This is true. While I appreciate Al Jazeera’s coverage of Gaza, at the end of the day, they’re a mouthpiece for an autocracy. And their primary media contrast is, well, other mouthpieces for other autocracies.
I hate watching the news. It’s terrorist empires and wannabe empires having pissing contests with each other.
Roleplaying games. Games that let me pick my body and my pronouns with all the sliders, with dialogue that doesn’t try to tell me who and what I am. Even if it’s a fantasy world, I can turn off the rest of the world for long enough to recuperate and feel like the human I am inside again. It gives me enough of a reprieve to tolerate the people who don’t tolerate me.
Having friends who know me and see ME does wonders for my dysphoria too.
It’s 50+ countries in a trenchcoat. Pan-Americanism, in the US context, is laughable at best and absolutely a shambling nightmare at worst. There’s several reasons why our government sucks. But the sheer size of this fucking empire is the top of the list.
Before the end of the century, it’s going to Balkanize hard.
Having to explain how you ended up in a death camp in El Salvador when you came to visit legally as a tourist.
This. We’re not surviving the stars if we can’t survive ourselves.
I don’t have the fluency to detect vulnerabilities or memory leaks. I wish I did, and I’m trying to learn. Being self-taught is hard work.
But I can read bug reports and get the hint. And I check upstream sources to make sure projects are still under active development. Even occasional maintenance is better than nothing.
Greta Thunberg’s name will be penned next to Malcolm X and Mahatma Gandhi in the history books of the future.
Connecting: “I know how that feels. This one time, something similar and awful happened to me. It still hurts.”
One-Upping: “Oh, that’s nothing. This one time, something similar and awful happened to me, pity me for how I hurt more than you.”
I use Debian. Anyway, what desktop environment do you use? KDE, XFCE, or something else?
Wow, finally got past the bot and found a human. Unless they’ve started telling the bots to add in random typos to throw us off the scent.
I wish I was better at coding. But maybe I can give it a shot, try and figure out how good accessibility tools work and make some kind of effort at copying it.
You’re gonna laugh, but I have a lot of love for Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. How Tim Curry managed to chew the set that hard with horns that size is beyond my acting skill to comprehend. And the fact that Tom Cruise ran around saving unicorns from Satan with a motley crew of fairy sidekicks is a sentence gay enough to make me puke rainbows. I’m already gay, man, I puke rainbows all month during June.
Seriously, it’s a good and awful movie. It has no plot, it’s just aesthetic art. But if you want a really good fantasy movie about unicorns… The Last Unicorn. Full stop. It has made me cry since I was a child. Not a B Movie, just a cult classic.
But if you REALLY want a B movie? Time Bandits. How the hell Kenny Baker went from R2-D2 to one of the gremlin thieves on strike because God wouldn’t let them have a turn on the time machine… I can’t. And kidnapping The Generic English Schoolboy as their sidekick was just… interesting. At least Sean Connery did a great job as Agamemnon.
Don’t mind me, being a casual user since 2014 taking down notes as I’m reading the debates in the comments.
But I finally found out why Steam kept crashing. Snap broke it. I forced it to run as a flatpak, and now it works exactly as intended. Literally what made me finally switch from Ubuntu to Mint.
Didn’t expect to see a legend just scrolling here. Thank you for your contributions to computer science.
Yeah, I jumped ship right around the time Win8 came out. 14.04 was an interesting time to start learning. I was obsessed with trimming out bloat, so I used a tool to uninstall orphaned packages. Problem was, it also deleted some dependencies for GNOME.
I had, to quote the most helpful and humorous person in an Ubuntu forum post, “borked it so bad it had to be nuked from orbit.”
I have since learned my lesson and learned to be a little bit more careful with the magical responsibilities of sudo.
<I think I still have an old book that cautioned if you configured your refresh rates and monitor settings incorrectly your monitor could catch on fire.> Are you telling me that one dev for X.org could set someone’s monitor on fire by fucking with four lines of code?
Jesus Christ, thanks for that, I didn’t need to sleep tonight.
American here. Fucking true, brother. You tell 'em!
Queen Liliuokalani deserves to have her name heard. And the US and the Dole Corporation both owe Hawaiians their sovereignty back.
That is some amazing photographer luck!
Star Wars: A New Hope. C-3PO.