So is any economic system based around not only enabling but promoting selfishness. And here we are, watching it happen in realtime.

PR for selfishness.

The point at which they might actually have to act like they care, yes.

BTW you're wrong, that was not their position.

And what is the societal benefit of "weeding out" an entire cohort of students before they have mastered the topic? It seems to me that the primary purpose is for colleges to avoid scrutiny and duck responsibilities for some deficiencies endemic to the education system.

You don't understand the import of your own argument.

Nice solidarity there bro. Shame if something should have already happened to it.

It's the problem, not a problem. As long as you only care about you, and not about anyone else, there's no reason why anyone should care about you. In fact, it's actively harmful for them to waste time caring about you, because they're not going to get that care back.

Microsoft is "interesting" when it comes to UI because they are both co-responsible for the dominant paradigm we all know and use and are used to and hey, actually works... and have gone to shit since.

Microsoft was part of the Motif WG, Motif implemented much of IBM's CUA, and to this day Windows and all popular Unix DEs both still do. But on the other hand, Microsoft's greatest independent contribution to UI remains the start menu, which isn't even something they really invented; its best-loved form (From Windows 7) is basically somewhere in between the NeXT Dock menu and the later versions of the Apple menu. And the new versions of it suck.

Thanks for getting it. This is what the Luddites were saying, and why I like to invoke them despite it making people mad because they've been gaslit over what their message was. It wasn't "smash all the things", it was "everyone should benefit from the things, and if not, there is no reason we should not smash them". They were people with nothing left to lose. Continuing automation will make that of virtually all of us, and certainly every one of us here. If we were important enough for it not to, we wouldn't be here.

I'm not even close to being against technology, I have been enamored of it and computing in particular since I was a child. I'm only against it making the entire world a holocaust. As long as we allow it to be controlled by capital, that's exactly where it will go. The plebes are no longer charming when they are unnecessary — that is, when we are unnecessary. And as long as we keep fighting over who deserves to eat instead of fighting for everyone to be able to eat, that's exactly where we're headed.

I've been using LO pretty much constantly for the last two years (even wrote a novel on it). Like any interface, it just takes time to become familiar. In fact, I like the way Writer organizes styles and style configuration far better than Word, and often, even for DOCX files, do initial style set up and layout in Writer and then move to Word if I have to (which is seldom enough).

LO is a damned good office system. Its default UI is older, but since I used MS-Edit and Word pretty extensively back in the 1990s, it feels familiar to me. There is a ribbon interface, but I've only tried it a few times before remembering why it is I actually don't like the Word ribbon.

Hydrogen is flamebait. Literally.

Not as long as we keep sucking billionaire cock, no. It will never provide enough sustenance to live on.

And you're not interested in anyone else's comfort, either.

Systems which are under attack.

Just the food thrown away is enough to eat. Keep defending that.

You're a lot dumber than I thought. Didn't think I'd see you cheerleading for more of the same oppressive bullshit, but here you are.

Agreed. The same people whose CG industry virtually destroyed the existing effects industry (it's not gone, but it sure has contracted severely) are now worried that a newer kind of CG is going to put them out of business. There is only one remedy for this problem which doesn't lead to wave after wave of this, and it is to separate the basic needs of the living from employment, but by all means let's all argue about whether people are luddites instead of whether the luddites were correct. (Spoiler: Yes.)

That's the weakest complaint. If the bad option names are documented, so what? You have to read the spec to know what to do anyway. If they aren't documented, complain about that.

That's it exactly. They won't work for most people in the USA because of crony capitalism. We're the best at everything! If you count fucking ourselves over.