alsaaas

alsaaas, 22 days ago

there is an emacs command for that

alsaaas, 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

I feel this, Gnome and it’s opinionated workflow just “gets out of the way” in my experience

alsaaas, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

“You know what would be really interesting to do? Don’t denounce me as a Stalinist but, for example – it’s my old temptation – to rewrote Star Wars… presenting Palpatine and Darth Vader as good progressive egalitarian centralist fighting reactionary feudalist, all the Jedi bullshit. It would tell a completely different story, from the others point. What do they [Jedi] stand for? All that, ‘Republic’, what strange of Republic is when you have a Princess Leila, knights, kings and so on? No, Palpatine the Emperor and Darth Vader, they are - my god - progressive Bonapartist revolutionaries trying to get rid of the old world.”

From: Žižek on Reshooting Star Wars www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_DroaGggbc

But tbh I think that if we take the original trilogy, the Rebels are cleary fighting a reactionary imperialist power, ie. an analogy to the Vietnam war

alsaaas, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’m rly happy when ppl switch to a GNU/Linux OS, tho I would never recommend Ubuntu to anyone (anymore), since Linux Mint has a much saner no bs team that is not fucked over by a corporate

Or just plain Debian, which is wonderful as well

alsaaas, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The USA has a two faced one party system. Two sides of the same coin or “good cop/bad cop” if you will.

Both parties serve the rich, support imperialism and so on. In terms of economics they have the exact same function of serving the 10% over the 90%.

In terms of domestic affairs the good/bad cop dynamic really kicks in. The reps are ultraconservative, while the dems try to mud the waters with their slight progressiveness, in the end only coopting those things as not to endanger capitalism.

The best you will get from the dems is a
“I’ll try to not make things worse - for now. Vote for me or my buddy elephant over there will beat you up”.
(the not making things worse refers to their social policy, not their economic ones. Those will still get progressively worse for the working majority, even if it might be a bit more indirect. All the dems really are is a silken glove over the iron fist of capital).

And tbh, for everyone outside of the US it doesn’t make a difference whether the bombs the policeman of the world drops wherever they please & the bags of money they send to genociders/reactionaries/fascists/terrorists have prideflag & BLM stickers on them, or not…

alsaaas, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’m glad Fedora comes with the most usable no-bs/out-of-the-way (in my subjective experience) DE by default. Yes I do run it with Tweaks and a few extensions, but otherwise I have no need for extensive customization for customization’s sake (which seems so many ppls problem with GNOME, smth that I couldn’t find more irrelevant), since everything about its UI/UX is so intuitive. I understand if people don’t like its opinionated workflow, but it’s just right for me personally…

I don’t get the proposal either way bc Fedora has always been the spearhead of vanilla GNOME and there is an official KDE spin iirc

alsaaas, 2 months ago

Not specifically (yet), it’s just good practice to credit someones work. Especially when it’s such a good (and dare I say based) webcomic series

alsaaas, 2 months ago

that’s it, we can all go home

the ultimate bussy joke has been made

alsaaas, 4 months ago

Welcome to capitalism babyyyyyy

alsaaas, 4 months ago

Arch moment

(no I will never forget that one time they borked the grub package and there was no notification of it in the newsfeed)

alsaaas, 5 months ago

MBTI is just Astrology for pseudointellectuals rule

alsaaas, 5 months ago

The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one

alsaaas, 6 months ago

I don’t know what this is about, appreciate the contribution nonetheless

been terribly out of the loop lately

alsaaas, 7 months ago

they closed off Port Forwarding

alsaaas, 7 months ago

hard agree, that should be the long-term goals

alsaaas, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

uuu time for one of my fav sentences lul

The worst thing the Bolsheviks did was give Ayn Raynd an education

btw here is a step by step guide to Ayn Raynd’s life:

1: be born into obscene wealth

2: be 12, a civil war breaks out, flee to white-controlled crimea

3: the reds win, nationalise the fathers pharmacy

3.5: the reds win, without that she would have never seen a university from the inside

4: be 16 and among the first women to go to university

7: fuck off to the US to whine and cry

8: write incoherent, economically completely unfeasible, idealist defense of a hypothetical capitalism

9: profit

(this is shamelessly copied from a Reddit comment)

alsaaas, 7 months ago

Yes of course and eating trash is better than eating shit

alsaaas, 9 months ago

US-based meaning 3 letter agencies can get your data without a court order and that you aren’t protected by the GDPR if you don’t live in the EU

alsaaas, 10 months ago

better than the absolutely deranged MM/DD/YYYY and imo the best when it comes to international communication

alsaaas, 10 months ago

I read “serious furry and punishment” at first 💀💀

alsaaas, 11 months ago

yes

The IRA claimed responsibility the next day, and said that it would try again. Its statement read:

Mrs. Thatcher will now realise that Britain cannot occupy our country and torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it. Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no more war.

alsaaas, 11 months ago

the one of (neo)liberalism. An economic state which is accepted and perpetuated by virtually all sides of the culture war

alsaaas, 11 months ago

sir, this is a Wendies meme. In the end it boils down to the capitalist goverments bayling out those who don’t need it (billionaires and millionaires) and giving credit for virtually nothing. Ofc it’s a simplification since this is a meme, not a chart for econ class

alsaaas, 11 months ago

that’s not a left/right divide. it’s a right/further right divide. And even staunch conservatives follow (neo)liberal economics.

This is a flow chart from a leftists/socialist perspective

alsaaas, 11 months ago

I hate good roads/public transportation/healthcare/education/parks! How dare they take my money for that