Such nutcases now run the country - and try to run the world. How did we get from there to here...

Follow the money. Perhaps they are nutcases as you say, but I think it’s purposeful propaganda. It serves their agenda, and so they spread a false reality and get adherents.

If you’re a minority class trying to control a majority population, you’ll make your work much easier for you if you ensure that the population you’re trying to control is pitted against one another.

You see it in Christianity. Take 50% of the population, pit it against the remaining 50% and now you only have to control half the people, because that half will control the rest, and they’ll be more keen to do what you want because they’ll want to remain in control. Thus, original sin.

I’ve been an androgynous (cis gay) man most of my life, and when I was young I was mistaken for a girl a lot. Hell I even had my own doubts for a while.

There’s lots of people out there that think that they can tell if someone is trans or not. Hell I have met LGBTQ+ people that think they can just tell. The truth is, they can’t.

You will have met trans people that you didn’t know are trans, and if you go around making assumptions, you’ll meet cis people you think are trans, but aren’t.

A couple of months ago I found out that this person I’ve been casually following on YouTube for almost a decade is a trans woman.

Like the absolutely easiest, most accurate way to tell if someone is trans is to just ask the person in question.

Sounds like the problem is with the game and its developers. There are still cheaters in games with kernel level anticheat. It's not a substitute for having moderation functions, staff, and reporting functionality. And at that point, you might as well go with something that isn't invasive rootkit spyware to safeguard your game.

Yeah. Don’t buy rockstar. Just get it through alternative means.

1. Authoritarian regime decides that being critical of the regime is illegal and makes laws to support this.
2. Activists use Proton for privacy.
3. Regime demands that they give up data on activists.
4. Proton complies with the laws.

That’s the issue.

Yaaaaas girl! Slaaaay!!

Slay.

“SuperGrok” so this is some fascist Arch based distro?

Think it grew popular in the U.S. as an anti-masturbation thing. There were a LOT of those. This Kellog man was super into restricting masturbation and made cornflakes because a bland and unexciting meal would aid in preventing that.

To be fair, the colonisers were primarily religious puritans whose views were too extreme for Europe, hence why they sought new lands. It’s almost like a cult.

What the fuck does ambient even mean in the context of an operating system? Is it going to be floating around in the atmosphere of my flat? Is the next version of windows gaseous? Is it sarin gas?

Quite effective at what? Because it certainly isn’t therapy.

Microsoft is so deep in the AI nonsense that asking them to stop pushing CoPilot is time wasted that could be better spent on something else, like moving to a different platform. I honestly don't really see the point of remaining on GitHub. To me at least it doesn't offer anything particularly important I can't get elsewhere.

Good. Return to office is evil and needs to be stopped.