Natanox

I once had someone attack me on Mastodon for the Palestine flag in my profile (next to the Ukraine one), telling me that "those people" would happily kill me too for being trans and whatnot. So I was obviously an indoctrinated idiot.

I still cringe about that selfish ignorance. As if a constant state of war and terror would enable anyone to be more open and progressive. As if a society that successfully eradicates another one would be like that either. It's so phenomenally short-sighted.

At which point does our educational (and healthcare -> therapy) system fail to teach the simple fact that the only way to lasting peace and prosperity is to ensure safety, rights and wellbeing of even those who we may not like or who may not like us? Obviously a lot of people in this world would like to see me dead or incarcerated. But that wouldn't change if I could suppress them, on the contrary.

We clearly still have a very long road ahead of us (if we survive as a species without destroying the planet first) to true enlightenment and peace.

What you describe can be boiled down to lack of enlightenment. Like, the thing our ancestors fought really hard for in the past 500 years or so (historians please correct me), the very foundation on which things like a stable democracy are build upon.

The USA always had really weak education and overbearing religious tomfoolery, but now it blew up to a damn crusade against everything enlightenment stands for. For the foolish it's "one-upping the libs", for the uneducated or indoctrinated it's "doing gods work", the powerful see it as an opportunity to shift power to their own "rightful" rule. Meanwhile the only thing it actually is is a damn tragedy that leads to suffering and death.

Sorry if my english is somewhat clunky.

It's funny because the next generation conservatives have found hate against boomers to be a great populistic weapon to collect voters in some countries.

People who seriously buy into this generational thing (as if the 70's wasn't full of political activism, hippies etc) are as dense as the thing they blame for all their problems (the all-round bad boomer generation in their head in this case). Which really is the exact thing observable in both conservatives and right-wingers. Blaming a completely warped idea of some social group for everything, including the things they themselves are actively doing.

OpenSuse, hell yeah

So true. Reading this almost hurts as much as the metal bar over every bus seat.

My printer currently sounds similar, also the extruder (i3 Mega MK4 X-Carriage w/ DD). It doesn't impact the print quality so far, but I really wonder what it could be.

In my case it's especially noteworthy that it only happens sometimes, depending in speed and current direction of the head. Perhaps this really is the sound of a bad bearing, with yours being really fucked already?

Not sure human internals look so much more attractive though.

Absolutely 100% wrong. You're placing an order in the faint hope of the result being "just about" what you wanted. Demands for small changes usually result in tons of weird side effects. You're not in control, and daring to compare it to actual photo editing or photography is cocky at best.

This. Especially important these days, where people can literally throw money at even this social problem to buy an armada of LLMs to manipulate public opinion. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. are dead platforms for that reason, there's no reason to engage in any debate or really anything anymore. Best to just state the facts when public people say bullshit again and then go on, muting any reply.

So what you say is that Beavers are filthy little capitalists?

We might need redesigns for seatbelts then, one that can be easily adapted to a variety of body widths, heights and chests.

True, although the treatment also got a long way with people living hood lifes for many decades after initial diagnosis now. Also I heard they had some success actually curing HIV in a lab environment using some kind of modified retrovirus. That will most like still take till the 30's before it becomes available though.