Democrats do depraved shit every once in a while, but I feel like because it’s so prevalent in Republicans, “Democratic” always seems to crop up in the headline when that happens. Definitely could be confirmation bias, though.

Wow, guys, I’m just so surprised it turned out to be a Republican doing the depraved shit from the headline which failed to mention a party. I tell you, one of these days that heuristic will be wrong, just you wait.

You dare to mock the sanctity of the spanking of the fraulein with the cow horn, Ed boys?!

Ew, x.com, gross.

It really does have an interesting parallel, doesn’t it?

I agree with the idea that the UK should foster closer ties with the EU (and that they should rejoin), but this poll seems really badly formed. Respondents were given four options:

• Getting a free trade agreement with the USA (28%)
• A closer trading relationship with the EU (49%)
• Don’t know (21%)
• Prefer not to say (2%)

So it presents two main options which 1) are not mutually exclusive and more importantly 2) represent a false dichotomy. Despite this, there is no option for “Neither”, “Both”, or “Other” – instead just “Don’t know”. Given people in the UK have had nearly a decade to develop strong opinions on trade with the EU after it came to the fore with Brexit, the pretty large 21% “Don’t know” seems to reflect that a lot of people whose vote would have said “Neither” probably fell into “Don’t know”. The option about the EU is extremely vague about a “closer trading relationship” which could mean a million different things to different people, while the one about the US is strictly “a free trade agreement”.

Honestly, this exposé/fact check is really good. I’m consistently surprised at the quality of Sentient.

Oh, for sure. Most of these ones in the image seem like they should be taken out by an employee of whatever restaurant or gas station they’re at, placed into a dumpster, and then taken away. I forgot to even address the fact that sanitation workers have fuck-all to do with the pictured garbage; good call.

Every common plant-based milk is considerably better for the environment in water usage, emissions, and land usage than dairy milk. Almond milk is easily the worst plant-based milk for water usage, and it still uses just over half the water dairy milk does and absolutely destroys dairy milk in terms of emissions and land usage.

“I couldn’t find a single vacant public toilet, so I did what any sensible person would do and took a shit in the middle of the sidewalk.” —OP, analogously

Don’t garbage men have surprisingly handsome pay? Or is that just an urban legend I’ve fallen for?

Fuck off

PV Magazine is more or less an outlet for press releases by companies trying to innovate (often in air quotes) with photovoltaics. I’m honestly not even sure why it’s allowed here; it’s completely uncritical. May as well cite a press release on the manufacturer’s website at that point instead of laundering it through a magazine.

Slime Rancher for $2 is 100% worth it! It’s one of those games where gameplay becomes kind of meandering once you’ve seen the sights and built the things, but it’s a very unique experience.

Okay, anyone who’s saying this either tinkers way the hell too much without the know-how to back it up, has never used Linux for more than a week, or should probably be using this as their daily driver.

• Software is, in the vast majority of cases, obtainable through a GUI package manager, versus going out onto the Internet and finding whatever you trust to give you a valid version of the software. Software is updated all at once and without even being forced to reboot (save for some niche cases). With two (2) clicks and one (1) password, every single piece of software on the OS is up-to-date. It’s like a half-step up from an app store in difficulty.
• I have never once in two(?) years using Linux had to fuck around with software drivers. Whereas trying to connect game controllers to Windows was a fucking nightmare, and it feels like I would have to go mucking around with audio drivers every time Windows decided my headset didn’t want to work anymore.
• Windows 10 has, at least once, completely shit the bed to a point where I spent most of my day trying to get my desktop working again. Zero catastrophic issues with Linux.
• Windows 10 placed itself into a state where it couldn’t update at all because Microsoft fucked up and pushed an update that enlarges the recovery partition without regard to the users whose recovery partition is bordered on the right and can’t be enlarged.
• Linux’s install is extremely fast and trivial, whereas Windows’ is full of dark patterns, makes you sign up for a worthless account just to use your desktop (lol), and can be completely fucked if you replace too much hardware in your own PC.
• The shell experience if you actually do need to get some kind of even light power user work done is way less intuitive than Linux.
• Customizing Windows is the biggest pain in the ass imaginable. I had to go into the registry on Windows 11 just to give me the basic tools present on Windows 10’s context menu. Go try to uninstall Internet Explorer. Go ahead, I dare you.
• Whereas Linux has extensive, crystal clear, and highly specific guides for basically any problem you’ll ever fall into (see: the Arch Wiki), Windows has support forums where you pray someone has the same issue as you, and if you find it, 90% of the time it’s a canned response with fuck-all to do with the issue, terminating the thread. So then you go searching your issue appended with the term “reddit”.

I use Manjaro KDE with Wayland on an Nvidia GPU, and it works right out the box. I then have maybe half an hour’s worth of personal customizations which are not at all necessary to use. Something like Linux Mint is what I would recommend to my grandparents any day of the week over Windows.

Yes, they called themselves the “most open operating system”. Which in fairness doesn’t imply all the “free” FSF freedoms, but at least being unable to work around restrictions or reverse-engineer to me definitely contravenes “open”.

That said, this is just beating a dead horse; literally anyone with a brain who knows what Linux is knows that Windows is less open.

It’s less about which ISPs have IPv6 and moreso how much work one has to do to get it working on their home network. Thankfully I think we’re in an era now where any new router you buy will support IPv6 and most major ISPs support it. However, in order to get IPv6 working on my home network, I need to 1) know that IPv6 is a thing (massive filter), 2) know that I don’t have it, 3) be motivated to have it, 4) call my ISP and ask them for a prefix, and 5) go into the router settings and enable it.

For cellular Internet, this is (short of using settings or Termux to see my IP) completely, 100% transparent to the end user, as it should be. It should be the default, not a process 99.9% of people wouldn’t even know exists, let alone initiate.

It’s unreal how bad the state of home Internet IPv6 is in the US. Meanwhile, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China are all pushing formally for full, 100% IPv6 adoption by decade’s end.

My guess is that this is because it’s from HappyCow, with ostensibly a predominantly Western install base. Thus, cities are very skewed Western. The cities all still make sense, but there’s almost assuredly an enormous amount of sampling bias here.

Just to remind everyone that in addition to the ethical and environmental costs of dairy milk, the literal only two reasons dairy milk is cheaper than plant milk are economies of scale and subsidies. (edit: also not baking the environmental cost into the price via taxes, but plant milk still wins in muh free market.) Dairy milk right now is about as affordable as it’s going to get to produce. Whereas plant milk gets almost zero subsidization and is only continuing to explode in scale. Plant milk will inevitably overtake dairy milk in terms of cost, even compared to what dairy milk experiences now with immense scale and subsidies. It’s just objectively less resource-intensive.