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Flashback to that Will Smith movie…

I fail to see the connection between self-driving car data and Will Smith blasting aliens with a tiny gun.

WW3 won’t be a nuclear war between States. WW3 will be a global class uprising, I just fear we’ll have to go through 100+ years of ‘Equilibrium’ or ‘V for Vendetta’ type dystopia before that happens. Why does that have to be the sensible approach? Why not rip off the bandaids now while billionaires addresses are still public information?

Almost everyone has family members or friends that vote far-right and we need to talk to them

I try. My family calls themselves left of center and liberal, yet no books on Marx but certainly have books on Hitler. My brother who works in finance lauds great mathematicians in history, but he won’t read about Einstein’s politics because I smoke weed therefore my recommendation is “hard to take seriously.” They think the rise of fascism is just media sensationalism, and things are better than ever because “the markets say so / GDP is higher than ever.” I try to explain, through the words of economists, that GDP and markets aren’t a good measure of wealth disparity, and they accuse me of being envious that I don’t have as much money as them. I try to explain that money isn’t everything, they roll their eyes like i’m on some hippy-revolutionary kool aid and no different from MAGA. They say I should stop worrying about “the news” and “focus on yourself,” meanwhile i’m disabled from hyperthyroidism and they roll their eyes at my pain and immobility like i’m being lazy. They don’t read anything, they’ll be the first to admit they choose to stay away from politics, while simultaneously acting like they have the most informed and balanced perspective. Fuck “enlightened centrists” they walk and talk just like fascists do.

Remember how in the 90s “The Dude” Big Lebowski, the laziest man in Los Angeles County, was still able to afford his rent. That wasn’t even considered unrealistic back then either, like a few mid-20 year olds could afford a loft in Manhatten off a coffeeshop salary (FRIENDS) the only complaint of realism was their loft was too big.

Yeah grow a food coop for the first band of fascist thugs that show up with guns. We need to arm ourselves and train just as much as decentralize our food. If you think they’ll go away peacefully and leave our gardens alone you’re horribly naive.

When you’re in a crowd waiting to get on a bus, do you shove and claw your way past the crowd, or do you wait your turn like everyone else? Is there anyone telling you to do that?

When a natural disaster strikes and we watch the news of cities being flooded/destroyed, do you see people raping and murdering eachother en masse because society broke down? Do you see them rebuilding only because someone above them on the hierarchy told them to? Or do people rebuild because they need to?

If your village was thirsty and didn’t have a well, would you ask someone for permission to dig the well so only that it benefits the person you’re begging to? Or do you and the village just build the damn well?

I’m more atheists than most atheists, because I go two gods further - Money and the “State.”

Wow thank you for the incredibly balanced argument. I really want to switch to Linux for all the obvious reasons, but it’s the same cliche reason why I don’t - I’m too much of a bitch-dude to make such a big change to something I use and operate on the daily without certainty. But as i’ve said, the moment say Valve come out with a SteamOS for desktop which is basically Windows through and through minus the bloatware and corruption (that isn’t to say Valve isn’t corrupt but they’re not making weapons for Israel) is the day I switch with no qualms. Like many I’m far too used to the interface and compatability of Windows still.

I just wanna stop feeling bad when Muta yells at me.

It’s like that feeling on the diving board before you jump in the pool without knowing how warm or cold the water is. I’m still afraid of getting wet, if you know what I mean.

It’s much easier on Windows. When it’s just as is easy if not easier to do on Linux is the day I switch without hesitation. I’m far too setup and comfortable with Windows, I’m a pleb I know but it is what it is.

If you want those mindless online shooter games who slobber all over that absolutely useless anticheat software, then stay on windows honestly.

But i’m currently on Windows and I don’t play those games. What I want is an alternative that I don’t have to jump through hoops and follow a recipe just to boot up games, and have access to modding tools that most if not all are only built for Windows.

Holy shit that’s a lot just to be able to play a game. Is there any hope of Linux becoming more user friendly and streamlined?

There isn’t just mindless online slobber shooters on Windows, y’know. Those same shooters exist on Linux too.

Modded Cyberpunk is kinda my thing right now, would that be a problem on Linux?

I can’t remember specifics but I remember a bunch of games i’ve modded don’t have tools supported on Linux.

Must’ve been hard for you in the 90’s with Xena Warrior Princess being a DEI gay female superhero.

How does Linux fair with gaming, game dev, and modding? I don’t wanna get on Linux and have to jump through hoops just to get Vortex working for Nexusmods or something.

And what are we gonna do about it?

Awfully brave of them to delete their comment.