[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 85 points 1 year ago

It looks bad, but they're still definitely not conventionally attractive or thin. They just don't look the same. This is just nostalgia vs. capitalist franchise exhaustion.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 81 points 1 year ago

Idk this isn't much better lol... RFK still looks like he was left in the air fryer a few minutes too long.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 year ago

Motherfuckers are actually arguing that seeding a torrent isn't "distributing" unless they can show an instance of someone downloading a book from their IP... If that flies they better overturn every fucking piracy conviction ever.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 170 points 2 years ago

GNOME is more keyboard-focused than KDE. It just also happens to have much better touch support.

Get this meme to /linuxsucks where it belongs.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 136 points 2 years ago

Good God I hate linkedin types. Imagine thinking writing an app that literally just displays a single notification is worthy of making a whole post about. They basically wrote a Hello World app for Android TV. And I'm sure they got paid like 40k by some poor school district to do so.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 218 points 2 years ago

Still the best browser to support, still the best hope of defending open web standards from Google. Call me when they implement the ads in an onerous way.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 84 points 2 years ago

Stop using GitHub. Especially if you're working on anything that corpo interests will frown on, but just generally, there are plenty of alternatives (both git and non-git) that aren't owned by Microsoft.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 86 points 2 years ago

This concept is the "third space" -- a social space other than work and home where people can congregate, socialize, and relax. Parks and libraries are some of the only remaining spaces in capitalism where people can be humans without paying for the privilege to exist by the minute.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 82 points 2 years ago

It's an anti-joke. I love it.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 96 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's not that we don't want to use the train, it's that the train has been successfully turned into an objectively worse option in every way thanks to decades of lobbying and underfunding. If there even is a reasonable train route between your destinations, it would likely take 2-4x as long as driving, be 4-10x more expensive than the gas for the drive, and would be an uncomfortable and unpleasant experience that would still require a pickup and decently long drive (or further use of the barely functional public transit system) to get to the final destination.

If you're not a shipping container, there basically is no public transit infrastructure in the US. It only exists in cities that have chosen to make significant investments in it, and even then in most places it's like one arterial light rail and then some busses with crappy coverage. For anything between cities or states, it's nearly the same price as flying to get a charter bus or train ticket.

The only thing that would solve this problem is extremely aggressive and unpopular legislation, or some benevolent trillionaire to actually do a hyperloop type project without immediately coopting it into just a shittier highway. Market forces and city governments will never create real interstate transit networks. Less aggressive legislation making it more expensive to keep and especially buy/make new cars would help, but it's political suicide to say "I'm going to tax the good that almost every voter, and especially the ones with money and influence, have and use every day".

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 79 points 2 years ago

Brother they went evil when they went publicly traded.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 76 points 3 years ago

Look around you -- capitalism is literally burning our ecosystem to transfer wealth into the hands of the rich. If you are "pro-capitalism" you are either ignorant of physical reality or you are selfish and think you can "make it" and be one of the tiny minority that actually benefits from the system, to the detriment of almost every other living being on the planet.

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