10/10, Would ride to the 1990 World Cup with.

I should start learning Chinese.

This is it. China also has billionaires, but they aren’t more powerful than the state.
And they know that.
They use at least a part of their wealth to support their society, cause there’s a realistic danger that they’ll lose it all if they get too cocky.

Glad I quit drinking and am currently quitting the vape pens.

Good thing someone else did the work long ago, so I don’t need to keep drinking it.

I’m just picturing a 69-year-old working as a roofer or construction worker in the current heat.
Absolutely impossible. Raising the “retirement age” leads to working class people dropping out before they receive a pension, leading to poverty.
While executives in office jobs keep earning, doing fuck-all while “working from home” in their paid-off house.
There are several of those in the company I work for. They make 5x my salary and don’t know how to use the softphone or connect to the company network. Their sole purpose is to be CC’d in important e-mails, but they never read them.

I know Reddit has private subs

They’re not actually private. They’re just hidden from other users, Reddit itself can see everything posted there, and you have no control over who they share the data with.
On the Fediverse, nothing can be private. That’s just not how the software works.

For private communication, you can use an anonymous encrypted messenger like Threema.

No, with pterorism

Meanwhile they’ll have lost their job, with it their health insurance, possibly their apartment,…

“The greatest injustice in modern British history” is a pretty high bar to clear.

The Trump administration has absolutely no clue about diplomacy.
They keep shouting ALL IN with 2 and 7 in hand, at a chess tournament.

No, we absolutely still do dab poop at the edges of our territories.
On a small scale (private property) quite literally, in regions that don’t have internal plumbing.
And metaphorically, with countries preferably building landfills and polluting industry in border regions.

Still, your showerthought says “a subset of primates are doing primate things”.

Humans ARE primates.

This isn’t like a phone OS where they add ressource-draining new features every 6 months.
If your computer can run the OS at installation, it’ll be able to run it for a long time.
One good reason not to use Arch is if you have a limited internet connection.
Updates are often 1 GB or more per week, depending on what you have installed.
So if that’s an issue, Debian is the better choice.

In case it’s paywalled for you, this is everything the article has to offer:

That free passage through territorial waters can be denied by a country if necessary for its own security.
And that is exactly what Iran is doing. Closing the Strait was the only way to stop the US bombing them.

Until you install Firefox, that is.

But the war was also a distraction

I support a fleet of 300 Windows laptops plugged into USB-C docking stations, with bluetooth headsets, and all that is connected to a Citrix farm.
My job has been pure driver hell for the past year, ever since we were forced to downgrade to Windows 11.
And I have no idea how to get out of it.