You mean, THIS LINUX???

Everybodies aunt at thanksgiving:

“I should be fine. I only trust the facebook with my information. Oh, did I tell you? We have 33 more cousins we didn’t know about. I found out on 23andme.com. All of them want to borrow money.”

I’m on Windows 7. When I saw Windows 8, I said “Guess I’ll wait until windows 9”.

When I saw Windows 10, I said “Guess I’ll wait for Windows 11.”

When I saw Windows 11, I said “Guess I’ll wait until Windows 12.”

Now I’m saying…seriously, did NO ONE else notice they skipped Windows 9??? It went 7-8-10-11.

The dork side, you say?

Me: Hmmmmmm, maybe it’s time for a new PC. Lets see what’s out there.

Stores: Windows 10 and 11

Me: Nevermind!

Me: Debian? Fedora? Why are you making up words as if I speak other languages you made up???

I want to order a taco. Not the ingredients for a taco.

That’s fine. They can blame Biden. They’ll all be dead after the aliens eat them, and then their particular brand of bullshit won’t exist anymore.

And we’re SURE this isn’t The Onion? How sure?

That may be the first time anyone has described anything relating to trump as “slim”.

I can understand hating WOW. I can even understand not getting into WC3. But how do you enjoy WC1, but lose interest at WC2???

That’s like saying “A hamburger is good, but I just can’t into bacon double cheeseburgers.”

I can see my house!

I mean…those aren’t lost sales exactly…but I’m sure Nintendo still doesn’t like it.

Because I don’t know any fathers.

Well…yes and no. I agree with the overall message you’re trying to convay, but will come back on the small details.

The rich feel that they should be entitled to the best healthcare, education, housing, ect. And I think they do. However I also think that’s true of the poor as well.

Not only should we all be deserving of the best life, we should also be increasing what that that means. Improving what the best is, and yhen THAT then becomes what we all get.

If a rich person gets cancer, or breaks their leg, or whatever. I feel like saying they DON’T deserve the best health care is obscene. Not because they’re rich, but because they’re human.

Same with education.

Housing it’s a bit more broad strokes, as “best” in this catagory is a little less defined. There’s a youtube video by ryan george where he looks at rich people houses, and mocks some of the homes features. Some of these houses have things for the sole purpose of wasting money. Like a 19 foot golden statue of a man throwing balls in the air, with a matching water fountain, so the water being sprayed up looks like it’s part of the force he’s throwing the balls.

That’s just money spent for the sake of spending money.

I forget who it was, but there was some movie star in the 90s. Maybe Jim Carry, but maybe someone else.

In any event, when they asked how he was able to get his star power noticed, and achieve the things he had in movies, he replied “I was stupid, I made mistakes, and I failed. Repeatedly failed. Everybody in this business has some stupid commercial, or failed play that they look back on relieved that those days are behind them. But the thing is, when your family is rich, and can support you failing, you aren’t afraid of failing. You learn from your failures. Your failures get you noticed, and that’s when you get oppertunities you haven’t earned. Just by being in the business, and having a safety net without fear of failing. There may be 1000 more people more talented than I am, but I’m MUCH dumber, and also not afraid to take the leap. Because if I fall short, it’s ok. I still live in a mansion, and have no way to actually be affected by my failures.”

I’m paraphrasing, but that’s essentially what was said. I remember being 11, and thinking “Wait, he’s saying that the only reason he’s sucsessful is because he was born into a situation where even if he fails, it’s not going to affect him? But that means those other actors who are more talented won’t even be seen, and we’re being deprived of better performances. Simply because if they fail, they’re homeless. So it’s smarter for them to take a factory job and be stable, than make a high risk gamble and likely be homeless.”

I can’t say for sure that’s the day I became cynical, but it’s definately a motivating factor. Essentially being taught from an early age “There’s in groups who can’t fail, and out groups who the system is stacked against. Fall into the wrong group just by being born, and you’re going to have a hard life, and that’s by design.”

You’re measuring Bluesky with a different measuring stick than they are.

You’re measuring it with the “This is decentralized, and therefore not connected to corporate interests, and never can be” stick.

These journalists WORK FOR the corporate interests you left twitter (or maybe never had an account) over. They are measuring the stick by “These current users are just MAGA users in a cult”.

As long as Bluesky doesn’t start shifting right wing MAGA, it IS different for their purposes. It’s just their purposes are not YOUR purposes, and therefore they can still say that it’s different, and not have that be a lie. Doesn’t mean it’ll satisfy you any.

That’s not much of a prediction. I ask every woman I get to know if they regret having kids. If they could just go back, and not do it.

Some feel bad about saying yes. Some feel like they’re bad moms. Or bad people for wishing they never had kids.

Some happily say “fuck these kids! Ruined my life!”

Some think about it, and eventually say yes.

But so far, no one has said no.

And this is going back to the 90s.

Ok…so then doesn’t that take ALL power away from every mod?

Let’s say you ban Lost_My_Mind@Lemmy.world

But then I could create Lost_My_Mind@Lemm.ee

And you could ban it. And I could create Lost_My_Mind@Shit.just.works (or however it’s formatted).

And then this cat and mouse could happen, all day every day. Just a series of me creating accounts, you blocking them, but it then becoming a full time job making sure I’m currently banned, and me evading the system.

Or am I missing something?

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