He failed to overthrow the American government and have his VP killed. And the reason he wanted his VP killed was because he wouldn’t help him overthrow the American government.

It’s undeniable that some very powerful people want US democracy dead, but from that to the actual death of US democracy is a long way

So i agree that the second Trump administration is going to suck in most every way possible, like the first one but worse because they’re prepared this time.

BUT

I think people overrate a government’s ability to influence the conditions in a given country. I think a country is made what it is by history, geography, technology, sociology, ideology, economics, and the accumulation of small decisions over centuries.

If the Trump administration wants to end democracy in the US, or if a hypothetical based administration were to attempt a switch to ranked choice voting, both ideals would be impossible to implement because our ideals are limited by practical reality. Both would fail regardless of being good or bad changes, because radical change is really hard when the conditions aren’t met for it, especially when it’s opposed by the rest of the country. If the country just isn’t ready to transition to fascism right now, there’s not much that Trump can do to make it.

We talk a lot about how powerful people changed the world, but i think far more often they’re just the embodiment of a societal trend, and they couldn’t change the world if they weren’t. Change isn’t done by powerful people but deeper movements in humanity, with powerful people riding them like a wave.

As to where the deeper movements in humanity are leading us right now, i refuse to guess, trying to predict the future is the best way to look like an idiot

She does say ‘thee’ in the other panel so familiarity is established.

Anyway, even without knowing the rule, you can sense something is wrong by saying it out loud. I don’t know if there are examples of turns of phrase staying in use when they don’t flow well in spoken language?

And it’s that good at 4% market share. Imagine the possibilities if 20% of desktops were Linux, with that much dev time being put into it.

I say “if” but maybe it’s “when”

No, but what are you going to do? Install WIn10 on a computer that’s too old and doesn’t meet the minimum specs?

If you have a 2010 computer, it’s either old Windows or Linux, modern WIndows is going to suck, if it even works. Ergo, i can’t think of a circumstance where you’d want/have to install Win10 on a hard drive instead of an SSD.

Maybe shits and giggles, similar to running Doom on random stuff? If someone has more imagination than me then i’m open

You know, when i watched Metalocalypse i was very surprised that they say that maybe three times in the whole show and that’s it

I tried Ubuntu in 2015 or so, and Mint in 2018, and quit both times. Now i’ve been using Mint since last July.

I don’t know if it’s because Linux changed or i changed, but one way or another something clicked. I’m planning on switching entirely to Mint before Win10 reaches end of life because there’s no way i’m installing Win11, so i have to migrate my whole workflow by then.

I feel like they should cross. For a long time Linux really was “worse” than Windows in the sense that you needed some computer knowledge and deal with incompatibilities with the OS that most people were using; both have gotten better in recent years and Windows has gotten worse, so for some use cases i’d say we could be at the point that the lines cross.

Written from my Mint laptop, absolutely perfect but i’ve only used it for internet and office so nothing fancy

Why would you install Windows 10 on a hard drive? If your computer is that old, you want 7 or XP

Brother you’re on desktop, you could have cropped

I don’t think this is real. Not because it’s a crazy scenario, but because the aliens would definitely make a better simulation.

Frankly all i wanna do is escape this reality, so

A lot of the images didn’t load because they “contained errors”

I’m gonna be 100% honest here. I would do this if i were president.

As a bi man, they may kinda be for me but not really. There’s such a thing as too shredded, many of these are close to that territory.

And for fuck’s sake, you’re not too cool to crack a smile. I’m sure these guys are great IRL but i don’t like those stone faces that they hold in every picture, it makes them look like they care too much about their macho image and would yell at me if i asked them to bottom.

In general i wonder how many of these are supposed to be hot and how many are supposed to represent a powerful male hero. That’s the thing with shirtless dudes.

Row 1: he’s doing it for the meme

Row 2: he realizes it’s actually tasty and has to rethink his whole reality

they were hopeful…

c/shittyfoodporn

This is the magnet i’ve got:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e1610f5c681bbe8e908ddb7f73dc890899994f4&dn=gta%20v%20source%20code&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce

I actually don’t have a torrent client installed right now so i haven’t checked if this is correct, you tell me lol

GTA6 doesn’t release until 2025 so there’s even time for them to make the game great while it’s still the latest in the series.

At the same time, the hacking problem in vanilla GTA:Online is going to get even worse now than it already was.

Overall, it’d say this is good for the likes of FiveM and bad for the vanilla game?

I feel strongly that we should defederate, but i really like your reasoning for being neutral. The fediverse is currently a small community of advanced internet users who see themselves as separate from mainstream users, and the temptation is to gatekeep.