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Just remember that it was ultimately the corpos who showed us that theft doesn't matter anymore.

It's a diversion from the crazy shit actually going down that will really affect a lot of people.

Goebbels would be very proud.

I'll tell you what though: one you get used to it, you really get used to it.

I typed :q to try and close a tab the other day.

Edit: a tab not in vim, of course

Corporate news isn't about reporting. It's about clicks. They will always be biased to clickbaity, sensationalist shit.

It isn't fixable without changing the system within which the media operates.

They agreed to terms when they operated under Creative Commons.

Yes -- and it's a huge difference. Lots of jaggies on the original.

Mind you, they didn't resolve as well considering CRTs.

The Fiat Panda of text editors

Why have just one additional failure point when you can have two?

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question.

Laws mean nothing anymore. Therefore licenses mean nothing. Therefore ownership means nothing, and "theft" no longer exists.

The actual game didn't look like this. But it did look damn good for its time. I remember being absolutely amazed.

Egos built on lies are inherently fragile.

Crucially, the policies Trump wants are designed to make himself and his cronies richer. But they will not lower consumer prices -- it's quite the opposite in most cases.

Hence the need for the diversion. Shit is about to get a lot worse and he's hoping no one will notice.

The fact that it's immutable isn't necessarily good for people new to Linux. If something does go wrong, or the user wants to change something significant, most of what they read online about how to do that will not work like many other distros.

For experienced users, sure, there probably isn't much difference.

I see Trump feels like he needs to take over Elon's headlines.

It used to be bad. In the last few years, it isn't. We want other people to use Linux now.

Or literally any other distro.

Pop is probably much easier to be up and running vs. Bazzite.

That does make sense.

Related to my original comment, I've been on a Japanese Shinkansen many times. It is a shockingly different experience. Comfortable, clean, no fuss, and relatively inexpensive. From Tokyo to Kyoto in about 2 hours (roughly 450km distance).

Once you leave the high speed train, you're greeted by a subway system also second to none. Get virtually anywhere you need to in the city without the need for a car. A 45 minute ride tends to be $3-4.

Even in cities with relatively limited subway systems (limited for Japan -- still extensive in many comparisons), like Kyoto, the bussing system is actually fantastic. Equally clean, and you can even use the same touch card you use for rail.

European trains are pretty great too. Maybe not as nice as Japan, but e.g. the German ICE is pretty clean and also affordable. Sure, DB is famous for being late too, but not Amtrak levels of late.

I guess that was just a ramble. All to say: what wonderful things our "modern" countries could do if we didn't idolize fighting amongst ourselves.

Very deceptive headline. Quotes on 'babysitter' in a sentence purporting to be about Melania's opinion.

A simple ", says source" at the end would have given significantly more journalistic integrity.

I know. A tall order in 2025.

If you've ever ridden Amtrak, you probably know what the big problem is: most rail lines in the US give extreme priority to freight, and the freight operators basically own all the track. As a result, Amtrak is constantly late -- sometimes very late, since it needs to wait for freight to do its thing.

Couple that with Amtrak rates being sky high, plus the fact that it's extremely slow even without the freight waiting, and it's a much deeper story than how much track exists.