The founder of this project says he created it because of “cancer culture” at Mozilla after he got banned from the thunderbird project for toxic and derogatory conduct. I’m good on that I’d rather stick to thunderbird thanks

It gets more common with age but it’s definitely normal to get random aches and pains when you’re young too. Just less of them lol

What leads you to say that the PRC doesn’t consider its current economy socialist? I’ve only seen it referred to in official sources as the “socialist market economy” which they specify is a specific stage of socialist development but still socialist due to predominance of public ownership

You keep Texas Pete’s name out of your mouth that’s the red gold of Winston Salem

I’m hoping he can dodge those papers forever

I think that would be absolutely pointless. The advantages of having a system that’s free to study, audit, modify, and contribute to goes away once you make it rely on proprietary software to work at all. In fact that’s not FOSS. There are already desktop operating system that works this way, with an open source kernel and core but reliant on proprietary software, with first party levels of support: they’re called macOS and ChromeOS

Yah I’ve noticed tiktok is ableist as fuck and it’s so normalized. People there use autistic as an insult or way to self deprecate over completely allistic behaviors of theirs. Or rather ‘neuro spicy’ or ‘tism’ since they self censor there

I mean yeah u can, but if it’s not the default on whatever distro or spin you’re using then that’s not a good recommendation for somebody new to Linux. That’s why I recommended three separate distros all from solid families for KDE options. Ubuntu has the benefits of being the ‘default’ distro so it has lots of support, Fedora has an expansive repo and is more up to date, and Debian is just generally rock solid with no frills. Just as somebody using windows doesn’t think about installing a DE, somebody migrating from windows to Linux likely isn’t prepared to do that themselves. Just giving them solid recs that have what they want by default

I think the easiest option is Mint, as it has all of the advantages of Ubuntu (lots of first party packages, tons of support documentation, automated driver and codec installation if needed, etc) but without the major disadvantages Ubuntu has developed over the years (mainly snaps). The Cinnamon desktop environment will probably remind you of Windows 7 but modernized and customizable; I personally think it’s excellent.

If that’s not up your alley then I’d say try a distro with KDE for a more windows like experience. Kubuntu, Fedora KDE (remember to install codecs from rpmfusion if you go this route), or even Debian with KDE would probably all be excellent for you.

Whatever you go with, if you can’t find a program you need in your distro’s repositories, try looking for it on flathub. I think Mint installs Flatpak with flathub by default, but if you choose another distro without it just go here and follow the instructions for your system. Flathub offers tons of applications in a universally compatible sandbox so it’s a lovely complement to your standard software repo. All the apps from your repo and flathub will show up in the software center of your desktop environment so once installed you never really need to think about it again. Just a helpful tip in case you can’t find the software you’re looking for

They rest their paws on their tails to keep them warm when the ground is cold. Cutest lil puffballs

Shit, the sentiment is there but the misattributed quite is so clean lmao

Man this is not good. Assad sucks bad but he really did seem to me the least terrible option. Now any pretense of secularism is gone, openly Islamic fundamentalist groups are taking power; any facade of rights for women, religious minorities, other oppressed groups will fade into the background. I don't see HTS being anything of a bulwark to US or Israeli interests like Assad had been. Despite his lukewarm response to these things it seemed he at least was stopping Syria from becoming a base for that shit. Maybe I'm just stressed about nothing but it feels to me that an anti imperialist player has crumbled in this key region and I just can't imagine how this could be a positive development

I got one of these for $20 at Walmart

Some other comrades have covered the core of it, so I just want to add that you should know the area you’re gonna be protesting in, how to escape if necessary, best ways to get to medical aid if necessary.

I was at a protest a few years ago where we got corralled downtown and blocked in, and lots of people were dealing with minor injuries like tear gas and pepper spray. But pigs beat us back with batons at one point and some teenager with me got his arm broken. It took me over an hour of agonizingly running around with him to find a way out and get him to the hospital.

Just be prepared to leave if it gets too messy and know where you can find medical assistance

Also lots of people think milk is best for pepper spray in the eyes, but I think clean water works just as well. Wear a mask to protect your ID, but also a well fitted mask makes tear gas far less effective. If you do inhale tear gas just do your best to find fresh air and breathe deeply, sit and don’t exert yourself until you can catch your breath again. And ofc switch to a spare mask after getting gassed

I have always been fairly emotionally intelligent and it’s something that my family and authority figures always tried to beat out of me. As a kid I didn’t hesitate to express my feelings or even cry when sad which apparently meant I was a sissy, the ‘emotional child’, wuss etc etc. I learned to suppress it to avoid the critiques, but as a teenager and young adult rekindled my ability to fully and freely express myself. And my god why is it normalized to try to force men to have no emotion. We’re human beings it’s ok to feel

Why not just limit the battery to 75% charge with TLP? Then your server phone also has a UPS

I’m not convinced that it’s impossible. Yes, the current superstructure suppresses these movements and the class consciousness of the US specifically is very low, but those conditions can be changed. The material want of the population that is restive for lack of healthcare, housing, education, and social justice is a strong radicalizing force. Right now that momentum is being co-opted by the right but that’s always been the front we revolutionaries are fighting on. It’s a matter of doing the work, learning from the most successful movements, and reacting correctly to our current conditions imo.

We have all these institutions stacked against us, but so did the Bolsheviks, so did M-26-7, so did the KPD. I see the potential for social revolution in the outpouring of support that comes out for the few social democrats here who, despite their mediocre politics, push against the rightward momentum of the Overton window. I see it in the growth of labor unions over the last few years, despite Biden’s strike breaking measures. I see it in the demonstrations we have against racism, misogyny, police brutality, and genocide in spite of efforts to suppress them. I see it in mutual aid networks in my community and organizations of solidarity growing. And I see it in the collective peoples’ history of struggle in this land against empire, oppression, and exploitation, which has always been present despite institutional violence to suppress and subjugate it. I’m not on the doomer defeatist wave at all; a just society will not be trivial to achieve but it’s far from impossible

There is no revolutionary movement built off adventurism. While it can have short term benefits and it’s pretty fkn cool, doing something like assassinating a CEO or politician will not build class consciousness or mobilize the working class towards revolution. It may temporarily weaken institutions of capital, but it also gives the bourgeois state justification to crack down harder and more aggressively on anti capitalist formations. This can undermine our orgs and their activities. On top of this, having people so dedicated to liberation from this exploitative system getting martyred directly takes away from the pool of people doing work on the ground to build socialism. We need individuals of that caliber dedicating that same energy to a collective line of liberation rather than individual outbursts of anger which don’t grow into something bigger

Audile should do the trick

Incel shit truly is misogyny brought to its extremes. They hate women so bad that they blame them for their own internal experiences of loneliness and isolation. They push all their negative feelings onto women as a scapegoat. They truly believe that the world is their patriarchal birth right and that that includes women as an object owed to them. It’s fucking disgusting and dangerous, these people need reeducation and mental healthcare, I see no other way to resolve it