Im watching humanity going full moron, forgetting all the lessons from the world wars. For the people who died in them, must feel like a complete waste.

Yeah I can imagine. I just hope the current administration doesnt make it legal to do horrible things.

Fair points. Its just that so many soldiers seem to he traumatized by what they experience. If you didnt see much combat, of course you wont be affected by that.

I would fight for a good leader. Someone with wisdom, courage, integrity. Those people are very rare.

None of the us presidents, or any world leaders meet that bar.

No its never going to disappear. If you are referring to people using slack and chat apps, those are locked in walled gardens where your messages cant ever leave.

Email can be moved anywhere easily.

Soldiers have a lot more than that drilled into them. Obeying authority, pushing down your own emotions, lots of shit.

I would never be a soldier. A fighter if needed, but not joining any traditional military. It will kill your soul.

Thats true. I forgot covid was mostly in 20 and 21.

Well, covid made the stocks tank since people thought it was gonna kill so many people that society would have problems.

Trump managed to make the stock market tank even worse, but yeah, I agree with the people who say its intentional.

Or he wants to destroy America. Then he is brilliant.

Die reddit.

The only protests that work are the ones that hit Elon financially.

Even though he is a narcissist and will never realize its his own fault.

Amsterdam. Sorry. :)

Depends on your setup. If you use a 4k screen with fractional scaling in Gnome, Pycharm and all Jetbrain editors have blurry text and run under xwayland.

But vs code works fine, also zed and many others.

I would check out Pop OS instead of mint. But you can easily boot both of them from usb stick and look around and get a feeling before you choose.

I remember the chin diapers and people walking around with them on their chins. Lols.

This should not be upvoted by the Lemmy echo chamber…:)

Love your comment. I felt the same but it was after 9/11 so its been a while. Evil is all around us, I agree with that. But you also have good in some people. They just arent interested in control and power, which is why the world feels evil.

Im not American so I dont think of the American dream as more then necessary hope to cope in a society where you are supposed to identify with your title at work, and always wanting more. Its just a dream and often a nightmare to most people living in the US. That pressure to be successful because even your family cares about it must be difficult.

Im definently into escapism myself. I started with computers in my teens to escape the daily life that felt meaningless. Became good at it, got good jobs. But Im still myself and I never became a npc unable to think for myself.

But I do believe that it matters what we do here in this realm. There are a lot of evil people, but the good ones outnumber the bad ones with millions to one. They just dont have any power to change things.

Most people still think they can vote and change things but you can ask anyone in their 50s how that works out for you… :)

The companies are doing it so their stock price will go up. Each couple of years there needs to be a new hype. Its not enough with Windows 2027. Big techs high evaluations are all based on future hype that will come at some point in the future (and it wont).

People will never switch. I see at my work how colleagues just learn how to accept the endless shit without even reacting to it anymore.

Its a bit far fetched that Trump would be able to kill people Putin style but yeah.

Its good that they keep defending basic common sense, but the fascists will keep coming.

At least the US has shown the world what happens to humans when a government goes fully fascist. Its very important wirh strong encryption to protect people.