Suggestion: a North American Reorganization Council. All the nations in North America have a chat, we decide what bits of land are going to belong to what countries based on the desires of the people who live there, indigenous folks get their land back and weigh in with actual weight to their desires, and every individual gets to straight up just move wherever they want, and please just let me leave this country, okay?

Out of curiosity, is he deaf in the ear that’s on the side with the blue eye? White cats with blue eyes are often deaf, and when they only have one blue eye, are often deaf on that same side

The money can stay clean. Remember, I have great throat game, you don’t have to finish on the money

Nancy Reagan was the throat goat of Hollywood and DC, my man. Throat game was strong.

But are you saying I’m 30 years too late with you, or that the entire blowjob-for-computer-work economy has tragically collapsed in recent decades?

Fucking love Fedora, it’s my main squeeze.

But I have noticed something. If someone says “I love gnome” then they get the (playful) shit talkers, but if you say “I love Fedora” people are like “ah, an intellectual” haha

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Ultimately, switching to Linux is preferable, regardless of which distro you choose, from an open source/FOSS mindset. I’m not a super techy person, and made the initial switch due to philosophical reasons and a deep, deep dislike of Windows.

Ubuntu catches a lot of heat for making controversial decisions that go against the beliefs of the FOSS community, such as proprietary app packaging with snaps, and back in the day straight up putting ads for Amazon in the os.

Mint is the golden child, mostly because it is directly based on Ubuntu, so it keeps 99% of the convenience and ease of use that Ubuntu is famous for, while removing the more controversial elements.

There is also LMDE, mint based directly off of Debian. Debian is the distro that Ubuntu, and many others, is based off of. It has a reputation for being very solid, but slow to adapt and offer new features. It is the safe, reliable choice, but “boring,” so people fork it, and make newer more “exciting” distro from it. So Ubuntu is based on Debian, mint is based on Ubuntu. Linux mint Debian edition (LMDE) is based directly on Debian.

Mint’s big thing is cinnamon, it’s desktop environment.

Desktop environments are where I think most newbies should actually be spending their time considering, instead of distros.

You can change the DE on pretty much anything, but some play better with some distros than others.

Cinnamon is very windows like. It is customizable, recognizable to a Windows user, and makes the transition from windows easier.

Gnome, and gnome based DEs, like what ubuntu uses, are more Mac like. Flowy, opinionated, and visually quite modern.

Kde plasma is more similar to Cinnamon, and is the Mac daddy of customization. Wanna do a thing? Likely, Kde will let you or you can brute force it and get it done.

Personally, I am a subby little soyboy who wants Daddy to tell me what to do, so I fucking love gnome. I love the look, I love the feel of it, and the thing I love most is that, when I first made the switch, it wasn’t windows. It was different, and that was fun and let me feel like I had really made a change, and that’s what for the Linux switch to stick after more than a decade of going back and forth.

My actual advice for a distro is Fedora with gnome, and few extensions. But realistically, try mint, try Ubuntu, try whatever, but spin up a virtual machine and specifically try out different DEs (there are a bunch that I didn’t mention) and see which one you like. The distro is secondary, especially for a beginner

Wait, you’re telling me there’s a way to get tech support AND I get to give handjobs?

What’ll you do for a blowjob, because gay up, I put Nancy Reagan to Shame with my throat game

Oh, I’d love to, but I have no zero experience modding, and virtually no free time

I have had both over the years. I also had one whee base of the tail was the only acceptable place to touch her, and that she barely tolerated. My mom could hang with her no problem, but no other human had better so much as look at her.

I’m sure there are some French speakers on here! Are you learning for travel, or work, or fun? I don’t speak any, but a lot of my family speaks Louisiana French and a variation of Quebec French

Hola! ¡Mi español es muy malo! Jaja

Estoy intentando aprender, pero me mucho leer que escribir o hablar :/

Quiero aprender rapido por que me mudo pronto.

I am so frequently reminded that not everyone got an amazing parent like I had, and even my less amazing, drug using parent, was never the type I hear about so often. I’m so sorry the world is an unkind as it is, especially to kids. Y’all deserve and deserved better <3

It’s either this or “DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR! KILL THE INFIDEL!”

Ohhhh! I misunderstood and thought you meant HP stuff in general.

Yeah, I think just because it’s recognizable within the fandom, and not recognizable to those outside of it (at least, in theory. It becoming so popular killed that). It’s an in group marker. Sort of a HP dog whistle lol

Personally, if I had gotten an HP tattoo before the JK stuff, I’d probably have gone for the more classic glasses and scar combo, or possible a wand on my wrist.

Those books were genuinely meaningful to a lot of people. And until relatively recently, JK Rowling was a bit of a liberal darling. I remember an interview with her talking about being on welfare and how we should care for the poor. The books were clearly an allegory for fascism. I don’t blame anyone for getting that tattoo. My mom read me the first 3 or 4 books as a child. I waited in line at midnight for the release for the 5th. It was deeply meaningful to my childhood. If JK had not outed herself as a piece of complete trash by the time my mom passed away, I likely would have gotten an HP tattoo. I’m very glad I did not.

Anyone who got one after she outed herself is a POS, though. You just generally can’t tell when they got it.

I fundamentally disagree that it is impractical not to put it on the price tag. Every store prints their own price tags and puts them either directly on the item, or on the shelf. It wouldn’t be hard to just make that price different to reflect the tax. We already do it with gasoline.

To be fair, I think this is a Lemmy issues moreso than the broader internet. I could be totally off base there, though. It just seems in my experience that Lemmy is particularly anti AI, while the rest of the Internet seems to be fairly neutral towards the technology as a whole, and potentially upset about the environmental impact and increasing prices for computer components.

Again, I may be off base, though, as Lemmy is the only social media I use, so I’m not tapped into that side of things.

I will say, if I notice people use the word “quietly” (as in “it will quietly revolutionize X” or “this has quietly changed my habits”) I do immediate assume it’s Chatgpt. Lol. And for what it’s worth, I’m not against AI in general, I think it’s great as a brain storming tool, a useful way to collect your thoughts, to bounce ideas off of, and to use when stuck on a project. But it’s uses are so limited compared to what it’s billed as that it is in no way this magical gift from on high like some think, but nor is it a completely and totally useless thing. The problem is that it’s being shoved down the throat of every website, device, and user of the Internet at such incredible rates that we’re choking on it. And the fact that it can “talk” like a person means people are anthropomorphizing it and that is very, very dangerous long term to the mental health of humans as a whole.

My $0.02, anyway

This is one of those pieces of info I try to slip in whenever possible. I’m a firm believer that celibacy is bad for the mind, body, and soul when it’s forced on people. Priests may go into it willingly, but years and years of it with no reprieve does bad things to people’s minds. If the church could make one reform that I genuinely believe would be best, it is the celibacy of clergy. Tons of reforms needed, but that one is the one I think needs to happen soonest.

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Eastern Catholic priests can marry, actually. There are married Catholic priests out there right now, and not because they converted in from Anglicanism after they married (though those exist, too), but fully cradle Catholics who were married before their vocation. Somehow this has not exploded the church or whatever. It is inconsistent and ridiculous.