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I feel like Linux works for hardcore users and extremely casual users, but it doesn't work that great for medium savvy users.

Like sure if I'm barely using the computer for anything other than a web browser then it'll work fine.

And if I'm willing to do a whole lot of research I can also make it work for power user setups (at an even better outcome than Windows).

But if I'm just a gamer who's smart enough to do some modding and run a couple of game servers and maybe some other utilities, but I'm not incredibly tech savvy otherwise? Not a great fit.

This seriously messed me up when I didn't realize it had been added and then tried to crouch in a video game. Thought it was some bizarre feature of the game.

Oh good point. For a non-benevolent genie story, I suppose being made a prince of a defunct country would work. He would be a prince, but it wouldn't be good enough for what he wants to be a prince for (a good match for the princess). Yeah I see your angle now and that makes sense.

If it was impossible he shouldn't have accepted the wish. Aladdin already gets a wish rejected for not being possible. Fulfilling a wish with something different than what was wished for shouldn't be a thing.

And what does being a prince of a non-existent country even mean? That's still not a prince in any capacity (as confirmed by the story). It's just a scam.

Plus an easy way to accomplish this is just to make Aladdin the lost son of someone. It's a pretty common trope for royal kids to end up missing and raised as commoners, especially in Disney stories.

True. And I'd expect you'd need fewer of these moments for younger people than older ones. Every little bump might be the one that diverts someone to a different path. I know it hasn't worked well on my older family members, but it was those kind of moments that helped my diverge from my religious upbringing when I was younger.

The right realized they could trick or entice certain segments of the left on censorship so long as they used the right language, usually appealing to certain segments of feminism, but also rallying people with pedo-panic as well.

Additionally, the right's efforts on 'free speech' platforms that were used as misinformation has eroded the left's interest in protecting free speech, resulting in both sides wanting to ban various things.

This has allowed their efforts to go a bit further than they usually make it, as they're able to sometimes find bipartisan support for the bans.

My understanding is that it's not bad when done correctly, but if they screw up the install it can be a nightmare and a huge safety issue. They screw up the mixture and now you've got extremely hard to remove foam stuck to everything that's going to off gas dangerous chemicals for 20 years. It can go bad enough to completely condemn the home.

I've found that even if you do this, it doesn't really alter their behavior. A moment of consensus is never going to be enough.

People need to treat this kind of stuff like breaking someone from a drug addiction or helping someone lose weight. Without addressing the lifestyle factors that drove them down that path, you'll never get them to actually change.

That's why the brainwashing is so terrifying. People can fall into it pretty quickly and then it can take years and years to deprogram them.

The Disney genie was also just a scam. Aladdin explicitly wished to be a prince. Not look like a prince or be as rich as a prince or have a parade like a prince. But actually be one.

Instead he's revealed to be a 'fake prince' because the genie half assed his wish.

Ok but this statement would refer to the 0.01% not the 10%

They don't just want more people. They want more people born into poverty and incable of understanding it's better to wait and pay in cash than use credit and pay interest.

So the .01% are the ones you're saying that are planning decades ahead. I don't think that's true, they don't have some sort of master plan for society.

I think we've entered the era of the rich running out of good exploits for the peasants, so we're seeing them self-cannibalize each other. All of our current economy has moved beyond screwing over workers and customers and is now based on the .01% screwing over the 10% that they pretended was part of their class for awhile.

They only have the most half hearted approach to what comes after that process is complete. They might build a dumb bunker or cosplay at being a post apocalypse warlord, but their 'plans' aren't much beyond a tabletop game roleplay.

This has been my experience. There was that whole aspect to reddit that you'd be in a sub and some random 20 year expert would chime in with extremely in depth advice.

Now I feel like everywhere on Reddit is nothing but 14 year olds (or people that never matured past 14). It's not that reddit didn't have a ton of these people before, but now it's all that's left.

Combined with their decision to 'suggest' posts from subs you aren't subscribed to resulting in many subs getting totally uninterested people commenting and the whole magic spark of Reddit is all but gone. The community aspect is dead in favor of yet another engagement algorithm.

It's rapidly becoming Facebook, but for millennials.

The wealthy plan decades ahead.

Sometimes. Most of them seem totally happy to kill the golden goose. They're running both the economy and the planet into the ground for short term gains.

They'd rather have half a personal sized pizza than a regular slice of an XXL pizza, even if that's objectively less pizza.

I think many of them would be totally down to return to medieval feudalism with lords and peasants, even if that meant giving up day to day luxuries simply because they'd feel more powerful.

It's a mental sickness, not an understandable or rational desire for wealth.