Well obviously it’s very difficult for the poor to leave and if you aren’t poor it’s actually a pretty nice place to live.

Also most of the loyalists in the colonies fled to Canada during and immediately after the American Revolution, for obvious reasons.

Same. There was some initial confusion when I first switched over to Lemmy that resulted in the creation of superfluous accounts. I am better now thank you.

I won’t name any specific organizations, but the upshot is that you need to consume a variety of news sources from different countries and in different formats. It also pays to get into very specifically focused news organizations.

You would have a point were I simply speculating, but I’m not.

I am simply stating what the most well-informed and knowledgeable sources are saying.

You would know this if you had sanitized and healthy media consumption habits, but you obviously don’t.

Doubt it. The smart money says that he did it because he does a ton of business with the Chinese and is very nervous about being seen to actively take sides in a way that would cause them to see him as a potential security threat.

That’s nowhere near as true as it once was. Most of your big well-supoorted distros run flawlessly on most big brand machines.

Where you’ll run into problems is in using more obscure distros that require a lot of tweaking and customization, but something like Ubuntu should run beautifully out of the box and if it does have a problem it will be very well-known and heavily documented with easy to follow step by step instructions on fixing it. Linux just isn’t the pain in the ass it used to be. Or at least it doesn’t have to be.

Obviously not referring to you.

You know, that actually makes sense. 14-year-olds. It would explain a lot about hexbears.

Where, oh where are all of our apologists?

Maybe still figuring out what the “talking points” will be?

We’re all waiting for the inevitable bullshit.

Are you not self-aware enough to see how brilliantly you are making their point? This is the tyranny of small differences in action; either you’re with me 100 percent, or you are cast out as an unclean bigot. This is why the Democrats are losing the working class that would otherwise be their natural allies. People have been yelling this at you for years, but for some reason you are unable to hear it.

Yes.

Agreed. That said, I am uncomfortable with the idea that policing language is the correct or only solution to the problem.

The field of computer science decided what AI is. It has a very specific set of meanings and some rando on the Internet isn’t going to upend decades of usage just because it doesn’t fit their idea of what constitutes AI or because they think it’s a marketing gimmick.

It’s not. It’s a very specific field in computer science that’s been worked on since the 1950s at least.

Yeah, fair play.

I think she suffered from clinical depression all her life, but that’s just what I’ve been told, so maybe it’s not true?

I don’t know. I’ve never been a big enough fan to look into it and am only reporting what I’ve been told by my wife, who is a big fan.

Also, say what you want about Islam, but it’s just a simple fact that for the vast majority of her life Catholicism would have had a much bigger impact.

And I say that advisedly, as an American of Irish descent, who grew up in the Catholic Church and had some close friends affected by very unpleasant aspects that I won’t go into here, but that were part of what drives my current aversion to organized religion.

Clinical depression is what I’ve been told. Not sure if true.

I’ve said for years that the deniers and fossil fuel barons will be looked upon by future generations as some of history’s greatest villains. They will be seen in much the same light as a Hitler or Stalin or Mao.