Love that Oldfield album. Had it for decades, and was thrilled to find out it was based on a book I’d read quite a long time before discovering the album.

Assuming you’re able to produce enough for the off season and have a method to store said food.

It’s called “subsistence farming” and is a crapload of work.

Yes it does. It wastes more time and is deliberately designed to make you stay in the store longer and hopefully spend more money.

They punch left to keep their positions secure and not let anyone make them look ineffective as they are.

Yes, but not just parties. Parties using red cups are historically going to be drinking parties for younger people like “keggers.” Red cups are fairly ubiquitous for lots of events like picnics, cookouts, birthday events and the like.

I can’t say they’re used at all parties, but they’re pretty common.

No we shouldn’t. Imagine where the taxes would go, and then understand where people would make sure they didn’t go. A shitload of people are racist, self serving, and shortsighted.

Other countries have camera issues because the government has turned into a nanny state. In the US it’s because some corporation has found yet another way to collect fees from regular people by injecting themselves into and extending a government program.

50¢ off your next RAM purchase and a free credit check.

Adhd will do that to you.

I wouldn’t say the party is. The party itself is very firmly neo-lib to centrist and pulling further right. I would say that individuals associated with the party are democratic socialist, but at this point they should start their own party.

Let the Republican party collapse, the dems take up the right wing reins, and then actually have a party that pulls left full of progressives and socialists. Pipe dream, I know.

That would be wild…an asteroid returning fossils (surely fossils were blasted into space, not that I’m suggesting anything balsted into space can fossilize.)

The bathroom said, “Fifty cents, please. Before turning on the water.”

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Your mistake was using “Hitler” and “allegedly”, an incredibly poor choice.

The rest of your argument is plausible.

That’s like saying gravity isn’t actually gravity and didn’t do gravity things unless a scientist tests it exhaustively and then says “gravity exists.”

Anyone can see gravity does indeed exist and does gravity things, it’s the extent of the properties of gravity that need to be left to the experts.

Hitler did genocide. No question.

How much did he genocide? Quite a lot, but we don’t have precise numbers.

So yes, Hitler did do genocidal things regardless of whether or not he had a court convict him of those things, and no, we don’t need “allegedly” as pedantry or exploiting an irrelevant technicality.

Sure.

Overrun by enshittification, rent extracting corporations that have decided that this is cheaper and more profitable than R&D into actual new tech, billionaires using the world economy and geopolitical stability as their personal playthings, the rise of aggressively willful ignorance, massive social media disinformation campaigns on the State level, growing nationalism and fascism, and all that under the warming atmosphere that is destroying our food, water supplies, and lives.

And the only thing that could potentially at least hopefully mitigate the life-threatening issues is Fusion Power, but only if it actually works in time to help us discard the majority of fossil fuel use and maybe directly power carbon extraction from the atmosphere. But I doubt we’ll make that goal.

But are you tubgirl old?

You skip past the part where lots of software doesn’t work on linux, or there are tons of hoops to jump through to get it to work, and once it’s working it can be broken by an update or upgrade. And no, not everything everyone uses has a 1:1 Linux equivalent.

What works on linux works great. No complaints there.

They’re working on it.

That‘s definitely a possibility. People don‘t want futuristic unless maybe it‘s a sports car, and even then it‘s iffy.

I would say it’s less hostile than the rest of the internet unless you disagree with people in a /c on the subject it’s named after or the instance hivemind. IOW saying Windows has lots of good points in /linux or saying Ukraine is right to take the war to Russia in a .ml /c is likely not going to go well for you.

I appreciate the seriousness here though, I was wholly sick and tired of Reddit’s handing karma to flippant comments even on serious subjects so that the actual discussion was buried or ignored under the same old retreaded humor.

As far as the rest, it’s no different here than other social media. People always trying to exploit technicalities or engage in pedantry to get the last say in a discussion, engage in other argument fallacies like hypocrisy, etc. I do find that’s a little worse here thanks to how much politics is discussed and all the shit that’s happening in the world right now.