Nalivai @ Nalivai @discuss.tchncs.de

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You don't understand, kids are really summoning satan with their dungeons and dragons books, and every grown up should be very threatened about it!

Ironically, it's actually doesn't work on a small scale. It works on a medium scale, big enough to have a stable audience, not big enough to get lucrative deals from brands.
It might not work to support a lifestyle of AAA company CEO, and it might not work at pushing out hundreds of unimaginative boring microtransaction machines, but I would say it's just a bonus

a flat amount

Nope, the amount is anything but flat. For bigger youtubers the ad money start to be significant, and for bigger podcasters spotify pays something, but for the most, amount of money from ads is negligible.

Core i7-6700 with 32 gb ram isn't worth $400? Daymn, I'm due to upgrade then

Podcasters and medium to small youtubers work like that (bigger also get some money from ads, but for medium to small, Patreon is the main source of revenue). You can get their shit for free, but they would like you to give them some money after if you can.
The scale is a bit different, but the scheme works.

Why are you stealing from libraries? Not cool, man

I am subscribed to a train

The idea is that you support creators out of the appreciation and not because you're forced to.
This seems to work as a model for YouTubers and podcasters. They usually have most of their stuff available for free, and people pay them money, and more often than there is no reward for the money, other than satisfaction of supporting the creator.
This is obviously one example, and it only works for periodic installments, but it is a working alternative to the system, where people who don't want or can't pay don't do that

Don't be mistaken, people who decided not to vote against Trump share the same level of blame. In some cases more, because all-the-way Trumpists are gone as human, and hardly reachable, but a lot of abstainers had the capacity to change, had the mental ability to do the right thing, but actively decided not to, and that's a use of free will that shouldn't be mistaken for anything else.

And I'm not saying it never happens, a lot of bad ideas are happening all the time.
But if you think anything regarding flags, languages and countries is clear cut in Europe, it's mainly because you aren't paying attention.

English is an official language in 53 countries, and primary language in 29. You can attempt to split it, but that wouldn't be very pleasant picture.

No, typically they aren't, and if they do it's a bad idea. Only 4% of L1 Portuguese speakers live in Portugal. There is 4 languages in Switzerland. German originated in at least 3 countries. USisans will throw a hissy fit if they will have to click on anything but their favourite star spangled banner for their language.
It's a mess.

German language as we know it now, predates Germany by at least 500 years, originated, roughly speaking, in the area that is now Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and in small part Belgium and Netherlands.
It only simple and easy if you don't know about it and don't care. But people who use the language, surprisingly, do care.

It also provides all the knowledge of humanity for those who are willing to take it. Some chose to only watch brain rot, so they only see brain rot. And their rants don't provide even snark, they suck the life out of conversation with their misguided misanthropy

Sometimes they can control for known variables. I don't think they did it in this case

Arch will immediately force the user to go through a lot of hoops, learn a million terminal commands

I don't know if it was ever true, but it's definitely not true now. You don't need to know more scary terrifying terminal commands than you need on any other distribs. And if you need to install any software, you will on average have to use less scary terminal commands on Arch than on, for example, Ubuntu that is usually recommended to a newbie. Most of the software you will ever need is in (from user's perspective) one place. You don't need to connect any additional repositories and don't need to install separate versions of libraries and stuff (and that's done with horror inducing terminal, might I remind you). And don't even get me started on snap and all the headache it brings.
If you're using your computer as a glorified browser, you don't care about rolling releases. If you use various software, rolling release is better for compatibility.
I am speaking from lots of experience helping various levels of newbies get into Linux. As much as you might think Ubuntu is "more intuitive" whatever the fuck that might mean, I can assure you, it's not, it's very much the opposite of that.

Either OP wanted it or not, this is the language of "getting back to the better times" crowd.

Some people around the world eat what is sometimes known as "american diet", but it's not a norm yet, not everywhere.

Just for context, it's a uniquely American problem. The rest of the developed world on average eats more balanced diet and don't need to supplement fiber.

What flag is for English? What flag is for Portuguese? What about Austria, do they got a language? What do we put under Chinese flag, Mandarin? Where do Cantonese go? Oh, what about Belarusian? There are at least three options, and two could get you in jail, choose carefully.