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Well, she's almost certainly not going to accept those limitations, and, after breaking them, she won't be able to go to your parents for associated issues relating to her relationship(s).

So, she's going to need the counsel of responsible people to help distinguish what's normal, what's coercive, what's reasonable and unreasonable. Her lack of parental support renders her more susceptible to sexual coercion and assault, as she has a disincentive to expose the perpetrators. So, she needs one or more trustworthy people to confide in, and offer advice. She needs social support available to her if she chooses to date against her father's will. She needs to establish firm boundaries with her partner(s), and proceed slowly and cautiously, with other people looking out for her.

She may soon need access to birth control, condoms, plan-b, etc. She may soon need access to medical treatment for sexual assault, STDs, abortion. Lack of parental support makes all of these much more difficult to acquire, making the social support from trustworthy people so much more important.

History is written by the victors.

Ok, I'll try again:

Again a solved problem, just make a decent GUI for your application.

You are promoting monolithic design. You completely fail to comprehend Unix philosophy:

2. Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don't clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don't insist on interactive input.

GUIs are only used for human/application interaction. They are not needed for application/application interaction. While it is not unreasonable to have a GUI for interactive input within your application, it is infeasible and undesirable for a GUI to be needed for your application to interoperate with other applications.

Go ahead and create the GUI if you really want, but expect your users to want to call it from a shell script. Give users the capability to automate away unnecessary manual interaction, and allow the machine to take up that pointless busywork.

So googling how to do someone, copy/pasting command is better than finding it in GUI?

Oh, absolutely. Especially for a one-off setting that you might never look for again. There's just no sense in wasting the time building up a complex GUI to handle every possible interaction a user could ever want to employ.

The solution to the "problem" of "needing to use the terminal" is to retrain the user to understand how limiting even the best GUI can be, and to greatly prefer the terminal.

So, my suggestion is, rather than try to hide away the terminal, it should be featured prominently, exposing the limitations and shortage of command line applications available to windows users. An effective, powerful, well-supported terminal is one of the major benefits of Linux.

He couldn't answer "Which Democrats should be primaried?" or "Who are the good Democrats are?". When he did answer those question, the answers were fucking stupid

Exactly. He pointed to Pelosi as an example of the kind of Democrat he wanted to keep, rather than one of the principal architects of Democratic failure. David Hogg is progressive lipstick on the same old pig.

Smartphones are far too valuable to our efforts to be left at home. They are the difference between personally observing law enforcement atrocities, and being able to prove them. The media isn't covering the protests. We need as much video as we can get. We need to be able to coordinate efforts, passing along troop deployments and numbers.

While our main phones and accounts are probably linked to more information than law enforcement should ever be allowed to touch, burners add too much to our efforts to seriously consider not bringing them.

Forget it, he's rolling.

Are you suggesting users with no programming experience can simply add the flags they need to a terminal application but would be unable to do the same with a GUI because the GUI is the barrier?

Yeah, why not? I'll go ahead and make that suggestion.

I mean, the terminal allows them to ctrl-c, ctrl-v a simple solution developed by someone else, even if that someone else didn't bother to build out a GUI for applying their changes.

The convoluted steps they would have to take to achieve the same effect with a GUI would seriously hinder the GUI-only user.

What I am really saying, though, is that the problem of "needing to use the terminal" is not actually solved by ensuring that every possible setting can be accessed and manipulated with a mouse.

I'm saying that the best way to solve this "problem" is by pushing the user to expect and even demand the terminal. Distros should autolaunch a terminal window at startup. Put it right out there, front and center. Invite the novice user to interact with it with friendly little toys like fortune, cowsay, sl, toilet, espeak. The insane usefulness of the various shell tools are more than enough to keep them using it.

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What?

When the riot cops show up, take your protest somewhere else. Play hide and seek with the fuckers, targeting the oligarchs one by one, all through town.

They can be strong somewhere. They can't be strong everywhere. Keep them moving, keep them chasing you around.

What are you even talking about here? Its certainly not anything related to overwhelming the limited logistic capabilities of law enforcement.

What?

They can handle one protest at one location. Make a list of 20 protest sites, and pass it out to everyone. When the riot cops show up in force, leave. Quickly. Move to another site. Keep forcing them to either pull out of a previous site, or spread themselves thin.