redempt

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[–] redempt 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Thatcher hated trans people and Rowling is a Holocaust denier. what do we gain by allowing her to continue spewing hateful rhetoric to a massive audience?

[–] redempt 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I strongly disagree. some opinions are literally harmful to express. the narrative that trans women are dangerous, predators, or not really their gender, is hate speech. it is statistically linked to increased violence against trans people, especially when coming from someone with a huge platform. it's unclear whether Rowling actively intends to cause harm, but she has been associating with literal Nazis lately. we should respect each other's opinions, sure, but when people hold exclusionary opinions, we have to decide whether their right to spout hatred is more important than trans people's right to safety, comfort, and wellbeing. I choose the wellbeing of the trans community over Rowling's right to bigotry.

[–] redempt 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah if only I was joking. wouldn't that be funny

[–] redempt 5 points 7 months ago
[–] redempt 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

too bad everyone else is wrong

[–] redempt 19 points 7 months ago (19 children)

we should use only the best language for everything.

[–] redempt 7 points 7 months ago

the app is the piece of junk for taking so long to load on an incomprehensibly fast processor

[–] redempt 4 points 8 months ago

I've been able to play cyberpunk and the witcher in HDR, also elite dangerous. I have to use a separate tty where I launch gamescope, and have to boot with a patched kernel on a separate bootloader entry. It's not ideal, certainly, but it does work and the experience is good once I did get it working.

[–] redempt 22 points 8 months ago

I mean, what we call "communist countries" were really founded with communism as an ideal and authoritarianism as the means to supposedly achieve that ideal. turns out the people they put in power to liberate them didn't want to give up that power willingly. shocker.

[–] redempt 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is the crux of it. do they think we WANT to be glued to our screens? social hubs are dead or dying, wrung out for profit. people have less time than ever, having to work and spread themselves thin just to stay afloat. mental healthcare is inaccessible to huge swathes of the population and our parents who can afford it refuse it. outside is a car dependent hellscape with increasingly unpleasant weather and increasingly agitated people. as a neurodivergent person it feels impossible to navigate. the phones don't exactly help, but they're certainly not the root of the issue. everybody on social media at this point is well aware of the drawbacks.

[–] redempt 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

nowadays archinstall will get you up and running nice and quick. I broke my setup the other day by misusing paru. I wish arch didn't have this reputation. other than me uninstalling my own display manager it's been perfectly stable through every update since I installed it years ago. the wiki has incredible amounts of digestible information that has helped me set up anything I want. it's true that it can be more difficult than other distros, and there are some elitists. but it's a good choice for people who like to tinker.

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