See also: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheissTitillationTheory : “The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off.”

To be fair, if your son cares it’s only because you/society taught him to care.

DSA according to conservatives and liberals: ☝️

DSA in reality:

I mean, yes, but no. I hate (and I mean really, really hate) to admit it, but the success of all the right-wing propaganda as of late has made it undeniable that perception is very capable of creating reality.

The real issue with gentrification shouldn’t be about how to keep white people with money out of poor black neighborhoods, but instead how to fix the institutional racism such that the black people have money too and can afford to stay in the neighborhood as prices rise.

To be fair, not considering unicode support a priority is a pretty damn English-language-centric attitude.

https://youtu.be/wk7fYBw6PfQ?t=42

Theocratic, Constitution-hating pieces of shit should be removed from office. That behavior is absolutely unacceptable.

You if bugs didn’t exist:

(Grasses are angiosperms and rely on bugs to reproduce.)

That sounds less like clickbait and more an object lesson in the importance of copyleft to me.

I’m disappointed that Pornhub is apparently capitulating instead of blocking access entirely in protest, like they’ve done in other jurisdictions.

I mean, sure, that’s very funny, but please don’t help feed the right-wing lie falsely equating democratic socialism with communism.

That’s a bad idea because you have no clue if any random .deb file is actually compatible with your system or not (a .deb intended for use on Debian Bookworm will not necessarily work on Ubuntu 25.04, or vice-versa, for example). And that’s on top of the security issues and lack of dependency resolution that others have mentioned already. If you’re new enough to Linux that you don’t feel comfortable with the terminal, you should not be trying to install things via .deb file to begin with.

You can also consider the fact that elitism was a massive part of the founding of the US, which is why we have situations like the Senate where land votes more than people, the Electoral College which does the same thing

To be fair, (a) at the time, that was considered to be an improvement over an upper legislative chamber made out of actual hereditary aristocracy, and (b) the US was designed to be a confederation of sovereign individual States, more closely resembling how the EU works today.

(I wonder how many folks here who are sharply critical of how ‘undemocratic’ the US Senate is would get mad at me if I, in turn, advocated for abolishing the European Commission and Council of Ministers, so that Germany could be even more dominant over Greece etc. than it already is.)

Fucking citizens united, man. It continues to be an utter travesty of a court decision.

It was the culmination of a whole series of increasingly-disastrous court decisions.

My fiance is a K cup.

Eww, how can you stand to be with someone that consumerist and wasteful? You should dump her for a French press. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Apparently, he can still run as an independent.

But what the Hell is the Bronx’s problem?

I thought they were for preventing people from being able to see into the hatchback area without having to cut the cargo capacity in half with a parcel shelf.

Personally, I recommend quitting Windows cold-turkey and not dual-booting at all. If a game genuinely doesn’t work without dual-booting, you don’t need it. No game is so important that it’s worth compromising your security, privacy, and property rights over.