Meta post I've decided to make. I enjoyed the unixporn subreddit a lot when I used reddit more. I enjoy customizing my linux de as much as the next nerd.

But you definitely shouldn't use racist slang to refer to the process.

To be clear, I didn't know the origin of the term 'ricing' until fairly recently. I was chattimg with my friend and used it to describe my de setup. They informed me that apparently it's from car customization, and is a pejorative against generally asian men who customize their car to look like a racecar.

After learning this I was sad to realize just how engrained it is in linux de customization culture. I personally have stopped using the term, and I would ask everyone here stop as well.

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    If you can't see all the hexbear users piling onto those that disagree with OP I don't know what to tell you.

    Again, that's not piling on, that's just your fragile ego not being able to handle a lot of people calling your opinion garbage.

    • midnight@lemmy.one
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      10 months ago

      Why do you insist on centering this on me? Mentioning the piling on was my first comment here. There's zero chance I was referring to myself lmao and I'm still not.

      Your constant need to go after me is pretty telling. I'm curious what your definition of piling on is if attacking people instead of their argument doesn't meet that bar.

      And again, not talking about myself. And if you need examples I invite you to read all of the responses in the thread objectively, and not as a hexbear user with already hurt feelings.

      • space_comrade [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        And if you need examples I invite you to read all of the responses in the thread objectively, and not as a hexbear user with already hurt feelings.

        I actually did re-read the entire thread extremely objectively (I put on my maximum objectivity cap) and I stand by my initial conclusion that you're a huge fucking baby.

        • midnight@lemmy.one
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          10 months ago

          Dealing with you is tiring just like every maga idiot ever parroting the same bullshit and never actually addressing a point. You sure you didn't go so far left you ended up in rightville? You may have dropped your red hat.

          I'm going to take your refusal to address anything other than your weird sticking point of calling me a baby as you have no legs to stand on with regard to the actual substance of this thread.

          Keep holding that L homie.

          • macabrett
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            10 months ago

            Things a baby would say: "communism is the same as MAGA"

            • midnight@lemmy.one
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              10 months ago

              You lot really are top tier shitters aren't you. Just grasping at concepts and twisting words to fit your little victim complex. Please show me where I equated communism to maga. That was all you babycakes.

              • macabrett
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                10 months ago

                You sure you didn't go so far left you ended up in rightville? You may have dropped your red hat.

                  • macabrett
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                    10 months ago

                    oh shit I forgot liberals babies don't have reading comprehension skills, even for things they wrote

                    okay, so you were replying to a poster named space_comrade from a mostly communist instance of lemmy and then you asked if they had gone so far left that they ended up in rightville

                    hope that helps

                    • midnight@lemmy.one
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                      10 months ago

                      Usernames are irrelevant. Do you think I'm the middle of the night? Is your name Brett and you like macadamia nuts? McDonalds? Or are you taking maga and wanting to make america communist again? Are you a fan of the macabre and tt is your initials? You're inserting your own prejudices to do a lot of heavy lifting here.

                      If you want to equate maga and communism go for it. But I didn't and no amount of your mental gymnastics will change that.

                      • macabrett
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                        10 months ago

                        Okay, so just to verify, you agree that communism and MAGA are incompatible and that you cannot go so far left that you end up on the right. Glad we cleared that up!

                        EDIT: oh and going by your standards of conversation, I never said you said Communism and MAGA are the same. I said a baby would say that. You called yourself a baby.

                        • midnight@lemmy.one
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                          10 months ago

                          I don't have an opinion on their compatibility, I don't belong to either group and don't have any interest in either. What I do know is both of you use the same tactics when trying to argue a point. The way you try to reframe things to insert your conclusion as fact and then act like that's the end of it is the same shit Ben Shapiro does to OwN thE LiBs. I can also say without a doubt that both groups are equally insufferable

                          • macabrett
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                            10 months ago

                            Uhhh mostly people just called you a baby, idk about the reframing thing

                            • midnight@lemmy.one
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                              10 months ago

                              oh shit I forgot liberals babies communists don’t have reading comprehension skills, even for things they wrote

                              You wouldn't see the reframing because your reading comprehension is ass. People hurling insults instead of addressing a point is classic maga, but go on, show me how you don't argue a point the same while using the same tired tactics.

                              • macabrett
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                                10 months ago

                                Stop reframing this conversation. My only purpose was to call you a baby.

                                • midnight@lemmy.one
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                                  10 months ago

                                  If that were true you would have stopped after you did it. But you didn't, because that wasn't your only purpose, but go on keep deluding yourself.

                                  • macabrett
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                                    10 months ago

                                    Oh another thing babies have trouble understanding. When you reply to someone, they often reply back. I understood this when I called you a baby, but you seem to not understand why I'm still calling you a baby. It's because my position hasn't been swayed.

                                    • midnight@lemmy.one
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                                      10 months ago

                                      I don't know if you know this, but nobody cares if you call them a baby. But by all means keep doing it so you can show your friends how you totally owned someone online by calling them a baby 🤣