I’m trying… I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd ringo.

The flag looks a bit like a disgruntled goose.

I thought they more or less already did that? Although perhaps not at the UN.

They’ve already been making out that it’s an unacceptable act of aggression by Ukraine.

Next up:

• someone falls out a window
• Putin with mysterious illness, photos of him sitting many metres away across a stupidly long table.
• they will launch the nukes if other countries don’t stop supporting Ukraine.

He keeps trotting out the same old schtick though. Just yesterday / today at his mara lago presser, more Biden stuff.

4. His thinking is completely inflexible. He’s quite simply unable to adapt to his new opponents. He’s spent so long practising insulting biden in the mirror and now he can’t use his repertoire.

I think a lot of users are just very young, and the light of idealism hasn’t left their eyes.

I agree with you pretty much on all points.

I am also conflicted.

It’s up to courts and parole boards to determine what punishments are appropriate, given the context of the crimes.

I don’t like the guy, and of course his crime was repugnant, but I can still acknowledge that he’s one of the best volleyball players in the world. These two opinions are incongruous and yet, they exist at the same time.

Can someone spell it out for me?

Who did the nutty instances want to win?

Who did normal people want to win?

I agree.

In the 70s everyone thought there would be a nuclear apocalypse.

A few decades before that children were born intended to be used as free labour for subsistence agriculture.

Yes climate change is a threat unlike any we’ve ever faced, yes its getting worse quicker than we thought, and yes population reduction is one way to mitigate it… but I don’t think that makes it wrong to have a child.

It’s true that development takes skill, time, and effort, but there are many rewards which are not monetary.

I don’t “expect” a dev to put themselves into poverty maintaining an app that I feel like I deserve. But if there are apps maintained by devs as a hobby or whatever and are opensource then naturally those will be my preference.

I guess everyone has their own level of tolerance for ads.

To me, anything ad supported has a terrible “UX”. I’d put up with a lot to avoid ads.

Obviously you don’t care about ads and that’s fine too

I don’t get the tribalism around apps.

Somme are good, others less-so.

None are worth putting up with ads for.

… and continues to work.

Selling state secrets? Fine. Rapey stuff? Sure. Fraudulent documents? Amaze. Financial misrepresentations? Normal.

Yeah I love hearing the trash talk bur I don’t expect Mary has any special insights. It’s not like Don would be confiding in her.

It’s a strange duality though.

Polls are indicating he’s on the verge of becoming supreme eternal leader of the world, but he’s simultaneously the world’s biggest loser and most hated philanderer.

I think you missed the joke.

You’re not just “disagreeing”. You’re trotting out GOP propaganda, much like a bot programmed to do so.

I’m having a hard time believing that you actually believe what you’re saying.

My opinion doesn’t mean much since it’s been forever since I tried any other distro but I’m surprised Debian isn’t on the beginners list.

it might be a bit too involved for an absolute beginner to configure to perfection

I’m not really sure what this means? It might be more accurate to say it’s not the best distro if you’d like to tinker with your desktop experience.

Notably, nothing on the beginners list ought to be run as a headless server, but debian is perfect for that job. The reason I’ve become so enamoured with debian over the years is that I can use it on my desktop and on servers and it’s the same system - everything is exactly where I’m used to it being.

I think this is a misconception.

In the 90s it may have been true - windows was focused on user experience on the desktop. Pre- internet, security just wasn’t relevant.

Even in that era though, Linux was running on servers in universities et cetera managing many users.

I guess this is where the reputation arose.

These days I don’t think either is inherently more secure than another in a general sense.

For specific uses cases one might be more “reliable” than another just because it’s used more and therefore has more people looking at it. For example, the vast majority of Web servers are in a Linux environment, but the vast majority of on premise email servers would be Windows.

What I’m saying is, in 2024 the general security of each platform is going to be comparable, and only a very small component in your chain of reliability. Like if you develop a threat model, and write policies, and maintain behaviours in practice, the underlying security provided by the environment isn’t really that relevant.

in order to cause hurt on others

Actually that’s not my experience. This might be a really simplistic view but in Australia it seems the left supports the working class, and the right favors the corporate class.

My parents, now in their 80s, have been firmly “working class” their whole lives, and are now retired and living on a government pension.

They’ve voted for the conservatives their entire lives simply because of conservative values around social issues. They don’t seem to realise that their preferred party is also reducing social benefits like their pensions.

I see this exact dynamic a lot. As in… “my life is so hard because there are no social services or financial support, it must be the fault of immigrants, so I’ll vote for conservatives who will be mean to immigrants and poor people, and make me feel better about my hard working self”.

Which leads me to the next category… a lot of Asian migrants are deeply conservative, and the conservative party is constantly seeking to make migration from non european countries more and more difficult. My partner is a first generation migrant from Asia, so this is something I see a lot from her and her compatriots.

That said, I guess there’s a strong undercurrent of, as you say, people just being so miserable and beat down they feel like someone must be to blame, and if a conservative govt is going to put some minority under the thumb then that might feel pretty good.

IDK. Shit is fucked.

Their voters are fools that are fueled by hatred and stupidity.

Whole-heartedly agreed on this.

Perhaps this is arrogance, but I have the strongly held opinion that the vast majority of conservative voters vote against their own interests.