Nah, Raymond’s a cunt and I’ve told a few Raymonds at work that.

One of the things I warn people about privacy is that it’s not about what they might find, it’s about what they might pretend to find.

Plenty of dirty cops plant evidence. Who’s to say they don’t like someone and keep a flash drive full of Cheese Pizza to plant on their computer. Usually that kind of logic gets people on board more easily.

The fun thing is, old AI slop helps new AI slop look more believable. The main tells is line work and fonts. Chat GPT has a very distinct art style, with a lot of soft lines and generic fonts. It’s also extremely consistent. You could look up a dedicated sub for Chat GPT memes to get a feel for it. Then you’ll start to loathe it.

I guess if I had to throw some shade at M$, I really hate how garbage the registry has become. Back in the day it was great for very specific solutions and some personalization, but now I have to crawl through hundreds of drop downs on a fresh install just to fix simple things on Microsoft’s own software.

You can move the taskbar back to the left, it’s a setting in the context menu. But by all means, please don’t let that drag you away from Linux. Windows is going to get a lot worse in other ways soon. It always does.

Deepest sleep of today vs the deepest sleep of all time.

I constantly reference Job for exactly that logic. Early Christianity saw family as property first.

When you go to hell, you’re strapped to a chair and forced to watch ads that spoil major plot points of the movie.

Then when you watch the movie in theaters, the pre-movie ads are ads that spoil the major plot points of several other movies.

An eternal chain of ruin, for your sins.

Ah great, now the hub is going to be flooded with this.

Why not both?

Job: “Thanks for giving me back everything you took from me in that bet with Satan, but can you please bring my dead family back to life?”

God: “We haven’t established that lore yet.”

According to them:

Mutilating your genitals for sky daddy in your head- good and normal

Surgery to be your true self - Deranged

I hate this hell world.

I had a dog for 20 years. We called him Git, because when we tried to chase him off he would just come to us instead. He was the best stray mutt a kid could ask for.

I’ve been a democratic socialist for years. Communism is not an authoritarian belief, it is a socioeconomic model separate from that concept. Stalinist Communism -in practice- was an absolutely authoritarian dictatorship with well documented hardship suffered by the Russians, that people for some reason can’t seem to unhook from actual proper communism and will defend to the death in a fit of tribalist rage as if all communism is good communism. I chose to define Democratic Socialism rather than use the term intentionally, because I felt like just blurbing it out would come across as a buzzword. I’m not opposed to communism and would prefer socialism, but I am absolutely not going to advocate for Stalinist Communism.

I don’t know, the thing annoying me about the tread is everyone is correcting the person by saying “They’re Communist, not Fascist!” instead of saying that it was “Authoritarian rather than Fascist”. I feel like framing it in the latter way unhooks the term from authoritarianism, but also doesn’t preclude it from possibly becoming authoritarian like any other socioeconomic system. I feel like the prior framing gave the impression that Stalinist Communism had nothing to do with authoritarianism in general, which I will absolutely disagree with. Stalinist Communism was absolutely not Fascism, but it was absolutely an Authoritarian Dictatorship and I don’t appreciate the implication that it wasn’t.

I don’t know if any of that makes sense, I have a hard time articulating my points. Feel free to critique and thank you for the conversation.

I’m surprised the comments seem to be defending authoritarianism like it’s any more acceptable than fascism. “Stalin may have had millions of people killed and fueled the negative reputation of communism world wide for nearly a century, but at least he wasn’t a fascist.”. I don’t seem to understand why democratic social ownership is considered a worse alternative than letting a centralized tyrannical government harm people unchecked.