Mostly_Gristle @ Mostly_Gristle @lemmy.world

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I don't know who hurt this guy, but it sounds like we're only a couple more low-effort math jokes away from hearing a rant about the Jews, and how the woke mindvirus is destroying America.

I honestly don't remember. It was a long time ago. I also tried Mint thinking it might be more intuitive, but I couldn't get WiFi to work with either of them.

20ish years ago I installed Ubuntu on a laptop with the intention to get off Windows. I then spent 4 to 6 hours a day for the next two weeks just trying to get the WiFi to function. None of the fixes I could Google up worked, and that was frustrating. It was the people in the Linux forums that finally made me quit trying, though. The amount of gatekeeping was kind of shocking. Like, how dare I bother such mighty computer men with my plebian questions. I should feel honored that anyone condescended to respond at all, and I should gratefully accept their link to a fix I've already tried and fuck off.

I bought a new PC last year and I hate Windows 11 so much that it's got me eyeing Linux again. But the thought of having to repeat that whole ordeal again makes me feel sick to my butthole.

Student: "Hey, a shortcut! Let me first just walk around the long way so I can measure the length of the other two sides, multiply those lengths by themselves, add them together, and find out how much extra walking I've saved myself by taking the shortcut. Boy, this shortcut sure is saving me a lot of effort. Hooray Pythagoras!"

I live in Colorado, and hadn't heard anything about this until now. So yeah, I'm thinking that move kind of backfired.

And all cake is comprised of at least three toast layers.

Oh, well, if the film studios say so then by all means...

Don't forget that the Federation is supposed to be a post-scarcity socialist utopia.

The state of science reporting has been absolute dog shit for decades. The vast majority of the time when you track down the study an article is based on, the claims of the article are either massively exaggerated, or sometimes even completely different than what the article claims. It seems like a whole industry of taking fairly mundane studies and punching them up into some exciting pieces of short fiction. So many years of garbage reporting has me immediately skeptical of any article with a bold claim, or which mentions any kind of significant breakthrough.

I was hoping it was going to be jaankenschnitzel.

Portable bidets are a thing. Basically a squeeze bottle with a special nozzle to direct the stream. Periods aren't something I have to deal with, so I really don't know what kind of cleanup is required, but it seems like it would be better than nothing.

Huh, I would have guessed it would be more of a urine and mildew smell.

Will never understand why people have such a hard on for him that they treat him like a god so their entire personality is based on him

It's because they are cruel people. Trump, and people like him, give them permission to indulge their cruelty. They give them an avenue to lean into their worst, most hateful, instincts and still feel like a good and righteous person.

See, hateful racist pricks don't view themselves as hateful racist pricks. They view themselves as sensible, rational people who see "what's really going on." When someone like Trump comes along and says, "No, you're right. The Muslims are trying to force public schools to make your child pray to Allah. The Mexicans are flooding over the border to steal your job. The Jews are conspiring to replace good white people with dirty 'woke' minorities," well, suddenly Trump is "making a lot of sense," and "telling it like it is."

Trump makes them feel good about being their worst selves. Trump lets them believe that anyone who questions their hateful worldview is just some libtard afflicted by the "woke mindvirus" and can be written off as subhuman and beneath contempt. He lets them think that maybe they'll finally get to kill a few of them if he's running the show. And because of all that he has earned their undying devotion.

Same here. It's been a while since I've owned an actual TV to hook them up to though.

At the time? Practically everybody. She got absolutely slaughtered in the media, and it went on for years.

So the guy who notoriously despises public transit failed to come through on his promise to revolutionize public transit?

Wow.

I mean, who could have seen that coming?

All that trouble over maybe $10 worth of ammunition... You'd think they'd just quietly drop it in the trash or something. It's not like it's some kind of ultra-precious irreplaceable unobtanium or something.

Pyrophoric (adj) -- Liable to ignite spontaneously on exposure to air.

Just in case you weren't entirely sure what that word meant either.

Nah, I hired an electrician to handle all that for me. Now if I want electricity all I have to do is stick a plug in a socket, or flip a switch. It's way more convenient.

Of course it would be. Dictatorships aren't really possible in a country with a military that refuses to march against its own people.