Eh, if they went imperial they would be subject to imperial needs leading to all the usual imperial problems.

Funny how Congress “can’t just legislate over SCOTUS” but only when it’s an issue of human rights. Corporate rights or Capital interests? BULLDOZE THAT DECISION BABYYYY

It strips the tracking data to and from the engines, so if you tuck it behind a vpn, GG.

By peons*

Totally fine when they do it.

I’d argue those people were necessary, what with how public opinion works.

If we’re in a tug of war and you’re pulling with 10 pounds of force, I can’t beat you with 2 pounds of force. In context, you won’t beat “ITLL MAKE YOU GO BLIND AND KILL YOU” with “heeey, like, jot always, maaaannnnn.”

As always, reality is somewhere in the middle, but we wouldn’t have had the progress we did without the other extreme being loud and out there.

Where I live everybody just drives to the bougie neighborhood or does trunk or treat garbage. I fucking hate it.

All is legal in the eyes of capital.

I always see unhinged folk making bad faith arguments or outright shit talk shriek about being banned from ml instances for “disagreeing” then turn around and cheer when .world bans you for linking a source or something.

I’m behind on the credit card right now but I plan on visiting soon to check it out :)

Oh, those things that I like that I don’t get anymore here in Virginia? 🤣

The initial draw was my understanding that the area is particularly progressive with a higher concentration of leftists (Bible belt problems,) but I also like snow and board games and shit. Plus I’m a disabled vet and IIRC I read that transit is free statewide for us which wouldn’t hurt.

Oh look, precisely the kinda stuff I keep seeing that makes me want to move there 🤣

The hyperloop really encapsulates how car brained and isolated Americans are - even public transit should be individuals in a car alone one at a time.

I got a bunch of the new Toyota ad during my podcast today and the entire thing was a guy going on about how much he fucking loves traffic and rush hour now so he can hang out in his Toyota even longer.

FML.

Does anybody use Titan Mail and have an opinion of how this compares?

So many of them really just refuse to exist in public space. “The public” is full of evil undesirables, so let me go from my private space (home) to my private space (car) to go to my private space (work/school/venue) so i never have to exit in the scarrryyy public.

Even my more progressive best friends (a couple) refuse to go downtown because they can’t park directly in front of where they’re going, even though where they’d probably find a spot is still closer than your parking spot at Walmart or a grocery store - but I’m the crazy one for not prioritizing getting a new vehicle at all costs, sure.

Shit is bonkers.

I always imagine people who die on this hill just admiring the title screen of every game in their library for 5 seconds and calling it a gaming session lol.

Its the car centric mindset of just jetting all over town for the fuck of it more or less. As I mentioned elsewhere, if we were ““going out”” I’d understand changing, but we had one drink and left (which was the plan from the jump.) we could have been on the way out of the bar by the time we left their house if we’d just gone there.

Yeah its equally dumb on a bus but most people on public transit wouldn’t do that because it IS silly for one drink.

If they wore particularly expensive stuff, maybe. They weren’t, nor are they particularly concerned about such things, just “comfort.” If we were going out all night it tracks but we literally had one drink and left.

Its a car centric attitude I don’t understand. Driving absurdly out of your way wasting an hour and a half cause why not hurrdurr car.

I can’t speak to how often, but it definitely happens.

Its a perception thing, they see it as “I dont have to’learn’ anything I just follow these tutorials” even though a similar amount of effort would get them through the few commands they might need on Linux.

Eh, no use crying over spilt milk, youre here now. :) Linux is still stuck in a weird cultural hole, its not your fault it took a while.

Ive always been familiar but a daily driver of windows. I started self hosting a year or two ago, and recently switched my office PC to Linux with a secondary win partition. Ive just never had issues with windows but I’m pretty tired of what they’ve been up too lately so for me it was time. Whenever I get around to grabbing another m.2 for my living room rig I’ll do the same for it.