stinerman [Ohio]

It does seem like the TL;DR of right wing Israelis is “Hitler was right, but his only problem was that he was killing us.”

It will come down to the laws in your country and how much money you plan to spend on lawyers if your employer wants to force the issue.

Sent this to my wife and we talked a bit about how I don’t like lights on.

I realized that even when I’m home alone at night (and not taking care so that she doesn’t wake up), I will use the flashlight/torch on my cell phone rather than turn on lights in the house.

He (Linus Torvalds) made Linux as a hobby during his time in college/university to teach him about operating system design. Because it was the part of the operating system called the kernel that the GNU project didn’t have yet (more on this in a moment), it became very popular. Richard Stallman created the GNU project because he believed that every person should have the right to study and share the software that runs on their computer.

There is nothing specifically anti-corporate in either of their motivations.

Running an absolutely ancient kernel.

the only viable alternative, for 99% of the population, is Apple

This is largely because Windows and MacOS come preinstalled and that’s how the vast majority of people interact with operating systems. If you had to choose your OS, I’m sure there’d be more choice in the market. Not necessarily Linux, but just more choice in general.

I’ve been using some Linux flavor for about 15 years. The biggest thing about switching (at least back then) was I knew how to configure Windows just to my liking. With Linux it was a lot more difficult because I had to google everything. Like “how do I change the wallpaper?” How do I get the login screen to appear on the correct monitor, etc. It was just frustrating because I knew how to do this in Windows, but I felt like a major noob again with Linux.

“Free speech absolutist” these days means “you should be required to hear what I say” not “you should be able to say anything you want without government interference.”

Yes.

It all makes sense when you realize that a good number of them feel that Palestinians are not people.

Yeah I’m wrong. Thanks for the correction.

I stand corrected.

You have to be A- or O- to do power red.

My understanding is that being nearsighted is a relatively new phenomenon that is largely due to being indoors a lot. Farsightedness in old age has been around since humans have been humans.

I took a quick look and Wikipedia partially bears this out re: nearsightedness.

I’m O- so I give two units of red cells and get saline and the plasma/antibodies back. The guy at the donation site says “make sure you don’t drink any alcoholic beverages for 24 hours…but you can have one if you want.” He looks back to see if his manager is around and then whispers “you can have two but don’t leave the house.”

On the internet, everyone is American.

I felt this way at one time when I was younger. Now I don’t give a shit what people want to do with their own bodies.

It seems like alternatively you could cross the border to some other country and not have to do this anymore. Slovakia gets all the breaks.

When I was truly destitute, I ran a computer without a case. It was literally in a cardboard box on the floor.

Thanks for that link. I’ve never heard of that site and it’s really informative.