legally or morally wrong.

I know just he exists, I don’t follow his content.

I recommend these two books:

PR! - A Social History of Spin

manufacturing consent

They’re older, but I don’t think you need “modern examples”, once you understand how it works, the techniques immediately and obviously apply to social media.

I think saying it’s a [code hosting platform] instance is selling it a bit short.

They’re a registered club with official recognized “public benefit” status. They were specifically created to have a non commercial and community / society based choice for code hosting.

I don’t understand why the R4L are even trying to get it into THE kernel at this point. Especially after the open hostility, but also after basically offering to be “downstream” of whatever C people do.

The difference to forking and gradually transitioning things to Rust seem technically minimally negative and socially enormously positive to me.

And when and if people want to use the linux kernel with Rust, made by the R4L people, they would then be able to do that? Idk.

I have no stakes in either side, so I don’t really care.

I would say, the “real” “actually” is more of that.

The “ackshually” is more knowning that people can be like that and being a bit sarcastic about it.

As in “actually, X, but only someone really sweaty and pedantic would make that point earnestly, which I’m not”.

Depends on how smart she is.

To not sabotage things, you can always leave it at a “mix of luck, talent and hard work”. And you’re working hard, and maybe you even have luck, but step dad might have all three.

If she’s smart, you can drop the whole thing on her: first of all, you love her, her mom loves her, her step dad hopefully does too or at least likes her and that has nothing to do with money. Then you can just be transparent on how much you earn, how much time that means in effort, and how much “lots of money” takes to earn. Then you can just do some math, and her step dad’s numbers won’t add up.

It’s a sensitive topic though, you can say your piece, communicate with your ex and the step dad about that she asked and what you said. They might have a different take.

Might even spin it into making her think about what she wants to do in the future.

It shouldn’t feel forever. I like that the longest part of booting my PC is the grub selection for my dual boot setup. I have an older laptop that takes about 2 minutes to boot. Not a deal breaker, but a noticeable delay.

I don’t really care.

But it being snappy sure feels good. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 feature making the setup unattractive, 5 being indifference, 10 being super important, booting fast is a 6.

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I think fundamentally, it’s about what kind of person you want to be, psychologically.

There is no problem with a self image that’s not “puritan” and then the actions that reflect that. If you think of yourself as having a style and attitude and projecting and communicating that, aggressively, it’s fine to be who you want to be. E.g. punks dressing as punks, “expensive brand stuff”, or tattoos or plastic surgery.

Being about your attitude towards other people can also just be “you”. So I wouldn’t worry about doing it for yourself or doing it for “other people”.

I would make 100% sure to talk about it with your husband, this is a thing you definitely don’t want to backfire. Maybe be dislikes the idea of plastic surgery more than he would like the new shape.

By contrast, if you work in a public service job, or in a big office and there is competition and how you dress is part of office politics and competition and the difference between getting clients to sign or not, that is where I would say you’re dressing for other people. Same if you’re in a punk band and worried about not being “punk enough” and getting piercings or whatever because of that, to fit in and not necessarily because you like the idea of piercings.

I generally don’t think modifying your own body is a good idea, and it’s unnecessary. The whole “if someone demands to be impressed, they are not worth impressing” thing.

But it is your body, do what you want.

Also inform yourself about the medical side of things, as mentioned by others.

I wish you happiness with your decision either way.

idk, I’ve been using xubuntu for more than 10 years now, I’m not happy with absolutely everything, but the trouble I do have is definitely less effort to fix than learning a new, more elaborate distro.

So, it’s a pretty good, common denominator, and as long as it keeps working it doesn’t really need to be anything else?

I’m sure there are differences and niches that other distros fulfill better, but until there is a killer feature I’m interested in that only works on a specific distro or works extremely well on a different distro, I don’t see the “push” factor that would make me leave?

(btw, that there is no “report bugs here” button that’s just built into the window manager (besides the -,+,x buttons) and takes me to project home pages or bug trackes is wild to me, on any distro as far as I know. Like they don’t want to interact with users? I don’t get it.)

Not really, I wouldn’t watch big names though, they’re going to pump out the same stuff as always.

I would expect new and good games to continue to come out and I’m looking forward to them.

The same way you take an interest in any other person.

Ask them what they like and why they like it. Make it clear that you would like to understand.

And absolutely do NOT react in any way negatively. No “that’s it”, no nothing, no “ew”, no disappointment, nothing. If he tells you he watches paint dry in his free time, ask him what color and if you can join him some time. And be persistent and try make specific plans, I have relatives I like with shared hobbies and we barely manage to schedule something.

If your son already has a hobby it’s kind of easier because you can ask him about things he did and things he finds inspiring. If he’s doing performance or sports, you can watch and support him doing that? Shop for equipment together, etc… If he has a competitive, creative problem don’t pressure him and reassure him.

If he likes media, try to lend some of his and try to enjoy it. Usually, even with hobbies you dislike, there is a point where it’s somewhat interesting if you are motivated to learn about it. That does take some time though and you will need to invest that time. You can just weave in a quick “… and how is your [x] going”. That’s reserved for more distant relatives.

But also he’s 15 so none of that may work for biological reasons.

And also, it takes two. If you want to bond, but he does not, period, there isn’t really much you can do, except persistently offer it.

In a sense yes. Once a company has captured the entire (global) economy, including banking, it would control who to give credit to, who to employ, what to pay them, what their own products are priced.

They could at most reap as “profit” what they give out in credit and payment.

There may be sub-limits for capturing entire industries.

Humor is difficult.

It’s tough when it’s actually a bad joke or they are telling it badly, but they find it funny.

If it’s a genuinely funny situation / retelling, both of you laughing about the same thing and also about how the person in question is struggling to breathe because they have to laugh so much, that’s funny.

But it really really really depends.

Basically any movement or prolonged pose becomes it’s own exercise.

“wall sit” might not be good for the ankle.

What you can do for your back, are exercises laying on your stomach, and then lifting and moving arms and legs. Up and down, can slow or faster, just holding them up isn’t easy either. You’ll figure out which poses tire and train which muscles. If you do it straight it’s more for those along your spin, if you spread your arms it’s more for the shoulders.

Side leg raises are probably another idea that shouldn’t put strain on your injuries.

The rest kind of depends how much you can even just stand. Maybe something involving Therabands?

Here is one of my favorite exceptions:

https://www.oglaf.com/assorted-fruits/

We don’t know what an eventual outcome will be right now and it would be… weird to talk about help financing “defense” for years and then actually negotiate for concessions.

It’s an open secret that if all Russian nukes would disappear over night, the other members of the UN security council would probably party for a week. The US (and the EU) is supporting Ukraine because that’s the right thing to do AND it is in their interest because who knows what a bigger Russia will do next. But they’re also doing it because it’s weakening Russia and that’s also in their interest, even though they would never publicly say it or not with the intensity that they actually think that way.

Long story short, if the absolute optimal (for Ukraine and “the west”) thing happens:

• the war exhausts Russia more than Ukraine + supporters
• the timing for negotiations is chosen in a way that is extremely bad for Russia, to the effect that Russia doesn’t have to just apologize, return territory, pay reparations, and all that, but ALSO give up other things.
• like UN observers and limits to their military.
• nuclear disarmament
• ???

It would look extremely badly if politicians, actual leaders of nations, were to talk about “defense” for years and then actually ask those things in the end. Which they want to.

So (imo, it’s all speculation) it’s preemptive PR management that leaves room for that asking for more things than would be justifiable with “defense”.

One of the events that comes to mind was a “open” conference at a university that “actively encouraged” “low class” participation. (They didn’t say this).

What I mean by that is that it happened during normal work hours and you had to send an email to sign up, but they did allow you to come.

Over the course of the event it became clear that it was a joint PR thing for the sponsors and the university to appear to be “doing something about [issue]”, so they had 2 talks, an audience participation thing, where it was very clear that the thing needed most was more funding for people and work material and tools (think PPE, it wasn’t that or that critical). …and a panel discussion between [company] and [5 politicians] that in absolutely no way addressed the issues that were brought up in the audience participation part.

There was very nice, expensive catering.

Pretty surreal experience and something that solidified my belief that some very important parts of our society are utterly broken beyond repair.

1. the world doesn’t owe you at least one morally correct choice. They can also just all be morally bad choices. (hello classical greek drama btw)
2. morals depend on your point of view what correct behavior is and on the social group you want to be respected and accepted by.
3. because of that, morals are subjective, made up, and can be whatever anyone wants.

So xyz being “morally correct” and saying that, is just that person’s point of view, and if you have a different point of view, it’s just a difference of opinion.