Yes, it’s inconvenient but how is your future SO going to meet you if stay at home? She’s probably unsocial like you but you could still meet her family or friends by dating eventually leading to her.

Of course you could try your luck staying online too but I’d suggest something else than niche platforms where tech enthusiasts are overrepresented like the Fediverse.

He really is running low on soldiers, isn’t he?

I disagree. Scaled down to small and harmless it’s like handling kids. You explain what you don’t want them to do and what happens/you’re going to do if they continue. Now it’s crucial you go through with what you threatened them with.

If you either don’t deliver on the “threat” or don’t act as you said you would, guess what happens? They just continue or it even gets worse.

Of course it’s more delicate/difficult when handling with powerful and intelligent adults but it’s at least similar. Not issuing threats is just not communicating. If you then just act (violently), things are more likely to escalate.

Edit: or back to the kids analogy: don’t tell them anything but smack them once they went too far: may help in that instance but they’ll just learn to better avoid you and do shit behind your back.

Don’t let selection bias put you off. These stories are filtered by “worst date” and then you’ll basically only read the top ten over the top versions of those.

I guess most dates are around “fine” to “meh” and not traumatizing.

I had never eaten vegan food

Really? You’ve never eaten just fries?

Good for you dodging that crazy bullet though.

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Probably don’t know how to get it to run.

Thanks, that’s good to know. I wasn’t up-to-date since I currently don’t run a Debian machine.

Maybe they meant of the box. You have to add additional repos to get non-free drivers installed on Debian or install them manually.

How does this argument apply to Lemmy? I get the number of instances could be confusing but you don’t have to know or care about any of that. If you don’t you just land on some registration page and do it. I honestly don’t see how that’s more technical than registering to Reddit, Facebook or Instagram.

That may be but those restaurants used to be 1 in a 1000 and now every other restaurant has vegetarian/vegan dishes on the menu. The offerings in restaurants and supermarkets are just objectively better for vegans than they were 10-20 years ago.

Especially not discord you mean.

I’ve been using Linux as my main driver for a couple of years now but I didn’t know the list of reserved file name characters is so short.

I didn’t believe ‘*’ is allowed. That alone is so error-prone, it’s insane. Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that? Sometimes I think they giggled while writing the specs.

Only the early ones. By definition millenials are birth years 1981 to 1996, so the last ones were 11 when the first iPhone released.

I think every generation has their percentage of nerds and that just was a little higher in late Gen X and early millenials because computers were so new and you had to tinker to get anything working.

Funny that you chose an architect. Since they are basically document producers (also software architects), they tend to be able to type pretty proficiently.

That’s like 80% autocorrect anyway (I didn’t write a single word correctly in this sentence).

Yet more whataboutism. This thread is about tankies not capitalist slavery.

It’s extremely unconvincing to say “Sure it was horrible last time, but next time it’ll be different.” Trotskyists and ultraleftists compensate by prettying up their picture of socialism and picking more obscure (usually short-lived) experiments to uphold as the real deal. But this just gives ammunition to those who say “Socialism doesn’t work” or “Socialism is a utopian fantasy.” And lurking behind the whole conversation is Stalin, who for the average Westerner represents the unadvisability of trying to radically change the world at all. No matter how much you insist that your thing isn’t Stalinist, the specter of Stalin is still going to affect how people think about (any form of) socialism — tankies have decided that there is no getting around the problem of addressing Stalin’s legacy. That legacy, as it stands, at least in Western public opinion (they feel differently about him in other parts of the world), is largely the product of Cold War propaganda.

That’s the gist. Then he goes on with another paragraph of whataboutism but of course not a single mention of the tens of millions of dead both, Stalin and Mao, were responsible for.

Of course he’s also an western armchair socialist. People that actually lived in the Sowjet Union (and not in today’s Russia) draw quite a different picture.

Not sure how this is a crime… breach of TOS, sure, but a crime?

What law is being broken here?

Not curious enough to actually read the article, eh?

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

One may argue about money laundering but it’s pretty clearly fraud.