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  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • Normal is crazy, so it could be either. My shock when 🏴‍☠️ I realized that TV show episodes (not streaming) are generally 22 minutes for a half-hour slot - almost a third of TV is ads.

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • Large corporate offices often run VPNs in a similar way, anyone with a work-from-home laptop or phone generally has to log into a VPN to get internet/network access.

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • Simple non-inflammatory option?

    People who litter.

    I can't remember the last time I've been outside and not seen plastic, cartons and dumped household items that had been tossed aside. This includes hiking and other activities away from cities.

  • Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

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  • Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

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  • Or to frame it slightly different: I believe that too much money and/or power is what turns most people evil over time.

    What are the mechanics of this?

    Instead, I believe the means of acquiring money/power from those who have enough of it creates pressures (say, a newspaper sponsored by Coca-Cola is pressured into not reporting on Coca-Cola's problems), along with the hyperrealities created by conventional rich lifestyles (mainly associating with other wealthy people, being used to paying people to do work instead of doing it yourself, all that kind of thing) distorting ones worldview and alienating them from most of society and its issues.

  • Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

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  • Inheritance is an interesting aspect: if my grandfather stole and passed it to my father who passed it to me, I can acquire it by doing nothing.

    This is not a counter-argument - it highlights that doing nothing is complicity in injustice.

  • Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

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  • What are you talking about?

    • The comment they are responding to says "Why do some people think dehumanizing anyone is fundamentally OK?" [I agree btw]
    • They reply with an extreme example of "anyone": literal flag-waving Nazis.

    At no point are "all wealthy people" mentioned in that statement.

  • Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

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  • They're human, and should be destroyed mercilessly by any means necessary. There's no contradiction in recognizing the humanity of people who will unfortunately need to be killed to stop them killing the rest of us indiscriminately.

    Dehumanization is pointless, and leads to dangerous misanalysis (like underestimating them). Honestly, it's also just a cowardly coping mechanism to avoid the harsh realities behind the idealistic moral frameworks we're brought up with.

  • Liberals when they see Obama

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  • Because everyone here already knows that other recent US presidents like Bush and Trump were horrible. But many people mistakenly believe Obama was a morally good president simply because they're the best of a bad bunch. It's important to understand that even Obama presided over large-scale, avoidable atrocities.

  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • The problem I have with it is that we didn’t get rid of kings.

    Moreso that we replaced kings with a new form of ownership, and therefore new owners. And, in every era, the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas - the idea of the divine right of kings seems to have been replaced with the divine right to profit, and to use "earned" money however one wants, with no regard for society.

  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • I know others have already replied with counterarguments, but as a simple partial counterpoint, the fact that everyone alive are decedents of those who survived the hunter-gatherer stages of their society, for a long long time, is evidence that we're generally capable of learning to be caring, smart and sane, it's not some utopian advanced stage beyond our grasp. Prior to our technological developments like food preservation, individualistic societies were not viable.

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    • The most meaningful reforms, like large-scale climate action, won't happen until citizens present a credible threat to the owning class's dominance, making reform the appealing compromise.
    • The owning class, at least a large section of it, along with loyal reactionaries will wage violent open war before ceding power leftward. They have the option to decide if a peaceful road forward exists, and historically, then tend to mass murder citizens instead.

  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

    ~The Earth will, eventually, long after we're all gone, be incinerated by the sun. If life co-exists elsewhere in the universe, I suspect it will be too distant to have much impact on us nor them. So I believe that humanity will inevitably have no meaningful legacy in the long term. And I also believe there is no objective meaning to existence, it's just a neat little quirk of chaos.~

    ~That doesn't imply I think nothing is meaningful, it doesn't take long to notice I care deeply about people and what we do. But, ultimately, meaning is temporary and subjective. (I haven't explored much of formal philosophy but I've heard my perspective aligns with absurdism or existentialism)~

    edit: I didn't realize this isn't actually cynicism (a prudent distrust), but more nihlism (a distrust upon belief in meaning)

  • What is the most nonsense thing someone has ever told you?

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  • I believed the first one when I was, idk, 6 years old. No idea if I assumed it myself or was told it from someone.

  • What's a better way to say "possibly possible" or "necessarily necessary"?

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  • Some options:

    • Hypothetically, [...]
    • Theoretically, [...]
    • It's hypothetically possible
    • It's theoretically possible
    • It could be possible
    • It's not impossible
    • It's not mandatory
    • It's optional (only applies to the first example)
    • You don't always need to
    • It's not always necessary
    • It might not be necessary

    I'm not thinking too hard on this, but since you say each of the words convey distinct meanings, maybe try and find a synonym for each meaning of that word. That could work.

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • Like some already said, how long ago is "a few years ago"? Because last year my installation had an annoying issue which is now fixed. And maybe five years back, some (newer or rarer) hardware/devices needed a fix through the terminal, but now work perfectly by default.

    I haven't tried Bazzite, but I've heard good things about it and what I know about it so far sounds good. Although @jlow mentioned some alternatives which I wonder if they're even more suitable since you didn't mention gaming. Out of habit, I still recommend Mint to former Windows users. But I haven't needed to input a password for web, graphics tools or office apps, only have to type a password when updating, installing new apps or doing special terminal stuff (which I do by choice!)

    On one hand, Mint's default experience (Cinnamon desktop environment) generally resembles Windows which can make the switch smoother. On the other hand, some other ones fix a lot of defaults Windows chose wrong. Even little things, like moving the taskbar to the top (closer to other options) or to the side (takes up less space), so even if you pick a smaller leap to start with, it's good to casually look around once you're comfortable.

  • What's your professional deformation?

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  • I'm picturing "Affirmative. Dollar 1299 now proceeding to window, over."

  • What's your professional deformation?

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  • What power do citizens have to hold Mamdani, and other recently-elected social politicians in the US, accountable? What is needed to build such power?

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  • Hold the wealthy accountable and stop letting people get that rich.

    Governance is one of the tools we can use to hold the wealthy accountable and stop letting them get that rich. Not the only tool we have, but a powerful one.

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    What power do citizens have to hold Mamdani, and other recently-elected social politicians in the US, accountable? What is needed to build such power?

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    How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

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    What are you doing about it?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Relatable

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    The rise of progressivism led corporations to misappropriate progressive values and language. How did this manifest before?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)

    solar.lowtechmagazine.com /about/the-solar-website/
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Women scientists: The legacy remains

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    Scientists of Lemmy, how would you standardize or improve cooking recipes?

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    What is something you don't (or didn't) know the name of?

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    What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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    What common mistake do drivers from outside of your region/state/country make?

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    So, it turns out everyone could just talk with Chinese citizens this whole time

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    What are some unique communities which exist in the Fediverse?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Which FOSS projects have enough funding that we should donate elsewhere?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Which is the best organized, best designed online community you've seen?

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    Patsy, it's been three days!!!

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    update

    steal his look!

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    Video Captions/Subtitles: What do they do right and wrong? What are the best examples you've seen?

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    What are some types of websites which are uncommon on the English-speaking web?

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    What do you think of sarcasm in online posts? Why do you think it's so common?