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  • This is quite amazing to me since it seems to be the actual case. The people who were saying we shouldn't listen to him, but watch what he does, were openly advocating for a man whose word they know means nothing. It's perplexing. Politicians are an untrustworthy lot one and all, but god damn, the open and naked willingness to vote for someone whose position they can't know, whose promises carry absolutely no weight, that's truly stupendous.

    They are at once admitting Trump says horrible shit, but also that he's an inveterate liar and that makes it better somehow. Both him being honest and dishonest should be equally disturbing. That's some next level cognitive dissonance.

  • I can sometimes see auras around people. It's fascinating stuff, but the strain of it can cause debilitating pain.

    Western medicine calls it "migraines", but what does science know?

  • Your brother is wise.

  • It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts.

  • I would love to hear him cite the exact laws he thinks they have broken and in what way.

  • Unironically, this is why RMS was radicalized.

  • Gone too soon. So sorry for you loss.

  • I will always have a soft spot for Birmingham for giving us Black Sabbath. Luckily, I have never been there though, so the reality will not ruin it for me.

  • I had a good, deep, cathartic laugh at this I didn't realize I was in need of. UK politics has been an interesting but unfun mess for a long while.

  • The current situation we find ourselves in makes me think of this quote more than ever:

    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

    H.L. Mencken

  • They are the true blue bloods of the animal kingdom, they are already at the pinnacle.

  • The male lion then killed the cubs so the female lions would go in to heat. Nature is majestic.

  • Years ago I tried running Debian on my desktop computer and it became very quickly apparent it was not suited to my needs because of the out-of-date software. These days I only really consider rolling release distros for my desktop, or at least something with a fairly snappy release schedule. If I went for Debian, I'd probably run sid or testing.

    Now, in situations where the bleeding edge is not necessary, Debian is fantastic. I've run it on my laptop, Raspberry Pi server and PinePhone. On the laptop, having a solid base that doesn't break if I don't use it for a while was great, since I didn't use that laptop often. I did use flatpaks for some applications that I really wanted to be more recent and it worked nicely. So yes, you can use Debian as a solid base and use Flatpaks/Appimages/other to run apps you really need the newest version of, where available of course.

  • Politicians hide themselves away/They only started the war/Why should they go out to fight?/They leave that all to the poor, yeah/Time will tell on their power minds/Making war just for fun/Treating people just like pawns in chess/Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah

  • The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

    Carl Sagan.