It feels like there are about 100 million of us in the states scratching our necks like Dave Chappelle and saying “y’all still got any of that ‘regime change’ we been handing out?”

The OG conservative undiagnosed-something parent.

Oh don’t worry, most of them who voted for him a third time are still cheering on the leopards with glee as all the smart-ass minorities and democrat-run areas get what’s coming to 'em!

I went and looked at the profile of a real life trumper who is no longer a friend, on a social media site that I also mostly avoid, and they are openly supporting ICE.

Their justification is literally “imagine if you or your loved one was killed by an illegal” after listing a random list of names of people who were supposedly killed by “ILLEGALS.” But it’s a 3-paragraph post written by somebody who seems to think they are very clever for coming up with a weak metaphor for “imagine if somebody got some shit instead of you” so it’s probably just a copypasta from some grifter they follow.

I love your vision, and I hope we keep moving in a sensible reality-based direction like that.

But then I look at the world and think that’s just one set of labels among a million that prompt some people to do awful shit. Kids would still bully the kids that dress different if we had no words for gender roles but still lived in the rest of our deeply ill culture.

But hey, I am also gonna keep making my little spot on the earth a kind and honest place despite, you know, all of everything.

I’m just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a “, lol” to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.

The head-to-head comparison between the update user experience is so incredibly lopsided against Windows, that it kind of seems silly.

I bet if both have a big yearly update, I could format and install an entire fresh copy of the linux distro before the windows machine would be usable.

Accidental Reichissance!

Good on you guys for leaving this image up. This photo may not be old enough to be history, but it is obviously historic.

I didn’t say there were no issues.

My 4-monitor setup at work functions considerably better in both ubuntu and debian based Linux Mints than it does in Windows. Just your standard corporate Dell laptop & docking station.

No computers have zero weird stuff wrong with them. But over time the design intent has mattered more and more versus just the bugginess of the execution.

In my experience though, Linux has pulled ahead in both. And by a lot.

Yeah, my old machines (and work laptop!) are all nvidia, and it’s nice how seamlessly it works.

With the main version of mint that’s based on ubuntu, you get a driver manager so that you can choose between driver versions if needed.

With Linux Mint Debian Edition, it worked fine for general use out of the box with the open source driver. I went looking for info about the nvidia driver out of curiosity, and after stumbling upon some forum discussion I went ahead and tried “sudo apt install nvidia-driver” and it freaking worked!

• note I might be slightly off on that command, this is just from memory. And I probably enabled non-free software previously, because I know nvidia’s reputation with linux enthusiasts.

edit to add: it did a LONG setup process to enable the nvidia driver too. I think it compiled some kernel modules and stuff too. But I like reading all that lovely monospaced terminal text scroll by with those details most users can ignore.

Go install Linux Mint and you might just realize that line is already way behind microsoft.

That is such an adorable and proud smile. I love it. She looks exactly like one of my nieces too. Excuse me while I have my old man moment.

I’m not sure where to start here, so here are two equally important building blocks.

First, aside from other reasons the Nazi/minority is wrong, you are comparing a label somebody gets for existing the way they were born with a label somebody gets for actions they take that harm other people.

Second, some kind of mishmash of the terms “social contract” and “paradox of tolerance.”

I think for a regular IV it actually takes a lot of air in the line, but with a central line it’s a lot more dangerous.

I’m not an expert and I didn’t check my info but I did stay at a hoiday inn express get an IV every month for the past decade, and in years past have discussed these things with seasoned nurses as I watched air bubbles of various sizes enter my vein.

That’s some genuine folk wisdom for ya, lol.

Jeez. Forget going mask-off. This asshole just did the equivalent of walking in the room naked.

To a huge extent, I don’t think they know there are other options.

Or they are well aware of different cultures but know to their core that the USA is the greatest society to ever exist and God’s chosen or some shit. So all those progressive policies sound nice, yet they have produced abysmal results in every single European country! This is true by definition when every place outside the US is utter trash in your lead-addled brain.

Oh I want those things too. The current size of Lemmy is not my ideal. It’s just really really nice in its current form for me as a unique little nerdy place hidden in plain sight from what most of the internet has become.

It was more the juxtaposition of how the world needs all these open technologies that people band together to create for the good of all, buuuuut if nobody notices this particular one then that will serve my personal interests. And to be clear I’m not hoping for that or trying to hold it back. Just pointing it out. :)

American here, and one who grew up in what is now trump country. Well, I guess I still live in a republican area now, but I started out rural.

Your conclusion about how the society as a whole is sick is 100% spot on.

I don’t do much international travel, but I did get to spend a little bit of time in europe in the past couple years. Most of it in scandinavia of all places!

The difference is crazy, even not counting all this recent crazy shit. On the surface things look similar. But being immersed in it let all the little details sink in simultaneously.

There’s an air of dignity and respect that I am just not used to in american society. Even just the instances of “we couldn’t have that, somebody would immediately ruin it” were constant.

Yep, I’m ready to read the news that this platform surpassed the user base of Lemmy on the first day and never looked back. And I am ready to not be bothered by it.

Good on them for any pain they inflict on reddit. And I do hope the fediverse takes over the global media landscape because that is better for humanity than corpo-governmental gatekeepers. But if Lemmy’s user base just hangs around in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions, I am content.

Oh no, the US’s military strikes now have press-only events, information embargoes, and street dates like it’s the damned video game industry?

You have to love it when people whose frickin’ job is the law just stand there and say “unlawful” followed by a word from the bill of rights.

I mean, we are way past that, but still fuck this guy.