Does anyone else think that browsers implementing every single feature of an operating system is a dumb idea?

Great explanation!

Exploring a city drain, and I leapt over a puddle, and mid-air I kinda saw something and ducked my head sideways. Turned out I’d leapt directly into a 30cm piece of sharp, rusty reinforcing rod that was hanging out of the ceiling and bent directly toward my eyes. I don’t really know how I avoided it, but if I hadn’t, it may well have been an instant involuntary lobotomy…

I’d say the USA part puts you somewhere closer to the middle of the luck spectrum these days…

I think they both have two motives: they are ideologues (neoliberal, fascist), and they are self-interested. MOST of the time, those interests align - at least enough to cooperate. But when they stop aligning to the point that any loyalty that exists is strained, then things fall apart.

I don’t think that person is in a political party?

This doesn’t seem so much like “leopards ate my face” as “fuck that guy in the mirror”

Basically this:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5BkRevFP5AE

By that logic everything is natural (not arguing this point), and so the adjective is redundant an unnecessary.

Maybe… My understanding (which is admittedly based on not much hard evidence) is that right wingism is more of a symptom than a cause, and that there are basically two or three drivers:

• insecurity, particularly financial (e.g. shows up as “they’re taking our jobs”, or "fucking dole bludgers). I think greed is sometimes an excessive response to this.
• trauma (e.g. I was treated terribly, and so I’m gonna treat the world terribly in turn).
• power-hunger. (which is probably often a reaction to the other two, a need to control your world).

The insane far-right that are in power in the US, and the people surrounding them are most of the third category… I don’t think much of the base is in that category. But that group knows the triggers for people in the first two categories, and abuses the fuck out of them…

So yeah… I guess you’re right in that “convincing them of the truth” of any single issue isn’t going to solve anything. But I think aiming to solve those underlying insecurity and trauma issues might… Not that I have any quick-fix solutions…

That example’s a good one for a anotger reason: right wingers do need to feel safe, but that doesn’t mean that anything needs to be done about trans people. RW perceptions of what needs to be done are wrong, because they are based on myths and misunderstandings about the risks transness. Or another way to say it: the need for safety is real, solutions proposed by rightwingers are not appropriate, even aside from the issue of trans rights, because they won’t solve need for safety - hiding the bogeyman under a rug or behind criminalisation won’t make it go away, and will increase misunderstanding.

I assets you mean “A greater number of people”?

Anything that’s written primarily for commercial purposes?

(I don’t know much about Jungian philosophy)

What? They let him get away with all kinds of shit and barely raise a peep. Why would they do this?

White house paint still had lead in it in Australia, just at much lower levels than before the ban

Oh, absolutely. I just worry that American authorities won’t see it that way.

Sounds like a risky move

Thank you for explaining in detail what I meant by the very first part of my comment.

Not quite what you want, but in dolphin you can open a terminal with F4, and then just type sudo deb -i <package.deb> and your password. Pretty quick.

I don’t think defunding the police is a right-wing framing 😆