They should be. Russia would have never set a toe in Ukraine if they kept the nukes, and the fuckery of Russia invading and the ‘civilized world’ sitting around with thumbs up their asses since 2014 seems like proof that having nuclear weapons is a prerequisite to maintaining sovereignty

Im glad somebody is fighting trump, but good lord i do not want California to become the blueprint for America. Driving along the PCH from avocado farms in Oxnard to Malibu and seeing the sick fucking filth that is the California wealthy right next to the migrant workers they exploit is in my top 5 “most disturbing things ive ever experienced.” That is taking into account that I used to work on strategic bombers and I know in gruesome detail what a 2000 lb bomb does to a human body. Newsom is a bitter poison pill whose voting record shows that he basically agrees with Trump across the board, and his imitation of trump is barely even ironic. He’s always imitated trump in terms of policy.

I like both for different purposes. I’d much rather be in a kayak if im cruising around a larger body of water like a bay or a lake, but putzing around on a slow moving river or in a swamp I much prefer canoes. Or drinking; drinking in a canoe is a good time, drinking in a kayak is a way to get dunked

You could try running tails on your laptop. Nothing guarantees resting privacy like removable boot media

Sometimes; I just sprinkle in; a bunch of random semicolons confidently to see i;f anybody else is is confident enough; in their understanding of proper semi;colon usage to call me out

I live in the pacific northwest and im legit considering moving to NYC to try to work for this guy and learn how he do

laughs in natural 20/15 vision, but quickly devolves into an asthmatic coughing fit and starts looking for his inhaler

Study (N=16) finds absolutely nothing because their sample size is too small to meaningfully substantiate any conclusion.

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:) I am glad that brought you a smile. I’m sure Chizz would love to know he’s still making people smile through stories about him. He was a real one

I used to have an old man cat that was like that. He wanted to sniff everything that came in the house; not super urgently but he was always interested. It got hard for him to walk eventually and my girlfriend would always poke fun at me for carrying him around and holding him up to each new thing so he could investigate. He seemed happy about it though, he never stopped being interested in investigating

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping

Depends on how much of a purist you are about the definition of parrying. I’d say the gameplay loop of missile command is basically a parry/counter mechanic

I ugly laughed at Guess-tephan :) thankyou for that

I’d bet it’s also a double entendre for something that roughly means “bad guys”. Assuming combattre probably has the same root as combat, the post has a cadence like “fight the transphobes with the tits!”

I also don’t know French but guessing at it seemed fun

I feel like I’m being admonished by a schoolteacher and honestly I probably deserve it. You’re probably right but I’m grumpy about it and need to re-read this later when I’m less grumpy about it

Nobody is happy when you call them out for marginalizing people they view as inferior. I get the same reaction when call out family members being blatantly racist at family gatherings. I don’t care about the reactions of people who choose to engage only with my tone, they’re not here to interact with me or my opinions in a meaningful way. Last, I don’t believe I overreacted at all. I called out shitty alienating behaviour in response to a meme that implies an outgroup community is disgusting or inferior based on their operating system choice. As I see it the tone of the meme was significantly more insulting than the tone of my response.

Sure, that’s a valid position to have. Your position only relates to the OP meme in the loosest possible sense; the meme presents WSL users as inferior objects of disgust, which is clearly distinct from a claim that WSL is not the right starter distro for most people. As I see it you’re effectively whitewashing an elitist talking point by pretending it’s about helping new users, or you just didn’t notice the elitism because you are not part of the targeted out-group.

I made a comment about the gatekeeping attitude of the community and you responded to me with a critique of WSL. The point I made sailed entirely over your head, hence the whoosh.

I’m glad you found a laugh and a moment of lightness while you’re struggling, and I hope the world becomes a kinder place for you as soon as possible. This is still a joke where the punchline is “windows user (ie, outgroup) disgusting”, and I hope you can understand why it’s bad to put that kind of energy out in the world then pretend it’s a joke.