I don’t know what to buy anymore.

I have a problem where because I’m so hard to advertise to between adblock and premium subscriptions, that I am usually very out of the loop on what movies and TV shows are coming out

The biggest ones usually make their way into the news or Lemmy somehow, but there’s definitely a lot I’m clueless about until I see them pop up streaming somewhere a couple years later

Honestly, it may still be worth it even if you don’t have the space to buy much in bulk, I’ve gotten some pretty good deals from Costco on things like clothing and electronics

And you don’t have to, and probably shouldn’t, buy everything in bulk, just some things that you use a lot of.

Yeah I’m pretty sure I said as much dude.

I tend to think of and describe myself as a conservative, but don’t align myself with the Republican party at all (I am registered to vote Republican to try to weed out the worst of their lunatics in the primaries, but it’s gonna be a cold day in hell before I vote for one in a general election with the way things are going)

In my view, which absolutely isn’t the view of the Republicans or conservatives as a whole, the point of conservatism is to just pump the breaks and slow things down to make sure all the "I"s are dotted and "t"s crossed to make sure things are actually going to work as intended.

Liberals/leftists/progressives should basically be the “idea guys” coming up with big general plans for what they want to happen

Then the conservatives would be sort of the bean-counters/logistics/nuts-and-bolts sort of guys. They shouldn’t be there to outright oppose the liberal ideas, they’re there to point out the problems with their plans and make sure they’re addressed before we commit to some half-assed plan.

Could also just be the rim being kind of dirty and corroded and needs to be cleaned up a bit of bead sealant.

I’ve had it happen to me a couple times, tires just always lost air sort slowly, I never cared enough to bring it in just for that, not a big deal to stop by the air pump once a week or so when I was getting gas anyway.

I’m sure if you brought your car in just for that they’d probably slap some token $10-50 price on it.

But if you bring it in for another service I feel like a lot of places will just do it. I know I brought my car in to pep boys one time for an oil change or something and asked them to look at it and they just did it, no extra charge.

I feel like it’s one of those little things that no one is quite sure how to write it up in the system, and figuring it out is more of a pain in the ass than just not mentioning it to the boss, not like he’s gonna notice they used an extra scrap of sandpaper and blob of sealant anyway.

I’m certainly no expert on Namibian history and culture, most of what I know comes from just now skimming the Wikipedia article

But a couple things jumping out at me

The area was at one point a German colony (and also at one point they carried out a genocide against the Herero people that some think may have been sort of a model for the Holocaust)

They also had apartheid similar to South Africa.

And to this day a whole lot of Africa doesn’t exactly have stellar access to education, the internet, etc. and even in some parts of the world that do have better access, there’s a lot of people in other parts of the world outside of Europe and the Americas who don’t quite grok* just how bad the Nazis were because it’s not something they cover so extensively in their history classes. I feel like every couple years I see some story come out of Asia somewhere where some business opens up with a Nazi theme and they don’t get why so many people in the West are mad about it.

So kind of taking a couple stabs in the dark here

It could be that his father named him after Hitler maybe trying to soften things up for him, like maybe the white people at the top of the apartheid heiarchy would be a little nicer if he was named after the biggest whitest racist he could think of.

Or maybe they were in a bit of an information bubble where he just really didn’t fully understand how bad Hitler and the Nazis were and went with it because he thought it had a nice ring to it

Maybe it was a way to give a giant middle finger to racists. Sort of a “haha, how do you like your leader’s name when it’s on a black kid? Suck it Nazis.”

Or maybe it was something else. That’s just a couple thoughts off the top of my head.

*fuck muskrat for trying to steal this word for his own bullshit.

I feel like the fact that you used the term “feral” and put quotes around “wild” shows that you already understand that that’s a bullshit argument.

They’re also not everywhere in the Americas by a longshot, they’re certainly not in my neck of the woods.

Feral ≠ wild. Feral horses shouldn’t be considered the same as the wild horses that once existed in the Americas any more than domesticated dogs should be considered the same as a grey wolf, or feral swine as actual wild boars.

And at any rate it has been around 12,000 years since the last truly wild American horse existed, they’re no more a part of the modern environment than wooly mammoths are.

A little extra context would be great on this one, which is unlikely since it seems like OP deleted their account.

Without any added context it certainly sounds like gang-stalking delusions.

But there might be some contexts where a person might refer to themselves that way because they’re actually being targeted by someone, I could potentially see, for example, some sort of political activist or something using that kind of terminology if they have valid reasons to believe that the government is monitoring or harassing them.

But if it’s the latter they’d probably explain what exactly they mean by that, so I suspect that’s probably not the context here.

I work in 911 dispatch, I’ve had more than a few calls from people who have experienced these sorts of delusions. It’s always kind of a wild ride when I get these calls. Especially since it’s pretty common for them to actually use the term “gang stalking” which says to me that they’re in so deep that they’re ignoring the first page or two of search results (or at least that used to be the case, Google’s algorithm keeps getting shittier, I wouldn’t be too surprised if they’re pushing really unhinged stuff to the top of the list now) where every result is saying that it’s a delusion, and focusing on the weird parts of the internet that are reinforcing their beliefs.

We had one regular caller who had this going on for a while, always believed that there were people following him, circling around the block in cars he could never give a good description of, people that he didn’t know and couldn’t describe, etc.

But he never really did much to be a danger to himself or others so police couldn’t get him involuntarily committed, and he genuinely believed that there was an emergency so we couldn’t really go after him for misusing 911, so he just remained a minor nuisance for us for a long time.

Until one day he threw a rock off an overpass at a car he thought was following him. I got the call from that lady, she was ok but understandably distraught. She had no idea who the guy was.

That was finally enough to get him hauled in for treatment. It seems like it might’ve stuck too because it’s been a while since I’ve had a call from him, though it’s also very possible that he’s just moved elsewhere, I’ll probably never know for sure.

Horses kind of suck

I encounter horses a lot when I’m hiking. I’m a backpacker, I’m often carrying a fairly large backpack to prepare for a trip. Horses get really spooked by it. You’d think that of all animals fucking horses would be able to understand the concept of carrying something on your back, but nope.

I also hear endless stories about horses being spooked by shit like plastic bags, leaves, fans, even the person riding on their back that they somehow forgot was there. How we ever managed to convince horses to ride into battle is beyond me. I can only assume that they were too fucking stupid to understand what was going on around them, because as far as I can tell if the Ottomans had just put a couple dudes in backpacks outside of Vienna, the Winged Hussars never would have been able to get near the city.

Also almost no one who has a horse ever actually seems to live anywhere that is actually conducive to owning, let alone riding a horse. Unless you’re rich and have a decent plot of land you have to pay some stable somewhere to let you keep your horse there, and odds are that it’s not particularly close to your house and if you want to actually ride that horse anywhere besides basically just going in circles around the yard at the stable, you’re going to need a gas guzzling truck and trailer to go take your horse somewhere else because actually riding a horse for transportation isn’t really a thing anymore in the developed world.

And of course, wherever your keeping those horses is going to be worthless trampled down dirt and grass and such instead of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, etc. that are actually good for the environment.

Horse riders don’t pick up after their horses, and they jump through so many mental hoops trying to justify it you’d think they’re trying to do a whole show jumping competition but forgot to bring the horse they’re trying to justify.

If nothing else, it’s unsightly and not part of nature. We don’t have horses in this part of the world, they haven’t existed here in the wild since before the last ice age, I shouldn’t be seeing horse crap around.

I don’t care if it’s biodegradable and doesn’t stink like dog shit, and doesn’t carry diseases (which is horseshit, there is absolutely bacteria is horse dropping and there’s no reason it can’t carry communicable diseases) I don’t throw banana peels and apple cores around in the woods either. Leave no trace, pack it in, pack it out.

And look, I’m not gonna pretend that my local parks are such delicate ecosystems that a little horse shit is going to throw things out of balance and cause an ecological disaster, but some environments are very delicate, and you really don’t want to be adding extra nitrogen or carbon or whatever into it if you can avoid it, and you should be using your best practices all around.

“Well we can’t carry a shovel with us to pick it up” like hell you can’t, that’s the reason humans started keeping horses in the first place. If people could ride around in a suit of armor, with a bedroll, food, water, a sword, a rifle, etc you can find a way to carry a little avalanche shovel and a trash bag with you.

“Well it’s not always safe to get on and off the horse on the trail” well then maybe you shouldn’t be riding a horse on that fucking trail then.

Horses and horse-people kind of suck.

Went after a worm on a hook, easily the biggest mistake of many fishes lives.

I actually looked up the actual (alleged) French quote, and it’s “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”

So I actually hit the nail on the head, it’s literally “let them eat brioche”

Still can’t really be attributed to Marie Antoinette, and it’s not unlikely that the entire anecdotal was just made up entirely

It’s actually not terribly uncommon for people to take roadkill if it’s fresh and in decent shape.

In my state (PA) you’re supposed to report it to the game commission within 24 hours, and you’re supposed to surrender the hide and antlers to them unless you pay for a separate permit.

Same boat, my computer is basically the computer my wife built probably about 12 years ago before we got together, it was pretty beefy for its time. I basically stuck her old components in a new box (and also stuck a newer graphics card in it because I got a really good deal on a used 2060)

Still manages to run most games out there on acceptable (to me) settings.

Made the switch to Linux about a week ago, no major issues, some things are arguably running better now. It’s not without its hiccups but so far things have gone pretty smoothly.

EDIT: went with Mint over Zorin though.

Google photos has a date tag attached to this of 9/10/2008

A whole lot of stuff has traveled with me through the years swapping SD cards from one phone to another, and eventually things getting backed up to the cloud, etc. this is probably the oldest thing I have saved that can count as a meme. I don’t know if that date is when I actually first found it, when it first somehow got backed up, if maybe that’s just from some metadata left over from whoever made the meme originally, or something else entirely

But that date does generally feel about right, and the humor feels about right for high school-aged me.

As far as terminal tutorials, so far the best I’ve found is LabEx, but I feel like it’s lacking in a lot of ways.

First of all it definitely feels designed to push you towards paying for a subscription. And while their pricing honestly isn’t too terrible, it’s more than I want to spend on this. Nothing against companies and people being paid for making a product but it feels a little against the FOSS spirit to me.

Second I’ve mostly been trying to use it on my phone and that experience is just kind of shitty. Personally I kind of want to learn in short bursts here and there throughout the day when I have downtime at work or whatever. If I have time to sit down in front of my computer it’s probably because I want to be doing something fairly specific with it and it’s probably not to just practice my terminal use, so a better phone experience would be great.

And finally, it just seems a bit over-engineered, at least for what I want to use it for. It seems like it’s spinning up a whole Linux VM with a desktop environment and such for me to interact with through my browser just for me to type stuff into a terminal and read their tutorial. It does have other courses and maybe all of that is more useful there, but it seems like a bit much for me.

My buddy works security at a bar. Last night he sends me a picture of a guy sitting there with some SS lightning bolts on his shirt. Bar manager wouldn’t let my friend kick him out because he wasn’t otherwise causing a problem.

I hatch a plan, I pull up the jukebox app on my phone, turns out you don’t actually have to be at the bar to queue up music there (I’m pretty sure that used to be the case, I’m pretty sure at one point a decade ago I had to spoof my location on a rooted phone to pull this kind of thing)

And I start queuing up as many anti-fascist songs as I could think of. Cost me a few bucks but I considered it money well-spent.

This and a few other woody Guthrie songs were of course some of the first things I thought of but sadly were not available on the jukebox.

But I managed to find a good handful.

According to my friend, he got visibly frustrated when the Billy Bragg & Wilco cover of All You Fascists came on and left the bar to have a cigarette.

And when he came back in he was greeted with Youth Against Fascism my Sonic Youth

Only took about an hour of that before he packed up and left.

Apparently someone also left a review online complaining about Nazi boy, and after the owner saw it my friend now has more authority to take out the trash.

Which kind of shows how easy it is to take certain things as “obvious.”

I’m a new convert to Linux. I played around with it a bit probably about 15 years ago, but never did much seriously with it. Finally bit the bullet about a week ago between the windows 10 EOL and deciding that Linux gaming is finally in a place I can live with.

I’m a reasonable tech-literate person, I’m no sys admin but I’m the family “guy who’s good with computers” I did a few semesters as a computer science student and was reasonably good at it before deciding to go in a different direction.

And while things are working just fine for most of my general computing needs, I feel like I’m in a bit of a weird place right now, kind of like I’m back to being a kid with my family’s first Compaq in the 90s. I can play games and do my homework and make my computer do some cool things, but I know there’s more cool stuff I can make it do but I don’t know how yet.

I have about 30 years of know-how and tips and tricks built up on how to make windows bend to my will, but I don’t have that for Linux yet, and it’s not exactly a great feeling.

And I feel like there’s sort of a gap in the Linux community to help the slightly-above-average-computer-person Linux-convert like me to build up to where they were as a windows user.

Like there’s a wealth of knowledge on choosing a distro and installing it, alternatives to common windows programs, etc.

And then a big gap

And then people who have a whole home computer lab, self-hosting everything, doing serious programming as a hobby, etc.

And in the middle are a bunch of forum posts where someone asks a question, and some kind of computer sage emerges from the ether, tells you to transcribe a magic spell into your terminal, and all your problems will be solved, then vanishes in a puff of smoke.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m glad those magical Linux wizards exist to fix my problems. But I have almost no idea what the hell what the magical commands they told me to run are actually doing.

And I’m slowly piecing some of it together, googling things as I go, and that’s a fine way to learn things, but it is slow and I wish there was a better way to power through learning some of this stuff without needing to go take a whole actual course on it. I think my ideal would be sort of a Duolingo-type app for terminal commands.

Also at the lower end of the spectrum, I feel like maybe there’s a need for sort of a basic tutorial program for the kind of people who are not computer people to learn the absolute basics. I feel like back in the 90s I encountered a few introduction-to-windows sort of programs that would walk you through “this is your start menu,” “here’s what click/double-check/right click/etc” means," “here’s how you turn your computer off” kind of stuff.

And while that kind of thing is almost insultingly basic for anyone who’s going to install Linux for themselves, I think that kind of hand-holding might be needed for some other people we might try to convert.

Also don’t get me wrong, I like doing stuff in the terminal and don’t want it to go anywhere, when I know what I’m doing it is really efficient, but that shit is straight-up intimidating for a lot of average and below-average computer people, not to mention how truly abysmal a lot of their typing skills are. I feel like a little less emphasis on the terminal and building out some more control panel -like GUI menus would go a long way to getting people to switch.

Maybe these sorts of resources exist and I haven’t found them yet. If they do please point me towards them. If they actually don’t exist, maybe one of those wise Linux sages will see this and take up the task of building it.

I had a French teacher who claimed that “let them eat cake” was a bit of a mistranslation and that “cake” was just a different, maybe fancier, type of bread.

Like the situation was more like someone said “Marie, the people don’t have any baguettes to eat.” And she replied “Well then let them eat brioche”

Still probably apocryphal, but I think maybe a little more believable if it were true while still showing the tone-deafness.

It also just feels very French to me.

What they were actually using prior to the space pen, and what the soviets used, were grease pencils, which really basically are crayons

It’s really all over the place depending on the student, the parents, the homeschooling program they’re using, etc.

I once worked with a guy who homeschooled his kids because their housing situation was a little unstable. It probably provided them a bit of stability they wouldn’t have had otherwise since they probably would have had to change schools a lot with all of the moving around.

Other kids may benefit from it if they’re not doing well in a regular school environment, have disabilities, are gifted, etc.

In other cases it can be very isolating and they miss out on a lot of socialization with other kids their age

And some parents use it to control what their kids are learning to force political or religious agendas on them.