I'm not above tinkering with stuff endlessly. But neither can I totally stomach having stuff broken for long periods. It has been know to happen that I come home drunk and just want to the browser to work for steaming.
Gaming ebbs and flows and the most motivation I've gotten is from trying to get a game to work. I would want a decent chance of not being severely restricted in my gaming choices however. Is SteamOS even a viable choice or should I just order a new HD, install Mint and run that unless I know what I'm using widows for?

...we found Russell's teapot.

OK now I'm curious. What veryfibly false lieftist stuff is there?
Stuff on the scale of Obamacare Deathcamps, QAnon, rightwing counter-BLM actions and Pizza/Climategate. You know things that, if they came from a single entity, would punishable unter inciting to riot/disturbing the peace laws. Mind you I'm not saying it doesnt exist. I'm saying that it doesnt have near as much reach and scope as the latest foxnews_promoted_fotm_lefttist_outrage.
I'm talking about stuff from western democracies btw.

He did answer that with his Toyota vs Ford comparison tbh. And is it really a global standard in it's pure sense?
It would mean that products from certain countries wouldnt come with a certain reputation attached.
Japanese car, Indian car, British car, Chinese car, German car, Italian car. I would find it very odd indeed if you were to tell me that they all evoked the same image in your mind.

Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods.
-Boris Johnson The Telegraph May 15 2016

What happened to the confidence and ideals of the European dream? The EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving. The lesson from history is clear: if you turn the EU club into a prison, the desire to get out won't diminish it will grow — and we won't be the only prisoner that will want to escape
-Jeremy Hunt Conservative Party Birmingham

There were many more but those were easiest to find. insult(s) + eu + [name of any of (brexiteer) ministers that have resigned under may] should yield more if you are willing to search a bit. Somehow I didnt feel like going through their twitter feeds....

That's something the German attempts at data retention laws have taught me. Politicians will always try to pass some BS w/o thinking the implications through. It usually comes crashing down. In my experience Supreme Courts have a habit of wanting reasoning, procedures, redress procedures, limitations and implementations explained to them. Then the inconsistencies come to light in a forum they cant bullshit their way out of. I've seen numerous instances were courts asked the government if they had a severe case teh dumb.
Panic and autocratic name calling should be reserved for when the supreme court says a law is OK. Until then keep talking about the BS inconsistencies.

You might also want to give http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html a go, available for Windows, Unix and OS/2.

That was a beautiful read. Thank you!

When talking to the uninitiated, I like to bring up an analogy using bouncers.

When you have bouncers from just one security firm, things are alright. He'll do his best to keep the baddies out, things can carry on mostly undisturbed. Things ain't perfect, but hey, whatcha gonna do.
On the other hand, if you hire additional bouncers from a different security firm, those two groups will spend most of their time shouting at each other, getting in scuffles, fucking things up for everyone.
This analogy is simple enough to sink in with mom & pop.

So Libertarians are more violent than socialists?

For example

Stalin,
Mao
Pol Pot

All of which were communist, not socialist.

Just for the record, wikipedia claims the incident that killed Shannon Smith occured during June, not during New Year celebrations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon's_law_(Arizona)

I just realized how much I depend on RSS:

- http://gpodder.org/ fetches 20+ podcast subscriptions
- Snarfer (defunct, no website) to follow various news outlets and alert me to fresh xkcd, smbc, etc.
- live bookmarks in Pale Moon to see if something pops up on the various youtube channels I like. No channel subscription with Google account necessary.
- http://showrss.info/ generates a nice rss feed of current tv show episodes which is directly pulled by qbittorrent.

My whole information and entertainment usage would collapse if rss went the way of the dodo.

Facebook Europe is incorporated in Ireland. This is why German politicians are so fed up with facebook - whenever facebook fucks up, the German facebook representatives just shrug their shoulders and tell the authorities to please speak with Ireland, where any complains get quickly tossed into the memory hole.

That's rich, considering that we in the US just elected a nationalistic militaristic fascist.
Maybe Germany is at least trying to do the right thing?