I figured out something absolutely crazy. You can put vegetables into the ground, (you know, the dirty thing outside?) and they will literally just start making more of themselves.

Also, you know all those naked people outside with too much hair and extra legs instead of arms? They’re made of meat!!! It’s true!

Welcome to the comments, also known as your daily reminder that Lemmy degraded into a cesspool in the span of a single year and is literally just reddit now and why am I still posting on or reading

Definitely not true. I drove a cab for 12 years, it went great. I don’t tailgate, I don’t get in people’s way, and I don’t drive like a feckless confused imbicile.

Being able to drive safely also means being able to prioritize. It’s not to anyone’s benefit to be so blinded by the rules that you’d drive into a brick wall if one appeared in the road.

Spineless drivers are nearly as dangerous as arrogant drivers.

Why not just pull into the empty left lane and have them pass on the right? One less thing for you to think about.

If I’m on a road that isn’t the highway and someone is tailgating me I literally just pull over and wave them by. Same with people blasting me with their high beams. It is infinitely safer.

They’re trying to protect you from insects that might have the audacity to try to eat your soap or climb into your scrubby things.

If they’re alive, that means they’re eating, which means they’re doing pest control.

Unfortunately there are a few things that keep me from switching to Linux.

• The drivers for my mouse don’t work properly
• JACK is not a substitute for Voicemeeter
• JACK’s latency makes it less suitable for recording guitar
• I use FL Studio
• I need access to a Windows testing environment
• Having to suddenly troubleshoot in Linux completely breaks my flow

Microsoft is going to stop providing updates, but 0patch is specifically providing security patches after EOS so that people don’t have to upgrade to Windows 11.

This may be a shock, but… Some memes are cringe.

For those who aren’t already aware, you can continue to get Windows 10 security updates after EOS, as well as updates for legacy windows systems, with 0patch. That’s what I plan on doing. https://0patch.com/

Yeah, that’s the part I agree with you on. I just don’t think recognizing pictures is a meaningful metric as far as that’s concerned.

I don’t know about you, but when I took classes on this stuff we weren’t like, staring at the pictures of the authors. We were talking about the material. The faces I picture in my head when I think of this stuff aren’t the people who wrote the books we read and discussed, it’s my professors and the people who were in my classes.

How dare I disagree with Lenin! Oh no!

You misspelled tankies.

I don’t disagree with you on a lot of people getting their information from memes, but the idea that if you don’t know what some arbitrary number of authors look like you have nothing meaningful to say about the subject they write about reminds me of the 90s era “Oh you like the band you have a tshirt of? Name five of their songs or you’re s poser.”

Like, presumably Marx and Engels also didn’t know what most of the people in that picture looked like, because they weren’t aware of their existence at all, but one would imagine they have plenty of substance to say about socioeconomic theory.

Knowing what some people look like isn’t a proxy for understanding communism or capitalism.

I definitely didn’t get my understanding of socioeconomics from Mao or militaristic dictators in general. Marx? Sure. Engels? Sure. Lenin? I mean, as an example of how to use workers’ rights as a veil for the promotion of authoritarianism I guess. Reading the State and Revolution is an exercise in seeing how someone can take a good idea and use it to justify terrible shit.

Personally, I take a view of Marx and Engels as descriptivists. Reading works like the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, my takeaway is that these are describing a natural process whereby hoarding of wealth and influence inevitably leads to an overthrowing of power in a cycle that culminates in capitalism and the eventual seizing of the means of production in response by workers. When I read Lenin I see an accelerationist who wants to jump start this process and doesn’t care how many people suffer and die in the interem.

To me, that’s a form of interference that slows progress in the long run. If you start burning rocket fuel as soon as possible before acquiring enough to reach escape velocity, all you do is cause your rocket to crash back down to Earth if it gets moving at all. Do it hard enough or enough times without a controlled landing, hitting cities full of people with the wreckage, and you’re just going to make people skeptical of rocketry.

That’s not to say no one should do anything to bolster workers’ rights, we absolutely should. It’s a natural part of the process for people to be informed by theory and try to advance things. But that’s far different from purging large portions of the population in order to shift the system in the span of a single generation before there’s widespread support. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is, to me, about the most anti-proletarian measure you can take. It slows things down and harms a lot of people with poor results. For evidence, literally look at Russia today. Look at the reputation communism has in Eastern Europe. Lenin and Stalin forestalled any possibility of a worker’s uprising by at least a couple of generations. The same can be said of Mao.

And the reactions this post is going to get? I’m guessing many will be much more in line with the knee-jerk thoughtless mockery of South Park and Rick Sanchez than the considered and careful words of Marx and Engels. That also functions as a sort of steam valve letting off the required pressure to achieve meaningful results in favor of mindless posturing, which is why I often question its motivation. It serves the bourgeoisie, not the people.

WSL is great. I get to do my weird little niche Linux stuff and also have working drivers for my mouse, use decent audio mixing software with a well designed GUI, run FL Studio, and decide based on my needs what the best software for any given task would be. I can also run any game without worrying about whether the score on ProtonDB is actually accurate or not.

If Linux had the same functionality as Windows I’d be all about it, but I have an actual workflow I need to be able to perform and I can’t be bothered troubleshooting random shit at a moment’s notice. Nothing breaks my flow more than realizing that a piece of software I need to operate flawlessly is missing some fundamental functionality. I literally can’t even draw as effectively in Linux because my precision mode doesn’t work properly. And there’s no way in hell I’m going to spend the hours or days or whatever fucking around with JACK to try to get it to do half of what Voicemeeter does.

WSL is awesome because it enables me to do everything I want at the same time from the same operating system. I use Linux for functionality, not to be in a club. High school was a looong time ago. Who has time to center their lives around trying to be cool enough for some internet people?

Also like, way to pick the incel fuckboy rapist murderer to represent you in this meme. Bravo.