The Quuuuuill

Wait Kotatsu is shut down? Shit…

it’s a multipart series. i was able to find the title but not a feed or a link. it’s titled The Butterfly Effect

i’ll have to find it, but there’s a fascinating journalistic podcast about how pornhub’s position as the tech giant of the porn industry happened effectively the same as every tech giant: not as a labor of love to advance something, but as a cold blooded disruption of a market to establish a new oligarchic overlord of a market sector. pornhub’s position as an invasive species in the sex work ecosystem has made sex work far less humane than it was before. moreover, sex workers, given their complete lack of societal protection given our legal criminalization of their profession, are more vulnerable to the whims of a modern robber baron

it’s a healthy sign of a community when dad jokes enter the cultural milieu as something that’s passed from generation to generation. we inherited these jokes, handed them down, and someday they’ll be handed down again

oh man. all the old jokes are new again. shit, am i basically a dad now?

And as we’re crossing border after border we realize the difference is none

i prefer Felon Stank

i contribute code back a lot so any distro i use will end up getting free labor from me so it works a little different for me. like you said, it’s a personal choice

it’s not about linux mint, it’s about its base, Ubuntu which also isn’t involved with microsoft, but its parent company, canonical is guilty of providing similar aid as ms does. so if you’re boycotting microsoft, you should boycott canonical, too. thus, LMDE being my recommendation in that case. LMDE is developed by the same people who make Mint. i was never trying to imply they’re the proplem

Mint if all you want is all your shit to work. Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) if you also have ideological issues with microsoft’s involvement in the israeli genocide of the Palestinian people

compliance remains unacceptable

indestructable

welcome to what happens when a single corporate entity owns a monopoly on a sector. it turns into extortion rackets so fast because everything is secretly just mob shit in the background

while this stance is correct, let’s not platform this nazi transphobe shitstain again

good thing there’s not any sort of digital information war going on. i assume having everyone’s computers vulnerable will turn out super good

no. just to inclusive, non-male specific pronouns. and it was the way he handled himself in the conversation.

United States format is very different from the european format and often the apple maps algorithm makes some boneheaded assuptions to translate from a US address to something OSM understands. i contribute, too, but the next time i have an example of apple maps fucking up… i’ll have already forgot this convo happened, but i’ll try

my problem with apple maps is how frequently it has something’s location completely wrong because osm addresses use the European addressing system everywhere when i don’t live in europe

the bulk of its search results come from bing. only its instant answers and ai features aren’t bing

which is to say: terrible