HorikBrun

Never was a distro hopper. Used ubuntu for 10 years. It’s not great, but it’s good enough. 2 years ago, I made a jump (for me) and loaded up Fedora. As a daily driver, I absolutely love it. That said, I also just recently partitioned a Debian boot, just because there are some few things it does better with no flash or sparkle.

I love watching PWHL games. So much fun.

I always like watching the sport, but hockey players are all just frat boys, and it shows.

And NOW you can honetly say that, yes, everybody was indeed kung fu fighting.

DHS can eat a US defense budget sized bag of dicks

I did not mean to imply the cessation of public spending was causal, just indicative. First ran across it studying mesoamerican civilizations, but I think there are academic papers about Eurasian examples as well. Usually the cause is periodic shifts in rainfall patterns, or other environmental factors. This is an ok place to start, but I would have some work to dig up the textbook. https://www.oerproject.com/OER-Materials/OER-Media/HTML-Articles/Origins/Unit5/Cycles-of-Collapse-in-Mesoamerica

Edit: here’s a good paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980221105418

In archaeology, you can peg the beginning of an empire’s end when it stops building public architecture, whether it’s art or infrastructure (equal to spending on the public). Once the government stops giving back to the populace, it’s over.

Separate and complex discussion defining “empire” in archaeology without written records, so I am just referring to a particular geographic center exerting cultural and economic influence on its neighbors.

Stop public spending. People move out. Economy declines. Some other political center rises to prominence.

Obviously there are a ton of other factors affecting this, but it’s a broad-brush pattern seen repeated over thousands of years.

I would like to ask the federal courts to end texas judges nationwide.

Polis has always tried way too hard to demonstrate that he sees nuance and splits hairs. Sometimes that baby is rancid and needs to go with the bathwater.

I can smell your fabric softener, no matter how long ago you used it. Artificial perfumes of any kind just murder my sinuses. It suuuucks.

I also can hear electronics, even just the lights, if that’s all that’s on. Maddening, because I can almost never find real silence. It’s why I love camping.

So…hang on, Pakistan, officially, supports israel…?

Really?

This timeline is so f_ing pretzeled

If you don’t show a badge and have a warrant, you’re not an officer, you’re an armed assailant.

Well, “why” is just curiosity and wanting to explore new things. I had been learning some programming on Windows, but had heard rumblings about linux. I explored Red Hat, wasn’t wowed. It was fine, but not enough to lure me away. That was 26 yrs ago.

14 yrs ago, I created a dual boot on my laptop, with Ubuntu/Gnome. After about 2 yrs, I made Ubuntu my daily. A windows auto update tried to wipe linux off my drive, so I put Windows in jail, shrunk the partition as small as I could, and removed it from the boot sequence. I don’t distro hop, I used Ubuntu until earlier this year. It was always good enough, never awesome, but i learned things and felt a whole lote more secure than on windows.

About 6 months ago, I switched to Fedora/KDE. I’m sure I could find lots of benefits to other distros, but I never felt much need to shop around. BTW, I absolutely love Fedora /KDE in a way I never felt about Ubuntu. Maybe it’s just KDE vs Gnome. It just feels so much more comfortable.

If this were a movie, (that I was writing) The car would glitch and lock Dumpster inside, then burst into flames. He would push the panic button, then look through the smoky windows at fElon laughing demonically, while Dumpster lights-outs coughing and railing against the betrayal, and injustice of it all.

Fade to black. Cough

Kbin Nobody calls on US to delete entire musks.

How does it feel to be one of the prime content creators in the fediverse?

Nothing would make me happier.

A couple months ago, I would have said Proton. But…

Here we are.

End the NFL.

Oh, goddammit.