The people who are satisfied with status quo are the beneficiaries of it.

People like Epstein can’t exist without a universe of assholes who figure it’s not their problem.

My wildest dream is to die in a world that is marginally better than the one I got born in. At this point I’d settle for marginally worse, since catastrophically worse is a real possibility.

Every-day pedestrian computer tasks should be easy to complete with the keyboard only. Mice were bad enough as a crutch for lazy users, but now it’s a crutch for lazy developers.

Let me pick on Mozilla for a second. In many of Firefox’s menus, they have alt keys. You know, an underlined letter in a word that you can select by holding the alt key and pressing that letter. In FF, many of these letters are capitalized. So now you have to press shift+alt+whatever letter. Criminally bad design.

Murdering people and stealing their land is way older than Jews, Abraham’s God, or the Old Testament. The reasons are always the same, why do we focus on the justifications?

The difference between Manifest Destiny and Zionism is academic; I don’t need to know how a monster thinks of it’self.

Stop making everything political!

The national anthem of people who love the status quo!

Just a reminder that the raid on Waco was about more than modified and stockpiled guns, but it was also about David Koresh raping little girls. So as bad as the three letter apes are, still better than pedos.

Also, I just want to point out how impotent all those guns were when it came time to oppose the government. Some of you 2nd-brained people should study that.

You can’t pump gas out of an oil well. It has to be transported, refined, transported again, then burned. The price can fluctuate wildly in that time.

the 20% is the estimated reality now. the 60% is what the market is betting the real price will be.

What econ101 does to your brain is not normal. Into to Econ has y’all seeing a sinking ship and the first thing to ask is “how much is this life jacket worth in dollars”?

Ancestry is weird. You’ve got 2 parents, 4 grandparents and so on. Do the math and you’ll have a billion ancestors in like 40 generations. Obviously, we can’t all have a billion unique ancestors, so mathematically there must be plenty of people in my family tree that are also in yours. No matter the geographic spread or race nonsense.

However it’s also true that you’ve got 50% of your parents DNA, ~25% grandparents and so on. Which means eventually, you’ll have an ancestor that you share no genetic markers with. It’s usually about generation 12 where this happens.

So it’s true that we’re all related and it’s also true that your not related to your 12^th great grandfather.

My favorite is a pamphlet printed and distributed by Sam Adams warning the white colonists of the King’s secret plan to make them slaves.

I like this one because it reminds me that conspiratorial “thinking” in American politics is not a new phenomena.

I started with Debian and am driving Catchy now. Catchy will pull you into the terminal more than Debian will, but you don’t sound like someone put off by that.

The good news is that pacman is easy to learn and Catchy’s default terminal app is superior.

Humanoid robots are as dumb as a bag of hammers. It’s like when the first automobiles looked like carriages because that’s what everyone was used to.

The only practical reason to make a robot look like a person is so you can fuck it. That’s it. Every other task can be performed better by removing human limitations and complexity.

So now Ubuntu is the OS where “advanced users can just turn all that crap off”.

No, no, we should deffenatly punish some of them.

You’re right. Linux has always struggled to compete with hypothetical versions of Windows that aren’t available. But you see, for testing purposes, we’re forced to use the Windows version from this timeline.

I put the hook from “Freddie the Freeloader” as my ringtone on a flip phone back in like 2010. Even though I love that song, associating it with someone calling ruined it for me, and I still wince a little when I hear it.

Tech in general has a huge boomer-humor problem in that all those old fucks that wrote the original code stuffed it full of puns, in-jokes, and idioms that are only relevant today in retirement homes in Ohio.

And I don’t mean this is annoying or funny, but as a legitimate problem. It’s bad enough that you have to learn English to code, you also are disadvantaged for not sharing the culture with retirement age white dudes from America.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was good boomer humor, but remember, these are the guys who think “Linux Is Not uniX” is funny.

To the gun-brained “progressives”: have you ever noticed that the elites, owners, and conservatives all promote and encourage gun ownership? Why do you suppose that is?

It’s bad enough that all the rednecks think their hobby makes them Daniel Boon without fools on the left thinking a fetish object can turn them into Fred Hampton. You’re just a volunteer gun salesman, congratulations. The NRA loves you.

Black people of wealth maintain that wealth by exploiting labor.

A dirty bomb wouldn’t “work”. As in it wouldn’t cause any more damage or fatalities than the explosives would on their own. You’d have to hang out at ground zero for a while to get radiation dosages that are dangerous, and other than having to clean the effective area like a super-fund site, the explosives are still the dangerous bit.

The Chernobyl disaster was similar to a dirty bomb, and no terrorist could hope in their wildest dreams to get that much nuclear material. But even with the scale of nuclear release, and gross mismanagement of the event, today the site is contained and safe to visit.

Nuclear is just scary, that’s it. I’ve often wondered if the whole idea of a dirty bomb was to get the terrorists to waste any nuke material they found.