Nope, it’s gatekeeping. I installed Ubuntu on my partner’s machine instead of paying for windows, because he only uses webapps. Learning CLI isn’t required for browsing the web, and trying to force it only makes people think it’s useless for basic shit.

What internet? The one algorithmically controlled by the oligarchs?

TIL that Lemmy isn’t part of the internet

Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That’s all the average computer user does.

Anarchy and Marxism aren’t the same thing, lmao

I’m in the middle of pulling a chat friend out of his programming. His only real problem was being raised in Texas by a Good Ol Boy single father, and once he got out from under his dad’s wing, he started to realize that what he was taught simply isn’t lining up with reality.

He started out as an incel, but now he’s in therapy and has a girlfriend.

I think of it less as ‘converting’ and more just holding his hand while he figures out that his dad’s advice was complete horseshit. It takes forever, and not everybody has the spoons to pull it off, but I do, so I will.

Yeah, I got accusations thrown at me after letting a trans lady crash at my place when she came out and her ex-wife kicked her out of the house. Everybody was an adult, but the ex-wife found a friend in the TERFs, and they think trans rights is pedo apologism.

I got molested by my babysitter when I was 5, and it was incredibly infuriating to hear people say it was the same as a fucking divorce.

Nirvana is on the blue line by Sad, Tool is above it in the pink/purple

Vista was a’ight, so long as you didn’t get that memory eating bug.

And once people put AI images with their article, I start to wonder how much of the article was written by a LLM. I’m too used to arguing with idiots that use GPT to generate a list of studies to support their view, only for those studies to be complete hallucinations or unrelated to the topic.

I’m completely electric, in a building with code standard insulation, and my power bill still goes up by $100 each winter, contradicting the headline’s ‘every time’ claim. That makes me feel even stronger that this article was probably completely generated, and I’m not giving it my clicks.

Dad was a gym rat, and it is absolutely a real thing.

ngl, I sorta assumed it’d happen more than three times a week

I mean, that drunk uncle is now old enough to be a grandparent who looks after the kids while both parents work two jobs each.

I know somebody with a full house filter, and it uses UV to reduce bacterial growth.

Western Washington, surprisingly enough. I thought the area had fantastic transit before I moved, but outside the cities it sucks. I’m currently waiting for a taxi because my MRI finished after the last bus home. It’s only 5:30pm.

Shitty public transit is the goal around here though. Its being run by fucking NIMBYs that don’t like that the bus that goes to my town also services a reservation, and just whine whine whine that the fully packed bus is too expensive and should be cut.

Headline: In a startling discovery, 43 Oklahoma school districts used corporal punishment against students with disabilities during the 2021-2022 school year.

https://kfor.com/news/local/not-our-place-43-ok-school-districts-reportedly-spanked-students-with-disabilities-recently-lawmakers-want-to-ban-it/

My local public transit only commes by five times a day, and if the bus is already full, they’ll not let the wheelchair user on. Ostensibly they’ll send a van to pick them up, but those don’t adhere to a schedule and can take hours to arrive.

Transit around here is so bad that I’ve had multiple jobs tell me I’m not eligible for hire if I rely on the bus.

I’m remembering one discussion in particular where he used the Civilian Conservation Corps and other work-relief programs during the Great Depression as evidence that it’s perfectly possible for the government to just invent jobs to be done, and especially now that we’re in the digital age, there is zero reason to keep a ‘conscription to vote’ scheme as military only.

Dang, you gotta worry about butthole surfers too?

I thought the joke was that the alt-right says these perfectly normal things are far left?