Yeah just be autistic.

I’m not though - just use uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, etc.

As for IRL, that’s an unsolved problem, it’s kinda best to just tune them out mentally though.

Meh, just more millenial slave mentality copium.

I understand being done with everything, but it’s no excuse to portray that attitude as some sort of victory

It’s not revolutionary to gaslight yourself out of your needs and wants, it’s just a way of giving up. “Consumerism” was just a word used by defeated late 20th century progressives to remove any association with anti-capitalist ideas that at the time were represented in the public consciousness by the increasingly uncouth and imperalist USSR, before green politics got flooded with anti-industry kooks.

Yeah, you’re right, but also, the commenter above isn’t just being mean for the sake of it, there is a real issue at the heart of it.

The issue is that having 1 person come around to your side implies the millions that don’t and won’t.

Some of those people simply don’t share any underlying morals in common so that’s fine, you’ll never see eye to eye in ideas because your goals are ultimately different.

Some of those people also just don’t care and/or don’t know.

Some people will never care, and that’s fine too, but some of those people will care if they do know.

Spreading information to those people is tough when you don’t have backing of the govcorp media ecosystem and it doesn’t help when the ideas you want to get across are sophisticated, boring and fairly nuanced and require lots of context.

It also doesn’t help that this would-be progressive in their ignorance could be damaging to the cause when misinformed, which means that sometimes you have to argue against this person and potentially turn them off the movement forever, because you never really know whether it’s possible to sway someone until you do.

That’s what makes ignorance trolling or JAQing so effective because progressives will either have to waste time explaining openly to someone who will never agree and only feigns ignorance, or risk being potentially a confrontational asshole with a genuinely ignorant person.

It also doesn’t help morale of said progressive when confronted with all that, that many of us simply learned about this information on our own, we never asked anybody of anything, we just explored enough perspectives on issues we cared about until our bullshit-o-meters were finely tuned enough to find truth and construct a path from reality now to future we’d like.

On the other hand, convincing some people who are actually sway-able to not want the world to function like a war crime can be like pulling teeth, people are zealous defenders of their opinions because it reflects badly on their self-esteem if they are misinformed and someone else isn’t, especially in the Information Age.

I speak from a progressive viewpoint but it’s just as true for any real ideological position, information is the fuel that turns simple moral beliefs into functional ideology.

For as long as we live in a democracy, we need to somehow solve the systemic issue of ignorance at scale without inventing a ministry of truth type situation and being able to effectively counter trolling and JAQing/sealioning while also treating those asking questions with the utmost care and having the emotional stamina to do that when many of us had nothing of the sort.

It’s a tough position, even describing it or explaining it is tough enough already when fewer and fewer people even seem to even just read at all.

Then there is often just confusion over what someone open to information actually wants, e.g. the Adam Something guide to dating video he made where he said that teenage and adolescent men want instructions and not philosophical musings on the concept of dating and purpose and approach came as a genuine shock to me, because from my, non-male perspective I can’t imagine anyone needing instructions or explanations of that sort of thing.

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 - 2023 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.