And more importantly, it’s the same thing as OS X. They shouldn’t be separate lines.

Or do Lake Michigan. It would change the acronym, but at least it’d be renaming the one wholly surrounded by the US instead of sullying Canada’s border with it.

@madthumbs@lemmy.world needs to learn to stop misusing semicolons when a comma would do fine.

There are also “speed tables” that are even longer and are flat-topped with sloped sides, along with “raised intersections” which are speed tables that take up the entire intersection space.

I once got an Apple laptop around the time they switched away from Intel chips, I lasted about four months with it before running back to KDE.

That’s well into the time that they were getting worse. They were good in the PowerPC G3/4/5 era, when they were doing things like making laptops that could have the RAM upgraded without even needing a tool. They were also trying to be taken more seriously for business, so they had stuff like the XServe and cared about scripting (putting effort into Applescript/Automator APIs for their apps) and such.

Say what you will about attraction mechanics and FOMO, but logging in to do Star Trek Online event daily missions keeps me sittin’ pretty in all these hypotheticals.

Mac OS is just NeXTStep (i.e. UNIX) with a candy coating. It’s annoyingly proprietary (especially these days, compared to the early OS X era) but it’s fine for a work machine.

These days they’re just as likely to hang up on you instead of transferring you to a human.

Yeah, I always felt like I was either pointlessly restating the obvious or it expected me to derive the damn thing from first principles.

How have the positions been “vacant?” What happened to the people who actually won?

Home Depot and Lowes have Halloween decorations in already, but that’s almost kind of reasonable. Ish.

Having Christmas stuff in August is just absurd, unless it’s one of those dedicated Christmas stores that’s open year-round for some reason. (Do those still exist? The only two I knew of near me either went out of business or became online-only years ago.)

Picking Gentoo for that pic is a dirty trick. Gentoo users wanted it to be that way, on purpose.

(Source: I was one of them back in the early 2000s.)

The correct way to fix aggressive driving is traffic calming. In other words, making physical changes to the infrastructure, like removing lanes, lane-narrowing, adding speed humps or chicanes, etc.

As (a) a traffic engineer, (b) a bicycle and pedestrian activist, and (c) a mod of !fuckcars@lemmy.world, I find it downright insulting to be accused of “[not] actually car[ing] for improving communities” just because I also care about not creating a motherfucking totalitarian panoption!

But there are just as many hiccups to encounter.

We’re not talking about "hiccups; " we’re talking about deliberate attacks against you. Linux has bugs, but with Windows, the OS is designed to serve Microsoft’s interests at your expense. It’s a categorically different thing.

Your statement is a perfect example of the sort of bargaining (in the toxic relationship sense) I’m talking about. It’s the tech equivalent of saying “I fell down the stairs” when the real cause of your black eye was your abuser punching you in the face.

And the kind of superior, unhelpful attitude that a noticable part of the Linux communities show (whether that is just a vocal minority or actual major part is irrelevant to someone looking for help), especially towards new users who often have no idea about various Linux-isms

Note that absolutely nothing I’ve written here is about technical competency or “Linux-isms,” but instead about psychology and business ethics.

Windows is for people with no self-respect. Seeing them defend it is just sad in the same way as seeing a battered spouse defend their abuser.

there’s no way someone’s expending that much time and effort and not getting paid for it

…you say on Lemmy, of all places. 😜

Democracy had been dead since 19 BBY and everybody knew it.

That user has a distinctly combative tone in general.

Huh, I coulda sworn that was porn

Imperialism as a stage in capitalist development

Okay, but if “as a stage in capitalist development” is what you mean, that’s way more fucking specific than just “imperialism” in general and so you folks here can’t just say “imperialism” and expect people to treat you as anything other than clowns who don’t know what words mean.

but there was a communist revolution, and the ensuing government abolished ownership of Russian colonies, ending Russian imperialism.

So you’re really going to pretend that the Warsaw Pact wasn’t imperialism? Even though you claim NATO is? Sure, buddy.

The fall of the USSR did not come with new colonies, those were already freed.

Not for lack of trying. If you don’t think invading Georgia and Ukraine count as attempts at colonization, especially under the definitions you keep applying to the US, you’re just delusional.

the imperialist powers are overwhelmingly western

And Russia is one of them! There is essentially fuck-all difference between Russia under Putin and the US under Trump, in terms of political or economic ideology.

The collapse of the USSR was essentially an example of “if you can’t beat 'em, join 'em” (in terms of economic system, not geopolitical alliances). There is no anti-imperialist counterbalancing going on here; the US and Russia are just two rival bullies fighting over the same turf.

I understand what you think you’re going to accomplish by supporting Russia, but all you would actually accomplish is trading out one imperialist capitalist oppressor for another.

And I did respond to your edit, take a look.

Still too many excuses. The simple fact is that Russia is not entitled to decide how Ukraine conducts its own internal affairs, and so nothing you wrote was relevant at all.