I love ice cream but I would be very ill with an infinitely refilling bowl.

That’s a really good analogy

If I remember correctly, Ouranos fathered Chronos. Chronos killed Ouranos to take his place as king of the gods. Afraid his kids would do the same to him, Chronos ate them (these included Poseidon and Hades). Then Zeus fed him the rock and made him vomit out all his siblings.

So all together, that accounts for Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto.

Wasn’t Chronos (Saturn) the one who ate Hades (Pluto)?

Yeah, maybe the US states should stop “outsourcing their sovereignty” to the federal government. Or maybe Europe should federate and become even stronger.

But either way, this is just another braindead take from a mouthpiece for the trump-epstein crime syndicate.

introduce yourself here and tell me your favorite Linux distro

I honestly haven’t used a computer in years. I had given up on windows and tried mac, only to confirm my suspicion that it was even worse. Long before that I had tried Ubuntu once but I didn’t give it much effort, and it was when Linux was still pretty rough around the edges. I was also not very tech savvy, so that didn’t help.

Anyway, lately I’ve been reading more about it. I finally understand how operating systems work and what the different components do. So I can actually understand conversations about Linux now.

I’ve read up on lots of different distros, and there are a few I’m excited to try. I don’t currently have a computer though, so that’s on hold for a bit.

So I’ll probably start with either Zorin or Endeavor. I hear they’re both beginner-friendly. But the more I read about Ubuntu and their proprietary blobs, the less interested I am in Zorin. So maybe I’ll try LMDE instead, cause I think something Debian-based will be a good starting point.

Then I’ll probably spin up a few different VM images to try some others. I’m pretty interested in Solus, Mageia, and OpenSUSE. I’ll also try a few different DEs to see which I like the best, and maybe I’ll try something with the linux-libre kernel just for funsies (and to completely eliminate proprietary dependencies).

After that if I still feel like going deeper I might try some greater challenges. Void, Alpine, Salix, Devuan, and Artix, to play around with different init systems and get a feel for the differences. At that point I’ll be familiar with most of the package managers too, and I’d also give musl and busybox a try to see how they compare to glibc and GNU coreutils.

If I still want to challenge myself more I might try Exherbo and/or LFS, but even without that I think the ones above will give me a good overview of what’s possible. I’m sure by then I’ll be able to pick a favorite.

But I’m really excited just to start learning and tinkering, even just on the more beginner-friendly distros. I’ve been bookmarking some open-source software, pages with useful info, etc. I just need to wait till I have a computer to try it on.

We’ll start a tech co-op.

Someone should make an MMO for the fediverse. We can have meetings there, with a whiteboard for brainstorming and everything! It will be our headquarters.

Ugh. It’s always everyone except the ones who are actually guilty.

I feel like Epstein and Associates were probably peddling all these conspiracy theories to make them sound ludicrous, so that if/when their own dealings became discovered people would be less likely to be credulous.

That’s what’s really insidious about all this constant projection and “accusations in a mirror.” Not only does it destroy innocent reputations, it also burns people out so that the real villains get lost in the noise.

What is the WayFair theory? I haven’t heard that one

Yeah, everyone knows Pluto is a planet!

Tallyho, yip yip!

If we have to get into the weeds of the differences between “guarantees” and “assurances,” the country in question (the US) is not a trustworthy ally.

“Chill out, everybody calm down. Its was just a nazi, the fucker got what was coming to him.”

The French have a proud tradition to maintain.

Right, mhm, cause we all know you’re totally human, right? aha, aha

“AI, show me a picture of the constitution with the secret lines that give the president unilateral authority over elections. Make it 1000% accurate.”

You said

Look at all it got done. So any functional government will have parallels.

Yeah no, functioning governments that don’t coordinate every mechanism of the state towards oppressing, ethnic cleansing, and aggressive imperialism, don’t have parallels worth mentioning.

Which is why I am saying, focus on the evil intentions, instead of the methods.

That sounds dangerously close to “the ends justify the means.” Are you saying that if a state has “good” intentions, then they’d be justified in borrowing the nazi’s methods? Because that sounds an awful lot like what you’re saying.

You mean the “United Mexican States” and the “Matsya States Union”?

Yeah, that’s a stretch. Neither of those are ever abbreviated “US.” It’s not ambiguous.

The United States in almost all contexts refers to the United States of America, and is understood as such. That’s why the official designation for the United States Government is USG, not USAG.

And before you say “HA! United States of America! Gotcha!” No shit. “United States of America” species that it’s referring to the United States, which are located in the Americas. As opposed to simply “America” which could also refer to North America, South America, Meso America, and doesn’t automatically mean “the United States of America.”

In case you still don’t get it, you wouldn’t say “California” refers to the “University of California” simply because it’s the “University of what? Oh that’s right, California!” That would be a braindead take.

If you’re in California however and you say “The University,” people know you mean “The University of California,” and would only be asking “Which campus?”

When there’s another nation called the “United States of [something]” then we can talk about “the US” being difficult and aloof terminology.

Whoever created the meme was either being sarcastic or is a dumbass.

My point stands.

Maybe in the US. But that’s “USian defaultism.”

Also, in the US I find people who identify as “American” are laden with connotations of jingo-nationalism.

I’m a US citizen, but I don’t identify as an “american.” My loyalty is to the constitution, not some pseudo-patriotic flag fascism.

Point to where in the Pali Canon the Buddha says that. You can’t.

You’re thinking of Jain Sallekhana. It’s not a thing in Buddhism.

“American” can refer to anyone in the western hemisphere