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if you're diluting the isopropyl anyway, wouldnt it be cheaper to get a lesser concentration in bulk?

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Two buttons on the bottom of the window:

• "It's okay fam!"

and

• "I'm a grumpy meanie who doesnt understand things happen!"

I know its not everybody's cup of tea, but plain standard Ubuntu these days has a lot of polish and interoperability. The addition of gnome tweaks, extensions, and flatpak have left me not wanting much extra customisation.

This is after being on a dozen other distros and finding ironically they can be less customisable unless I want to spend an entire in terminal.

the other option is a faster, more privacy focused, free, open source operating system.

I made the switch a little over a year ago, I know not everybody can/wants to - but major distros are honestly polished enough these days that I haven't looked back, I should have switched to Linux years ago.

Not everyone will agree, but I think Ubuntu + installing apps through Flatpak is a winning option.

Americans saying the metric system is dumb while reasoning that its bad because they can't do decimals and fractions properly will never not be funny.

"omg 1/3km is 333.33 metres! it doesnt make any sense!"

1 foot = 0.33 yards? "totally logical, so easy!"

5280 feet in a mile? "wow so simple"

10mm in a cm, 100cm in a m, 1000m in a km? "its impossible to grasp!"

you guys think you're so ahead of the rest of the world, while crashing probes into Mars and not knowing a 1/3 pounder is bigger than a 1/4 pounder, but everyone else easily converting volume to weight to temperature to distance at every order of magnitude are just laughing at you.

IMO its always about scapegoating, you need to find a minority which is prevelant enough for people to have encountered, but not too many that they're in everyone's family or work or friend circle - and that won't have significant civic or voting power.

Post-ww2, ethnic divisions are more taboo, gay rights are too broadly popular to pursue, but trans people are the conservatives best punching down opportunity, while trying to appeal to people on the fence by being 'virtuous' and 'saving the kids'.

you know full well its not a matter of liking the product you're affiliated with, but an undisclosed conflict of interest in an environment where people have a reasonable expectation of transparent, non-biased testimonials from normal end users, not shilling from paid employees.

The meme isn't literally saying modern life is 'just as bad' as medieval serfdom - it's highlighting that despite almost unimaginable progress and development since then, economic and social conditions for the average person are becoming increasingly shit - and that the overlap in this venn diagram is a shameful rebuke of our complacency and the failings of the current system/those which are disproportionately benefiting under current uncertainty and exploitation.

In any case, suffering isn't a competition - someone who's circumstantially stuck in their shitty apartment paying off a lifetime of debt might be (more) free from the TB concerns and formal landlord permissions that medieval serfs had, but it doesn't for a second mean that people are guaranteed a healthy, happy, prosperous life - or that anybody in a developed country has the ability or the capital to do what they want or go where they please. Shit, I can't have 2 days to my fucking self without the ordained holy approval of my moron manager, in practice I'm no more free to venture or travel without affecting my livelihood when it comes to needing someone's say-so.

Amazon workers pissing in bottles to raise their children in a society which increasingly expects the individual to bear all costs of life but will gladly subsidise corporate malpractice is a crappy situation - and farmers in 12th century England having it worse doesn't diminish the shittiness of the situation for people alive today. I agree that historical literacy is important, but the meme doesn't exist to insult the serfs, it begs us to avoid their plight with infinitely more resources, having won hard-fought battles to avoid that sort of lifestyle.

I don't want to wait for the economic outlook gets even worse until we're all living in Meta/Tencent company towns and sleeping in pod hotels eating gruel for a comparison to become fully valid.

non American here. the red line was January 6th. Don't wait to see if more boxes are checked, every autocracy in history relied on people planning to resist when things 'really' got worse. By then it's always too late. They're planning accordingly.

I think their main point was that under capitalism, people will only ever be viewed for their economic utility - exploitation of affected groups is inherent to that reduction in a human's rights and their contributions beyond menial labour.

So the take isnt defending the status quo, it's saying how the best case scenario in an inherently soulless and uncaring system is to be paid cents on the dollar, and that more intervention to secure better pay, respect, and working rights, by definition, will always move further and further away from "capitalism" in it's purest, most discriminatory forms.

yeah the kid 100% had their dumbass parent's decision 'put upon' them.....how this is anything other than child abuse/manslaughter is beyond me - whether they're in a fringe religious group or not, they are still killing people that didn't have a real say in that outcome.

exactly the sketch I thought of when I saw this post!

glad someone said it: thats the actual historical term this headline reminded me of immediately

lol have you ever tried to use windows baked-in support or MS forums with "expert answers"?

And low-powered doesnt even make sense, there is less bloat and bing/copilot shit dragging the system down, my system on the exact same specs and drive boots into Linux in like 1/10 the time as windows.

As for useful software packages, services like Flatpak, snap, and deb are a breeze -and not being able to use enshittified adobe software instead of their now better free and open source alternatives is ridiculous - Linux on any distro is what most developers would prefer and browsing is exactly the same. Hell, even gaming which was peoples major "missing piece" has made leaps and bounds last year alone.

thats a fun example and and all, but what situation does "MyAssMy$1" arise from? 😳

I agree with intentionally provocational speech hiding behind the 'free speech' disguise being stupid, but I think its also important to see a difference between racial slurs and discrimination based on things that people can't change, versus legitimate criticism of religion - which, although not always easy to get out of (I.e. cults, trapped family members, cultural norms) I see as still a fundamentally voluntary behaviour that you can to an extent opt out of as a belief system, as opposed to discrimination on race, sex, disability, nationality, etc.

Now of course that doesnt mean I will go into religious buildings and shout obscenities or try to have edgy atheist rants at inoffensive elderly worshippers - but the saying that "your freedom ends where mine begins" holds true for me, and I won't tolerate outward discrimination on religious grounds, the forcing of those belief systems inside secular systems like schools or courts or governments, and I think I'm well within my rights to criticise harmful and unacceptable behaviour undertaken for 'religious' grounds, which would otherwise be crimes or offences. (I.e. animal torture/sacrifice, child marriage, slavery etc.)

France and colonialism need to be studied and their past mistakes interrogated, but being a dipshit apologist for fundamentalist extremist subhumans is substantially worse, because its happening now, and you actually know better.

Any comments on the kefalah system or insight into how Islam spread around the middle east? (hint: it was also colonialism dummy, just a kind you seem to think is acceptable as opposed to France's) Interestingly the racist colonisers stopped using capital punishment, albeit way too recently still, but they're not still fucking crucifying people like fucking savages for aposty.

Supporters of ignorant turds that can't handle a secular state's media's fundamental right to satirise a pedophile cult leader from 500 years ago should go retreat to the shadows from where they came. You might believe immensely in your god or prophet, but they dont exist in the reality of other people better educated, more inquisitive, or more fortunate not to be brainwashed into that belief by birth or oppression. Killing people who dont share your favourite religious text is stone age behaviour and the mark of an animal, not a human being.

Dont you dare pollute the legitimately necessary discourse about historical wrongdoings in the world with justifications of terrorism because you never opened more than one book before.

Celebrating people that reduced themselves and their community to barbarism because they couldn't mind their own fucking business in a multicultural society is pathetic and you should aspire to be better than that before someone tricks you into doing something stupid and dangerous.

it's for pixel phones only.

I absolutely agree that the modern internet has been turned into a corporate rage-bait hellscape, but do keep in mind that every generation that's ever lived feels that their childhood was better and safer than what exists today. It's human nature to prefer our fondest memories at our most carefree point in life - but although ipad babies are a scourge that terrify me, it's important to remember that children aren't all drooling fortnight zombies these days either.

The networks that do the most damage were specifically engineered that way due to the profit motive rewarding engagement of all sorts above positive connection. Social media is the problem, but it's only that way because of the economic and commercial factors involved. Individuals can always be assholes, but nobody has miserable memories of myspace and MSN online as genocide-facilitating false news propagators, because they weren't specifically designed to make people angry and breathlessly message everyone they know about a perceived problem.

Social media has the capacity to connect disparate groups of people, become a forum for interests, and open the world up to new perspectives and information - the intentional monopolisation of that promise by frankly, evil, multinationals is the root cause of the issue - not the technology itself.

Australia's new law will do fucking nothing, and as many experts have suggested, will probably make the issues worse. Bullying isn't limited to social media, so a child that previously found refuge by connecting with like-minded friends elsewhere or staying in touch when living remote, now gets to be 'saved' by being kicked off the platform and left with only the real-life bullying they endure at school. Counterproductive.

Additionally, if the platforms are such violent cesspools for children, why is it then acceptable for them to continue with their perverse rage-bait designs, so long as the user is over 16? The government should instead be regulating the mechanics and algorithms of the sites to make them safer, more reasonable and positive entities - rather than just giving up on any meaningful regulation and saying that meta is fine, because a 17 year old can get bullied in person instead of a 35 year old having revenge porn posted of them, or a 72 year old falling down a facebook conspiracy rabbit hole is a-ok.

This legislation was half-baked, forced through with little-to-no debate, stands to worsen the stranglehold of monopolised tech. It places the responsibility of parenting onto facebook, twitter, etc. which are the last entities in the damn world that should get to define 'safety' or police responsible usage. It does absolutely nothing to address the serious fundamental problems that pervade our modern, highly concentrated technology ecosystems, and actually gives them a free pass to allow the sites to fester even more (bringing in more profit as people doom-scroll longer, viewing more ads, when their specific fears and annoyances are deliberately tabulated and curated to make them as angry, paranoid, isolated, unhappy, and antagonistic as possible) by saying that it's a foregone conclusion that social media is evil, and we can't fix that, so why even try? /s

If they actually wanted to fix this problem, investing in education and help resources, probing into the design and function of these sites would be the way to do it. We've just scored a massive own goal at Zuckerberg, et. al's benefit, by asking them to police themselves and sacrificing everyone over the age of 16 to the hellscape of media as it is, instead of as it could be.