MonkeMischief

I was also thinking that businesses are bought and sold all the time. My local mechanic seemed to change owners once every several years.

I'm feeling the same way. I've been mostly "stuck" in wherever I just ended up. Part of me really does fantasize about fleeing somewhere better, especially being in a part of the US with an absolutely abysmal education record (and it shows. Oh boy.)

But besides the resources, I don't have some ultra compelling reason for a non-volatile nation to bother letting me in.

There's cool people here, and I try to get along with whomever, but forming relationships feels really high stakes these days since contested politics and tribalism is infecting every facet of peoples' lives.

I've really enjoyed Monaspace as well as using Inter for my interfaces. Maybe you will too? :)

Me in highschool. Man I thought I'd have those friends forever. It was really cool how socializing wasn't so high-stakes back then. I kinda knew everybody of all sorts there, and could hold a conversation with almost anyone.

Once I had to move away to the middle of nowhere after graduation, and they got jobs and stuff, I was left with one (1) single friend that actively sought to catch up with me regularly. He earned the top spot of "best friend."

The rest just forgot I existed because I decided to drop Facebook. (And I provided alternative methods to reach me.) My once best pal would usually respond to "How's it going man? :D" with "Work." That's it.

I realize one of the biggest fantasies we see through our screens and on our pages is a group of fellows with unbreakable bonds. From sitcoms to superheroes, and now even tabletop gaming, I think we all just want a group we can struggle and rejoice together with, and that's become such a coveted grail of a thing.

But the world is designed to isolate and busy and fatigue us as adults, and everything has gotten so socially tense and high stakes it's hard to form anything with new people beyond mere acquaintanceship, because you can never be sure who people really are anymore.

Lol sorry I didn't mean to get all deep there lol...

I love sad songs that sound happy.

OutKast's "Hey Ya!" has entered the chat.

I will definitely say I wish encryption setup was a lot easier in Linux. Windows is like "wanna Bitlocker?" Done.

With most Linux installers, if you're not installing in a very default way, and clicking that box to encrypt the drive, it's time to go seriously digging. For a while.

I managed to encrypt a secondary drive with the same password on my EndeavourOS laptop, but I still need to enter the same password 2 times before getting into the OS.

I consider that a feat, and I'm not touching it for fear of losing everything lol.

Both can be true!

I think we need to avoid the monkey-brain tendency to want to assign tribalistic moral judgement tags based on OS usage. Rotten folks can use Linux and Windows as much as anybody else.

High profile usage of Linux? Neat! By that guy? Bummer. Such is the duality of free choice. =\

Thanks for the thorough background here, because I think most people (including myself) who just ignored him this whole time aren't seeing this whole picture.

Like the comments above, they're seeing what looks like a petty morality crusade years after a guy who makes stupid videos let a bad word slip, which, yeah, looks ridiculous out of context.

PewDiePie has been a right wing fucker that has eased a shit ton of young people into the alt-right pipeline for years.

Why am I not surprised, that this world's definition of success always seems to go hand-in-hand with bigoted fascism?

It's also a very chicken-or-egg question I think. I'm genuinely curious: Do internet/podcast/streamer celebrities get their status from already being like this, and signaling the fashy bros club that they're ready to join the "in group" , or do they get pulled and influenced into that circle because they innocently found success from stupid videos?

Is social media influencing this directly via an algorithm that simply draws the connection between right-wing extremist ideals and capital wealth?

I feel so tragically for young folks. So much of anything pulling for their attention anymore is a targeted psy-op to "pipeline" them into some kind of zealotous soldier or another.

The Internet used to be about cats and gaming used to be a hobby divorced from political office except when someone tried to argue they "cause violence" every few years.

• Nanobots?
• Sorcery?
• Hotel?
• Trivago

Username checks out so hard LOL.

It's a hard fact of life that friendship compatibility isn't a transitive property. I lament that differing people I like to hang out with, likely wouldn't wanna hang out with each other.

And then I'm like "How the heck do friend groups get started then?!" Lol

100% with you on that one.

I really enjoy the discussions here, even if it's a little slower paced sometimes. (And I find that to be a feature!)

I've come to feel that technology is for anyone , but not necessarily for everyone , at least, not all at once.

It seems like a series of Eternal Septembers are usually coaxed along by corporate interests to spur mass-adoption for ~~fun and~~ profit, and the existing communities that get flooded tend to suffer for it, because there's no time to support or acclimate the newbies to the community, and they bring their existing assumptions with them.

Fair disclosure: Haven't watched the video yet, but I'm honestly very appreciative of your counterpoints here. And I agree! A militocracy ain't good news, either.

And you're right: Taking him out over "unpopular policy" doesn't make logical sense under a reasonable society.

I'm also aware that our civil checks and balances that should be putting the brakes on stupid policies are falling apart, because they've been carefully staffed by zealots heavily in favor of a single-minded, monolithic ideology.

However, I'm honestly wondering where the line is, that a leader's blatantly criminal activity can officially brand them "unfit for office" and bear consequences.

Like if he actually tried to just kill someone for no reason in Times Square, as he boasted he could, could anybody stop him? Or is it just "rules for thee, not for me" and we actually have a king now?

Because you know if "We The People" stepped in to stop that, we'd all get gulag'd.

If he decides "lol yeah let's annex Canada." Can our forces deny such a stupid order? Even though he is, technically, "their boss"?

Impeachment historically seems like a "strong suggestion" more than a solution.

According to USA.gov:

The presidents impeached by the House were: Andrew Johnson in 1868 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton in 1998 Donald John Trump in 2019 and 2021

Presidents Johnson, Clinton, and Trump remained in office following acquittals by the Senate on all charges.

It sounds like The People can't really do much but demand that their officials follow through, but even then, it sounds like justice is never actually carried out.

It's honestly terrifying to think about, and I wish we knew what to do that was actually effective to reverse course on this absolute insanity.