Adderbox76

I never said it was "too early to tell".

I said, and I'll repeat, there is plenty of evidence and reports to share without having to resort to unaccredited media sources.

That's what THEY do. We can, and NEED to be better.

I don't doubt for one second that Israel is likely planning something like this. But let's be careful about using sources that are just as biased as the ones that the other side uses.

If you're reporting on news from some far-left website while at the same time decrying right-wing bias like Fox News and it's ilk, then you lose the moral high ground.

There's plenty of regular journalism that documents Israel's bullshit without having to resort to non-credible sources. Stick to that or there's no point in fighting because we've already lost.

Same. Was thirteen in 89. Graduated in 94. Hit Y2K at 23. Basically peak Clerks/Dazed and Confused generation.

To make matters worse I grew up in a small town where there was nothing better to do THAN do stupid shit with friends.

Yeah. You're right that we've always been dumb and stupid and would do stupid shit to impress our peer group

But I firmly believe social media has inflated the definition of "peer group" to include "internet followers", which jacks the whole stupidity up to 11.

For example, you're a nineties kid walking through the mall with your friends in your JNKO jeans and your slap-it watch. One of your friends decides he's going to be an idiot by balancing on the railing of the second floor and you all have a good laugh. Edit: If his friends hadn't been there, would he have done it? I doubt it. But now his "friends" don't have to be there, because they're just random followers to give him social media points.

That's sort of what I meant. Its not the we didn't do dumb shit as kids, its that social media credit has motivated people to do dumb shit when they normally wouldn't.

Edit: also, WE grew out of it. Nowadays they are socially and financially incentivized to NOT grow out of that phase.

We live in an age where the notion of "thinking something through before doing it", also known as "common sense" has been replaced with the need to get it out there onto the internet as fast as possible before someone else beats you to it. The need for social gratification on the internet beats the need for self-preservation.

The first time I recall realizing this what when another YouTube dipship picked up a Portuguese Man-o-war and people got pissy when it was pointed out how lucky he was to not have been stung and how it was sheer dumb luck that he was still alive

People defended him saying "He didn't know it was dangerous, he didn't know what it was..." And that's the whole fucking point... We used to live in a society were people were smart enough to not touch shit that they don't know if it's dangerous or not. The concept of erring on the side of caution is now abandoned because of stupidity and social media credits.

Remember when Johnny Depp wasn't a parody of himself...?

Can someone just tell Boeing that he has some dirt on them, already...

Exactly. I don't pay for Bitwarden because I need all of its features. I pay because I want to support them and the job that they are doing. The extra features are just a side-effect of that.

Because "Jewish leadership" isn't the same thing as "all Jews".

It wasn't back then, and it isn't now.

Implying that they are is exactly the reason why we are somehow not allowed to criticise the STATE of Israel without being labeled an anti-semite.

The Jews didn't hand over Jesus. A HANDFUL of Jewish state leaders did.

The Jews aren't committing active genocide in Gaza as we speak. A handful of Israeli state leaders are, and using their faith to justify it.

Pfft. If you're not building your Linux from scratch, are you really linuxing?

I've been exclusively Linux for years, and all the crap now going on with AI and ads being shoved into literally everything makes me happier than ever with that decision.

But you're absolutely right. Linux is "it just works" in a relatively narrow use-case.

Just going on the internet to browse and play some Facebook games (my parents). It'll absolutely work out of the box.

Doing some light creative work (design, writing, etc...) No tinkering needed.

But from there it becomes a scale from "probably work fine" to "hours of work and extra repositories needed".

Video editing or 3D modelling with an NVIDIA card because CUDA, it SHOULD be easy to install, but there's a chance it won't be. You take your chances.

Gaming through proton? Single player games, yeah. I've literally had 95% work out of the box because Valve is awesome. But I don't play online multiplayer. If you need to play nice with anticheat software, good luck.

I too get frustrated with the fundamentalist Linux base who think its the right fit for everyone. Because it absolutely is not, and its okay to admit that because admitting that drives the motivation to improve it.

I've been rolling OG KSP for years. Never felt like there was going to be enough in KSP2 to make it a necessary upgrade for me. Modded KSP1 is functionally the same thing with maybe a few exceptions. I've never played a more mod-friendly game (except perhaps Fallout4)