Tries to become a permanent resident of a country whose omnicidally greedy citizenry re-elected Trump. Shocked when fascists treat him the way fascists treat people. Asks Irish government to raise his case with, I shit you not, Donald Trump.
Bill Hicks (video):
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. […]
There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers, OK, kill yourself.
Seriously, you are the ruiner of all things good. […]
No this is not a joke. You’re “There’s going to be a joke coming.” There’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourself. It’s the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself […]
I know all the marketing people are going, “He’s doing a joke” There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend – I don’t care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. […]
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too: “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart.”
Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking, evil scumbags! […]
Abolish ICE entirely?
42% of U.S. adults, while 50% do not, and 9% are unsure.
50% of 18-34 year olds.
49% of postgraduates.
48% of females, 35% of males.
69% of Democrats.
48-50% of non-whites, 38% of whites.
Civiqs January 8, 2026 poll. I’m not sure what N is - there’s an number at the top of the page but that may span 8 years.
Anyone know why LibreWolf isn’t in the default Debian repositories? I trust Debian - I’m not going to add a repository to get LibreWolf.
Until it’s available from a default Debian repo, I’ll keep going thru my list of all the garbage I have to go switch off in Settings and about:config every time I install Firefox for someone.
Between 2019 and 2023, Waterfox was owned by advertising company System1.
So be careful of Waterfox if you agree more with Bill Hicks when it comes to advertising.
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You can instead try a distro that just works on most hardware, like Linux Mint or other easy-to-use distros suggested in this thread. That way you can slowly learn how to use Linux if you want, while using Linux, so you can later use a more finicky distro more suited to what you want.
For years I used Ubuntu, but when GNOME 3 came out I changed to Xubuntu, and then when Snap came out I changed to Mint Xfce. I’ve used several 2nd-hand desktops and laptops over the decades, so brand-new hardware might be more problem-prone.
I started off trying Slackware, SUSE, and Mandrake; but struggled too much with them so I stayed with Windows. Ubuntu just worked for me, so it allowed me to easily ditch Windows. Years later, I had update problems when I tested MX Linux and Debian, but instead of trying to fix it, I personally found it easier to just look for a distro better suited to the way I want to use my computer.
Your top list is for Gen Z’s where #1 is "12345, combining for everyone #1 is 123456.
“LSLANDS (LSLAS MALVINAS)”
Why are the capital "I"s printed as "L"s, but the lowercase "i"s in small caps are correct?
Why is “U.K.” lowercase (small caps), but “ARGENTINA” in all caps (also in small caps)?
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I can’t find it now, but I saw a paper that said that India is one of 8 countries in the world where electric cars (charged from the main grid(s), no matter what time of day) release more CO2e than fossil-fuel cars, because of the amount and terrible quality of coal used to generate most electricity in those countries. The few cars charged only from renewable sources like wind/solar/etc. are of course vastly less omnicidal. Anyone have any good citations?
If this is true, would it also be true for coal-to-electricity trains vs more straight fossil-fueled trains?
Even trains in these bad coal-to-electricity countries might be less harmful than even the best renewably powered cars, as long as the trains aren’t regularly running with minimal passengers.
While I prefer the UK version, the Australian show has my favorite Taskmaster moment ever: Concetta Caristo vs the vertical bathroom scale:
The 2 trillion figure is the minimum: it could be more than 6 trillion every year, and the elephant in the room is that more than half of those are factory farmed - which means humans are responsible for torturing them their entire lives.
“for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka” - Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Aren’t the A and Q keys also at terrible positions?
Seems like they’re banned in several countries and by several providers: https://web.archive.org/web/20250531154905/https://catbox.moe/faq.php
My apologies to Catbox, I thought they were requiring cookies or cross-site-scripting
Am I having a stroke, or are the photos of the people in that article something you’d expect from a broken AI clickbait site, rather than an article by a public service broadcaster?
According to Sayidina:
66.2% of these were high school students (349),
30.9% middle school students (163),
02.8% elementary school students (15).
Causes cited (multiple causes means these total to more than 100%):
349 Academic struggles, concerns about future paths.
284 Mental health issues, e.g. depression,
148 family-related problems. e.g. conflicts with parents.
This is from a non-paywalled older article from 2025-01 which gives the total of school-aged children’s suicides in Japan in 2024 at an all-time high of 527 (the 2 more in the newer article probably corrects cases incorrectly classified before).
“A notable increase was observed among female middle and high school students”
“In 2024, the number of suicides [for all ages] in Japan totaled 20,268, marking a decrease of 1,569 from the previous year and reaching the second-lowest level since records began in 1978.”
It’s sometimes an answer, e.g. !LeopardsAteMyFace@lemmy.world
A psychopath being injured while trying to harm others, deserves to be shamed. That might not be the case with Seamus here, but it oftentimes is.