Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
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Linguists call out Canada's Carney for 'utilizing' British spelling
A group of linguists are asking Prime Minister Carney to ditch British English in official documents, saying it is a matter of "pride".Nadine Yousif (BBC News)
MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back.
A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over public health.
More Canadians head to Mexico for winter getaways
Vacation travel to U.S. down as Canadian tourists make strategic decisions on where to spend time, money
As Mexico sees steady growth in Canadian tourists, the U.S. is experiencing a decline.
Data from Tourism Economics and the U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office reveals a 24% drop in Canadian tourism to the United States during the first six months of 2025.
Major cities such as Las Vegas (down 50%), New York (down 46%) and Honolulu (down 41%) are being hit hardest, said Amra Durakovic, communications director with Flight Centre Travel Group in Toronto.
Florida remains the most resilient, but is down 22%, she said.
Expert says Dems have "once-in-a-generation" chance to flip hundreds of seats across the nation - LGBTQ Nation
Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
Expert says Dems have "once-in-a-generation" chance to flip hundreds of seats across the nation - LGBTQ Nation
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee believes Dems can "fundamentally transform legislative power" if they do 2026 right.Molly Sprayregen (LGBTQ Nation)
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That is certainly a better start than years past where they simply ignored everything except top level offices. Including their voters.
But it still won't help anything if they try to run the most focused group tested, middle-of-the-road, oligarch approved, bland candidates. Mamdani and others are showing another path. But so far, local and national Democrats have always seemed to want to fight their kind.
if they try to run the most focused group tested, middle-of-the-road, oligarch approved, bland candidates. Mamdani and others are showing another path.
We should not care who they try to run, and instead show up in the primaries to dictate to them who we choose.
Well I'm prayin' for rain
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
-TooL
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Only if progressives throw their hats into the primaries in 2026.
I've seen a disturbing lack of progressives readying up to kick out establishment dems, just like every year.
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Why did you move from Windows to Linux?
Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.
Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.
Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.
Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?
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Multiple reasons. Performance issues, bloatware, bullshit system requirements, forcing unnecessary and often times useless features on it's users, restricting how much control the user has over the OS, and a lot of smaller issues that just ruin the over all user experience.
While I will admit that Linux isn't perfect, the experience I've had with Linux overall has just been so much better. There are also a lot of small benefits to Linux that Microsoft will never offer. For example, if you have a computer with an older GPU, not only will it still work with newer Linux distros, it may also support newer versions of OpenGL and Vulkan. The first computer I ever used Linux on had an Intel HD Graphics 3000, and on top of getting surprising performance on Linux compared to Windows, the supported version of OpenGL went from 3.0 to 3.3, which doesn't seem like much but, at least at the time, a lot of applications had OpenGL 3.3 as their minimum required version.
As for why I didn't use MacOS or ChromeOS. I've heard that MacOS is mostly fine but I'd have to buy a brand new computer to run MacOS and their computers are just too expensive for me. And as for ChromeOS, I am aware that I could have used ChromeOS Flex but in addition to the fact that it still has some of the issues I have with Windows, I have concerns about how much I actually be able to do with it. Google is very vague when it comes to explaining the differences between ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex.
If ChromeOS Flex allows the use of android apps just as much as the main version of ChromeOS, then I do think that might be a good choice for people who want to drop Windows but don't want to use Linux. I do have limited experience with ChromeOS because my mom owns a Chromebook and it seems fine and they are pretty cheap, but I'd imagine that most people don't want to buy a new computer just for a different OS.
I was an edgy teenager and wanted to be different. I was already kind of into coding and it made it quite easy to try out different languages and environments.
In those days I had fun finding equivalents to Windows-only apps like MSN, and finding games that worked in Linux like UT2004 and TrueCombat:Elite. It was never a perfect solution so I always kept, and still do keep, a Windows installation around for gaming. I don't give a shit if MS harvests my data - what are they gonna do, advertise to me? Good luck with that. But for day-to-day stuff I am far too used to how Linux works to go back. I figure Windows has improved a lot in terms of reliability and usability since those days (and if you don't care about data harvesting or really old hardware, those are the remaining major reasons not to want to use Windows nowadays) so it might be that if I were in the same position today I'd never make the switch, but hey.
It means I don't really like the religious OS wars that erupt here. Like OK, there are MS irritations we're not dealing with, but what I am dealing with is that some esoteric combination of events means that a couple of times a week my laptop stops recognising my dock and all USB devices connected to it until I reboot - including if I plug the devices in directly to the laptop!
If I were just some random user who had just switched, that would send me back to whichever OS I had come from in an instant. So I feel like it's important to be sensitive and empathetic to that.
I was always curious but never moved over completely because I had this idea that it was difficult to run things (games, etc). I had a laptop with dual boot with Ubuntu for the longest time, then I started to use WSL to code.
The thing that made me finally switch was the steam deck. It showed me it was possible and now we don't have a single machine with Windows at home.
Thinking about it now, I don't know why everyone kept recommending to use Ubuntu, it was probably one of the main reasons why it took me so long to switch.
Linux requires tinkering and Windows doesn't? Is that some alternate-universe version of Windows? In my experience, the difference is social/psychological. When Windows fucks up, "everybody uses it," so the blame falls on the masses, not the user, who was just going along with what's normal and expected. People sort of mentally elide memory of the Windows fuck ups, because that's just how Windows is.
Linux is different and weird, and you have to stray from the herd to use it. Straying from the masses is scary, because when Linux fucks up, it's your fault for being contrary. That threat to one's place in the social order is quite memorable. Hence the reluctance of Windows users, who hate it, to even consider trying another OS that they know nothing about.
I never switched from Windows. I never used Windows as my main OS. I had an Amiga, then learned Unix on SunOS, so I was used to being weird. Once I got a PC, I used FreeBSD. It did require a lot of fiddling back in those days, and when I got tired of that, I switched to Ubuntu, which was amazing in that it Just Worked(tm). (Aside from manual installation of the Windows driver for the PCMCIA WiFi card with NDISWrapper.)
(I still do tinker with it, and sometimes break it, but the base OS has been rock solid. I noticed the other day that my main PC was installed with Ubuntu 18.04, and upgraded to 24.04.)
I hecking despise Microsoft now for Windows 11 and just had to battle their forced updates that nearly bricked my computer and I've finally had enough.
May I ask, which version of Linux did you find worked "out of the box" for you?
There's nothing wrong with a DE, those are great for the people who want an experience that "just works". But I switched to Linux because I was tired of someone else deciding to install hundreds of packages I'll never use, and start up dozens or hundreds of services in the background that I never asked for.
Part of the feeling of owning my machine has been looking at the list of packages installed, and the list of processes/services running and knowing why each one is there.
I have told this story several times.
In late 2013 or so, I bought a Raspberry Pi 1B as part of my amateur radio hobby. I did all my actual work on a Windows laptop, the Pi was pretty much just a toy, and I learned a little about Linux with it.
Mid-2014, the display in my aging laptop died. I was going back to school that fall, I needed a laptop. So I ordered a high end Inspiron from Dell. And Dell sold me a lemon. That laptop would just...shut off and never turn back on again. And then I'd call Dell's tech support. They'd send a tech out within a week or two. He'd throw a part in it, and then it would last somewhere between days and seconds. After waiting over a week to get a tech to come out and fix it, it didn't finish booting before it died again. I finally got them to replace the laptop outright, with a system that lacked many of the features I had explicitly ordered.
I am no longer a Dell customer.
That whole time, I needed a computer, and the only thing I had was that Raspberry Pi in addition to my Galaxy S4. It was real fun typing up homework in LibreOffice on a single core 700Mhz ARMv6 and 512MB of RAM.
I finally got a running Dell, after an entire semester, loaded with Windows 8.1. Windows 8.1 was a total pube fire. Linux felt more familiar at that point, so I tried a few different systems, discovered Linux Mint, and 11 years later I don't have any computers that run Windows.
told this story before but windows 10 force rebooted overnight after spending hours fucking with it so it doesn't, while still being able to update manually.
lost me quite a bunch of work that was rendering in the background and the important deadline. lost the will to further put up with microsoft.
As silly as this is, licensing was the straw for me.
In high school, I built my first desktop and pirated Windows XP. In college, i built a PC for both my wife and myself and purchased two Windows 7 licenses really cheap with a student discount. In 2019, my PC died so I built a new one, re-used the license, and saved a lot of the old parts. In 2020 I got my wife a new PC (barely managed to buy the parts as the pandemic was starting).
So as the pandemic was in full force, I had enough functioning spare parts to make one gaming PC that would have been mid-tier 6 years prior. I put it in our unfinished basement and planned to mostly use it for playing videos or music while I worked out, maybe do some light stuff like personal email or web browsing or light gaming- since I started working remote full-time I didn't want to spend much time in my office when I wasn't working anymore.
So I had to choose an OS for it. Pirate Windows? Buy Windows? At that point I was constantly running into issues with Windows on our machines. Updates forcing themselves on us. My wife's machine has upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8 on its own somehow and was pretty terrible until she moved to Windows 10. I had tons of driver issues with the audio interface I used for music production. Windows had been getting slower and less responsive and had been rough on the older hardware. So I installed Mint Cinnamon.
There's still a lot of things that are frustrating and annoying. More advanced things that almost no one would ever want to do are way easier, while simple everyday tasks make you jump through hoops. Installing programs from the default repository is great, but good fucking luck if what you want isn't there. But it performs way better, is way more customizable, doesn't have the spyware. Works way better with my audio interface.
Eventually I got an OrangePi and set it up as a Pi-Hole with Debian. I got a steam deck and love it. My wife got a laptop with Windows 11 and hated it so much I set it up to dual-boot Mint Cinnamon too.
First it was for performance, OpenSuse back in like 2004, since then its just what I'm familiar with. I don't feel like I need to fight the OS like I do on windows machines.
Sometimes I have to use windows in a VM or I need some Software that only works on 2000/XP (psxn00b sdk) and for that I have an old machine that I use.
I dabbled with Linux on and off several times over the last 20 years but never stuck with it for long, usually because of some giant pain in the ass getting some piece of hardware to work properly, plus I like to play games too and that used to be a huge stumbling block.
Microsoft’s escalatingly shitty behavior around Windows 11, combined with how much desktop Linux has matured with things like Proton/Heroic Launcher/Bottles solving most of the compatibility problems finally pushed me over the threshold for a full switch to Linux.
I’ve been running Linux-only (first Mint, then Fedora) on my laptop for about 2 years now without problems, and finally took the plunge on my desktop PC about a month ago. Massive props to Proton for making this feasible now. I have Windows 11 installed on a spare 256GB SSD that I had just in case there was some kind of show-stopper that I needed to go back to, but haven’t booted back into it since making the switch except for one time to check that it works.
Once the gaming problem was solved (I’m not worried about kernel level anti-cheat because I’m not into that type of game), the last thing tying me to Windows was Adobe Lightroom. I do miss Lightroom and I’m not as skilled using the FOSS alternatives to that product, but I just decided ‘fuck it’, Adobe are assholes with them making Lightroom subscription-only anyways.
It is so nice not being nagged to use one drive or sign in with a Microsoft account and have bullshit slop content shoveled at me by my operating system any more. Seriously, fuck outta here with that no-local-accounts horseshit.
Anyway, not going back any time soon.
2001 first introduced to Fedora (1?) A friend installed on my laptop. Used it for a little; but it didn't do the things I wanted. A little while later I was back on XP.
I tried Ubuntu 6.04; it wasn't ready. Back to XP.
I tried Ubuntu 8.04; it was really close. Back to XP.
I tried Ubuntu 10.04; and have had Linux ever since. I have jumped to various distros over the years, I kept coming back to Mint though. I currently have a couple of computers running Bazzite and the rest on Mint.
I do keep Windows VM's around; XP, 7 and 10. But they barely get turned on these days.
I haven't had Windows installed on a machine in 16 years; even in 09 it only lasted a couple of months till I got time to replace it.
I'll admit I'm a lazy bastard who likes the convenience of things just working. I also really like using Solidworks for CAD drafting. The things Microsoft has been doing with breaking its OS in stupid and privacy-invading ways pushed me over the edge now. It's been a struggle to learn the intricacies of Linux in order to set up whatever distro I'm trying at the moment. I'd still rather struggle with a difficult to master OS at this point than go back and let Windows 11 get worse with AI bullshit and sell out my privacy for greater shareholder value though.
In my experience so far all I can say is I prefer mutable distros that make it easier for me to install and run a VPN, even if it makes it hard for me to access my local NAS because of it.
Because Windows customization was too hard and weird. To install a custom theme, I had to browse DeviantArt for some god forsaken reason(????) and trust this random person's theme, which could contain malware for all I knew! I just wanted to choose colors and change transparency!
Stupid default software: What's up with Micro$oft Edge? Why do they push it so hard? Just let me set Firefox as the default browser for everything! I want to be able to uninstall things I don't want on my system, and use whatever apps I want.
So, around 2022, I tried Linux Mint and fell in love with it. I'd heard Apple devices were pretty locked down so the thought of buying a Mac hadn't crossed my mind (I could not afford one anyways).
I then went on to, over time, try other distros, such as: ArcoLinux (now discontinued), Debian, Artix, KDE Neon, Void, and nowadays I run NixOS on my desktop and Arch on my laptop. (I did try Fedora Sway for a few hours before installing Arch on my laptop though).
Windows Updates
Got an update while finishing a large project for work. Tried to postpone updates, Micro$oft said no and reboot anyway. Rebooted and waited 2 hrs for the "Please Wait" to go away.
Oh yeh and also the in your face OneDrive adware. I swear, every single time I update, the laptop keeps asking if I want to sign into onedrive.
Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun.
Can people please just stop with these terrible generalizations? Lots of windows users consider themselves "computer people" and tinker with their computer and solve problems. Plenty of Linux users aren't doing shit but using it as it comes. It feels like a terrible rip off of the old apple ads "I'm a Mac", "and I'm a PC". It's crap.
ideological reasons. windows creeps me the fuck out. i've been using linux since the slackware days. sure i've been on win 3.1 and all the way up to XP as my OS because of gaming, but I have dual booted with linux since around 2003. I haven't had Windows installed on any device since 2013 - and frankly, I am so fucking happy with fedora and the steam deck finally kicking the door down and making linux 100% viable for everyone.
But yes, I'm too old now and I really can't be arsed to deal with the constant patchwork of the olden days and there is no way I would ever look back at anything since switching to fedora 2 years ago. It's insanely good (finally). Not even mint could deliver an equally flawless experience after all these years in comparison. I actually just dropped mint from my last holdout device earlier this week, replacing it with Fedora.
The Year of Linux Desktop is finally here!
for a long time i had a lot of windows machines and linux machines, but as of late ive fully committed to linux. i started doing linux back in like 2002 or something, and i mostly liked it for keeping old machines working on low specs and while remaining fairly secure (i wasnt the richest kid growing up so i was constantly trying to squeeze juice out of everything i had available). i still use old 2003 hardware for simple tasks like displaying pdfs for cooking in my kitchen.
these days, it can more than handle being a daily driver, i think that started around 3-5 years ago. there are no issues in the vast majority of applications and games, open source has caught up to many closed source applications in many contexts, and proton is so absurdly good at what it does now. the only thing it lacks are games that rely on excessive kernel level anticheat, which frankly you shouldnt play ever for security reasons. and soon enough, through lepton itll be able to run android apps as natively as possible, which will make it fundamentally the most versatile desktop operating system.
I just felt increasingly like I didn't have control over my system. And Gnome 2 was looking sick to me at the time, I loved the look. 👌
Started with Ubuntu for a few years and now I've been on Arch for over a decade I believe.
I moved from Ubuntu for the same reasons I moved from Windows, to be honest. I felt like I was losing control of what my system was doing. All this bullshit being forced on me that I didn't like. I wanted to be able to pick my own DE without uninstalling something else first. Major upgrades would fail sometimes, etc.
Installing Arch was a challenge I was willing to take on. Learned a lot.
I don't share the trope about Arch Linux users being annoying per se, but the joke about "Arch btw" is just fun to participate in lol. But I don't think Arch users preach that much. I see way more preaching about Fedora and NixOS, e.g. And like, Mint. 😆 Meanwhile Arch users are just silently enjoying themselves. 🤷♂️
I didn't move away from Windows, Windows moved away from me.
I would have been happy to stay on it if it hadn't continued to get shittier and shittier.
I used Linux in a VM and WSL for several years, and I occasionally used it on an old laptop. It was in 2022 on the week I installed Cygwin that I thought, “I do more Linux stuff than Windows stuff. Why don’t I just straight up use Linux?”
I created a test install on a secondary drive, which has now been my main install for years and has been moved to a bigger drive twice.
I got very used to Linux, and Windows gave me no reason to come back.
Windows 98 ate my college photos and music when a virus made my HDD take a click of death dump.
Fuck you to whoever wrote that virus. Since then I gave various linuses a go and I did so for a while each just learning how to be as lazy as possible while using linux. Later I had to run windows for some cad software. But after it corrupted my Linux several times I gave it the boot into its own drive which is only startable using grub. Grub sits on the Linux drive. My home drive is a big ass Linux formatted drive that mounts into Home/username. That way even if my Linux takes a shit I can reinstall it and boom back to where I left off....solo much further than anything windows could ever imagine. I could even have several linuses all going to the same home folder without any problem.
Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun
would disagree. there are plenty of casual user friendly distros, like ubuntu or bazzite. there are immutable distros
i personally work on linux and like linux but used windows for gaming at home. switched this year after realising all the games are play run fine on linux
Also, Windows doesn’t “just work.” I’ve yet to encounter anyone who gets a Windows machine and has no problems at all.
My mother-in-law got a new laptop (didn’t consult me first) and it refused to even acknowledge her printer when plugged in. I plugged in my little transformer pad running an old Ubuntu and it printed in literally one second flat. She ended up having to get a new printer. Why? Because the existing one she had, the manufacturer didn’t pay their protectsia to have it in the included drivers base. And no, even a downloaded driver didn’t help.
So Windows has its own shit aplenty. That’s just one example of many. I think the idea that Windows is easier is a myth. Linux just happens to have a lot more to offer that requires a little learning, and most people are just too lazy or scared.
Anyone who takes the plunge and is willing to learn seems to be happy for having done it so.. that should be enough testimonial.
I tried to break from Windows back in college after Windows 8 was such a disaster. Set up an Arch dual boot over a weekend and tried to use it whenever I could. Unfortunately found myself using the Windows partition far more often mostly because of gaming compatibility. Shelved it and suffered through MS's bullshit ever since.
10 years later on the dot, I went on a huge degoogling/de-MS push this past winter/spring. Set up GrapheneOS on my phone, moved away from as many big tech services and tools as I could, changed my email, and eventually said fuck it and installed CachyOS on my brand new desktop to give it a go. It's been my daily driver ever since. The whole degoogling push also got me to set up a home server and go down the entire selfhosting rabbit hole but that's a discussion for another day.
The Steam Deck is what really reintroduced me to it and showed me how insane Proton is for compatibility, and with all the garbage big tech and fascists want to throw at us, this year was definitely time to make the switch.
Which reminds me, I should probably wipe that Windows partition that still gathers dust.
Here are the following reasons why i switched to Linux:
- feels Sluggish to use,especially starting with Windows 10 and it got worse with 11 (And this is on a i3 12100f + 16/8gb ram + gtx 1650 and i only used 7,10 and 11 )
- Shoving AI Slop with copilot.
- Forcing/nagging a Microsoft account (ik I have one but why can't I sign in later or whenever I want to)
- Little flexibility and portability.(side note: i like how i can use Linux on my RPI5 Backup pc aswell :D)
- Buggy,especially with Vibe coded Windows 11.
- Bloat,especially with preinstalled apps you cannot remove .
And that's what I can remember
Windows from 3.1, MS DOS before that
Come W 8 I was getting grumpy, started dual booting Ubuntu.
Not able to overcome my own apathy, dual boot as in 95% of the time Windows
Come the W 11 announcement some time ago I grabbed another NVME, installed Linux Mint and said fisk it and never went back. Only distro hopped to LMDE haha
Fuck Terminal :)
I'm tired of shit randomly not working, mainly audio. Most of the stuff I need to do is Linux okay now so I'm moving my laptop to something with kde, probs nobara. Or debian with kde. My desktop will probably dualboot kubuntu (bc unfortunately rocm is the least annoying on that) and windows 11 because I unfortunately like playing r6 siege with my friends.
My backup laptop runs Bunsenlabs os bc windows dies of death.
Edit: 50/50 on kde or openbox. Want to try kde, I've been using openbox for ages though.
I first started running Linux in the early 2000s. I wasn’t solely using Linux, but it was very much a situation where I used it for what it was best at and used Windows for where I needed Windows. Mostly that was for games, but it was early in my IT career and Windows was a skill I needed to build, so I did a lot of dual booting. It really propelled my understanding of computers running and breaking multiple OSes.
I fully made the switch a couple of years ago when I realized I hadn’t booted my Windows install in six months. Linux has come a long way, and has also been helped by so many things being browser-based these days.
With Linux you can really see there is a shift in the mindset. User experience is prioritized and you are allowed to do what you want wherever you want to. This means for example things like running a live iso, installing the OS and surfing the web at the same time is possible. I can remap the super key, and other keys. Oh, tiling Window manager exist like hyperland. Omarchy.
And how about tabs in the file explorer. Why did not Microsoft implement it 20 years ago like when it came to Linux.
I like solving problems.
I enjoy customization.
I hate Microsoft.
Windows makes me angry
The last Windows OS I used was XP, around 2004-ish. Even back then, it was obvious to me that, because it was closed source, that they could one day start acting against my interests, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I saw open source as an insurance policy - it prevents vendors from acting maliciously against their users. In that very quaint, old time, nobody believed that MS would ever do something like that, but it didn't matter - the fact was that they could, so inevitably, they would.
I'm quite proud of how prescient I was when I look at what they're doing today. No evil is too great to stop a greedy businessman.
Anyway, I decided to just be brave and create a partition on my main drive and install Ubuntu on it. All I needed to get my work done was OpenOffice, LaTeX, a browser, a compiler, Python.... Everything worked better in Linux than Windows so even though I was dual-booting, I practically never used Windows again after a couple weeks. Later on, I switched to Debian, and the next laptop that I bought, I just wiped the hard disk and used Linux for the whole thing. I kept the recovery partition because I was paranoid but obviously never needed it.
Today, there's no doubt in my mind that Linux is the best OS. Sure, Macs have better batteries, but if I'm doing productive work, then I don't really need more than an hour away from my charger. I could maybe agree that the BSDs are better, but I've never tried them.
I had an overwhelming feeling of corporations telling me what they are selling and that I just have to deal with it. Apple, microsoft, adobe, all subscriptions that lock you in and hold you hostage.
Maybe I am just being over the top, but I miss feeling like I OWNED something. With linux? I own my laptop again.
I just had a Plex server die on me because I dared to use ReFS and storage spaces 10 years ago.
The performance uplift I got moving to Proxmox and ZFS filesystem was STUPID. And way more stable.
Lots more command line stuff, but in the age of AI assistants and things I don't feel that hampered by my lack of syntax knowledge.
Obviously this is about a server though, not my gaming rig with is still on W11. But that's said Steam has moved things along to a point where I feel like gaming on Linux is within reach.
Started 20 years ago. It made sense from the first time I had to buy a pc and deal with windows. Previously had been Mac person, and just hated Windows. Linux felt different and had potential for flexibility and options.
Did Linux week every year since then. Shame it took 18 years for linux to get to where I could game on it and not feel like I was having a 3rd rate experience compared to windows, performance wise.
Been running EndeavourOS (aka Arch btw) with KDE plasma for 2 years. Still have windows on a smaller disk but Linux is my primary OS.
Happy to share my build guide (just a text file and some backed up configs).
I have a laptop and a handful of desktops between my office and home. Some run Windows and some run Linux. I simply choose which one matches my task best.
Systems where I'm writing server-side code are going to be Linux. Systems that run jobs in the back end such as my self hosting stuff are all Linux. Systems where I'm doing email, documents, and general web browsing are going to be Windows.
Of course, my Windows systems have WSL, and my Linux systems can run Windows apps in virt. These days the line is super blurred and it would no doubt be possible to use only one if I were willing to give up some native app running.
I have never owned a windows machine.
And I doubt most people can honestly claim their primary computing device is something other than their smart phone.
POP and Mint seem to be the most recommended ones so I think I will start with one of them and see what happens. I'm not terribly opposed to tinkering a little bit and I generally try to avoid games with 3rd party launchers, so I'm sure it'll be fine. The only thing that concerned me was reading about Nvidia being a bit finicky (stuck with a 3070, but probably switching to AMD when this AI craze eases) with Linux, but I'm sure it'll be fine.
Kind of excited to dive in tbh, and that doesn't happen too often anymore, lol.
Thanks for the reply!
I was a dumbass and downloaded a shit ton of viruses. I couldn't afford to get a tech to fix my mistakes and XP didn't have a bootable recovery menu. I followed a tutorial on how to make an Ubuntu image flash drive, and the rest is history.
I was bad at computers and priced out of being a dumbass. I'm a sysadmin now 🙃
It's interesting how nobody is saying "because it's free software," which is kind of the entire point of Linux.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't switch for that reason either. But it's telling how conditioned we've been to not even recognize a free culture exists.
A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024
"It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home."
We must not repeat this same mistake again. Remember to always vote in every election and consider volunteering to knock on doors. It can make a difference. There are elections that are decided with just a small number of votes.
A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024
It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home. Here’s how Democrats can motivate them once more.The New Republic
Kamala's not Good Enough
So you get Trump
"With every mistake
We must surely
Be learning "
-George Harrison
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Well, I think there's definitely good reason to reach out to voters of all stripes. Including Republicans. But voters are different than politicians. By reaching out and inviting the politicians who enable the damage in amongst them. They just make themselves complicit.
Democrats would do much better if they reached out to their own voters at all. Not just dismiss them and pal around with other out of touch politicians.
And WHY DID PEOPLE STAY HOME?
I assure you that it is the party's job to inspire people to vote and not the people's job to inspire the party.
Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy
Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.
European Diplomats Are Dissociating in Trump’s Washington
A psychologist might diagnose what Europe’s envoys in America are experiencing as psychosocial disorientation, a state of confusion about one’s very identity or future triggered by the administration’s emphatic break with the post-1945 order that Harry Truman first shaped and that’s been nurtured by every successive U.S. president — that is until Donald J. Trump.
There are several stages of transition if one wants to cope with disorientation, starting with accepting the loss of what’s familiar. Those suffering from upheaval should focus on what’s small and manageable to anchor themselves, like organizing, say, a Christmas party, and then shift from trying to resist change and slowly learn to adapt. Recovery in highly transformative times requires a readiness to embrace uncertainty.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/13/trump-europe-embassy-parties-gloom-00689149
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Keeping oneself grounded in reality is hard, painful, and requires a constant effort.
I'm trying to learn that the consequences of dissociating are actually worse for my mental health than what I'm theoretically trying to avoid. My struggles may not be ambassador-level, but I think it applies to most of the human condition.
How do piracy websites exist when games, movies and tv shows are so expensive and require quantillion bites to storage?
sense of sharing media is that strong?
Essentially yes. Though 'sticking it' to the Disney's of the world (and their regulatory capture of governments) is also motivating.
Well there's a couple factors at play:
- Some disgruntled people who are just frustrated with the current ecosystem of software/media gouging (Piracy of Nintendo and Sony ROMs are the first thing that come to mind, along with things like Adobe product cracks). Slogans would be things like "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing", and "It's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games".
- Places that ignore Western/International copyright law and don't seriously prosecute their citizens, who are then able to host databases where anyone can download/stream from, with income from ads and donations (Basically China/Russia, and some countries outside like Brazil)
- Places where the price of purchasing legitimate media is just so insanely high (compared to average income) that having an online distribution network hosted no matter the risk would be the most accessible option (most notably Brazil with their high af import taxes, along with other LATAM nations). This is even seen in places that have no distribution officially period, such as Cuba's "paquete" (Literal HDDs and flash drives being smuggled with foreign data through informal networks)
- "Software Cracker"/"Aaron Swartz" ideologists who believe information should be free and accessible to anyone, no matter what and who pride themselves on releasing protected media not out of financial gain or hatred for the publisher, but for online street cred and to "Democratize" information. This is most notable through shadow libraries like Anna's Archive.
There are probably other cases I have not mentioned, but these are the big ones.
Imagine what the internet would look like if legislators prevented that particular monetization strategy (targeted advertising). For example, classifying it as behavior influencing technology—we could start to analyze a lot (social media algorithms, advertising, news feeds, …) for its potential to become propaganda and influence our fellow citizens. Free speech is protected, sure, but you can’t shout “bomb” in an airport anymore than you should be able to harvest ~~heroine~~ data and use it to lure addicts to your marketplace.
Imagine if we saw things like Amazon and said, “woah woah woah. We as a society left feudalism behind. You can’t own the land (the “platform”) that everyone sells on, monetize the exchange of products on your land (taxes, or “platform fees”), and have control over which exchanges should occur in the first place (the “algorithm”). That’s just too much power and doesn’t follow the same free market principles that got us here in the first place.”
Imagine if the government saw things like web3.0, blockchain, federation, and said: “you know, it was public funding that built the internet. Maybe now, public funding should secure the democratic process of the internet. Let’s research the potential for using the internet as a platform for building and supporting a digital space that helps propel society into its next stages of human development.”
Instead, we got something where technology was allowed to develop into an alternative form of control. We regulated the land, so they made new land in unregulated territory while moving all the goods over there. Capitalism allowed feudalism to sprout from within if. We are the peasants who “work the land.” That’s why these platforms are free to us, because (just like in feudalism) they need us there for any of this to work. We work the land, comment and like posts, only to teach their algorithms how to better influence us. It’s not what I was hoping for back in the early 2000s.
People be stupid.
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Behind the Seized Venezuelan Tanker, Cuba’s Secret Lifeline
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40278335
Published Dec. 12, 2025
archive.ph/h23JtFirms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.
[If the US didn't embargo and sanction Cuba and Venezuela, this wouldn't be necessary.]
On Friday, Cuban officials condemned the American seizure of the tanker, calling it in a statement an “act of piracy and maritime terrorism” that hurts Cuba and its people.“This action is part of the U.S. escalation aimed at hampering Venezuela’s legitimate right to freely use and trade its natural resources with other nations, including the supplies of hydrocarbons to Cuba,” the statement said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Behind the Seized Venezuelan Tanker, Cuba’s Secret Lifeline
Published Dec. 12, 2025
archive.ph/h23JtFirms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.
[If the US didn't embargo and sanction Cuba and Venezuela, this wouldn't be necessary.]
On Friday, Cuban officials condemned the American seizure of the tanker, calling it in a statement an “act of piracy and maritime terrorism” that hurts Cuba and its people.“This action is part of the U.S. escalation aimed at hampering Venezuela’s legitimate right to freely use and trade its natural resources with other nations, including the supplies of hydrocarbons to Cuba,” the statement said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/world/americas/venezuela-cuba-oil-tanker.html
Trump struggles to find his economic messaging amid voter skepticism
Trump spent the week making a bold case about a booming U.S. economy with even better times ahead, as his economic policies kick in. The problem for Trump is that polls show a wide swath of Americans aren't feeling that optimism yet --- and in his initial attempts at addressing the cost of living, he called the affordability issue a Democratic "hoax."
Hoping to tackle the messaging disconnect, the White House rolled out a $12 billion farmer aid package and sent Trump to Pennsylvania this week to make his case.
Trump has frequently shown himself a strong economic messenger --- winning reelection in 2024 by lambasting Joe Biden's economy. But one year into his presidency, Trump is struggling to convince Americans that the economic pain they see in their cost-of-living expenses isn't real.
Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy
Trump's approval hits new lows as 76% view economy negatively in the latest Fox News poll. Rising costs for groceries, utilities spark voter dissatisfaction nationwide.Dana Blanton (Fox News)
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I'm pretty sure 'his' economic message is "I had a rich daddy, and have never had to worry about failure, and as such, I don't really understand anything about finance, or the economy. I'm like a poker player that doesn't actually know how to play, and never has to worry about money, so I just always go all in to bully the players with less money off the board. Then I claim to be the best poker player in the world even though I don't know a straight from a flush, or three of a kind. Don't worry though, even if it ruins everyone else in the country, I'll still be fine because I'm just stealing your tax money while giving aide and comfort to our enemies."
I think that pretty much sums up his position
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Trump struggles to find ~~his economic messaging amid voter skepticism~~ a lie that will still work, because most people aren't as stupid as he thinks they are.
FTFY.
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A monster who barely gets any scorn.
Spacecraft from Chinese launch nearly slammed into Starlink satellite, SpaceX says
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Right, that's exactly what I said.
A "Great Filter" is something that stops every civilization from ever expanding off its home world. Kessler Syndrome does not in any way fit this. It's a temporary inconvenience that isn't even guaranteed to happen.
I wasn't trying to refute what you said, I was trying to expand on your "it doesn’t prevent you from launching through them." by explaining the downsides of going through it.
It's not as simple as just going through it, there are real implications for those years.
It actually is that simple, though. The amount of time that a launcher spends in one of those Kessler Syndrome zones while it passes through to a higher orbit would be measured in minutes. You can likely just ignore it and write off the one-in-a-million times your launcher hits something as just the cost of doing business.
Kessler Syndrome is a problem for satellites that want to orbit within those zones long term, as in spending years in there.
I think the odds would depend on how big the debris field is, but for non human cargo that might be acceptable, but I have a feeling that might not be the case with people on board, in which case they would need armor.
Edit: for non human cargo it could even be an option. Armored + X payload weight for $100/kg. Unarmored $60/kg + Y payload weight. (Made up numbers)
Why would one assume that every civilization is going to have access to fossil fuels in the first place? Earth has coal and oil because of a specific sequence of events that don't necessarily follow.
Also, the severity of climate change that we're facing is in no plausible way "end of the line" for humans. It could be disruptive to our current civilization but it's not going to end us. One could even easily hypothesize alien planets where induced global warming would be an enormous benefit to a civilization living on it. Just a few tens of thousands of years ago major regions of Earth were covered with ice caps, if our civilization had arisen back then a case could be made that accelerating their melting would be beneficial in the long run.
This isn't really Great Filter material.
Kessler syndrome isn't possible with these LEO constellations.
They are so low the debris would just deorbit themselves in a couple years.
It's the much much higher orbits where they stay forever that is the problem.
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Kessler syndrome is something the Internet loves to talk about without truly understanding.
These satellites fly at a very low orbit, and will deorbit themselves within a few years if they go dead. They would likely deorbit even faster if there was a debris cloud following a collision.
We're not going to be locked out of space for generations, not by any means.
They would likely deorbit even faster if there was a debris cloud following a collision.
Maybe, but not always. Debris from a collision can be flung in all directions, including higher orbits.
Thankfully, those higher orbits probably won't be long term stable since the perigee will pretty much always be at the point of impact. But it could very well be stable for years, since most of the orbit won't be dragging through the atmosphere anymore.
But the real risk is a cascade effect. One hit can create thousands of pieces of debris, which may well cause another hit. Etc etc.
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That's not a good thing, they'll just see this as a win and start using it even more.
Look at how great SLAM did on that article!
Don't forget how hundreds to thousands of them routinely fail and/or otherwise deorbit themselves, thus necessitating constant replenishment.
Its basically the least sustainable, most insane space paradigm currently actually possible with our tech and resources.
After all, I'm sure we can just undo a Kessler Syndrome cascade effect.
Right?
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I think they are and that's why it's ridiculous. China for sure is aware of all satellite positions, regardless of public databases.
Seems more like an incompetence thing, but then again we see how they behave in Philippine waters and in general. They don't give a fuck and think the world belongs to them.
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border” set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts causing turmoil in Chicago and elsewhere, he sees himself as the good guy. Not everyone agrees.
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys.Dan Mihalopoulos | WBEZ (Chicago Sun-Times)
he was moved to join the Border Patrol in 1996 to show he was the opposite — a good border cop.
Fascist assholes are never the good guys.
Trump fails in renewed bid to end Thai-Cambodian border clashes
Donald Trump failed to end the renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia despite his claims to the contrary, as cross-border clashes between the Southeast Asian neighbors continued on Saturday.
Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday that he had "very good" conversations with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Manet, and that they were "ready for PEACE."
He said the Southeast Asian leaders "have agreed to CEASE all shooting effective this evening, and go back to the original Peace Accord made with me, and them, with the help of the Great Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim."
Neither Anutin nor Hun Manet confirmed this in statements made after the calls, and Thai F-16 fighters conducted airstrikes on at least two sites in Cambodia on Saturday morning, the seventh day of renewed fighting.
Trump fails in renewed bid to end Thai-Cambodian border clashes
Airstrikes continue hours after US president claims leaders agreed to stop fightingKEN MORIYASU (Nikkei Asia)
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More made up peace prices for this guy please.
Can’t bring about peace if nobody gives you participation trophies every second day, obviously.
Trump did his normal NOTHING again
That's better than what he did in Ukraine though.
Trump attacks on political opponents spur a surge of threats, NBC News review finds
In recent weeks, nearly two dozen elected officials on both sides of the aisle said they were targeted after getting caught in the president's crosshairs.
Donald Trump’s heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent weeks, according to an NBC News tally.
Among those who’ve been targeted with threats after being mentioned in social media posts by the president are numerous Democrats, including Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan — but even more Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and over a dozen Indiana state lawmakers.
Three of the members of Congress that Trump accused of sedition, meanwhile, have filed complaints against him with the U.S. Capitol Police. The Capitol Police declined to comment on the complaints, saying in a statement, “For safety reasons, we cannot discuss any potential investigations.”
Trump attacks on political opponents spur a surge of threats, NBC News review finds
President Donald Trump’s heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent weeks, according to an NBC News tallyDareh Gregorian (NBC News)
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Is this stochastic terrorism?
Also--how many threats get followed-up on? Are they able to pinpoint the source of any of these threats?
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DOJ weighs novel federal hate crime case against Charlie Kirk's alleged killer
The effort to bring federal charges has been met with resistance by some career prosecutors who argue the crime doesn’t appear to fall under any federal statutes.
Three months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Justice Department is weighing how to bring federal charges against the shooter, including under a novel legal theory that it was an anti-Christian hate crime, according to three people familiar with the investigation.
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, is already facing multiple state charges, including an aggravated murder count, and Utah prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty. Robinson’s partner is trans, and authorities have produced text messages from the suspect to his partner saying he was motivated to kill Kirk because he had “enough of his hatred.”
It’s not uncommon for defendants to face both state and federal charges, including for drug-related crimes and domestic terrorist attacks, among other offenses. But the effort to bring federal charges in the Kirk case has been met with resistance by some career prosecutors who have argued that the crime doesn’t appear to fall under any federal statutes, the three people said.
DOJ weighs novel federal hate crime case against Charlie Kirk's alleged killer
The Justice Department is weighing how to bring federal charges against Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson.Ryan J. Reilly (NBC News)
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Are they unaware that Mormonism is a form of Christianity?
The supposed shooter was themselves, a Christian.
Someone told me the other day that Catholics weren't Christians. I'm like.... They are the og Christians.
The person refused to believe me.
Mormons not believing in the Trinity is a pretty solid argument that, at the very least, they're not Christians in the way nearly all other Christians are Christians.
That puts them in the same bucket as Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Unitarians, Iglesia ni Cristo, and Christadelphians.
... thats why most Christians don't think Mormons are really Christians, that they are instead more like heretics.
Not that I personally have a dog in this fight between the finer points of varying forms of mass shared delusions based on a corpus of hundreds of different texts that have been edited and translated and added to and subtracted from, tens or hundreds of thousands of times, over approximately 2500 years...
... but the idea of the Trinity is a pretty big deal, going back through the entire history of Christianity.
Whole lots of nontrinitarians have been called, and killed for being heretics by whole lots of trinitarians, for... what, roughly... 1750 years?
Yeah that's a pretty solid historical precedent.
Yep, and the exact reason the Founders were such sticklers on a seperation between church and state... on a secular society...
....was that the US was more or less initially settled by a bunch of Christian religious extremists of varying flavors, who all couldn't hack it in Europe, and they knew that if you let the government start explicitly picking favorites with religions?
Well, then US history would look a lot more like (what was to them, fairly recent) European history.
Aka, a whole bunch of mostly Christians killing mostly other different Christians, with an occasional, quite notable pogrom against Jews, or crusade against Muslims.
... As we can currently see... they evidently did not establish this paradigm strongly enough to withstand just a few centuries of persistent and dogged US Christian Extremeism.
I guess at this point I'm just waiting for Utah to claim its own Greater Deseret boundaries and assert its own independence, maybe when the US is embroiled in just another actual, full fledged land war with Mexico.
Give it about a decade, I'd guess.
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in reply to RandAlThor • • •I spell everything the English way.... the language is called English so by definition, they are correct in everything.
I've adopted tyres and kerb into my daily spelling
Their words are better too... lorry > truck, hoover > vacuum, chips > fries....
I urge all canadians to start using more british english in daily speak.
And if it pisses off the yanks and albertans, even better
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in reply to 9488fcea02a9 • • •We already say fish & chips and we have chip wagons not food trucks. I’m happy with that and spelling colour and flavour with a “u”. Cheque with the “que” is always going to be better than “check”. Lorry sounds silly, I’d rather use their other commonly used term “HGV”. I’ll add that I say trash bin rather than garbage can.
Last but not least… it’s pronounced zed not zee!!
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in reply to DeepChill • • •I didn't know there were special tissues for cumblasts only
Victor Villas
in reply to 9488fcea02a9 • • •lol linguists hate this one weird trick that killed entire branches of studies
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in reply to Victor Villas • • •English is defined by popularity, not managed by rules. So, English is ruled by whatever the mob wants, just like ignorant racism in early 1900s America: mob rule.
In this case, the largest group of English speakers is in India. That accent is a little too Mumbai for me, young man: get it back to Received Delhi Standard by next review or you're fired.
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in reply to 9488fcea02a9 • • •Hey, I use the King's English, thank you very much!
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in reply to 9488fcea02a9 • • •I love this, and agree. Also why France gets to decide what proper French is.
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in reply to yeehaw • • •Canadian English is distinct:
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in reply to PlaidBaron • • •And that's not a word.
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in reply to RandAlThor • • •Very based of the Carney government IMO. The most 'elbows up' stance would be to intentionally reject former American influences and purposefully adopt more British spellings in standard Canadian English.
Our sovereignty and cultural identity isn't under threat from the UK, it is under threat from the USA.
Bonus: we could use the phrase "speak the King's English" more often - its one step away from monocles being back in fashion.
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in reply to RandAlThor • • •As a Canadian, I'd rather Canadians lean into the British side of things considering we're a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations. And you know, we do have the Queen (and now King) on our money. Canada and the UK have a long, healthy relationship.
I've always felt more English than American and visiting the UK most people treat us Canadians like long lost family.
America on the other hand has decided to appease Russia and start attacking Canada with nasty rhetoric and trade wars. They can fuck themselves right in the asshole.
I'm for rejecting all Americanisms in Canada.
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in reply to IndridCold • • •A hole for equus africanus asinus ?