The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.todaytoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 days ago

    And for a lot of people I would still recommend Windows.

    Eh, only if someone needs it.

    For instance my 75 year old father is happily using Linux Mint on his laptop. Why? Because all he’s doing with it is web surfing, watching youtube, and checking his email. At home that’s all most people are doing, especially older people. I set his up so that it backs up his stuff and auto-updates. It just works and if it does get broken I can recover it with minimal effort.

    It’s the same for me at home. My main PC is Linux Mint where I do almost everything. For the occasions I need Windows I have an Intel NUC attached to my KVM. For work I’ve got LM installed on my work laptop and when I need Win11 I have a VM setup in QEMU/KVM with it.

    Are there people who have workloads, or gameloads, that only run on Windows? Sure there. We all know that.

    But there are a lot of people, especially home users, who could easily run Linux and don’t.








  • The major difference is that over time the Republicans have allocated more and more funds to the Executive to enable them to build up a persistent “enforcement.”

    In no way shape or form is that a “Republican” problem. Democrats have been happily handing ever more power to the Executive for decades. As I’ve said in other places this is a symptom of Congress members being more worried about re-election and campaign donations than handling the business of the nation.

    I’m beginning to wonder if the education we received was entirely on purpose.

    I graduated in '91 from a town in the MidWest with about 30,000 people. We covered “separate but equal”. I tire of people blaming the education system when in reality most people are ignorant by choice.




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    10 days ago

    Good. Despite the fact that my Government is currently being run by baboons the US Government shouldn’t have been the sole carrier of such a globally important program. The CVE program is central to how security companies, Qualys being an example, make absolute shedloads of money. These companies shouldn’t be getting a free ride; it’s only right that they contribute to maintaining the resource.

    There’s also the argument that no single Government should have control over something like this.





  • Buelldozer@lemmy.todaytoMemes@lemmy.mlIt's Women's Fault
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    14 days ago

    You’re not the person the meme is targeting. Way to ignore the first 3 panels.

    You are correct, this wasn’t targeted at me and I didn’t fully absorb the content before replying to it. I’m going through a rough patch and it clouded me for a bit.

    Should we also show “empathy” to Klansmen who joined up because they claim to feel disenfranchised by society?

    There’s a chasm of difference between empathizing with a Klansman and empathizing with people who followed a normal, and I use that word loosely, cultural track. The two are so distinctly different that comparing them is absurd.

    Your idea of empathy is why the Andrew Tates of this world can thrive.

    That guy and the way he lives his life are disgusting, do not associate me with them.


  • So it’s working?

    How so? I’m having to go out of my way to find and engage with people who have alternate viewpoints & lifestyles because they tend to get pushed out of / banned from “regular” communities. That’s the exact problem being discussed here.

    In the broader context of the meme itself people start thinking they are in the majority because they are participating in online communities that have been carefully curated over time to silence anyone who disagrees.



  • We are, but at the same time having parallel communities helps with that

    Does it though? Seems to me that we just end up with two echo chamber communities where there’s no cross pollination of ideas and no challenges to our viewpoints. It’s good that people still have a place to interact but self segregation along ideological lines isn’t healthy for anyone over the long term.

    As an example it’s why I’m still subscribed to communities over on .ml. They challenge my base reality and expose me to viewpoints that I wouldn’t consider on my own.