Barely felt like it at all. Whole summer without a decently consistent nice warm spell, just middlingly warm and cloudy, never proper beach weather. Winter weather came very early too in August and hasn’t left at all. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 all at least felt like they had proper summers.

Don’t get me wrong, obviously increasing global average temperatures are bad for the strain they put on infrastructure and how they affect small poor global south island nations disproportionately, but in this country with humidity of 80%+ and wind makes even 10°C feel worse than a sunny day at -20°C , and summers barely get above 30°C which is where proper hot weather starts.

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Ironically these youtubers and what they do are the evidence (and to an extent cause) of a social contract circling the gutter, but not for any of the reasons they would have you believe.

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No, they’re just on payroll of the corpos.

Racists sure love their little Dubai holidays lol. You ever seen a leftist go to Dubai? Me neither

Uh, no, the headline pretty straightforwardly describes what is happening. These are private firms, they should frankly have zero recourse other than simply not doing business with that customer again and reporting to other private firms that track credit scores.

More sources:

https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-protest-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-13486842

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/23/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-palestine-action-prisoners-placard

https://www.dw.com/en/uk-police-arrest-greta-thunberg-under-terrorism-act/a-75286097

Some right wing media sources too, for your suffering:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/23/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-palestine-action-protest/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17x1jenvv9o (shockingly tame)

Almost half the average electricity standing charge of approx. £196 per year (or £320 if they also have a gas supply which a lot of people in the country do). Or about 1.5% of yearly rent assuming small 1-bed in low demand area. Or around as much as elderly homeowners (who own the power and decide elections) get for free via the WFP from our taxes.

I’m sorry, good god our energy is a mess.

This has happened to me before as well, there’s so many reasons a site or anything on your end or in-between could be down or have issues, that’s why mirrors work so well for resiliency! Glad you’re back up to speed now.

Deb-src is the source code repository iirc. Unless you regularly download and read source code, you do not need it.

Use X. Wayland is dead on arrival.

For all the mad ones here’s a reminder: the Steam Deck uses X for the desktop. You think if Wayland had a future, maybe Valve would see it? Considering they took Wine and made it functional and all.

Nevermind launching games via just Proton itself on the KDE desktop, but even if you use a nested gamescope session - it only supports X.

That’s not to mention that for any gaming outside of the steam deck, you’re gonna be using a real GPU that can actually play games properly, and NoVideo drivers only support X properly. You can either stay stinky with Wayland, or play with Path Tracing on.

Only GNOME Devs like Wayland. KDE, Valve, Qt and many other FOSS contributor individuals and orgs alike support and use X primarily.

Wayland is the IPv6 of the display protocol world.

Edit: guy replying to me is already blocked, what a surprise!

I get a 404 on those URLs too. Try a mirror? Look up Debian mirrors and try one of those

Yeah, you’re right, I’m an it scmuck in cyber now but it doesn’t mean I failed at computers, I don’t want a more stressful job, I don’t want to program for a living, I just enjoy learning computer science.

As for uni yeah now it’s just extra years of high school, up to an MSc is mandatory if you want to succeed, and by succeed I mean have a job, and even then your chances are very slim.

Haha, god bless, that’s the spirit!

I used to love computers… still do, but good god do I hate tech companies and all this shit it’s spawned. My last remaining line of defense mentally is that at work we have shifted to a mostly Windows environment, and my interests lie with the Unix side of things.

You got a loicence for that thought? And here I thought we were doing a brave new world type thing.

Called it. All the corpos will strike deals, including those who own platforms to which artoids post their art, and there is zilch that the artoids can do except whine about technology rather than recognize their true enemy.

Yes

Most people are not comfortable enough to sit with themselves and decide who they are as a person and figure out their real internal motivations because the necessity of work has made it fairly easy to avoid doing that difficult work.

Source? Proof? Or you just throwing that out there as if it means anything?

That also sounds incredibly condescending. I prefer to assume better of my fellow human beings, I see no reason they are not capable of this if I am, because I don’t think myself as better than “most people”.

It isn’t a pleasant opportunity, but the experience of being left rudderless, of having to sort things out on your own without a script or a clear path forward is one that many people don’t get,

Oh, do people not choose what to do with their life for work as young as 14 in America or…? Because by then here in the UK I had to pick my subjects for my GCSEs that i’d study for two years, then make sure I can nail the exams so I am eligible to go for the A-Level subjects I want to pursue for the 2 years of school after that, and make sure that I nail those so I can go to uni and get the degree I need to pursue the career I want for the next 20-30 years while also keeping in mind that I must be good enough at it all to actually compete and thrive.

As a working class person who had no parental backing and an immigrant who had to find a way to stay in the country for my own safety, I had to make the right decisions when confronted by an extremely brutal reality at an age when my immediate concerns were heated fandom debates about mass effect 3’s endings.

As far as I’m aware both here and there at 16 someone could literally choose to pursue military service too.

So literally all of us are forced to make extremely comitting choices that impact the rest of our life and figure these things out.

There are enough people, particularly in America, that have been just comfortable enough to never have to really think about back up plans or contingencies for what to do with their life in the absence of its current structure.

That might have been true 80 years ago, but that’s not how these things work in such a dynamic job market either.

And there are many reasons why people may not have the wherewithal to find meaning in their lives. Some people are so focused on survival that meaning hasn’t even occurred to them. Others are depressed or traumatized or otherwise miserable and it’s hard to find meaning in blinding pain. Some people have been spoon fed meaning by way of work since the day they were born and literally do not know any other way to exist. Personally, I was stuck in a blend of these things when I was still working in tech and it was in the throes of abject despair that I finally forced myself to make the changes required to pursue my life’s meaning through work as a physician. Getting into and through medical school has been a brutal process and it has been immensely painful to try to imagine alternatives after the amount of work I’ve put in to pursue this goal. I’m now within 6 months of graduating and will be starting residency next summer, but it won’t be in the specialty that I had hoped (and that I had already staked a piece of my identity to). I’ve suffered more hardship than many, but I have also been more comfortable than plenty of other people, but I would find a great deal of turmoil and misery trying to restructure my life without being able to work as a physician (and that’s not even getting into the financial nightmare of my student loan situation.)

None of these things have anything to do with wage labour specifically. You mention financial nightmares and not being able to be a physician, the former is a product of capitalism, not wage labour, the latter is not relevant as no one is actually stopping you from being a physician in a post-work world, you would be free to be a healer, in fact - more free to be a healer because you would not be stuck in a tech job, or any kind of job for that matter.

If society really collapsed, and for some reason the post-society world didn’t leave space for me to be a physician or a healer of some kind

Again, I would sure hope in a post-wage-labour utopia that doctors exist. Just because you would not be in wage-labour “work” doesn’t mean you can’t do something. The vast majority of what people do and even more of what people want to do or like to do isn’t and actually can’t be wage labour either, whether it’s art or scientific research etc and many professional like doctors and teachers and janitors that actually do something necessary for society are wildly underpaid by said society because they exist at odds with the capitalist wage labour structure, not because of it, and they existed before and will exist long after as professions.

Losing everything you’ve structured your life on is a form of grief and not everyone is equipped to handle that grief gracefully and effectively while being able to carry on with their lives.

Of course, but that isn’t what actually would happen so the entire premise is faulty.

Dare I say… based? Broken clock right twice a day etc etc. Or maybe in France sex is apolitical.