If this was an autocorrect goof I implore you not to edit it ever.

Conservatives hate government overreach

Unless someone is gay

Then the government should reach all around to prevent them participating in public life.

American suburbia has rotted your brain.

There’s the part where all the firstborn sons die unless their parents paint the walls with sheep’s blood.

Been a long time since last I’ve seen a good honest Snafu

I guess it does feel like 2016 in here with neofascists on their way back to power in the US and all that.

One mostly exports the genocide to the third world

The other wants to bring it home.

I make a point to just not open any thread that mentions US Politics.

Clairvoyance and kids shouldn’t mix

There’s that whole “children of Dune” book that tells us why.

The thing is

“The law says it has to happen” doesn’t mean it happens.

And the weaker labour protections are in your country, the more bosses can walk all over their employees.

In the US, with their so-called “at-will” employment system, you can be fired at any time for any reason, and if you need the job to like, live, you won’t even bring up your legal rights.

Mind you even on countries where polling happens exclusively on Sunday (like mine!) there are other subtle ways The Poors ^tm are kept from enfranchisement. “Voting happens on a work day” is just one of the ways it happens in one of our world’s oligarchies.

It really depends on how much you need that job to like

Not be homeless

And how hard it was to get the job in the first place.

You can make your legal rights count if you have options.

If you don’t, you let your boss walk all over you and thank them for it.

Because they don’t want the workers voting.

If you “can’t go to the ballot because you need to work” you are a plebeian, and so they have a way of excluding you while technically not excluding you.

A lot of modern oligarchy is powered by these technicalities. Technically everyone has a “right to” participate in the system, but the whole apparatus is rigged in such a way that in material reality only the same nobility caste that has called the shots since the bronze fucking age gets to call the shots.

Something something “the power of god and anime on my side”

CS Lewis did it for them with Jesus’ lionsona

Or push it to a file, just in general. That way if something goes tits up you can still check it later.

I feel like Microsoft fully intends to remove the TPM 2.0 requirement in the nearish future

Otherwise it wouldn’t be so easy to disable when writing an iso to a USB drive.

Looking at it from a capitalistic point of view, they gain nothing by keeping people from installing their OS on the long term, the lock out was just for the short-term gains they got out of OEMs selling new computers for Windows 11 and such.

Which distro

LONG LIVE THE GIMP BELLPEPPER

There’s a furry using AmigaOS?

… What for?

As long as we’re being arm-chair-y – At the core of being into FOSS is the following thought: “Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do” – Getting into Linux means going out and exploring, deliberately learning something, and all because you don’t want your computer to decide things for you.

… Transgender individuals are similarly breaking out of the “conventional” and making themselves “outsiders”.

It’s not causation, but correlation. Anyone who’s into FOSS will most definitely not be one for conforming to social standards, and transpeople are not people who are conforming to social standards.

My (entirely anecdotal, based on like three human beings who I’m acquainted with) impression is that the Trans-Chick linux user is the neckbeard linux user. She just started HRT in her 30s and lost a lot of weight.