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The K series used to have metal bodies as well, and a much better look. Glad I nabbed two before they stopped making those.

There’s very much an ethical problem here. Sure, it’s fairly clear-cut with some debilitating genetic issues. But there’s a point at which you’re veering into eugenics, and that’s sooner than people think.

Take children who are deaf due to a genetic defect. I’m sure most parents imagine being deaf a terrible lot in life that they’d like to spare their kids from.

Then listen to actual members of the deaf community. They’re proud of their identity, they have their own language, and they’re terrified of the prospect of being essentially eliminated in just a few generations by well-meaning folks that can’t imagine a happy life as a deaf person.

What if we discover a few years from now that there are genetic markers for being queer? What if we can genetically engineer people to be thinner, more muscular, have a more attractive bone structure, lighter skin? Those are all things that offer an objectively more comfortable life, which I’m sure many parents would want for their kids without much thought given to what the societal implications are.

And what if this technology becomes available to a charismatic cult leader, a narcissistic tech CEO, a fascist regime?

Such technology doesn’t just fix genetic diseases. In a hierarchical global society that measures people’s worth by their body rather than their character, it eliminates human diversity.

I ran Arch on my rig in 2023 and didn’t use it for a few months. The next update broke a ton of shit including KDE.

Next time I might go with Bazzite. Or Manjaro and just take better care of it.

We just all set it to yellow the entire time so people don’t think they can call out of the blue.

Colonialism only took on modern forms. It’s always been might makes right.

Now with some countries slowly rising from its shadows, a lot of people in the west are pissing their pants that the tables might turn. Even if we’re a very long stretch away from that, and climate change is ironically affecting us less than the so-called global south.

A national self-perception steeped in exceptionalism has them convinced it can’t be anything but envy.

The entire political spectrum has moved considerably right, with “Fortress Europe” talk and blatant admissions that human rights aren’t something we should care about.

There is no hard divide between conservatives and the far right.

It’s cope, at least in part, to point out that the open advance of fascism in the US is several years ahead of the rest of the Western world, and that this was possible under an absolute dumbfuck embarrassment like Trump. And I get why people need to cope right now.

It’s also not wrong to point out that this was enabled by the US exceptionalist mindset and particular flavor of nationalism that we’ve all been exposed to.

This reads as a diss against all people in the US, but it’s not. I strongly empathize with and am in solidarity with those suffering under it.

3 years is not a long time at all. I’ve been collecting games on my steam account for 19 years, and there was a period of >2 years where I didn’t use it.

Preventing the recovery of temporarily abandoned accounts (like from a family member that stopped gaming some time ago), and saving a few cents in storage.

That used to be broadly my view, until I watched Dan Olson’s In Search of A Flat Earth, in which he explores the worldview in which this “opinion” persists and why.

He has chronic sleep issues, and still gets a ton of shit done. What’s your excuse?

I did the same. Took a while but the whole family was on board.

Now on to convince multiple circles of friends and every new person I meet…

It’s not just culture. Most people value community and the well-being of others above amassing wealth (provided their needs are met). The problem is that capitalism indoctrinates us against those values, and even more that it rewards and empowers those who don’t share them at all.

That’s exactly what the GraphendOS project did. IF you choose to install Google’s bullshit, which I did to use Maps and such, they run in a wrapper that makes them usable without the level of system access they typically require.

That’s just not true. He was calling out whites who merely pay lip service to civil rights while putting all their political capital into maintaining a discriminatory status quo.

That is unfortunately the majority, and the frustration at this fact does come through in many of his quotes, and it is well-placed.

Yeah basically the term Liberal in this context is the conservative propaganda team that describes everyone they loathe. What it doesn’t describe is any specific agenda or worldview because they utterly lack political education and are highly suspicious of anyone that does.

There are of course white progressives with good politics who truly care for civil rights, in particular those of minorities when their rights are being threatened. This is not the kind of person Malcolm X is talking about. Unfortunately there’s no real political representation for that. The only effort put forward by the Democratic party is saying: “At least we’re not as bad as the Republicans, so shut up and vote for us or we’ll reconsider that position.” Those are the liberals he’s rightfully calling out in that quote.

Awesome thanks. Also avoids the awful UI and forced login popup.

Studying and fixing something at home I can see, those you typically move around as needed. The other are prior commitments that you don’t.

Although rude, I appreciate when people tell me outright I’m not a priority for them. So I can adjust my own.