it continues to amaze me that we can cure diseases, go to the moon, reflect on all of human history, and still the “best” we can collectively achieve in societal progress is elevating a select few while crushing the majority underfoot. The means of repression differs from feudalism to capitalism to communism, but the underlying failure remains constant: someone benefits, most do not.

every now and again, I fantasize about living in the far north of Canada with fiber internet and a warm cabin miles away from the nearest living soul.

Then I remember reality, where I am poor, gay, disabled, American, and probably going to die here either to an Iranian-linked terror attack or my own increasingly christofascist government.

I don’t necessarily hate everybody, but I don’t go out of my way to interact with others that much already and over the past couple years I’ve felt far less inclined to, both online and in real life. Nowadays I mostly just interact with pets, family, and the people I have to interact with to earn money. Lemmy’s a nice, impersonal social outlet. People in person aren’t necessarily more trustworthy, the veneer of civility is just thicker.

Sure, but you said intolerance for any non-Linux OS, and that’s just simply not true as there are several non-Linux OS’s we love. If you were to say Lemmy is intolerant specifically of Windows, that would be more accurate, but I’m also aware of at least one subset of die-hard Windows aficionados on Lemmy who vehemently hate Linux. Definitely a minority, but they’re there.

Also, the db0 instance is pro-AI as I recall, so anyone who’s keen on that sort of thing is (to my knowledge) welcome there.

On the contrary, I believe everyone here holds a special place in their heart for TempleOS, even if it’s not a practical choice. Also most everyone here has mad respect for anyone rocking some other niche nerd shit like FreeBSD or ReactOS etc. (I do, anyways)

Mostly it’s just that Windows has sucked for at least a decade and macOS is just starting on its suck arc.

being the “errrrrrm, ackshually, you just committed a logical fallacy 🤓” dweeb in response to someone else being questioned whether they’re a fascist sympathizer, when that doesn’t actually invalidate what I said at all, when I wasn’t even talking to you – that’s an extraordinary kind of self-own, you do know that, right?

I’m gonna engage with fascists and fascist sympathizers on the same level that they engage in good-faith debate in – that is to say, on whatever level I want to at any given moment in time. If they aren’t one, let them explain what innocent ideas they’ve expressed that are so poorly received, that have lead them to believe Lemmy is “lacking tolerance and acceptance” – we’ve got entire instances dedicated to porn, anarchists, AI lovers, tankies, trans people, furries, the French – I’m very eager to hear what could possibly be Too Spicy For Lemmy that is not something along the lines of “I want to gas undesirables” or trending towards that direction.

far right: we’re gonna exterminate entire social groups because they’re impure

far left: we’re gonna get everyone’s basic needs met, and do everything possible (including violence) to stop the far right from exterminating anyone.

You: I literally cannot tell you two apart

Incredible, thank you for sharing.

usually whenever someone complains about this sort of thing, it’s because they got told off for espousing fascist bullshit, so please, elaborate for us.

Dealing with that level of performative bullshit is genuinely agonizing to me. LinkedIn is like my idea of personal hell – everyone, everywhere, up their own ass and completely full of shit, all the time – and I have resolved to never have a net worth or job title that would necessitate using it.

What about the mass of the ass, beauty of the cutie, direction of the erection, dimension of the extension, the motion of the ocean and the size of the rise? All factors must be accounted for and kept in perfect balance in relation to one another, you can’t just give half the formula and then ask the rest of us to extrapolate.

Photoshop works with some fuckery (or so I’ve heard), but I would honestly recommend trying Krita before trying to make Photoshop work on Linux.

DaVinci Resolve has native Linux support nowadays.

Wait, YouTube’s idea of punishing ad-block is removing the most toxic, worthless part of the site?

Nobody tell them. Not one fucking word. We might even get them to remove Shorts, too, if we pretend this is a bad thing.

“for immigrants”

Yes, just keep telling yourselves that, it’s only for immigrants, surely they’ll never be used for anyone but immigrants. Even while ICE is already having trouble finding enough brown people – illegal immigrant or not – to arrest to fulfill their quotas, they’re still buying up and building more space solely for housing “immigrants”. Right. Uh huh.

I was using em dashes before AI made them uncool, no fuckass thieving robot is gonna make me change my typing.

Yeah, I know about it, I’m just saying it’s not as easy because someone has to do the legwork of adding them to the wiki.

Ah yes, I forgot how being an obnoxious dick to people you’re ostensibly on the same side as was an effective, accepted method of communication for getting your point across.

Wait, no, the opposite of that.

Anyhow you have fun making obtuse “points” via sarcastic shitposts on the fediverse, I’m sure that’ll go really well for you. I’m gonna go do something more productive now. Byebye!! <3

I’m doing more about it than being a smarmy cunt on Lemmy, which is more than I can say for you :D

incidentally, making a dedicated edit to complain about downvotes on a site that doesn’t have cumulative karma tracked like reddit, makes you look really, immensely stupid. So maybe don’t do that if you want your opinions taken seriously. Or do anyways, I’m not your dad.

Why yes in fact I would like the people showing up to be armed, dead fascists would be a good thing. :3

Also, I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention to the news at all, but you can also get shot for dropping off your kids at school or helping other innocent people who’ve been assaulted. So I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say here.

Could they suggest something else instead?

Start showing up at their homes, see how they like it. Fascists still have names and addresses – getting them might not be as easy as it is for them to get yours, but if they think nobody will ever come knocking I can’t wait for someone to prove them wrong.