1. there is no “winning in the middle east”, there never has been.

2. I’ve been hearing that Iran has been getting close to nukes literally my entire life. But sure, now, finally, they were actually getting close to nukes. According to the two powers attacking them who needed a half-baked excuse to bomb yet another patch of desert. I’ll bet.

agreed. it’s just, this is tuesday for us.

Pearl Harbor would’ve been successful if all our aircraft carriers were in port that day, it was honestly the only way they could’ve won in the Pacific. They bet the moon on a longshot and lost it all.

while the orange dipshits decision to start another war in the middle east is deplorable, it is also entirely on par for how our leaders have acted for the past… 40-50 years? 45 years sounds about right. At least that long. At any rate, the situation isn’t really that comparable, I don’t think, unless someone cares to correct me. Do we really think this is going to end up that catastrophically for us?

this is not a live stream, you are not on twitch, we’ve been begging you to wake up for months now, w a k e u p

you must’ve not seen Mint in a long time if you think it looks like Windows 95, I’m using it right now and it looks much nicer.

Further, that’s really not the cutting dig you think it is. Windows 95, for all its boxy, gray 90s aesthetic, was a very clean UI with minimal bullshit. If you like ricing your desktop/want it to look fancy, great, I’m happy for you. Most normal users, on the other hand, really don’t care how their OS looks as long as they can find what they need to. For normal users, the OS should be an invisible plinth that other programs you actually give a fuck about sit on top of. Mint stays the fuck out of my way to that end impeccably well.

Mint is (subjectively, for 90% of people), because something a lot of Linux nerds seem to forget is that the average computer user does not even want to think about their operating system. 90%+ of people who use a computer want it to turn on and just work for the things they want to do, and for like, 99% of the time, Mint has been just that for me for a solid year and a half. I adore it for that reason, and wish more Windows users would just try switching to it. I understand the apprehension not to, having tried other distros over the years (and having fought with Bazzite on my steam deck on multiple occasions), but it really does “just work”.

like I get it, some like to fiddle-fuck with their OS, and that’s cool, but that does not appeal to the majority of people and pretending it should is asinine. Some of us want to view and use our computer as an appliance/a means to an end, not a project in and of itself. When I used Windows and had issues, you know how much fun I had digging around in Event Viewer, or Group Policy Editor, or Regedit, or Control Panel? Zero. Zero fun was had. Same amount of fun I have dicking around with Linux. I want my computer to turn on, do what I tell it to, nothing I don’t (this is the sticking point that got me to leave Windows), and god damnit if it breaks it’d better be as easy as googling an error message (which, Mint also has enough reach/widespread use that it usually is). Anyone who disagrees, I applaud your patience, but that is simply not the way I and most other people operate.

And salty Linux ricer downvotes get me moist, so bring it on, dweebs.

correction: YouTuber makes a skit about a YouTuber realizing a sponsor might be an evil company mid-ad

Probably needed to escape them with \

you apparently missed the word “net” in my comment. It does show downvotes on my app/instance. Ergo, his posts are still reaching people just fine, because again he has several hundred net upvotes, and many comments, meaning whoever was trying to limit his visibility has failed.

oh yeah, I’ll bet OP feels very unseen right now, with their nearly 500 net upvotes and ~70 comments on this post.

Point being, said loser has failed miserably to do anything other than make themselves look more like a loser.

so is making regular pornography, only with regular porn you’re unlikely to require a working knowledge of animal genitalia, so it’s actually better. having said that, I think the world would just plain be better off with another oglaf or cyanide & happiness, don’t you?

ehhh, I was gonna guess probably furry conventions or perhaps more optimistically a lucrative career in shitposty webcomics (think oglaf), but sure lets shoot for the moon.

I’m afraid I’m not familiar with what a d**◌**ath is.

now there’s a kid that’s going places. Not college, but places.

lol

furthermore: lmao

It will never not be funny to me that some people are so chronically online they think everyone else gives as much of a fuck about made up internet points as they do, and more, will go to such an extraordinary effort on a site which doesn’t have cumulative karma like reddit did. which they are either too stupid to realize or too angry to care. these guys not only need to touch grass, they need to go disappear into the woods and become one with nature for a few weeks.

lastly, ow, fuck, my sides!

Ah, but filters can clog, and air scrubbers can only go so far for so long. Especially if you have someone at the air intake dedicated to making them stop working.

this is the thing, if you had time and nothing but time, all it takes is finding the air intake and filling it with something you really don’t want to breathe. You don’t need to get in, you just need a way to make being inside less appealing than being outside.

The nice option is shit. The less nice options… goodness, we’re spoiled for choice.

I’ve always liked guns (some of the mechanics at play in some are fascinating, the wackier ones are like a rube goldberg machine inside), never wanted one in the house because of depression. now, it’s looking like eating a 12 gauge sandwich is, in fact, probably going to be the better way out, eventually. I’m trying to put it off as long as possible until my choices are “get a gun now or you won’t be able to later, at all”.

yeah I’m gay and am on the autism spectrum, between that and being a leftist “parasite” (food stamp recipient), I’ve largely resigned myself to my fate as well. But I’m not going to fucking El Salvador or any other memory hole he shoves people into. I’d rather die on my front lawn.

Yeah, and what do you think those cicadas are screaming about?

They spend so many years underground, waiting to…?

exactly.