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Cake day: December 3rd, 2023

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  • Uh, I hate to be that guy, but if you can’t use Windows 11 due to hardware requirements, Microsoft put a “Try Ubuntu” button in the system settings page next to the message telling you that you are ineligible for a Windows upgrade. And if you go to their help forums, the Microsoft support reps will recommend Ubuntu LTS to you. So it’s not like the GIMP forums at all.


  • Yeah, if you do any sort of work with art or photography, and you use Linux, you run into them at some point. To be fair, it’s not GIMPs fault that they rally around that software, it’s just a subset of Linux users who like to stick their noses in the air that consider GIMP the only valid choice since it’s FOSS. You also see it sometimes when a Linux newbie asks for opinions on a good starter distro to get their feet wet.

    Fortunately, with the increased popularity of Linux with desktop users, and of course the golden age of Linux gaming being upon us, those sort of people are becoming a tiny minority. I have faith there will be a point when they’re so few that they get ostracized from communities unless they stop being fucknozzles.



  • How is electing Biden going to mean less dead kids in Gaza? He’s still supporting Israel, and he literally just said that US support was ironclad and that no genocide is happening. It doesn’t matter who wins in November, those kids are still going to die, and ultimately that’s on Americans because we supply the weapons and protect Israel from consequences, with force if necessary.

    Gaza is done for, everyone there will be killed by the direct actions of the United States and Israel, and voting for Biden isn’t going to absolve anyone for the guilt we all share for that. That’s on you, that’s on me, and that’s on every other American, both Democrat or Republican. No amount of moralizing or “lesser of two evils” bullshit on your part is going to change that. You need to come to terms with the fact that you have a hand in that genocide, and you’re just as guilty as Biden is.



  • You mean attack them again, right? Israel has already directly attacked the US during the Six-Day War, bombing the USS Liberty which was watching events off the coast of Gaza. They jammed the Liberty’s calls for help, and the US Secretary of Defense even went so far as to call off the jets sent to defend the Liberty, leaving the US sailors to die. The president covered it up, keeping the story out of the papers so the American people wouldn’t be outraged.

    The Israeli government will absolutely do whatever it takes to make sure their interests are served, and anyone who gets in their way will die.



  • I doubt anyone would be making jokes about Poles in school today. That particular flavor of racism has almost entirely died out in younger generations.

    As for picking someone up, yeah, that would be a big problem. Regardless of the efficacy of it, it’s still technically battery, just as it was back then. And to be fair, corporal punishment doesn’t really teach any valuable lessons, it just makes people scared of those who are bigger than them. They still do the bad thing they were punished for, they just get creative to avoid getting found out by the people who can punish them. Then they grow up to be Karens who push people around for stupid shit like not giving them enough sauce with their hamburger.

    If corporal punishment did work, boomers would be the most polite generation out there.