In less terminally online terms: “I think they’re a member of a US intelligence agency doing some vaguely psyop thing, not a normal poster”

So, you still don’t understand why it wouldn’t be appropriate to react strongly in a room full of kids is what you’re saying.

It’s not an ad hominem when calling out your inability to comprehend the reason for that is the entire point to my comment. It highlights a severe deficiency in your social awareness at the bare minimum, which doesn’t reflect well on your ability to discern the motives of other people online. Does that spell it out directly enough?

Fine, let’s put that aside. In your eyes, what would have been an appropriate response for Bush to take in that situation? This ought to be entertaining.

You’re the one that brought up Bush and his reaction. If you can’t understand why someone would act like nothing was wrong in a room full of young schoolchildren, then you’re sure as hell not mentally prepared to make serious claims that someone’s a government plant.

Oh no, you’ve uncovered my evil zionist plan: softly questioning one singular photo with incredible timing and an easily photoshoppable focus! The Mossad propaganda department is in shambles!

Edit: Since people have a problem with this comment, the image is a still frame from a video of the bombimg. Awful.

There are links in the replies, which were not present when I made this comment (it was the first comment on this post).

I prefer this message which was also beamed into space. Fuck off, we don’t want any! No solicitors!

Don’t make someone (even a landlord, but it would most likely be their maintenance person) have to find a decomposing corpse. Not cool.

I’m surprised that they hadn’t been using that data until now.

Just patch the Youtube Music app with Revanced Manager, or use NewPipe’s background play feature.

The corporate lobbiests. Unless you’re seriously arguing that swapping the Presidents from their era until now would have actually made a significant difference.

You aren’t seriously arguing that, right?

The issue is that Linux shouldn’t be making any attempts to handle this at all.

If the various governments are going to try and require this, they can make and maintain their own forks and accept all the responsibility and risk that entails. Or the businesses beholden to the laws can. We have no obligation to make this easier on them, and every reason to make it harder.

If various Linux (and Linux software/component) maintainers would hold the line, we’d be fine.

The godawful mess of what would come from all of these different groups scrambling to implement their own solutions would be the fucking point. The most effective way to manage upwards at people who don’t understand or want to listen is to make them feel pain for their shitty decisions.

As others have said, time. Also, the realization and repeated internal reminders to yourself that they were not who you thought they were.

It’s very easy to build up someone in your head to be better than they are and to fill in the gaps with positive assumptions, especially when you’re crushing on them. You have to realize that those fuzzy feelings were in your head. The feelings weren’t based off reality, and they obviously weren’t the same feelings in that person’s head. At the very least, those feelings weren’t based off the full person, because you didn’t know them fully.

The version of them you liked didn’t exist, because that version wouldn’t be (in this specific case) homophobic, ableist, hating special needs students, and making fun of you behind your back.

Yes, it may hurt to remind yourself of the reasoms they are shit, but it’ll hurt less than allowing yourself to pine for a “what could have been” that was based off a version of them that only existed in your head.

Painkillers are free if you’re brave enough

Fair enough, still seems silly as hell to me. Windows is perfectly functional for corporate, and even software development use as long as the team managing the image and standard settings at your workplace is competent.

Yeah, being able to customize everything to meet your preferred workflow etc with Linux is preferable.

Odd to use it as part of job hunting though, which is the context in this image.

Sure, but kind of silly for someone who would take a stand against MS to the point of refusing a job to be happy with Google.

Then again, they also expressed they’d be happy with Apple/Mac

They say while using gmail.

The fuck I am.

You’re the one that equivocated military service (and implied killing through it) to simply

[choosing] wellbeing over others’ lives

Choosing wellbeing over others’ lives is the thing almost all of us do almost fucking constantly, and explicitly what I was talking about.

Military service and murdering people is not.

Edit: Draw your line in the sand wherever you want, murder is a perfectly valid line to have and one I agree with.

Just don’t pretend that you don’t choose wellbeing over others’ lives too. If your issue is with military service and murder, stick with that.

The overwhelming majority of people do, and not even for wellbeing, purely for comfort.

Did you consider the workers at foxcon, where suicide is so prevalent they have had to make multiple changes to the building including massive fucking nets outside each window to stop jumpers, when you last bought nearly any bit of tech? Pretty much every device with cell data connectivity sources parts from them, and so do many other pieces of tech. How about all the children in rare materials mines where materials for tech are sourced?

Personally I find this argument highly hypocritical. The basic fact that you’re posting here all but guarantees you have chosen comfort, not even actual wellbeing, over others lives too.

Edit: and to be clear, so do I. I just find it darkly funny when people pretend that their personal line in the sand is a difference of whether or not they do at all rather than simply a difference in degrees of separation. It’s nearly impossible to exist in modern society without doing this sort of thing, so get over yourself.

Cubes are the norm where I work, except for the marketing department because someone high up there cared more about aesthetics than practicality.