I’m been slowly migrating all my computers over to immutable distros, either silverblue or universal blue.

Once you get used to the container paradigm, you can do all your customization and easily copy it over to other machines without fear of breaking anything.

Plus, having automatic updates and knowing that you’ll always boot into a reliable machine, it’s the best.

Once you have distrobox set up with an arch container, you have access to the aur no matter what distro ypu’re running.

This is suuuper cool, but looks like having linux+amdgpu limits me to the cloud option.

I supposed this is bc we don’t have a DirectML equivalent yet.

Being trans is not a mental illness but let’s not encourage stigma around mental illness either.

Cis people with mental illness are valid

Trans people with mental illness are valid

Mentally healthy trans people are valid

Mentally healthy cis people are valid

Israel is pretty fucking fascist though, what’s should be done to deal with Israel?

Maybe you should have thought of that before you became peasants.

CU vs FEC was specifically about campaign financing, but yeah basically ruled that organizations like corporations are protected by 1A, and money counts as free speech.

Which is obviously bullshit on every level, but just one way that a SCOTUS with a few corrupt individuals can destroy democracy for an entire country.

Like China sucks, but they’re not wrong when they say the US is the most destabilising influence in world politics.

Oh my god are we really doing this. It’s like an elephant took a shit, and a rhino took a shit, and the rhino says that the elephant shit is going to make a worse sandwich.

Sure, you could technically argue that the rhino shit is 2% smaller, you’re still shoving a giant rhino shit sandwich in your mouth.

And “stable/unstable” is not the best metric either. An authoritarian militaristic dictatorship is often more “stable” than a Democracy. You can force stability on a population by taking all their rights away. Doesn’t make it a good thing.

Sealioning is when you relentlessly ask for evidence, even when you know you’re going to ignore it.

I’m asking for his opinion, which I suspect he won’t give because he knows it’s going to make him look some kind of way.

Funny bit about the AI bot because when I asked you about Native American reservations it’s like you didn’t have an answer bc no one programmed you with that response yet.

Asking you a question, how do you feel about Native American “safe spaces”?

Demanding a “safe space” for your particular genetic deviation in this day and age is nothing more than nationalism.

Do you feel the same way about Native American reservations?

So you believe in kicking 10 million people out of their homes and telling them to just figure it out?

It sure is easy to care about decisions someone made 80 years ago instead of dealing with the real life problems of present day.

Should have, would have, could have.

Who the fuck care, where are the Jews supposed to go right now?

Different scenario because European colonizers actually had a home.

Where the fuck are the Jews supposed to go?

Second hand smoke is very harmful.

But I don’t think the government should be able to decide what an adult puts in their own body.

What if nicotine is legal, and only the smoking is illegal?

Only in special circumstances of speaking “ex cathedra”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility

Communists today are using all the same materials and asking people to read works like The State and Revolution, the Manifesto, and so on. I’m not sure what you think is so different about messaging today from the messaging in the past.

The difference is that we live in the present, not the past, and the present is a lot different than the past.

The communist manifesto was brilliant because Marx and Engels wrote it specifically for the average working class people of their time. It wouldn’t have worked if they wrote it for people almost 200 years past.

Let go of the history and tradition. I’m not asking anyone to write a new communist manifesto of the 21st century, but talk to people like you live in 2023, not a cult of tradition. Embrace modernity.

but the fact that most people in the west have been generally happy to keep capitalism and ignore its problems

Lol, no. Open your eyes up, Westerners hate capitalism, they mostly just don’t know yet that it’s capitalism at the source of their problems. People are exhausted at the idea of the iPhone 16 Max Pro Plus X Series, they just want to make a fair living wage to provide for their family, and have time to spend with their family. If you can offer a home, healthy food, medical care, and education at 32 work hours per week, you are sold to almost everyone in the US.