I like this new world of ours where CEOs get the public recognition they deserve for all the hard work they do.

Thank you, CEOs, for giving us somebody to look up to. By name.

How can one be denied and the other given a pass,

Unfortunately I think the honest answer is something like “fuck off, pleb”

legally?

Oh sorry, I missed that last word there. In that case I think the answer is something like “fuck off, counselor”

I mean, the assassin did leave over 99% of CEOs still alive, and hopefully the message will make its way there.

Boy I hope no future healthcare CEO assassins copy this calling card, and I especially hope their bullet shells aren’t covered with the names of people killed by the CEO’s company denying them healthcare.

Not only would that encourage more copy cats, but it would really capture people’s attention and get them thinking about the issue. If the public starts considering crazy propaganda like how seeking maximum profit at the expense of widespread human suffering might not be life’s most noble pursuit, just imagine what could happen!

Surely you’d make an exception if the mass-market seasoning used on a CEO was sold by that CEO’s own company!

Oh no, I sure hope some foreign dictator doesn’t start wiping out our insurance CEOs. As an American man I would feel so owned by such decisive and thick-shafted tactics.

I mean, what if all the right wing crazies in my midst start targeting evil people instead of innocent children?

However the details of this pan out, the timing of this news is beautiful. It’s right there alongside the headline in my feed about the Windows 11 market share going down.

And it’s not about being anti-Microsoft, it’s just that the market conditions are great for cementing Linux as an expected place to release your games. And I personally love seeing VR as part of it.

The fact that many people have never met a trans person (that they know of, right?) is a big part of why they make such a great bogeyman for conservatives.

Working to correct that should probably involve exposing those people to a larger variety of other humans. Unforunately I think they already “know” that humanity, much like education, the media, and the internet, has a known liberal bias and cannot be trusted.

The details make the headline come across like “humans who refuse to acknowledge mental heath and emotional needs are at a higher risk of suicide” which tracks, especially from my American point of view. What passes for manliness, at least for some who really care about being traditionally “manly,” is essentially an excuse to act like a child and/or cope while in denial of mental illness.

With some people it seems like a subconscious addiction to self harm. It can be so hard to have compassion for oneself sometimes. At some point you have to give yourself permission to pursue the things that actually make you happy rather than the things you’re supposed to like. (Details vary based on the individual and their local culture)

Moderation and intent are big parts of the difference too.

I don’t use 4chan but I gather that it’s a wild little corner of the internet where you can put whatever crazy shit you wish on a website that others will read, knowing what they signed up for. Basically anything goes so you get all types. You might even call it free speech absolutism.

But Twitter is actively moderated and algorithm tuned to favor a certain flavor of bias and, especially given the players involved, propaganda.

One is neutrality even in the face of humanity’s worst, and the other is actively siding with and promoting humanity’s worst.

I think there’s a pretty big difference between an anonymous website that lets the hateful and the edgy post whatever awful words they want, and the top down corruption of a giant established algorithm driven site used for communication around the world.

Don’t underestimate the value of the “I’m going to wander outside for a couple minutes” break on your well being!

I’m sitting here realizing that my big hobby project of the past few years — a koi pond in my back yard — is essentially a reason to just go outside and chill.

My work dell has that stupid issue too.

Or at least it did, until I booted into Mint for the first time. 4 screens immediately usable. Boot back into Windows and it goes back to not working. You get one monitor mirrored.

Maybe they have some shady limitation in a driver unless you have the highest end models?

On my work machine, just a Dell laptop with a dock and some monitors, Mint Cinnamon actually gave me a better out-of-box than win10.

I didn’t try Mint until 21 (the version before current) and it’s just so smooth now.

Unfortunately, it is not even slightly difficult to imagine a situation where he becomes president. The GOP nominates him because they don’t give a fuck, then 75 million people vote for him because they don’t give a fuck, then the Supreme Court upholds the results of the election and swears him in because they don’t give a fuck.

My gut feeling is that he won’t want to bother with it because his current strategy is working fine. But good god how different the world could look in 5-10 years. Or months.

Ooh, maybe this means cheaper used Teslas.

…but then you’d have to drive a Tesla. Shit.

Mint is basically Ubuntu without the controversial bits.

I don’t know if he started it, but I’ve heard Musk use that phrase so I’m sure it helps the deplorables feel like real galaxy brains for hating the right people.

On one hand, good. Great!

On the other hand, I live in the United States of Trumpistan. So many nincompoops here would be happy to drive a smoke-belching pickup truck to their office job while China speeds away from us with all their fancy book-learnin’ technology.

Plus the “lake lovers” should probably be extended over to at least include the city that shares a name with one of those lakes. (Erie, PA)