Still free! We’ll just have to fork Plasma to get the infinite errors back.

I liked Bradley Cooper but after watching American Sniper I can’t see his face anymore without seeing the smug visage of imperialist murder.

Ahh maybe I misunderstood. I saw the post as a critique of people saying there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, so there’s no point in trying to make any changes to what you or other people consume - it’s all bad anyway so you might as well buy Israeli hummus or a new phone every year.

Those last two examples are of course hyperbole that I’ve never seen actual leftists use as examples, but I’m just trying to illustrate the sentiment. Of course individual action is folly but I’m still vegan for the micro-difference that makes, and like to use my positions of privilege to have as low a footprint as possible.

Click Clack Moo. All about labour organizing, with a nice dose of animal rights.

Of course sometimes that itself becomes a shield for criticism but that’s a different can of worms.

I think that different can of worms is what this post is trying to address.

If you don’t use a DE, it looks like there are ways to enable it in window managers as well. You’ll have to look up specific instructions for yours.

Some desktop environments set a default compose key, but you might have to set one manually. Common choices are the menu key or the right alt key if you don’t use it much.

Mostly it just defines a set of pretty standard and sensible combinations to add accents or other modifiers to existing characters, but there’s quite a bit you can do with it.

Popular but wrong.

Tried to sign up, stuck in a login loop now.

The best thing about French Canadians is that they get to be in a linguistic cultural bubble that gives them some distance from the knuckleheads down south.

Not that there’s anything to defend about English Canada, but damn it’d be nice to have a break from the dumbassery for two seconds.

though I was on the fence whether to cut the guy on the left or leave him in

So were they.

Ok I need to make a poly sicko emoji asap. Anyone have any suggestions on how much of the image to include? I’m not great at filling in parts of the image that are covered by stuff that I’m cutting out.

Same. I can understand why professionals are locked into particular (shitty) tools and that certain features are always going to land in the FOSS equivalent later, but now I’m in deep enough, I:

a) have toys that make most people jealous (stuff like Jellyfin and the *arr stack, my Calibre and airsonic libraries, or a personal website), and

b) can be a jack of all trades in ways that would be way out of economic reach for those who assume that FOSS just isn’t good enough. Need someone to make an amateur photo edit, put together a video, or record a quick meme song? I can do all that because I’ve been able to afford the price ($0) of having those tools around for a decade and learning my way around them at my own pace.

I’m the black mold future growing on the wood in the background.

I think it’s bad, but the stuff listed in the thread you linked isn’t all that wild. A twelve year old girl said a really hurtful thing about someone’s appearance? Lmao tune in at seven for some real news.

If I could ban smartphones for kids below a certain age I would (really, I would much rather ban social media/algorithms/never-ending feeds, but I digress) but as a millenial, kids my age were watching hours of TV after school, staying up literally all night playing video games, and consuming absolutely horrifying content on the internet way younger than they should have been.

None of this is new. It’s just getting faster and more intense. I also worked with a lot of Gen Alpha last summer in a context mostly devoid of phones and internet access, and while COVID has been fucking rough on them, many are quite bright and empathetic, and if you can get them outside and touching grass for an extended period of time, it’s a whole different ball game. I don’t give a shit that every other sentence is skibidi or rizz or fanum taxes.

The growing gender divide is almost a bigger concern IMO, but that extends up through people in their early twenties at the least. Most young straight cis people are nowhere near ready to be in any kind of long term relationship with each other. Again, probably not a new thing, but damn is it dire out there.

Little edit: the young twenty-somethings I am with are currently watching The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. I can promise you with all my heart that the toxicity in that show is astronomical and engenders a kind of brainrot that is far, far darker than any effect a skibidi toilet might have on a young, impressionable mind.

A user in this community wrote a guide. If you need any help feel free to ask here or dm me - I set up the full stack on a home server and would love to help share the knowledge.

Ban Kelly

Holy shit that Democratic basketball player is dunking into a net that is 12 stories up.

I’d like to see a Republican pull that off.