Corporate capitalism.
Profit before people in literally every facet of modern western society.
Years of believing the adage that "we should just be happy to HAVE a job", which ultimately gave carte blanche for companies to treat their employees like line items on a spreadsheet; something to be minimized as much as possible in order to squeak more pennies into a stock price.
Literally every bad thing today is the wholly expected endgame of 80s trickle-down economics.
This according to a study published in the journal "No Shit Quarterly".
The sequel we'd all be hoping for.
"Alex...Alex...we all have to drink this Kool-Aid or this inner city rec center is gonna be destroyed!"
Invite Alex Jones to be your leader. Name the town after him and then wait for history to circle back around...
"From the river to the sea" is just a fancy way of saying "Lebensraum"
Isn't it ironic...dontcha' think...
I absolutely hated them the first time I watched them in the theatre. Years and years later I watched them on my sofa, in my living rooms, and finally enjoyed them.
They were too long and drawn out of a story to be engaged by surrounded by screaming children and teenagers yapping to each other.
Watching it at home it went from something I hated to one of my favourites.
Not only was Deckard a replicant, he was a replicant uploaded with memories of Gaff, the character played by Edward James Olmos.
Gaff was an injured in the leg when responding to the original break-in at the Tyrell Corporation. One replicant got fried going through an electric fence, but a mistake in the script miscounted and there is one extra unexplained replicant that is never mentioned.
It is my firm belief that that captured replicant was programmed with Gaffs memories and tasked with finishing Gaffs mission, while Gaff himself had to act as a chaperone. And he's pretty pissed off about it because everyone seems to think this replicant can "do a man's work", as he says at the end of the film.
As much as I'm loathe to admit it, my cheap Asus Chromebook is likely more than what 90 percent of humanity requires. And most of them could easily just get away with using a phone or tablet instead.
I'm an old school guy. I love a good tower with a pair of monitors and stuff to do my editing and 3D design. But even those intensive tasks are getting better on smaller form factors.
It's just not my world anymore. I've aged out of it.
The hassle is the price of having more control over what's happening inside your computer. Some people don't want to care about that, and for those people, Absolutely it's too much of a hassle.
I think the controversial opinion isn't whether or not Linux is more hassle than Windows or Mac (it is...of course it is), but whether or not that hassle is worth it. Does the extra control over your computer outweigh the few extra things you need to do to keep it running right.
For me, the answer is yes. I don't find having to be a little extra careful about some precautions before hitting the update button a huge inconvenience, or working through the occasional glitch when an AUR package upgrades past its dependencies.
But would that be too much hassle for someone like my mother, for example, who literally just wants to play games on Facebook? Of course. And there's nothing wrong with thinking that.
There will always be at least one person who doesn't.
I'll go live in a shack in the woods cut off from humanity before I ever give Apple a dime of my money.
It suddenly hears the sound of a night stick tapping on its window.
"have you been drinking tonight, sir?"