Todd Bonzalez

It’s not about being unable to face choices, it’s that if you make beginners make choices about things they don’t yet understand, they won’t be able to make an informed decision, and they will feel overwhelmed.

I don’t understand why people don’t just recommend vanilla Ubuntu. It’s popular, it’s easy, pretty much every Linux Desktop troubleshooting article is written in the Context of Ubuntu. There’s only one flavor of it, so you don’t even have to learn what a Desktop Environment is until you’re ready to get there.

If you want more Linux users, you need to lower the barriers to entry. If you gatekeep Linux by demanding that people already understand things like the differences between different DEs before they’ve even installed the OS for the first time, you can expect that people will keep using Windows.

Microsoft spends billions of marketing dollars pushing Windows. Linux doesn’t have a marketing department, that’s up to the community. We can’t be marketing Linux as harder to use while Microsoft markets Windows as easier to use, not unless our goal is to boost Microsoft’s profits.

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Fascism has a fairly concrete definition, and while it does exist on a spectrum, I’ll take the 15% fascist party over the 100% fascist party, hands down. Not a hard decision. 15 is closer to zero than 100, so we’re closer to the ideal.

They deliberately misrepresented it. Just another person who thinks that if you oppose Goldman Sachs for their contributions to late stage capitalism that you are obligated to disagree with every single piece of messaging from them without exception.

If the CEO of Goldman Sachs shits in a toilet, and this guy finds out, he’s going to shit on the floor in protest.

Not really comparable.

AI has lots of potential for the future, and Goldman Sachs continues to invest in that sector.

They are specifically talking about the bubble of Generative AI startups, none of which have any long term viability as they either produce a novelty, or they produce something so inaccurate that nobody would trust it after using it.

They aren’t the people saying that the Internet won’t catch on. They’re the ones warning you that dot com is a bubble.

They’re right.

You literally just said it would be stupid not to support Trump.

So what are you? Stupid, or a Trump Supporter?

Either way, we can safely discard your opinion.

I have some notes:

None of what you’ve posted in that community includes enough context for me to make an informed opinion about the mod actions themselves.

The first post you made 7 months ago includes a screenshot, but it doesn’t include the OP, so I have no idea what the Mod is even reacting to. For all I know I might agree with them. You also say it is on the “main meme sub”, but I have no idea what that means, you really need to indicate the exact community you are talking about.

The next two posts don’t include anything tangible. No screenshots, no permalinks, not even usernames for the allegedly misbehaving mods. Only one of them actually says what community you’re talking about.

None of what you’ve posted so far constitutes a “pattern” either. You’re mostly just complaining about one-off disagreements that you’ve had with Mods. This isn’t really doing anything to help hold mods accountable.

And in your posts so far, you make a lot of extremely suspect complaints:

In your first post you claim that a mod removed a meme for being “not funny to feminists”, which kinda sounds like code for “sexist meme”. You then go on to say that the mod “is surprisingly tolerant for a feminist”.

In your second post you say that a mod “removed comments that weren’t feminist”, and sarcastically bemoan “so much for politics”.

In your third post claim that a mod removed a comment for “not voting left”, but then go on to complain that others in the thread (not mods) called this person a Nazi. I don’t see what any of the other users comments have to do with anything if your goal is to hold mods responsible, but it’s also fairly telling that you think being called a Nazi is disagreeable, but won’t provide the context…

Quite frankly you come across as a anti-feminist shitlord who has decided to be a busybody and make a whole community for you to be butthurt about feminist and anti-fascists mods. The reason nobody else contributes to the community you started is because you’ve set the bar so miserably low.

A fascist accelerationist is poised for a possible win in the next election, and you’ve gone full Roko’s Basilisk and have decided to aid and abet the Fascist because if he wins, you want to be spared from his wrath.

We’ll let me tell you, the fascists will eventually come for you if they are allowed to take over, so you better drop the defeatism and rally for a second Biden term like your life depends on it. Plenty of people’s do.

Or just become a fascist out of cowardice, and the resistance will show you what real fear looks like when we find you, and I assure you, Trump won’t be there to save you.

So think long and hard about what the actual stupid decision would be here. Announcing your plan to enable ethnofascism in America isn’t exactly a demonstration of intelligence if you’re hoping to avoid conflict.

I mean, 17 years for a car accident, drunk or not, is completely draconian. Murderers and child rapists regularly get lesser sentences, and their crimes were malicious not negligent.

There’s no benefit to society to lock anyone up that long for something that can be corrected with a compassionate justice system. If we can release them with confidence that they won’t make the same reckless decisions again, is there any point to locking them up for that long other than to make them suffer?

It isn’t default or suggested. It says that it is the “most popular”, but my point is that if you’re making a beginner choose a desktop environment before they even install Linux, you’re setting them up to be overwhelmed.

You’re gonna debate the encyclopedia? C’mon now…

First of all, if you’re not religious, maybe don’t live by regressive Old Testament belief systems.

Second of all, calling someone who killed a child in a car accident a “child killer” is disingenuous, not because he didn’t kill a child, but because such terminology is generally reserved for people who kill children in wonton acts of violence, not by accident.

Third of all this:

If you kill a child by any means you should commit suicide and if you won’t then society should step in.

This is just a right wing reactionary murder fantasy. Reported.

You keep using the word “murderer” to describe someone who kills another person in a car accident. This is rarely murder. This is almost always manslaughter, even when people were reckless and stupid.

You seem to be using the word “murderer” because you want to sensationalize things. You’re deliberately using a word more severe than the actual situation warrants because you think you will earn sympathy for your position by being hyperbolic.

Unfortunately for you, Lemmy et al is generally a community of critical thinkers, and we don’t fall for that shit so easily.

Justice requires clarity and understanding, and so insisting that anyone who kills someone in a car should be treated as though they did it in purpose absolutely does not serve the interests of justice.

You’re also never going to win people over with this scorched earth strategy against drunk driving. Over 100 million Americans admit to have driven drunk at least once in their lives. That’s nearly a third of the population. Way too many people empathize with people who have made this very bad decision, and understand that the only difference was whether or not a fatal accident occurred.

Consequences are deserved, but I don’t see the value is demanding maximum suffering.

Do you know what also keeps people away from Linux? Being told that Linux Mint is a good distro for beginners, and then going to the Linux Mint website and finding that there are three different flavors, Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE, and not knowing what any of that means because you’re a beginner. Beginners don’t benefit from incomplete information that requires prior knowledge, and every time I see “use Linux Mint” without any clarification on Desktop Environments, I see a jerk who doesn’t know what “beginner” means.

The UI is similar to Windows.

Which UI? Linux Mint comes in three flavors: Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE.

Nobody has suggested a specific flavor, and those desktop environments vary quite a bit.

you are one of those “every problem on the planet is the fault of someone else other than me…”

Yes.

Welcome to Christianity.

If a man sexually exploits a woman, it’s the woman’s fault for leading him astray.

This is how women are treated in deeply Christian communities.

Those women fear stepping forward to report assault or abuse because there are many in their community that will condemn them for it.

They take this shit seriously.

When it serves them. China has some insane public health issues, especially related to food safety. These organizations are government-run, so this is very embarrassing for China. Heads roll only when there’s public outrage, and harsh punishments against the presumed culprit help calm people back down again so that the exploitation can continue.

There’s also no telling how “empty” this thing actually gets before they fill it back up. If they’re being this reckless, there’s no reason to think they’re fully draining the tanker.