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Goddamnit I am too American.

Now I want a burger.

I was gonna say this too.

Bazzite is functional, has helpful utilities pre built in, and is pretty idiot proof for the average user, as compared to many other linux distros.

99% of it 'just works'.

Use Bazaar, install flatpak, other useful stuff is pre-installed, use them, if you wanna do something fancier, documentation exists and is pretty good.

Beyond that, for the truly tech illiterate, you just need to make the icons and DE look the same as what they're used to, and then grandma will probably be able to figure it out... I think you can fairly easily do this with a good number of linux distros, and there are some that are just designed around this concept.

jump

Bro, I can jump so high!

Oh yeah?

jump

Damn dude, you got mad hops too!

We should go jump ourselves on top of some cheddar, let's go!

-fin-

Probably has something to do with more and more things like this happening:

https://cybernews.com/news/france-lyon-microsoft-office-tech-adoption/

Yep, exactly.

Almost 30 years now we've known that shifting around the school schedule by roughly a max of 2 hours would result in significantly improved learning across the board, for basically 0 cost... and we don't do it.

America is a scam.

Literally a dangerous psycopath.

This is basically 'tortured kittens to death as a kid' level shit.

If you made a TV show or Movie where a character did this, people would say it was heavy handed and lacked subtlely, it is too over the top, it isn't a well written bad guy (gal) character, it's schlocky.

On a related note, the latest Trump administration cabinent picks and antics unironically cured my impostor syndrome.

If these gaggle of fucking demented backstabbing morons are good enough to run this country...

And they can show that about half the country is actually so stupid and or intentionally blind and or evil to somehow not realize their cult leader just obviously is a huge rapist and pedoohile...

Then I am better than this country.

Better qualified, more empathetic, more competent.

Turns out it was just angry clowns gaslighting us the whole time.

Well uh fuck em, this is all so stupid that I now actually have the correct amount of self-confidence and self-respect, it is indeed this entire society that is a joke, not that I am somehow fundamentally inadequate.

No, no.

The vast, vast majority of MSFT 'employees' are contractors, V dashes, A dashes, etc, who functionally keep working different MSFT contracts over and over again, but get paid far less than actual salaried, proper employees with stock options.

MSFT will string along these contractors along with what you are saying 'do well and we'll hire you and pay the big bucks', and in reality this basically never happens.

This institutional, pathological reliance on contractors over traditional employees is a huge reason why MSFT's work culture is so toxic, why MSFT's management is so incompetent, and why their products seems more and more like a bunch layers of inefficient and buggy spaghetti code worked on by hundreds of random people with no core, consistent design principles.

Because they are.

Anyway, you only get hired as an actual proper MSFT via grandfathering or nepotism, actual competency only qualifies you to be a contractor.

Swap the letter order a bit, to get closer to the pronounciation?

And, roughly 20 years later, the internet has an arguably equally infamous meme answer:

An anime vtuber screaming "Plap Plap Plap GET PREGNANT GET PREGNANT!"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3uPPNHVma5Y

So uh, I guess this meme has come full circle and is now in a sense, the internet growing to adult age and answering itself?

...when the right to free speech and the right to peaceably assemble has literally never been respected ever in the history of the country.

Not immediately after the country was founded and the Alien and Sedition acts were passed.

Yeah, exactly, anyone paying attention in US History class should have picked up on this pretty quickly, that the US nearly immediately showed that it isn't actually committed to to Bill of Rights with some kind of religious level of universal reverence, even though it is strongly implied that they were.

Bill of Rights ratified in 1791.

Alien and Sedition Acts passed in 1798.

Yes, they were later repealed, but thats only 7 years for a 180 about-face when its expedient.

All your other examples are good as well, what particularly sticks out to me is that we uh, we treated Japanese immigrants, who'd done nothing wrong...we gave them worse internment conditions than we gave to actual German PoWs.

To add to your list, we barely even mention or teach just... how we have done mass deportation of Hispanics before, during the Great Depression... and it doesn't even really have a name, doesn't even have little bullet point sub header title.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/09/08/437579834/mass-deportation-may-sound-unlikely-but-its-happened-before

I guess I got lucky in a sense, by chancing to get a US History / AP US History teacher who was an Anarchist... set me on the path of breaking out of my right-wing upbringing.