I’ve heard this tired excuse since I can remember understanding any element of politics.

Simply, a system is what it does.

If “the right way” can only seem to continue to concentrate wealth upwards, conduct horrors in the name of peace across the globe and continue to squash the rights and lives of the hard working people that make the gears of society turn, well, then it doesn’t seem like it’s “the right way” for a vast majority of people.

The DNC never seems to undo the damage the GOP does, while continuing some choice parts of their horrors.

It feels like they work as the arresting mechanism on a ratchet and the only way the country is allowed to move is towards fascism.

I’d be eager to see some candidate come into office and use these same techniques the GOP does to actually fix shit and improve people’s lives in a meaningful way. The GOP are going to say that they’re a radical leftist authoritarian regardless of their actions, might as well be one

This thing is getting a proper announcement on Monday, right?

I’m actually really curious to see what the Navy thinks the role and function of a modern battleship should be.

Especially with the designs coming out of China focusing on missile and especially drone launching capabilities, I wonder if ONR will go the same way or if they have a different vision for the future of capital warships.

The article mentions the Navy saying it wants to focus on distributing naval assets across many smaller vessels, and that seems far more sound in an era where an autonomous naval drone can pack enough punch to take down a massive vessel and can be launched in swarms. I’m not sure what the value of massive vessels are in a world where that exists. Would it be capable of launching its own drone fleet of screening ships? Is it a massive EWAR platform? Does it even have guns? I dunno. I wanna see though.

Personally, the issue is ease of installation and configuration of programs.

Some things (edit: admittedly, most of the “important basics”, such as web browsers, Steam and Office-suite equivalents) are just as simple as they are on Windows and iOS with just clicking a button and using a wizard of sorts, but some things need you to parse a series of terminal prompts and figure out how to rewrite parts of the instructions to fit your particular machine and setup.

Often I end up missing or misunderstanding some step and it doesn’t work and I have no idea why.

It’s not impenetrable and it’s not a problem exclusive to Linux, but it does make setting things up a bit more of a chore.

I got Ubuntu on a laptop now to test out how to use that as my daily OS before I commit to figuring out how to swap over my Windows 10 desktop sometime next year and it admittedly is MUCH EASIER now than when I last tried around 2008, but I still run into problems.

I’m currently trying to schedule a weekend where I can diagnose why my raspberry pi won’t boot after a power outage when it’s survived that in the past and another weekend to figure out why the self hosted tandoor app I got successfully running a few months ago suddenly stopped and cannot run now, even after what I thought was a clean install.

I wanna switch. I do. But so many steps of it are full on projects. I’m learning a lot and it gets easier every step of the way, but it’s still at a state where I need to schedule time to address these things that “just work” on Windows.

Edit: I understand why this is the case. A lot of these things are free, open source projects made by teams who don’t necessarily have the time and resources to make their program out-of-the-box ready for every conceivable software and hardware set up out there. And I understand why someone might think that a corporate backing of resources might be able to address that issue, but I agree it isn’t really isn’t in accordance with the goals of Linux or helpful to the point of moving away from these corporate structures.

I think, in part, the speed at which things can be done now, sweeping, systemic, horrible things, is simply much much faster than when these systems were created.

It does still seem backwards but maybe they make more sense when you don’t have instantaneous digital global communications.

This seems to be the way the Trump presidency is showing the weaknesses of American style democracy in a nutshell, isn’t it? The president can defacto rule as king faster than the courts can reprimand and order an end to the breaches of law and even when they do, there seems to be no recourse or punishment for violating the court.

I think I remember reading that similar laws placed Jews in other industries seemed as dirty, such as legal and medical fields. By happenstance those ended up being very desirable as society changed. Jews were often persecuted and blamed for a lot of social ills in that era, that, in addition to resisting cultural assimilation, meant they kept in fairly insulated communities, which made it easier to put them in the category of “outsider”.

For what it’s worth, I read your reply like you meant it, but I see the ambiguity.

I’m curious to see what the Navy thinks a modern battleship should look like and do.

I got a '21 VW Golf and, similarly, it’s physical controls for everything I really want and touch screen for the GPS/media center. I can still change volume and tracks with physical buttons on the steering wheel, so that’s all fine.

Kinda miss the Civic. I love the hatchback on the golf and it is a delight to drive, but I think it’s like half a ton heavier than the Civic and that’s not as nice. Still gets phenomenal milage tho

I have some. They really suck ass. You can muddle through but it’s not really an ideal solution.

The article notes China has a strict self-defence only, no first launch policy.

Their entire arsenal is mobile in order to facilitate that kind of strategy.

The US, which makes no such promises, keeps missiles in dedicated launch facilities ready to go year round, is also expanding and updating its arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Which seems more alarming?

I got 3 (Volume rocker and power) and it feels like plenty.

It’s been so long since I had more than 3 and I’m curious. I had an iPhone for work, that had a 4th, the home button on the bottom center of the touch screen and I hated that. What do you want from physical buttons on the phone?

Thank fuck. So glad I managed to dodge the cars with all touch screen controls. I got one as a loaner after my Civic was totaled in an accident (Thank u for buying me a new car, uninsured, out-of-state white supremacist with a truck too big for any reasonable use!) and it used the touch screen to control the climate control! I had to look away from the road to change the heating!

Just stupid.

Give me simple buttons and knobs I can feel and fix. Capacitives, touch screens, all that nonsense should stick to phones.

I’m okay with the phone being a touch screen. The rest can go back to normal.

I thought about that, and while there’s probably some value in diversifying the approaches, I’d worry about the potential backlash of people thinking anyone trashing a company is a bot.

I think the key to success is making it memetically hilarious to be incredibly toxic towards any company.

Fuck those pieces of shit they can huff my farts!

I think we gotta shift social media to be wildly hostile to every and any company. We gotta bully companies such that it’s risky business to advertise on social media.

Social media can never truly belong to the people as long as advertisers wanna use it for their own means. We gotta get mean and indiscriminate.

Every corporations post and page should be filled with hatred and disdain, toxicity heretofore unfound online.

For those wondering, this article is from a week ago and references the first stolen ship, the US did not yet capture a second ship.

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