hanrahan

It’s not sad, it is infantalizing, whether that’s “good or bad…”

https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556

As to spectating sports (rather the participation) :)

Visiting America in 1946, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss commented on the endearingly infantile traits of American culture. He especially noted adults’ childish adulation of baseball, their passionate approach to toy-like cars and the amount of time they invested in hobbies.

Nek minute you have a large shed, wood lathes, thicknessers, band saws and on and on

Whittling? Bodging ? Stone wall building ? Spoon Carving ?

Yoire as old as me ?

Run,.Run, Away :)

Well, he was President before, did a terrible job and was then reelected…so.

The average user doesn’t give a shit about privacy either as evidenced by the state of the current Internet.

Indeed but 0% of them are using Firefox. That battles been lost

These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

Boxing ,MMA.etc ?

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/45935560/two-japanese-boxers-die-brain-injuries-suffered-same-fight-card

I use Mint (LMDE) on my laptop amd desktop. Dual booting is an issie if you use Windows and have the installs on the same drive. I went Mint only. (18onths now)

No issies with the isntall, there will be some apps you can’t use, I ditched them amd changed to other apps but thats an issue with shitty vendors not with Linux itself

I use the command line very occasionally, 95% of everything can be done with the GUI

Mint’s a good a place as any to start. Has a good support forum if you have hiccups. Understand this is new for you, so you’ll need some effort.

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