Sounds like a worse version of both Android and ChromeOS.

I wasn’t saying we are conditioned to find women sexy. I’m saying we have been conditioned to treat women as sex objects and not sexy people. There is a big difference.

The clue is in the name. Objectification is when you treat someone like a thing to be desired, and not like a whole human being with thoughts and desires of their own. When you act like getting you aroused is their sole purpose and/or the only value they possess.

It’s a learned behavior like racism or misogyny. And no, It won’t always happen, not once we evolve enough emotionally as a species to treat all human beings with love and respect.

I think people should be able to feel attractive if they want and not be objectified. I don’t think men objectify women because they look pretty, I think we do it because we have been conditioned to think of women that way.

I actually prefer when women don’t wear tons of makeup, most of the women I date wear very little or none at all. That being said if they ever decide to wear makeup I think it’s great because they are expressing themselves. Either way I look at them as people first, even if I think they are beautiful.

I also wear earrings and occasionally a simple necklace. I don’t think I’m objectifing myself, just that is how I like to look like. I think the same is true for a lot of women.

I know you don’t mean it this way, but it almost sounds like you a validating the viewpoint of certain gross people who ask SA victims what they were wearing.

I think even the most knockout drop dead gorgeous people deserve to not be objectified. And whether I find them to be typically has nothing to do with how much makeup they are wearing or how much jewelry they have on.

If the only reason someone isn’t objectifing you is because you dress plainly, that seems like they still aren’t good people. I know it is a super prevalent though.

To each their own though. I’m also the guy who thinks people should be able to walk around completely naked and not be harassed or objectified, so my viewpoint isn’t typical at all.

I’m not the one who down voted you by the way. I think it’s weird to do that to people just because you don’t agree with them.

There’s an extension for Firefox that I use

I used to be ok with it in certain circumstances, until I found out how many innocent people get convicted and how many people put to death were exonerated later. I’m against the entire prison system now though. It’s modern slavery and the state shouldn’t be trusted with that kind of power.

It couldn’t have been him, Luigi and I were fishing that day all day long. We both wept when we heard the news.

The U.S. has been taken over by fascists who are not so slowly dismantling everything that was good about the government and strengthening everything bad. We likely already don’t have anything close to a democracy anymore.

Yeah but theres a centrist neoliberal in Cali who has jokes!

yay

We already live in clown world. We are beyond parody.

I’d rather chisel text onto stone tablets than that bs.

Her

Unfortunately with how messed up our country is, and with how ignorant MAGAts are, when they say “Liberals” they mean Neolibs, and Progressives and leftists…

When they say anything left of Goebbels they meant it literally.

I agree they should relase them (they never will) but this is not (just) a distraction from that. This is announcing what he is planning on doing in the future.

We would be wise to take this seriously and be vigilant.

These UX systems should be standard across all distros.

Anyone who expects Linux to be like MacOS where you basically only have 1 way to do anything- is going to be frustrated. The thing that you find annoying about Linux is the thing Linux users love about it.

The great thing about Linux is that almost nothing is guaranteed to be “standard across all distros”. Different people have different use cases, needs, and preferences. If you take the time to figure out how to make Linux look and behave the way you want it to, it’s has all the advantages of MacOS, but it’s even better because you can fine tune everything to be exactly how you like it and not be stuck with whatever they give you.

I guarantee there is a way to get the exact functionality you are looking for in any Linux distro, in fact there are probably a half a dozen different ways or more to accomplish it, but it’s more than likely a couple of toggles in the settings menu.

a need to install apps using terminal.

I installed Pop!_OS on my PC over a year ago and I haven’t needed to open up a terminal window to do anything the entire time. I did install a newer version of the app store, but even that I did by using the old app store. I do open my terminal sometimes because I love learning different ways of doing things and understanding how my OS works, but it is by no means mandatory.

It’s not the nightmare you describe but it might take a little adjusting to, just like with anything else. There are also many different distro’s from very beginner friendly to building a custom OS from scratch. As long a you have the time and patience to do a little research, you could find a distro that would be perfect for your needs- or at the very least one that could be with minimal tweaking.

One mistake I see some people make is not starting out with a beginner friendly distro. They think they are too advanced for that so they go for something designed for people with more experience. There is nothing at all wrong with going with a ‘beginner’ distro. You can do anything you want to do on any distro if you know what you are doing.

It’s not for everyone, some people don’t care about customization or learning anything new or free and open source software, and that’s fine. For everyone else there’s *nix.

If you like, I’ll also ask around a bit.

That’s really kind of you! I appreciate that. Let me look into it a bit and I’ll get back to you, I wouldn’t want you to go out of your way for nothing, but if you hear of something that might fit definitely let me know :)

That you learned the language before can be a great help!

I don’t want to get the wrong impression. I took a single semester of entry level German 33 years ago, so I would have a lot of work ahead of me, but when I was studying it, it seemed like I was picking it up pretty quickly. I remember how to say “Hello, Goodbye, My name is, My birthday is on, and I feel sick” lol.

There’s also a possibility to learn the language and a job (usually paid) at the same time if you go into a field where businesses are having trouble to find new personnel. However, these are usually not the best paying jobs

Where would be a place to start looking for such jobs? I took a semester of German in High School (the only reason I didn’t do more was because I moved to a school that didn’t offer it) and I’m fairly confident I could pick it up relatively quickly. Low pay isn’t an issue for me as long as it’s enough to survive on. I live a very modest lifestyle. I live in a 26ft RV if that tells you anything :)

or very physically demanding jobs (there’s a reason for a lack of personnel)

Physically demanding would be tough for me. 3 years ago I would have jumped at the chance, but my health has taken a decline and I have developed carpal tunnel syndrome.

I’m 51 years old if that changes things any.

Wow, that’s actually not extremely far off from the mark! It’s not right of course but it’s the closest you have come so far to getting a correct answer this entire conversation.

First of all the Russian Federation is a far right oligarchic capitalist authoritarian dictatorship- and thus has little in comon with ‘Tankies’. It’s much closer to a fascist nation than a “communist” one.

Tankie is a pejorative term for authoritarian “communists”, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes. And even more especially when nominal ‘communists’ use or advocate for military force against other leftists to further their agenda.

Neither Leftists nor Tankies have anything whatsoever to do with Hitler or fascism- which is a far right ideology. Nor would the divide caused by Tankies among Leftists have ‘pissed off Hitler’ in any way. He would have been delighted by it in fact, since Fascism is an inherently anti-communist ideology and Stalin was one of his main enemies.

So, instead of having “a board full of magic buttons that (would have) pissed off Hitler”- you are just a very ill informed troll that would have pleased Hitler more than anyone.

The USSR, the PRC, and the DPRK are/were Tankies, so you got that much right at least. However extending the definition of Tankie to include anyone that couldn’t defeat the GOP in an election is moronic in the extreme. Actually saying that is a moronic take is an insult to morons.

On top of that, much like in many other areas you haven’t the slightest clue as to whether or not Bernie could have beaten Trump if the DNC hadn’t colluded against him- in fact many political analysts predicted that Bernie would have handily defeated Trump in 2016- and support for progressive and leftist thought has grown exponentially since then. As a matter of fact it’s probable that the DNC propping up a right wing Harris during the last election instead of a progressive was what cost us the election and put Trump in power- so the DNC would count as Tankies by your own very stupid definition.

Considering your inability to differentiate between Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Donna Brazile, your analysis on who or what could potentially beat the GOP in an election means even less than nothing. Tucker Carlson has a better grasp of the political landscape than you do, and believe me that is a super low bar to clear.

I didn’t either.

I’ll be in my bunk.

What do you think a tankie is? 😂🤣😂😅

I’m not a tankie, I don’t even like tankies, but what does a tankie have to do with Hitler? You don’t know what that word means either, do you?

I’m not sure who pays you or what the game is, but I’m not an idiot. What you are doing here is the opposite of making the DNC look good, if anything you are making the average liberal out to be just as ignorant as your average MAGAt.