Nationalism tells you your nation is what to be proud of, but that’s dangerous and manipulative.

Instead, focus on the people. You can be proud of the people who are protesting, people who are running secret grocery runs for people hiding from ICE, people promoting progressive or scientific thought in threatened educational spaces, and so on.

There are still plenty of us left in the US, some against our will, and you can still be proud of them for still trying when so many others have given up.

It’s indeed the time. I found Cachy was a good pivot, similar feel but seems to work better overall. Manjaro is still based on Arch after all, technically.

For me it’s obvious: my dad’s an alcoholic. There was a sufficient reduction in random hallway pissing, insults, death threats, and so on.

I still somehow have a relationship with the guy, but living with him w/ vodka in the house is a miserable time.

The lack of encryption is exactly why Porygon Z exists. A bad transfer along with a dubious disk and sure enough, your Porygon 2 gets a virus. And that’s not even 1996, but Gen IV.

The irony is I’m pretty sure Windows started getting dumber as it copied MacOS when it gained popularity, removing file extensions, making file systems harder to navigate, spending lots of resources on GUI effects, etc. I mean 11 even centered the start menu, c’mon!

I’ve gone CachyOS but to each their own, hehe.

Or at the very least, you ask for Firefox and they open Edge “accidentally.”

Then gives you a nice big list of things you can do with your browser that you didn’t ask for.

I hope this comment doesn’t age well, but I’m betting Windows 12 will remove the start menu entirely and replace it with a copilot prompt box that opens applications by text or voice activation. There are no alternatives and not updating is not an option.

I looked at some of the demo images and if it reads old lady, it decides to quintuple the wrinkles and go full witch. But otherwise, yeah, whore gun.

So, if I’m understanding right, the computer said there’s a great chance at $1 million in the mystery box if I’m the type to pick it and only it, which I am.

But I pick it for this bad reason: friends and I like to make fun of my troll luck. I’d take it, and somehow get $0 despite several more people after me will get $1 million after me, including two boxers. We’d laugh at “can you believe this shit?” and know it just wasn’t in the stars, just like that time I broke my ankle and all the automated walkways at the airport were broken. It’s that kind of thing (and yes that happened). My infamous troll luck strikes again!

Or it’s all superstition and I get a million bucks, since I’m pretty sure my infamous luck is just confirmation bias. Either way, fun had by all.

That happened to me, but I’m happy with CachyOS now for most things. I can’t believe how much it a step down 11 was from 10 though, it was astounding. Worse than 7 to 8, even.

Shame and regret.

Lol, indeed-- the 2 lane 1 lane road certainly exists elsewhere, as I’ve seen in Japan side streets.

But as my old Indian roommate mentioned to me once, red lights also don’t always mean stop there either, lol

Lol I literally remarked about that earlier in another thread, but now we can really rant.

Is this fairly universal in all cities? Here in LA it’s almost every block on the westside but less so elsewhere. Visiting people in Santa Monica I even ran into two double parkers across from each other and couldn’t even pass. Lol

Yes, that tracks. In very heavy fog, you should be at a reduced speed since you can’t see more than a meter in front of you. I imagine that’s true in a blizzard too. Your second reading is a little confusing though, I imagine in most cases like this a slowed vehicle is a hazard to others…

Tell that to everyone who is double parked, lol.

That said, I’ve driven in a sudden thick fog before on a freeway and the hazards helped everyone see each other. This was like 1 meter of visibility and everyone just moved at a slow speed until we were out of it. I think it was slightly more reliable than break lights, but only just.

Don’t forget Mrs. Hazards. All those ladies let each other know where it’s safe to be.

Good question, but it’s technically not sociology so… maybe not? Oh wait no, psychologists also acknowledge racism as existing so probably illegal.

Since we’re sharing fun facts, conservatism and authoritarianism is unsurprisingly correlated with high levels of obedience in things like the Milgrim shock experiment replications. Something akin to 90% compared to the original 60% (which was already quite high since they only had white men at the time).

They’re also more likely to choose selfish options in things like the prisoners dilemma, too!

(Edit, if you wanna read more there’s an open source textbook I use: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ )

It’s the 21st century, if your friend doesn’t send a meme without any context at random intervals, are they really your friend?