It’s just Lemmy and the knee jerk reactions to the mention of Israel. It’s rarely worth engaging on here on that subject.

It’s not like Roof got off scot-free. He is awaiting the death penalty and was sentenced to 9 life sentences on top of that.

You keep using that word…

I see you only like voting for the president and don’t care about all the down ballot choices. That’s too bad.

Primaries. Fucking people need to show up for the primaries. I usually only see people coming out and bitching about their shitty choices in the general. It doesn’t help that Americans really like to vote for incumbents, and that the fucking parties really like to only support incumbents.

When I was a kid, I got pissed at my dad for something and reset all the stations, thinking it would throw him for a loop. He noticed what I had done almost immediately, fixed them all in about 5-10 seconds and looked at me like I was stupid.

I used to love going to the theater. I would go almost every weekend, and often during the week. I watched almost everything. Then cell phones came along. At one point, many, many years ago, I swore if some mother fucker took out their fucking phone during the movie I was seeing, I would never set foot in a theater again. Some piece of shit mother fucker did, and I haven’t. It’s been all the open seas for me since. It also helped that affordable larger screens became available for home. I haven’t been to a movie in a theater in probably a decade, and I doubt I’ll ever go again.

Slow Horses is so freaking good.

I need to emigrate.

Step 1: Have discretionary money

Step 2: Invest

I guess I’m stuck at Step 0.5.

What pants?

It was fun to spell aloud when I was 7.

I guess you missed the reply already pointing this out.

• update:

Hotkey open terminal -> sudo apt update/upgrade -> done. Never had to touch the stupid mouse. Same with all sorts of tasks.

• email:

Hotkey open terminal -> neomutt -> quickly sort/delete/reply -> done. Never had to touch the stupid mouse.

• file transfer:

Hotkey open terminal -> scp <info> -> done. Never touched the mouse.

and so on.

If you like using a GUI, use a GUI. I’m not saying you can’t, but you sure are missing out on a lot of command-line awesomeness. I’ve never heard anyone argue that a GUI is quicker than command line, just more comfortable for a lot of neophytes. I mean, sure, gaming, browsing the web, graphics stuff, GUIs are great, if not essential.

Learn something every day. China ≈ Europe ≈ US as far as area.

We, at least in the US, are living in a “post factual” world. So this makes perfect sense. Like when my kid was small and everytime he thought he “lost” at something he would declare it Opposite Day. Fuck it, why not? M$ being the most open OS makes no sense, so it makes total sense. War is Peace^tm

So roughly the same size. I then wondered about population and saw that Europe has over twice the population. Which surprised my immediate expectations. Then again, I live in a pretty densely populated part of the US, so I think it twisted my thinking. In my past, I spent most of a decade living in Europe. I also spent a couple of years after living in Europe working as a long haul trucker in the US. Reflecting on those memories, it shouldn’t have surprised me.

Not that this has too much to do with the original point, that the US has a shitty train system. Which is true. But check out our military!! Ra-ra, or some shit.

The United States (9,826,630 km2 / 3,794,080 sq mi) is larger than the European Union (4,233,262 km2 / 1,634,472 sq mi)

Not using the terminal is like buying a race car and not using the higher gears. I mean, you can, but what’s the fucking point?

They are also on here instead of reddit, so they are really in much more rarefied air.