i feel like i read this exact post yesterday.

aren’t they though?

note: this post isnt a ragebait im serious this did happen.

just cause it happened doesn’t make it not ragebait. posting “linux is garbage” to a linux forum, when your problem wasn’t even really a linux problem is very much rage bait.

even if you had a bad experience, why try to persuade others? why do you give a shit what other people use? why shill for microslop?

if you don’t need those windows only programs to earn a living, just install linux, don’t fuck around with dual booting. accept that you’re gonna have to learn new things. you’ll adapt.

if you do need windows for something, i guess dual boot, but make a pact with yourself to only use it for that one program, and switch back when you’re done, and keep looking for replacements so you can cut that last chain lashing you to m$. i highly recommend alternativeto for that.

Everybody needs a nuke

and yet, my campaign slogan “a gun in every pocket and a nuke in every bedroom” didn’t really seem to resonate with the voters.

he was elected twice, sure, but in the first case, he lost the popular vote by about 3 million votes, and in both case, he didn’t get a majority, and the majority of americans didn’t vote either way at all.

it’s bad, but no matter how you slice it, trump voters make up less than a quarter of the US population.

that’s the one, yep.

MIRI seems to have their collective head on straight. i’d at least trust them more on the subject of AI than any of the blood swilling oligarchs running the big ai companies these days.

neither your family, nor a partner should get a say in that. it might just be a preference, it might be the result of some deep seated transphobia, but either way they oughtta just accept it if you don’t want to, and not try to pressure you.

conveniently, a US nickel ways about 5 grams, so that’d be at least 100 million kilograms of nickels. for comparison, the us mint only produced about 566,000 kilograms of nickels in 2024. at that rate, it would take 176 years to produce a billion dollars worth of nickels. i strongly doubt that there exist that many nickels in existence.

so the specific image adds nothing (since being arrested anywhere for anything usually ends up with being in a cell), and could just be any image depicting anyone in a cell?

perhaps it was foolish of me to think there was a joke here.

good advice about buses. i chased after a bus once. i tripped, twisted my ankle, damaged my clothing, and scraped the hell out of my left wrist, elbow, and shoulder. still got a scar from it. everyone on the bus saw, and the bus driver waited for me as i limped up to the next stop.

yeah, i know that number is horribly inflated, and few ever look at the considerably larger death toll that ought to be ascribed to capitalism, but to suggest that the any state, such as the ussr, doesn’t have any blood on its hands seems naive at best, and actively deceptive at worst.

not sure if this is trying to say that everyone who died at the hands of Communists™ weren’t people, didn’t have souls, or were just universally evil and went to the Bad Place and therefore deserved it, but whichever way, it doesn’t seem like a good look.

yeah, but of that was the case, they shouldn’t have included the invasion if korea in 598, which predates the formation of the PRC by over 1300 years.

yeah, i think this is relying pretty heavily on people’s ignorance of china’s history to seem even remotely believable. idk why they feel the need to lie anyway, cause china’s record in the modern day is still undeniably better than the US’s.

i haven’t heard of any place on lemmy restricting one’s ability to post based on your vote total, but i’d never encountered it during my many years on reddit, either.

if you get a lot of downvotes, and someone is sorting by “top” or “hot”, your post or comment will be further down the list though, and vice versa for upvotes. (though personally, i almost always sort by “new” on lemmy, or sometimes, “new comments”.)

they mattered on reddit? how?

i know who the rock is, but that doesn’t help me get whatever joke may or may not be happening here.