“Weapons are part of my religion.”

–Din Djarin, The Mandalorian

“U.S all bad. Faith all bad. White all bad. Werz muh upvootz 👍 thx.”

Seems to be a common validation-farming device on threads like these.

Yeah don’t mess with the Debian gang. They’ll take forever to reach you but when they eventually do, they’ll be ready. XD

Haha, I’m seriously wondering if there’s not some kind of script we’re supposed to run first that’s like “Okay, new stable release now. Fetch and replace the latest repos!” Maybe in the desktop environment?

At least like with most things, Linux Mint I remember being so easy to upgrade to a whole new release right there in that universal update program. I don’t have to worry about that tangling up anyone I set up with it. It actually feels exciting hahaha.

All that being said: Rolling or point release or whatever – SET UP SNAPSHOTS. YOU’RE WELCOME. o_o hahaha

Haha Debian is really cool and I’m glad it’s there! Definitely rock solid! Don’t wanna throw any shade at their very important work. :)

…I’m just too goofy to update it properly sometimes. 😅 Skill issue lol.

I’m probably a big newb, but on my headless Debian machines, major updates screw me up sometimes too.

• “Ah! All my updates can’t be found on the server? Oh we’re done with “Bo-Peep” and moving to “PotatoHead” now? Maybe I should be on the newsletter or something…”
• Change some sources in that one text file I gotta look up every time…
• apt update && apt dist-upgrade “Oh, that’s a lot of errors…”

I’m sure it’s not that bad and I’m being dramatic but I do kinda appreciate my rolling OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for this reason lol. I feel like newbies would struggle with that major release upgrade process…

This is something that drives me so mad, and it’s exactly why corporations need to be strictly regulated on a global scale.

If people are granted any voluntary dignity, someone out there is always willing to “undercut” their fellow workers to get an “edge” on the market or whatever and prove what a sweaty exploitable tryhard they can be, then it races to the bottom for all.

If a company wants to pay its workers a living wage, their competition will undercut them by stepping on their employees’ necks for an “advantage in the market.”

You’re right, it’s simply not a system that solves for human well-being, it solves solely for hoarding and growing large numbers of imaginary value.

Sorry, no I don’t believe I conveyed myself in that way, updoots seem to agree.

I do think we’re in alignment here, but also I understand nuance is often lost over Internet posts so let me clarify my position. “Family values and housewives” as you put it being a great example:

• Women having the opportunity to leave the home of their own volition and be in a career the same as a man? Awesome. Progress.

• Women AND men alike, in a family unit, forced simultaneously into the career-style workforce or multiple garbage jobs because the family goes bust and destitute otherwise? Bullshit.

• Programs for kids to safely socialize and learn as a community? Fantastic!

• Overwhelmed daycares staffed by burned out underpaid care workers, costing half of everyone’s salary, because otherwise the only alternative is literally child abandonment, thanks to everybody needing to leave the home and devote a majority of their time to wage labor? Capitalistic nightmare.

That’s basically a systemic form of indentured servitude to pay ransom for one’s own children. It isn’t right.

Parents should be free to choose parenting their children over creating shareholder value without starving. Parenting is already a full time job, and outsourcing it entirely to someone else’s employees every “business day” sounds like a great way to wreck a society’s future adults.

Especially in the U.S when maternity leave is laughably short for many, and paternity leave is a fanciful myth from faraway lands, and those early years spent with one’s family are CRITICAL for a child’s early development.

So when I satirically said “parenting as a service” (mocking ‘software as a service’ / rent-seeking behavior), I wasn’t referring to “Watch our kids and enrich them a little occasionally.”

I literally meant “A paid service has to raise our children because we aren’t rich enough to spend much time with them besides breakfast and bedtime.”

That sounds pretty horrible to me.

That sounds daunting but also incredibly noble of her. Prayers and well wishes to both you and your wife, especially in the early days of this endeavor!

I love hearing about when someone sees a need they can fill in their community and they’re passionate about solving it. That’s so awesome. :)

Woah there, friend. Aren’t we being a little bit aggro here? I’m happy to hear your perspective.

I never meant to come off that childcare is bad as a concept! That was never the point.

What I am decrying is the requirement of families being coerced to put their children into a very expensive facility, because if everyone else in the house isn’t working a 5x40+ fulltime job, they can’t afford a reasonable quality of living. THAT is where it’s broken.

Childcare as an option is fantastic for all the reasons you mentioned. Childcare as “the market raises your children with underpaid and exhausted, overhelmed wageslaves unless you’re insanely privileged” is not cool.

I’m happy you’ve had a good experience though, and hope we can reach a solution where it’s done right for more folks.

LOL almost. They basically take out all your teeth and replace them with synthetics, I guess?

I’m sure there’s plenty of good dentists in Turkey, but what’s with this trend of people getting MAJOR medical work or body modification done ANYWHERE by whoever’s got a flashy Instagram or TikTok reel? Nuts.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/turkey-teeth-leaving-brits-toothless-35327173

What’s funny in a sad-not-haha way, is that labor for caretaking of small human beings is the enormous untenable driving cost here.

Parents can’t afford the rates, daycares can’t afford living wages for the caretakers. This is an endeavor, like many, that the Hand of the Market™ is OBVIOUSLY unsuitable for solving.

The “funny” part: Parents would gladly do this job for free as they have for centuries and millennia. This problem was already solved, and wouldn’t be an issue if every member of the household wasn’t forced into full-time 40+ hour work plus hunting for side-hustles, and being taken away from their loved ones for most of their waking friggin lives, just to survive.

How many generations deep are we now? Where so many kids spend so long in daycare from infancy that they never even get to form a decent bond with their own parents? How healthy is that, for anybody, much less larger society?

“Parenting as a Service” is peak capitalistic hellscape…

Edit: spelling

Thinking of going abroad for dental implants.

Just don’t go to Turkey to hit up an Instagram dentist. That stuff is terrifying. <_<

A perfectly apt analysis. Thank you for the link. Anarchist Library has some good gems in there!

When I.T and nurses are complaining that they keep getting ghosted and can’t find work? That feels like a major economic failure signal to me. It’s freaking mad.

I appreciate your realistic assessment here.

When we consider all that reasonably goes into running such a service, we can rationally figure out how much is being diverted to the wrong pockets and make it better.

“War is not about who is right, but who is left.”

… But for all intents and purposes, it’d be better for all if Ukraine remains standing.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

“TeLL hIm To StOp, AnD iF hE dOeSn’T, gO gEt An AdUlt.”

I’m not usually one to knock someone’s appearance but you’re right with this guy’s weird friggin grin. Like it’s not genuine or even appearing to be, in the slightest.

It’s so cynical, cold, creepy and soulless. How did the A-B testing that drives his every single decision settle on that expression?

Damn! Broke…broke my knife…!

Olioliolioliolioooo!!! 😮