cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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I'm increasingly convinced that the US will never escape this pit of anti-intellectualism they've dug.

Easy decision to make when they are nowhere near ever turning a profit.

Yeah, it's good practice to avoid US food in general, especially meat, which is truly horrid. Produce can be hit-and-miss. Dry goods aren't so bad, but I still prefer to buy from any other country.

Being ‘racist’ has, at its basic tenant, has nothing to do with ‘race’ as much as it has to do with ‘being other than me’. A Catholic believing that all other religions are inferior to them is just as much a manifestation of ‘racism’ as discrimination by skin color.

I think the word you're looking for here is xenophobia, which specifically means "fear of those who are not like you". Racism, like fascism, has a narrower meaning than the overly broad way in which you're using it. Words have meanings, and if we start calling everything racist or fascist, those words lose all meaning and it becomes impossible to call out actual racism and fascism. Also, it's "tenet", not "tenant".

The difference is, corporations have no desire to rule over humankind, only to dominate their respective industry.

I think if you read up on tech CEOs, you wouldn't say this.

The Vatican is about as far removed from being responsive to a democratic public as the assassination of Pope John Paul I

That doesn't make it fascist, because it isn't a country. Is it evil, corrupt, and malicious? There's definitely a strong case for that. But is it fascist? By the definition you yourself posted, it can't be. You're clearly emotional about this and seem to think I'm defending the church, but I'm not -- I'm defending language, words and their meaning.

I think by your definition any large corporation would also be fascist, so I worry you're diluting the meaning of the term to the extent that it loses its impact. If we were talking about the middle ages then I'd agree with you, but in its current non-temporal state the church can't be nationalist at all, much less belligerently so. The Vatican is completely at the mercy of a democratic republic!

It's your friend's fault, they are brainwashed by the woke trans globalist agenda and can't understand you're doing it for their own good. Keep draining the swamp and they will eventually see you were right all along!

the cultural change around me has appeared, to me at least, both frighteningly rapid and preternaturally inexplicable.

It looks more like the humanist change of the 60s though to 2016-ish was the anomaly (at least in the US) and what we're seeing today was always present but people just kept their views hidden.

I'm beginning to think this all isn't about the price of eggs.

That was my thought… if you don’t need at least part of a paycheck to pay bills, you must be in great shape

I suppose it's all relative, but in many cases being able to survive one missed paycheque could mean simply having $1k in the bank. Surviving several months is another story.

"Gender assigned at birth" would be more accurate, but way too clunky in a sentence.

Most trans people would say they were never cis.

Bad terminology on my part, I wasn't sure how else to phrase it!

or zoxide and yazi

She was cis until she started using Nix.

I don't understand how that's even possible when they have so little to show for it. I like to imagine it's full of maliciously-compliant people trying to bleed Meta dry from the inside.

I realize I'm not answering your question at all, but if you're "moving to Linux for good", how about taking the whole SSD for Linux and keeping Windows in a VM for the rare times you need it?

Mainstreet were an outlier and "won" only because their overweighting of conservatives happened to coincide with the vote-splitting that happened in BC and ON between Liberal and NDP.

The meme that GIMP is in any way comparable to PS? Yeah, I agree.

The only surprise here is that it was for China, not Russia.

I will never tire of reading articles like this. It's like the nectar of the gods to me.