I remember in 1996 my neighbor was in one of these fancy new things on the internet called a "chat room".
He got into an arguement with someone. It got heated. Until the other guy threatened to show up at my neighbors house.
My neighbor scoffed and laughed.
Then the guy put in my neighbors real address. To this day, that still scares me. And back then internet crime wasn't taken seriously. In fact doxxing back then may not yet have even been a crime.
No no. It's far easier an explaination.
I have critical thinking skills. I see the world is hot garbage. I see the ecconomy is not only harsh,but DESIGNED to be harsh. We live in a 2 income household society. You're EXPECTED to have a partner who makes a full time living, while you ALSO have a full time living.
I do not have a partner. I can barely afford rent. I somehow don't qualify for SNAP, even before the defunding. Which means most days I just don't eat.
Why the FUCK would I want children?
Meanwhile, if I didn't have critical thinking skills, I might just go out, fuck a bunch of women. Be dumb enough to not wear condoms, and now have 18 different kids with 23 different women. Obviously I'd be an absentee father in these kids lives. And the women willing to have sex with that version of me wouldn't be very bright either.
The end result is the dumb version of me would have dumb kids with dumb women.
The smart version of me doesn't have, and isn't planning on having kids.
Sammy.
Or Donkey. One time I just started calling her Donkey one day, and she responded like she liked that name better than Sammy. So I'd call her Donkey, and my mom would call her Sammy. And she'd respond to me more.
She would do this thing where she would jump straight up at my chest when I got home from somewhere.
She expected me to catch her, midair, at chest level, so I could hold her like a baby. Well I'd gotten so used to it, just catching her everytime. Then I came home one day with 7 bags of groceries in both hands. I walk through the door. My plan was to go over to the dinning room table, put the bags on the table, and THEN do cat greetings.
She had other ideas. She trusted me so much not to hurt her, and trusted the routine so much that she ignored my full hands. She jumps up, my hands are full, and it happens so fast you don't have time to think. Just time to react.
I ended up closing my forearms around her, and essentially catching her on top of the groceries. She just looks at me like "C'mon dude. We've practiced this. What are you doing???". And I just asked her "Are you comfy now? Laying on my bread, and what looks like a box of stuffing? Couldn't wait for me to put down the groceries?"
Not in a mean way. In text form it looks so much harsher than it is. I was using playful loving voice....but I was also a tad annoyed.
I learned that with groceries to just put the groceries on the porch. Come in empty handed. Do cat greetings, and THEN go back to the porch and bring in groceries.
So much so, that she's been passed away for over 15 years at this point, and occasionally out of habbit I leave the groceries on the porch, come in, and realize "oh, right...." and then bring in my groceries.
it can be absolute pain for those expecting things to just work
Which is like 95% of people.
Imagine if cars worked this way. Imagine you needed to be a mechanic to operate your vehicle. To start and drive your car, you first have to do automotive work, and know how to do automotive work.
A lot less people would drive themselves. A lot more Ubers.
Someone........someone........anyone.......
Oh wait. Would you settle for everyone?
I don't see them as trolls. I've been on ZorinOS for about a year now. I hate it because I don't know how to do anything, but I'm not smart enough to learn terminal.
Flatpaks are the answer to installation. But any problem I have, I google, and every result starts the same way.
"Ok, Step 1, open terminal
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I have a 100% rate of those solutions not working for me. And the reason is simple. Those solutions assume you know how to use linux. So when you copy and paste their terminal commands, and your terminal responds with error: dependancies not found, YOU know how to fix that error and it works for you. But for most regular people, thats the end of that. Problem not solved. Problem remains a problem FOREVER.
No, seriously. I have a usb recovery stick that allows me to backup/restore my hard drive exactly how it is. Anytime I have to use terminal I ALWAYS make a backup of my hard drive first. Which takes 4 hours. And the reason for that is, when I inevitably fuck something up in terminal, and the whole OS crashes, and refuses to boot, I have a backup. It takes nearly 20 hours to restore the image, but it works. But whatever problem I was trying to solve remains.
Imagine if that were your linux experience. Windows spies on you. They have enshitification out the ass. But it works for the masses without technical knowledge.
The other issue is that businesses use windows. So most people are firmiliar with windows. So all the popular programs are on windows. Linux has a way to emulate windows programs, but its hard to get working, and sometimes just DOESN'T work.
If linux had every single program windows has, 100% as a flatpak, it would do wonders for install rate......for about a year.
Once people install the programs, they'll at some point run into an issue. On windows you solve the problem 99% of the time by restarting. On linux, that hasn't fixed any of my problems once.
These people aren't trolls. They just have a different opinion than you from a different perspective.
Next time you have an issue in linux, any issue, regardless of how small, I want you to turn off your computer for 4 hours. Then turn it back on for 5 minutes. Then off again for 20 hours. Don't solve the issue. I know YOU can solve the issue in 30 seconds, but don't. After the 24 hours no computer use, just live with the problem for the rest of your life.
Yeah, that doesn't sound fun, does it? Sounds like a reason to have a sour experience. Suddenly they don't seem like trolls.
William the third of Orange
Ugh! So close! If only it had been "Donald the third of Orange". Then it would be one of those things that you see on TV shows, where they tell a story of a really long time ago (in this case the 1680s), and they just use their normal characters to play the roles of historical figures.
I'm just imagining a Simpsonized version of trump, in 1689 royal garbs, being known as "Donald the third of Orange".
sigh
The jokes write themselves when our president is a joke.
altho iirc clinton was a presiden as well? so if trump gave clinton head, then clinton was a gay president before trump… unless its not gay to receive head?
Omg.......that hadn't even dawned on me. How the hell did that go right by me??? WHOOOOOSH!!!!
Alright. I'll take that. Lincoln isn't the hero history makes him out to be, but he's also far from the villain that trump is. I'd say he was a mostly decent person, even if some of his choices were less moral conviction, and more of the path of least resistance. Which is insane, when you consider that the nation was SO divided at the time, that the CIVIL WAR was the path of LEAST resistance.
So for me, Lincoln middle of the road. As opposed to trump, who morally isn't middle of the road. He's more drove off a cliff into a ditch, car is on fire, people are dying, and now he's lying about the cause of the crash.
Holy shit. I never thought about that.
Is trump the first non-straight president??? THIS is the guy that will represent LGBQT?
Holy fuck I do not understand life....
Great little lass, with a loving heart and a lot of sass!