That’s the fallacy of Denying the Correlative. In the FPTP system, there were two choices and only two.

Livejournal

That’s a name that I’ve not heard in a long time.

I’d say that despair is also common for those of us who have been painfully aware of the causes.

Just want to say: Thanks for your perennial civility as well as continuing to offer learning resources for people interested in any “sect” of leftist ideology.

None. I don’t appreciate games with mechanics that are intended to mess with my already fucked dopamine signaling.

Natively install RPM packages? Really, there’s not much. Find a setup that you like.

Or, it could be a catamount.

Nah. Mountain lion.

I’m so used to tech and Linux stuff that I first thought that it was a special interest instance for shell scripting and TUIs. Now, it’s a toss up between “shit just works” and “sh! It just works”.

A fellow former startup employee, I see.

Trackball/trackpoint built into the Svalboard.

a private equity firm injected 100m

That’s all that one needs to know. Once those leeches are involved as investors, it’s over. They demand enshitification from our destroy everything that they touch for a quick buck.

Finland was no NATO and not even the USSR touch it.

If you omit the middle of the 20th century, sure. The Finns declared independence from the Russian Empire in 1917, under the approval of the Bolsheviks’ Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia. In 1934, Finland and the USSR reaffirmed a non-aggression pact for 10 years. In 1939, after penning a deal with Hitler to carve up Europe between the Nazis and the USSR, Stalin demanded that Finland, who had maintained a stance of neutrality, cede territory for military use and, when they refused, ordered shelling and invasion.

Neutrality or even open trade did not prevent the USSR from invading then, not did handing over nukes save Ukraine from invasion in 2014.

Nothing “potential” about it. :)

I’ll pass.

It’s your first date and she/he asks what type of music you like. What’s the guilty pleasure you won’t tell her/him about?

I love music and hate but being myself (AuADHD weeeee) so, they’re going to hear an honest answer. If they’re not down with my love of folk punk and what I classify as “shitty punk rock” (you just the kind - overly-compressed, terribly mixed, played by people who barely know how to tune a guitar), well, that’s fair enough. Same as if they aren’t up for my, AuADHD - neurodivergence can be a bit to handle.

Thank you for catching that.

Thank you!

To reduce regulations and taxes on rich people, mainly.

This is why. Kroger is terrible but Walmart is worse.