Rusty Shackleford

I’m not racist if I say I hate Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religion is not a race, it’s fundamentally an assertion of an ontology based upon the primacy of the god of Abraham/Ibrahim, Yahweh/Jehovah.

The belief in the existence, omnipresence, and infallibility of such a being as described by their texts is a detriment to our species and may ultimately catastrophically destroy civilization.

One chooses to believe or continue believing this. One can’t choose their ethnicity. If I say I hate those religions, I’m saying I hate their ideas on how reality works, not where they’re from or what they look like.

Especially after age 40 and a knee surgery… I’m tired boss! 😩

Is it supposed to read as “training and resources”? That comma is confusing.

But then you’ll finally get some exercise and do something about your sat-in bean bag chair physique. _/s

“My mind is made up. I don’t need evidence.”

You could mention data from thousand of years ago gleaned from ice core samples, perhaps.

Getthefuckouttamyfacewiththisridiculousbullshit.

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This is so cool!

When I catch a few moments of spare time from work and family obligations, I might fork this and integrate it with streamlink-twitch-gui.

Streamlink Twitch GUI has a feature to automatically open a web browser with the selected stream’s chat feed. I think an easy mod would be to replace the “open chat in browser” functionality with your terminal feed.

But come on.

Unironically, no u.

You ooze self-righteousness.

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Your are assailed by many threats: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the alleged “collectivists”. Extreme authoritarian “leftists”, A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They’ll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party”. Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions.

These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death - of the mind and the body. They claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”. Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.

They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell’s Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. Make these pigs squeal.

The FBI Counterterrorism Unit tried to warn us about this back in 2006.

After many years of studying Japanese history, I’ve come to agree with the opinion that Japan has a culture of masochists ruled by sadists. Well, that’s pretty much the entire human species, but the Japanese especially so.

He worked for decades on that to cement an unholy alliance between plutocrats and the religious conservatives.

But they are…

Once again, here’s one at $750.

Not pre-installed.

Here’s some great laptops with GNU/Linux pre-installed.

Here’s another company!

There are vendors supplying workforce laptops and miniPC’s running MintOS for less than $350 per unit, in bulk!

None of those links prove me wrong.

All of them prove your silly, bogus assertions wrong.

Try again.

Nah. Don’t have to.

That MacBook will have 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which is completely useless, not to mention fucking highway robbery when you can buy a Windows laptop for half of that with better specs.

You said thousands of dollars. They’re not thousands. And yeah, you can get a cheaper machine. And put some flavor of GNU/Linux on that too!

LOL I’d love to see you prove me wrong. Go on ahead. It’s easy!

Highest market share ever, these days!

I don’t think you need a CS degree to run through this guide.

Here’s all the “techy people you know that might want to help you don’t know anything about Linux” coming together as a community to share what they know about the distro I linked to.

Stop being hyperbolic.

Pay thousands for a Mac computer that may not have the features you want, and never be able to upgrade or repair it, or

M1 Air costs USD $750 where I live.

Get a software engineering degree so you can figure out how to install, use and regularly debug Linux. Because even techy people you know that might want to help you don’t know anything about Linux.

Hyperbole to sell an easily disprovable false narrative. For what?

Calm down and eat your lunch, Helen.

I’ve been running Kubuntu for years now; it’s convenient to use for me for professional reasons, but I’ve never used to snap to get new software. I’ve never disabled the the service. Are there flavors of 'Buntu that are “unsnapped”, if you will? I know I should just search for it, but I thought I’d just ask.