I mean, it depends on the family dynamic I guess?

My older generation family members have a lot of skills and experience I also lack, and the minute I pick up the phone to ask for help they’re giving me their time for free too.

I’d rather live in a kind world where we help our little communities only because it’s the right thing to do, as long as it’s not gone to the point of being taken advantage of.

Huh. I wonder if that will fuck with playing on Linux since it’s a kernel-level anticheat.

Hell yeah 🤘🏻

I worked at a place where I could carry over something like 2 extra weeks I think?

Here, I gotchu:

The phrase “you stupid fuck” Implies the existence of irrational fucks.

It’s not so much whether the word is spelled with a vowel, but whether it makes a vowel sound.

In English, the y sound is considered a consonant when at the beginning of a word but a vowel elsewhere.

Europe makes a similar y initial sound as, e.g., yurt, young, yellow, yell, youth, etc. so in those cases the words take the “a” article instead of “an”.

A yurt, a youth, a yell, etc.

Likewise Euclidian, European, Uranus, ewe, union, user, universe, unit, usage, all take the “a” article instead of “an”.

And in the reverse, words like hour and heir become “an hour” and “an heir” because the initial sound is a vowel even though the first letter is a consonant.

Yeah I’m incredibly impressed with Fedora. Rides the fine line of cutting edge, without tipping over, any time something matures enough to adopt, so it’s still stable—which means I’ve found the typical Linux faffing about is optional if I want to do it, rather than mandatory, which isn’t always the case for distros that adopt cutting edge sooner.

That said, distros that pioneer new stuff quickly can be fun in their own right, but right now I’m just happy to have that balance.

Another thing I’ve found is that it makes tinkering easier any time I want to try something new, since the whole distro tends to be on newer but still stable packages, so there’s less breakage. That isn’t always the case on Debian based distros which can sometimes be a little too conservative to make adopting newer things simple, or bleeding edge distros where things tend to break just by virtue of being bleeding edge.

It’s quite literally the Goldilocks distro for me and my needs right now.

It’s trivially easy on everything—except maybe Windows. I use them because I like the way they look.

Android: long press the dash

Linux: Compose Key + three dashes (you can set the Compose Key to whatever you want, I use the Right Alt key).

macOS: Opt + Shift + dash

I just use sick days for that. Sick doesn’t exclusively mean physical health and they’re not obligated to know why you’re taking time off — although thankfully most of my employers especially ones with younger management understood that sick = mental health too and it wasn’t a taboo.

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Mmm, not sure I like this better. If the majority in your community are filled with religious crazies suddenly you’re ruled by backwards ass religious laws from millenia ago. Laws and enforcement would be even more incoherent, not less. No matter who is enforcing the laws, we need ways to keep ALL people in power accountable regardless of how it’s organized and I don’t think that goes away in a more anarchist kind of world.

Fella, the stuff Gen Z struggles with is the light switch.

Nah sorry we’re not taking the red states. They can be their own Christofascist hell elsewhere.

No hate, I’m just surprised. I’ve legitimately never not had a game work so far, and most people I know only seem to have issues on games with anti-cheat.

Doesn’t mean I don’t believe you though, I just might have horseshoes in my ass, such that I somehow have only played games that are largely compatible without issues.

I am curious what games had issues for you though.

Not holding my breath until all appeals get denied

The problem with having reasonable and respectful discourse with people you disagree with, is that you first have to find people willing to have reasonable and respectful discourse. In real life I’ve met plenty. On Twitter, there are none. They’re mostly just in getting a rise out of libs and lefties. We’ve already been finding that disengaging with them and moving to a platform they don’t have influence over has made them a lot more impotent.

They said that in 2016 too after rigging things against populist grassroots candidates in favour of establishment Democrats and learned nothing.

The hilarious thing to me is that without realizing this guy just wrote an on point summary of The Handmaid’s Tale and the harmful effects of patriarchy in a single Tweet, but not because he explained it well.

I think going from the relatively peaceful period of the 90s in the west to living through the Bush administration, 9/11, racist fear mongering and alarmism over terrorism, mass erosion of rights and privacy, jingoism and wars in the Middle East under false pretenses, the Bush adminstration’s connections with the military-industrial complex getting exposed, seeing stuff like Fox News, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly start to mindrot the boomer generation into unrecognizable husks of their former selves, the 2008 market crash due the effects of all the failed conservative economic policies and deregulation that occured the past few decades — coloured Gen Xers’ and Millennials’ perspectives in a way that I imagine would be difficult for Gen Z to grasp.

They have no point of reference to see how badly things changed under the Republican party because they already grew up in the shit, and due to Republican obstructionism they may think that it’s Democrats faults because Obama and Biden were in the White House, but much of the fixing actually needs to happen in the house. But even that may not be enough because of the partisan Supreme Court.

And honestly, in a case of a lot of cis Gen Z boys who’ve been sucked into some shoddy conservative ideas, I feel like we failed them if guys like Andrew Tate, Trump, and other such garbage heaps of human beings were the ones getting through to them.

I think feeling frustrated that we’re not doing enough to prevent the next set of people from having to go through this and suffer this bad is a perfectly reasonable reaction to have, actually.