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I think Linux can work two ways

If you get like mint or something and literally only need to view documents and use the internet it's fine. It's an operating system, it works.

If you're a wizard level computer poker that needs your computer to do electronic it's great and you can make it do anything .

If you're anywhere between those two poles you're totally fucked.

Yeah. Stopping at Walmart idefinitly merits the for nation of a militia and a few adventures

I think a lot of organisms have the same chemicals in them because we're all ultimately descended from the same soup. Shrooms might (might!) not be thinking but the chemicals that are neurotransmitters for us are still serving a purpose for them.

If there was nothing we wouldn't be here to ask about it.

We're orbiting Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

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Say hi to Sag A! It's the center of our galaxy and probably visible to everyone living in the hundreds of billions of worlds that make up our galaxy. We're currently orbiting around it clockwise (or anticlockwise if you flip the map).

Right how we (everyone in the Milky Way) are moving towards Andromeda and ina bout two billion years there's going to be a very exciting collision between the two galaxies. Sadly I don't think you and me will be present to observe it, but it'll likely be real cool b

Venus is very cool and it is also Earendil sailing upon Vilingot with the last of the Silmarils afixed to its prow.

I think what you said is a big part of why Corn brothers movie hit and keep hitting. The whole narrative and the characters and the jokes are built up of layers within layers and there's always more to see, connect, and consider.

I think it spoke to people who felt trapped in the miasma of the end of history. Communism was defeated, no future existed, nothing was possible. Gen X was still trapped under the thumb of their boomer parents, going nowhere with nowhere to go.

The contrast between the incredibly petty plotting and scheming of most of the cast, compared with The Dude and his loser friends just trying to live life and enjoy simple pleasures, spoke to deeply alienated people who couldn't tell themselves a story about their lives and their jobs that made sense to them.

"The Dude Abides" was kind of the antithesis of the dot com boom, the internet superhighway, clintonism, the meaningless of it all. The Dude didn't need meaning. He had a simple life that was enough for him

I think a good way to analyze it is to contrast it with the self annihilating violence of Fight Club. Jack/Tyler had the same problem; a life without purpose or meaning. The Dude embraced the void and found a reason to live just enjoying weed and bowling with his dirt bag friends. Jack and Tyler rebelled against the void and tried to construct their own meaning, but having negative one hundred chill they built this machine of self destroying violence that could only seek meaning in destruction.

Jack and Tyler wanted to prove themselves, probe that they were worth more than the corporate cube they felt trapped in, prove their masculinity and their warriorness and capability.

The Dude didn't want to prove anything and was openly contemptuous of the whole idea. He just vibes, and his greatest ambition was getting compensated for his rug.

Its two ways of engaging with the emptiness of the End of History era, a desolate eternal present where no one was worth anything and there was nothing to aspire to except peonage and consumerism forever.

And the contrast that with The Matrix, which said screw all that, history is not over, the system is vulnerable and can be destroyed by principled people with cool trench coats who do terrorism and shoot cops.

The GenX thing is key. It really spoke to people who felt trapped in the end of history.

"the incoherent of the irrational numbers"

Mathematicians; everything is maths

Chemists; everything is medicine

Political economists! Everything is politics

Anthropologists (me!); everything is culture

Martial Artists; everything is martial arts and if you disagree with me I will do cool martial arts punching until you are impressed and agree.

Everyone; you have opened my eyes, teacher. I see now that everything is martial arts. Let us retire to a remote mountain to practicing punching until we achieve enlightenment.

"78 year old celebrates 78th good year. What what about 79?"

Wow economists from 1997 just called and...

It's weird to see this acknowledged over and over and over again every few years.

Nah we need quality. Real synthetic polyester. The finest hand draw nylon!

I find that Linux power users often have. Adeeply distorted view of the amount of free time and use case of most of users.

Is American? Because... 50% of Americans...

Hot take; Europeans are like that because of tree and fence law.

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How long is the turn around on cheerleading outfits? We could take this up a notch

Maybe get a mascot suit made. Get real weird with it

Oh noooooooo

I can't see the uu actually doing this though

Diacritical materialism

I am a strong shoes for dogs believer. If we need shoes they need shoes c