I mean that’s just a trauma response. Hardly revolutionary. Most people with traumatic experiences have that.

I guess it’s better to say that I love the jokes like that but dislike some of the malice that comes behind some of the jokes, if that makes sense. […] some of the jokes were either based around a misunderstanding or outright hatred.

Why do you ridicule me then all over these comments for making that same observation with the meme you posted?

It may be a joke. It’s just a dumb joke.

“Conservatives and homophobes are actually gay” is a bad punchline. What’s the joke - that being gay is emasculating, humiliating or perverted?

I just don’t buy new ones. I have a Nokia E90 Communicator and that’s it.

All of these are just willfully misunderstanding the point of these things to the point of idiocy.

1. Usually, the rigid time constraints are shown to not work, and something else happens that solves the conundrum. Either that or the engineer overestimated the time with regards to security protocols, testing and so on, implying that cutting time will be significantly more risky.
2. The shields are offline because power generation is failing. Diverting power from life support is the last resort, implying that either we get the shields online at the expense of long-term life support for a small chance at survival, or keep them offline for a guaranteed death. It makes sense to divert power from life support.
3. They are frequently in unfamiliar or entirely deserted locations. Who has every close space station in mind at all times? Are you implying that someone on a long highway cannot be surprised by the distance to the next gas station if gas runs out?
4. This never happened.
5. This never happened.

I always held the opinion that “treknobabble” was largely internally consistent and made sense within the established technologies of the universe, with notable exceptions in the biology department (TNG: “Genesis” anyone?). I dislike when people make fun of Trek engineer speech as if it was completely incoherent made up words á la “it’s a unix system”. “Treknobabble” is consistent and believable, and I don’t think it’s cute to insinuate that it’s all some kind of silly in-joke.

With all due respect; do you think that Marx, let alone Engels and myriads of Marxist thinkers over the centuries overlooked the idea that people are dependent on wages and therefore not likely to throw their lives to a revolutionary effort? I think the historical intricacies of revolutions are perhaps the most studied part of history for Marxists.

That said, there is obvious truth in the fact that obviously people will not join a revolutionary mass movement today or even tomorrow in the world that we live in. The circumstances ought to be life-or-death for many of them to consider that much of a sacrifice; not that I advocate that at all of course, but revolutions have not historically been staged as fun and games for all those involved.

The sad truth is that the permanent solution to our woes is a revolution that can only really happen when things are already boiling.

Minimum wage is 12€, meaning $12.96, which is way lower than California’s for example. There is no paternity leave.

I am German. According to German law as I refer to here, the four weeks are calculated on a basis of a six-day work week, which in practice almost nobody works. Most people work four or five days, and the right to holidays is scaled accordingly.

I get 21 days off in a year. If I want to take Christmas off, that’s like three or four days off of that, plus my birthday maybe. Most people take like two different week-long holidays off throughout the year so they can spend some time with family.

Personally, I am more concerned with affording food or going hungry.

Redditors came over, what do you expect.

At least that kind of event would stop the tired pretense that we are all equally valuable concerned citizens politely discussing where to go with our country.

There is no arguing with fascists. The only valid argument is a gun.

I am sure if more people would have called their senator in 1932 Germany it would have been entirely avertable.

Liberal democracy has successfully convinced people that all political opinions are somehow equally valuable and worth protecting, as if political opinions were similar to favorite color, food preferences or support of a sports team.

In reality, political opinions and their consequences decide over who is starving and who is not, whether there is war or not, whether humanity will survive or not.

There is no such thing as someone I respect who I politically disagree with. Politics is a matter of life and death. I do not agree to disagree with someone who tortures LGBTQ kids. I want them dead. There is no civilized difference of opinion with advocates of genocide. They are to be removed.

As a European, I just want to know where Americans get all these fairy tales about European life, lol. Do you think the people in France that they keep admiring so much are protesting because of nothing?

Stop pretending Europe is some kind of paradise. It isn’t. I don’t get the whole month of August off on paid vacation. That’s a straight-faced lie.

Marxism has a rich history of thousands upon thousands of books, millions of adherents, influential thinkers across nations, disciplines and social stratae; it’s not as if there is no-one with a solution on their hands. They are just being willfully ignored.

Trisquel is literally the most popular libre-only distribution, endorsed by the FSF, it is hardly obscure. Parabola/Hyperbola are libre-only Arch derivatives, and EXE GNU/Linux is the only distribution shipping out of the box with TDE.

Trisquel is the only one out of those that is really friendly for newbies, admittedly, but given that it has Gentoo in there out of all things, it just seems like a very “Reddit” distribution list.

There is nothing wrong with Devuan, though? It is a very solid distribution built by a team of people who constantly work on improving and supporting alternative init systems. Just because you seem to consider it a “rage fork” out of ideological reasons doesn’t mean it isn’t good.

Eh I don’t know. It doesn’t seem to know many distros such as Trisquel, Parabola/Hyperbola, EXE GNU/Linux and so on, leading to odd choices. It also has false information here and there, and the “do you want a Windows-like or a macOS-like UI” question is pretty asinine.