I recently tried switching to mint from the dark side, but the instability made me go back to Windows. I'd say everything doesn't 'just work' on mint at all, unless you have the most basic needs in your usage. Whenever I've tried to raise the issues with seasoned Linux user, the answer has been "well, most regular people don't need to do that specific thing".

So if it's true that Mint is the only Linux distro that "just works", then Linux is definitely not even close to being suitable as a mainstream choice. Which really saddens me, as I felt much better on a moral level using mint, but I couldn't live with the little annoyances that kept popping up. So now I live with the annoyances that pop up in windows instead .

That, or a pair of testicles ¯(ツ)/¯

"If that's not the crisis, nothing is," he closed.

The writer's almost there: nothing is.

Ok, thanks for clarifying. So neck beards basically? That's a different type of "beard" altogether, they've always been more reactionary than anything else:-) feel better about my beard now, got a little worried for real.

Wait, beards are right wing now? WTF? I thought beards were the sign of soy hipster feminist men, what happened? I was much more comfortable being labeled a bearded soy hipster than I am with a right wing loon label. Being of middle eastern origin, the hipster label is the only 'acceptable' way for me to keep the beard. The distance from a label of conservative right winger to being deemed an islamist terrorist is not very far. Fuck.

I think it's one of my all time favorites. I think people here live in the tech literate bubble who know how to use specialized software for the different things excel does, albeit clunkily. But average people are intimidated by those more advanced tools, and there are a lot of average people in decision making positions who benefit greatly from being able to use excel.

Well, the Brits still retain a large chunk of the arrogance that came with the Empire they no longer possess. So I wouldn't hold my breath. #1 baby!

Just realized that I'm actually living like a decadent emperor here in Europe since my dog gets 1 egg per day in his food.

I'd say Iran and Hizbollah in Lebanon haven't exactly ignored the situation either, and have paid a fairly heavy price themselves thus far.

He's getting the Trump Gold Card that was announced, not getting deported. That card is just a call for the world's shadiest people to relocate to the US. Perfect, what could go wrong?!

Let's just not mention that the "whichever new faith" we're speaking of is the very rapey evangelical Christianity, while making sure that we randomly emphasize that Islam is rapey, which is then expanded into Muslims being rapey. All in a post that has nothing at all to do with Islam or Muslims or refugees or whatever other bogeymen we regularly like to demonize.

I don't call my mother/wife/daughter a useless oversensitive dumb ass either, and it has literally nothing to do with avoiding misogyny. I don't call them that because I love them and also because they aren't that, very simple. I will call you a useless oversensitive dumb ass though, because that's how you're behaving. People who aren't cunts rarely get called cunts, so a solid tip would be to stop being a cunt.

This garbage needs to stop. The "not-elected beurocracy" is comprised of civil servants who often reject better paying positions in the private sector in order to contribute to the society they live in.

This vilification of civil servants is part and parcel of reactionary right wing movements, who can't stand people in decision making positions not being subservient to their particular partisan reactionary project. A good recent example is the insane opposition to the 15 minute city concept on the right. As if a traffic planner in the municipality trying to create walkable cities is some evil plant of the 'deep state' or some other insane garbage.

Those 'beurocrats' are the ones making the wheels of your nation's public sector turn, they are the ones providing public services to people who need them to survive, independent of who's in power. Vilification of public servants is and always will be the domain of the reactionary impulse. You hating that pig Jean-Marie doesn't change this fact in the slightest. You should really reconsider this position if you actually hold leftist sentiments.

For those who for some reason believe that Joe was a cool guy before Spotify, here's an example of the kind of douchebag he's always been. You just weren't paying attention.

He's been leaning that way for well over a decade, long before Spotify. Just have a look at the guest lists. Same with Elon, he's been a tool forever. I don't know why many seem to believe this is a recent development, it's just escalated a couple of notches in the past 4-5 years.

Got a pixel 7 too, and it's my first pixel so I was hyped, but it is by far the worst android phone I've ever had. The number of bugs I've ran into is mind boggling. Everything fails every now and then, not just the Bluetooth. I've had random restarts, alarms that just don't go off, of course the BT and more. I've had different budget Xiaomi and OnePlus models which have all been far superior to this piece of garbage. All that hype of pixels being the only good Android phones just down the drain.

Agreed. The person I was replying to took the initial comment regarding nation karma for the US very personally and started ranting that he didn't deserve this shit. No one blamed him, and I was trying to convey the same thing that you wrote: it doesn't matter that we were not personally responsible for the historical crimes our nations committed, if the current society we live in still bases its wealth on what was stolen. We'd be indirectly benefitting from those crimes and therefore would have a responsibility to acknowledge that and try to do what we can to even things out if and when we can. Rejecting all links to those historical crimes and any responsibility for them can come across as arrogant to those on the other side of that equation, those who were robbed. But the person started hurling insults so I was obviously unable to communicate what I wanted to communicate.

Iran got involved in Syria to fight IS, the same people that rebranded as HTS, the leader of which now has put on a suit, changed his name and rules the new Syria. One of the first thing they did: started massacring minorities in Syria by the thousands, just in the last week. Also, Syria is in the Middle East, next to Iran. Iran isn't involved in military operations in Mexico. If IS wasn't stopped in Iraq and Syria, they'd be massacring civilians in Iran, since Iranians are Shia and therefore heretics to be killed.

Your view unfortunately seems to have been influenced by the classification of nations as axis of evil that I referred to above. It's confused and incoherent, and lacks a whole lot of nuance. That's what happens when nations are classified as "evil", which is a metaphysical religious term making nuance impossible. You say "if Palestine were suddenly freed from the Zionists", thereby implying that you consider this a worth while goal, while simultaneously vilifying the only forces in the region working to achieve that liberation, namely Hamas, Hizbollah and Ansar Allah in Yemen, as "proxy armies" of Iran, completely delegitimizing their agency and the fight for the very liberation you seem to support.

Finally, it's absolutely wild to state that a Palestine under the influence of Iran would be "the same shit all over again" as the almost century long oppression, occupation, dispossession and genocide carried out by the Zionists against the Palestinian people. Absolutely wild! I urge you to take a step back and consider that statement, and why you would make such an absurd and outrageous claim to begin with. Because I feel like you're doing that without thinking about it a whole lot, and would reconsider that position if you thought about the comparison you're making. Iran has zero designs on dispossessing or occupying Palestine and its people. To compare that with what Israel has been doing is just not a good look.

Comparing Iran to Russia and the US is strange in every way. Iran has a very defensive military, geared towards defending Iran. There aren't exactly private military contractors from Iran everywhere just murdering anyone that isn't snow white. Iran hasn't surrounded the US with military bases. People just completely swallowed that axis of evil horseshit.

"Axis of evil" was a phrase coined by W in order to justify his highly illegal "war on terror", and we're still paying the price for that. Just adopting a propaganda concept this stupid as a viable way to categorize nations is not a good move.