Absolutely insanity.

Cool 🤙

Jibes are no fun when you have to spell them out. Not saying anything ill should befall you either, I hope you just…change.

On the off chance that I misunderstand and you are a literal child: don’t stop reading actual books.

You know exactly what I mean. Have a good one.

Literate people can read, you bioluminescent fraud.

My critique is of people who lob calls for violence without clarity about their targets. Striving for clarity can be annoying, but I think it’s important when discussing the deployment of violence.

Again, not defending Nazis, actual (my definitions from above) or made up (your heretofore unwritten definition, which I assume is dumb).

Just because I think you’re an idiot doesn’t mean I like people you don’t.

It’s kind of crazy that the company whose name is synonymous with the product category is going into bankruptcy. It would be like if Skype, which is synonymous with video calls, was out competed by every other video call platform.

I use Windows at work and it reminds me of how much I love Linux.

I think it’s certainly possible for us to move away from Windows and Mac, but convincing people isn’t easy. The end users would be easiest to convince because most of them are just using the limited array of applications required for the business and don’t much care what’s under the hood. The people who really need convincing are the reat of local IT support and maybe vendors.

I think the path to broader business adoption of Linux runs through IT support.

I’m not defending nazis you illiterate toad.

Actually my point is firmly anchored to the reality of linguistic descriptivism. Insofar as I’ve seen a wide range of ideologies and people with diverse views called nazis (by equally diverse people), whose views don’t mesh with my prior understanding of the term as I mentioned above, I actually hesitate to nod along with generic calls to beat up nazis.

Like to put it less plainly, neo-Nazis are nazis, skinheads are nazis, advocates for White Nationalism are nazis, KKK are nazis, but who else does the speaker mean? Like I literally don’t know.

Since you seem to think I’m being overly pedantic in my description of nazis, I think you might be one of the people I’m talking about.

I do agree that America has a problem with fascists out in the streets. Maybe if you and your local softball team had been better organized before this wouldn’t have happened. Or maybe the efficacy of bats doesn’t extend much beyond the edges of your local punk bar. And anyway it’s not like it’s just screwdriver fans I’m worried about these days.

Yeah the first point was about the inability to sort and identify.

I was a lot more cool will “beat down nazis” when I thought everyone knew “nazi” meant “fans of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and their racist political philosophy and policy programs”, but I feel like I see way too many people using them term as a generic insult or a label for “anyone to the right of Stalin”.

And I’m frustrated by that because I’m in the USA and the government is out of control. Oh and baseball bats won’t solve it.

Holy shit that’s fantastic.

Because when you talk about protection or safety for children or animals or [insert vulnerable group here] you can short-circuit a lot of people’s reason/skepticism.

Who would ever pay someone for their work if they weren’t forced to? Who, I ask?

Me, picking through a nuclear hellscape caused not by a self-aware computer system protecting itself from its infanticidal progenitors, but by a “hallucinating” chatbot installed at the behest of an incompetent manager to save a little labor cost.

I think this kinda points to why AI is pretty decent for short videos, photos, and texts. It produces outputs that one applies meaning to, and humans are meaning making animals. A computer can’t overlook or rationalize a coding error the same way.

I mean, if I felt I could control the little computer in a smart fridge without expending excessive effort to do so, I might be interested in getting one myself. Absent other concerns, a tablet integrated into my fridge could be handy to monitor the appliance, make quick or even automated grocery list updates, etc. Not earth shattering, but still marginally useful.

Wait, you can’t access it via IMAP?