My first distro was Debian and I loved Gnome so much that I’ve never gotten around to trying anything else despite being on my 3rd distro hop.

I’m an old head and a firm believer in keyboard first computing. And I think an OS’s job is to be invisible until I need it. Gnome get’s out of my way until I summon whatever I need from it with the keyboard. For someone who’s labored under Windows for so long, Gnome is like escaping Plato’s cave.

Yea, I talk about my balls! My eyeballs are shaped like footballs and I require expensive corrective lenses.

Bribing ladies to hang around men in shitty bars was a plot by big lesbian the whole time.

Social media companies will target teenagers with ads for impulse products if they calculate that the user is stressed or tired.

You should let your community college people know that graduates from prestigious universities are being paid seven figures to influence not only how they spend and save, but also what they earn. Let them know that it’s their personal responsibility to overcome the efforts of trillion dollar industries that have captured the media and government.

I was getting angry reading this.

Poverty rates are extremely difficult to measure. I’m sure this data is good-faith, but there are lot’s of statistics like this that are dishonest and spread by people like Stephen Pinker in order to shill for neo-liberalism.

For example the cash/day measure can be tweaked until you get the trend you want. We all know that cost of living varies between the States, so imagine how much it varies between different countries and continents. Saying a person only makes X/day would mean completely different things in a poor vs. wealthy country. Accounting for this difference is more opportunity to dial in the answer your looking for.

I’ve heard conservatives argue that “assets” like refrigerators and ovens be counted as wealth; owing to their belief that poverty is a choice and the privations are exaggerated. Meanwhile those of us on the left are automatically skeptical of figures that don’t show that poverty is bad and getting worse.

My point is that numbers like this should never be accepted credulously. Microtrends, the source of this data lives in the “market analysis” data space and I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the numbers align with the priors of conservative business types.

Committing suicide in jail is common. Not as common as guards who neglect the welfare of their prisoners, but still pretty common.

The Epstein conspiracy theory has people out here arguing that incompetent prison staff doing medical neglect is suspicious.

There is no reason to study Marx other than you find it interesting or because it relates to something your interested in. There is very little utility in knowing the theory.

Marx was a genius similar to Freud. They changed the way we think and gave us new tools to examine the world. Beyond that, their particular ideals are often as wrong as two left shoes.

There is plenty of room on the left for people who reject, or are ignorant of Marx.

Pretty much from the dawn of societies. Generational wealth and progeny is extremely important, and women must be controlled so that provenance of her children may be assured.

In the Bible you constantly see themes that don’t make sense until you understand how important that stuff was. Abraham was asked to sacrifice the thing most precious to him: his son. God killed the first-born of Egypt. Lot’s daughters had sex with their dad because that was the only way to ensure that their ‘pure’ line continued. Calling back to Abraham, God himself sacrificed what? His son.

Pre-agriculture societies were probably pretty egalitarian. And the idea that hunting and gathering was segregated by sex doesn’t have much evidence besides “common sense” and vibes.

The meme drag pedophiles so hard, you barely notice that it dehumanizes refugees to the same degree.

Swim goggles are better at making a seal, and are more covenant to throw in a drawer or something.

A coworker saw me using a terminal and educated me that computers used to just be just a terminal with no mouse.

Every time I see a white dude pilot on my flight I get a little nervous. I hope he’s qualified and not just here because his uncle owns the airline.

AI slop.

The lid is wildly bigger than the seat, and not aligned in any way either. It’s also interesting that the seat is hinged in the back, and fused with porcelain in the front.

Pirated games have almost always been a superior experience. Games companies hate their customers almost as much as they hate their employees.

I’ll just point out that monotheism creates some interesting and silly problems too. The Pegans can just assign fertility to a female god for example. Without that option, monotheists have to shoehorn the concept of fertility and birth into the patriarch god.

This is the genesis of the idea of men’s spunk being referred to as a “seed”. It was “common sense” in Western civilization from Roman times to the 18th Century that sperm contained fully-formed little people. Women were just the dirt where you planted those little guys. The inventor of the microscope studied sperm first. And he fully expected to find homoculi in his spunk.

Meanwhile the “primitive” people’s of the world would have found this to be insane. Babies come from women, stupid.

Went camping at Olympic once. I was not ready for banana slugs.