Maybe I’m in a bubble, but it’s true that I haven’t heard a TERF of crypto-TERF talking point in a while. Even my mother who is somewhat susceptible has been quiet on it.

Virtual environment? Taking notes of what they did?

Anyway, tell them it’s okay you experiment and mess things up. Show them how to backup their important work. Then walk them through inevitably having to reinstall their distro.

They’ll learn that you can just keep moving forward, fixing and learning as you go.

I love your comparison of where issues come from on Linux vs Windows. That’s so apt (heh). Even after 10 years of using Linux, I never really thought of it that way.

It’s frustrating when any computer doesn’t do what you want; but you’re right, it’s infuriating when the problems are engineered to manipulate you into parting with your money, attention, or privacy.

(( insert anti-capitalist rant here ))

Okay so it’s maybe 45 to 50 per cent half-life 3.

But it was the third complete half-life game. I havent played it (no interest in owning vr kit) and even I take this view.

Omfg that’s messed

I feel like I missed an award winning documentary somewhere…

I’m sorry, what?

EDIT oh. But also still what?? Why???

Canada is in existential need of electoral reform. People should be able to vote for who they actually want to represent them.

Weirdly, I know of more women who listen to joe rogan than men (okay, the numbers are 2 to 0, so not that mindblowing). I don’t fucking get it.

It was the same thing with friends who liked Elon Musk before he went fully mask off after buying Twitter. Who he was, and the function he provided, was so completely obvious to anyone who was paying attention. I don’t get how anyone could miss it.

How to pull them out of the bog, no idea.

For my part I’ve just confessed my ignorance of what’s going on on the commercial web, and shared with them the kinds of conversations I’m have on the non-commercial parts (fedi, email, chats, smol web, etc), which are usually nicer and more productive.

Although to certain extent I still consider this here a form a social media… and I’m not actually sure that it’s good for us past a certain number of people. It might be “more cacophony than community” to quote one of Matthew Graybosch’s blog posts.

It is better here than on the mainstream social medias, though. That’s for sure for sure.

EDIT anyway, that’s a total aside. I just couldn’t help picking up that one thread. Good comment. I love your approach.

Even if they come back. It’s not worth the labour to hold their hand through that shit. Maybe their mom or dad can talk some sense into them, but I sure as shit wouldn’t want to live with someone like that while they figure out how to screw their head back on straight.

Confirmed. Sometimes I start a sentence and don’t even know what my point is until I get to the end of it! I am a total fool. But at least I’m not a fuckin chud.

Still, 41% sounds absolutely critical level, like we need to stop all society and have a conversation, because that is so uncool.

Fucking 41… Like that is a plurality. That is a whole fucking lot of wrong people. That is entirely too many bros. I’m not sure I can impart just how disappointing that number is.

they usually manage to not make things significantly worse, though they often don’t do much to improve the situation either.

I think even with the best of intentions, if two people with guns show up to some sort of crisis, it’s easy to see how that might not be, like, the right vibe at the moment.

Edit: word

amount to tardigrade dicks

Thank you for your contribution to our culture today. I will make very good use of this.

I am pretty sick of its ubiquity. Like my friends can’t even hang out unless it’s somewhere that serves.

I don’t see votes but you’re probably downvoted to hell. People get real weird when you start criticising what they eat or drink.

Did you just Spongebobcase the word genocide

I saw my own parents trying so hard with me and my siblings: to be better than their parents, and more sensitive than the society around us. They succeeded in being better than their origins, but still fucked us up in their own unique way.

I think we can only expect our parents to love us and to try their best, given the cards they were dealt.

It can take some processing to get to that realisation though. I hope your kid sees that you love them and were trying your best.