My uncle is banned from any and all family functions. He’s an angry conspiracy whackjob, the prototype to the modern MAGA chuds. He was delusional, he was violent, and he would push his insane conspiracies onto everyone without consent.

Nearly every family get-together that he attended, he turned it into chaos, violence, and rage. The final straw was when he hard slapped my 8 year old little brother across the face for playing some phone game.

That was about ten years ago.Occasionally he’ll call my dad (his brother) asking for money or if he can visit, but dad never forgave him for the slap.

LibreOffice. It’s free to download and use and it is on par with Microsoft Office.

Even though it’s free, I donated to them as it’s quality software that I support.

We need courses that teach males how to be men. Not the BS toxic stuff, but teach them how to be decent human beings in society.

I bought a T14 Gen 2 on eBay for about $250. It can play some older games like Morrowind, but I mostly use it for book writing, D&D games, video downloading/ripping/burning, browsing, and such.

I put Linux Mint on mine and it runs like a dream.

I think the general population of humans struggle to recognize, understand, and address large scale threats.

There’s the scientific community that’ll try to explain these issues to the general public in simplistic term. But they’re often overruled by dumb idiots in charge who store snowballs in their freezer as proof that climate change isn’t real.

There’s a belief that humanity needs to be brought to the edge of extinction to realize how bad things really are and to get their shit together. I don’t believe humanity would be willing to save itself from extinction as it’s just not profitable to do so.

To conservatives, any porn viewing is a “porn addiction.” That’s their line.

Porn addiction is not on that line, not even close.

The perception of time can feel different from person to person and emotional state to emotional state.

…BlueSky does not have any federalization technologies built into it, meaning it’s just another centralized platform, and thus vulnerable to the same things that make modern social media so horrible.

Ask your average social media user what any of that means and you’ll get blank stares.

Can confirm with the old thinkpads. They’re not great for gaming, but the keyboard, track pack, and eraser head are solid for writing and other office-like work.

A LOT of food sold in the US are imported.

Every time a friend asks to “borrow” a lighter…

I too enjoy a good strawman fallacy.

Yes, because voter shaming has a long history of success 🙄