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This is pretty smart for the left guy. He’s usually down at the level of “HTML is a programming language” or “What’s a programming language?”.

That said, the first one of those isn’t mutually exclusive with what he says in the meme.

I think the point is when it came to secular things pertaining to Christmas, the church would have said “No”, and the state would have gone along with that, even if most people weren’t religious.

The same happens everywhere, regardless of religion or how prominent it is. If you attempt to do something that the elders of a religion say are offensive to that religion, the state will discourage it, and so people don’t bother in the first place.

In Britain, especially from the 1970s to 2000s, there was always a race to be the #1 charting song at Christmas, and songs with a Christmas theme often won out, even if they were otherwise secular pop songs. This means that over the years, we’ve ended up with probably a hundred of them ranging in quality from terrible to great.

America have followed suit. Or else, they might argue they started it with songs like “White Christmas” and “Silver Bells”.

This is largely down to the more permissive secular and Protestant Christian societies where irreverence is tolerated if not encouraged.

The Catholic and Orthodox churches are less tolerant of those sorts of things, so people in countries with heavy influence from those churches - like yourself - won’t have had anything like it.

The French word is more akin to the English C word, at least etymologically, which makes me wonder how high it ranks in terms of French profanities.

I think most English speakers know where the B word falls with respect to the C word (and say, something like the worst racial slur), but I have no idea where on that scale the French word falls.

Either way, I’ve definitely heard both English translations be called misogynistic, and I think that would qualify those words for “slur” status. I can’t imagine the French word is thought of any differently.

Well, the Celts got distracted by the influx of Germanic tribes and as such had more immediate things to worry about and hate than the Romans, but I figure if the Franks, Saxons, Vikings, et. al. decided to stay home, the modern Britons would still grumble about the Romans occasionally.

I mean, the Germanic invasions started over a millennium ago and dislike of that’s still on a low boil, so I figure two millennia isn’t out of the question.

On the other hand, the Romans did go home. The Saxons, not so much.

No. My distro still provides the latest release of the original GNOME system monitor.

As time has gone on, GNOME have enforced more and more of their own look and feel, completely ignoring any styling that might be provided by other window managers. Some of those might even be using older GTK libraries, but that doesn’t matter.

Basically if you run a modern GNOME app under KDE, MATE, Xfce, etc., it’s going to look like a GNOME app regardless of what the other windows look like. Very Henry Ford.

The system monitor is no different. The new version works but the earlier version I found and installed also works fine and fits in. I suspect it’s GTK3 (old) versus GTK4 (new), but I can’t confirm. It’ll be something like that.

The folks responsible for Linux Mint started the XApps project of GNOME forks to roll back some of GNOME’s nonsense, but I guess they haven’t got around to forking the system monitor yet.

… and I’ve looked at both Resources and Mission Centre. Neither are to my taste (and are both Flatpaks).

That was the first one I tried, but it’s a fork from too far back.

The two main issues I had with it were 1) It only reports CPU usage in multiples of X%, where X is the number of cores, which was a long-standing SNAFU in the original GNOME version and 2) the usage graphs on the performance screen are light-mode only, even in dark mode, and there’s no easy option to change it.

Well, I was going to say GNOME’s System Monitor which has always been the default GUI task manager on my distro, but it’s been getting steadily more and more GNOME-ified with every revision and frankly, I hate how it looks now.

Might be time to shop for an alternative.

Edit +44 mins: So, the immediate alternatives all have other things I don’t like about them, but an older version of GNOME System Monitor will still install and run, so I guess I’ll be using that for now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Add more colours a button that turns it into a slot machine. Three sevens and you win a prize.

(a redirect to a picture of a duck)

Explain please. All the ones I see in the image are shaped like four adjoined letter L’s which is the same way around that the Nazis used. Or are you referring to the fact that most of them aren’t stood on a corner, diamond-wise?

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to bring the court case forward, and when he inevitably doesn’t turn up (not that he would have if everything ran to the original timetable), make the finding in absentia, presumably “guilty” but at least worse than it would be if he’d bothered to turn up, and then…

Sanctions? Heck. What else do we have to hold him to account? An ever bigger tariffs war? Forcibly close US embassies and consulates? Seize US assets?

It’d be a fine line to prevent the Big (cutter of) Cheese from bugging out and declaring war.

People with a serious criminal record. Murderers and worse. Those who leave their victims alive but scarred mentally or physically.

Then those with less serious criminal records. Fraud. White collar crimes. That sort of thing.

Then other “undesirables” depending on who isn’t liked by whoever’s in charge.

And then the goalposts for what’s desirable will start to move.

And the scope won’t just be limited to social media. Websites will be categorised further. Some might remain open access to all people (except the ever increasing list of those to be protected and those who shouldn’t have access) but others? No. Those sites themselves are undesirable.

Who’s next to be blocked?

I mean, now that the infrastructure and policies are in place, it’s only a matter of time.

Your former colleagues see your potential but do not see, or choose not to see, the rest of you. The rest of you that’s messy. The rest of you that cannot operate at a high level for long periods. The rest of you that’s just f–king done.

Your former colleagues have stamina in spades - or at least, more than you do - and imagine a perfect individual that combines their stamina with your enviable potential.

But, that person does not exist. Or at least, if they do, that person isn’t you.

There’s no point running yourself into the ground trying to meet an ideal that only exists in the minds of other people.

Don’t buy into their idealism. At least, not until you’re sure you can be the person they think you can be.

Source: I was in a similar situation, but kept going, burned out and am not OK.

Because he’s been on Russia’s payroll for a while (and likely his dad too), so like a stopped clock being right twice a day, when Don Jr. suggests that the US is thinking about not supporting an enemy of Russia, it might be worth thinking there’s some truth to it.

Right next to Clorida.

All forms of ampersand are based on “Et”, Latin for “and”, so cheat and use the backwards 3 (for E) forms.

The simplest puts a vertical bar through the backwards 3 like a relative of the dollar sign, and the other adds a t to it so that the middle point and the bottom line of the backwards 3 join up with the crossbar and base of the t. Bonus points for drawing that latter one without lifting your pen, but you’re doing well if you still have to extend the t’s crossbar after the fact.

Or really cheat and use the plus sign. That’s just the t from “Et”, but in the right context, most people instinctively understand it + will know what you mean.

The GPL doesn’t control how guilty I’ll feel if I don’t.

Most of my stuff is badly hacked together “runs on my machine” code. If I released any of it onto a public repository, I’d then be on the hook for maintaining it and making it run on more than just my machine, or else examining, deconflicting, and merging pull requests where other people have done the work. I really don’t have what it takes for all that.

Lib Dems to the left of Labour? I would have thought with the Overton window shifting, they’d still be occupying a position between Labour and the Conservatives like they always have… but I guess it’s possible with some of Labour’s suspiciously Conservative decisions lately.