Trump doesn't understand the notion of soft power. All he understands is grandstanding and conflict.

Erm, embarrassingly older.

I believe it's called the "master race".

And his voters will never learn, because their media bubble insulates them from facts.

And, according to the article, wasn't sufficiently biased towards white men.

Your taxes, straight into the pockets of Sam Altman and Larry Ellison.

CBC should not be as beholden to capital as commercial news is, which is why this is particularly disappointing and also why the Conservatives promise to destroy it.

Wait until the next election.

Large chunks of the EU are hurtling rightwards too, unfortunately.

Bird flu is coming and likely to be far worse than COVID, while antivax fools control US health policy. But Trump's supporters will always blame someone else.

They're you go: Pierre Poilievre, proudly supported by Nazis the world over. FFS Canada, how can you endorse this guy?

Recently I've used OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, PopOS! and Ubuntu, as well as Mint, and all of these have comparable graphical software managers. Which ones are you thinking of that don't?

I dunno. I've been programming on and off since the 1980s and professionally since the early 2000s. It still always takes me forever to build anything worthwhile and even longer to maintain it. Most software these days is complicated enough that it requires many people to build and maintain. I'm not sure that "everyone should be equipped to program what they need" was realistic even back in the 1980s, let alone with today's complexity.

Most users don't want to be sucked down a bottomless time hole just getting their computer to do a thing it won't do, and understandably prefer to have someone else suffer this for them, then use what was built.

So I don't know about the goal of everyone being able to program. I still think it's a worthwhile goal that people should have full control over their machines so that they can install and uninstall what they want, configure devices to work the best way for them, and turn off the features that don't serve the user at all. And I think open source software is great for bringing technically inclined people together to collaborate on what's actually useful to people.

Mint is not really for tinkerers. It's a distro designed to work out of the box without the need to tweak anything, and it does that well. The downsides are that it's not always the most up to date, and it bundles a lot so it's not a slim distro.

To be fair, it's easier to be ignorant of neo-Nazi numerology than of their use of the swastika.

I'm just aware of how these people signal to each other. I don't know anything about the Proton CEO's politics, but numbers like 14 and 88 in usernames are common dogwhistles.

Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know about that good luck meaning.

Oh OK, that makes sense. Still, an unfortunate choice of username that could add to the confusion.

Is he really using u/andy1011000? And he just started now? That's binary for andy88, and isn't 88 a well-known neo-Nazi dogwhistle as idiot code for "heil Hitler"?

Isn't 88 neo-Nazi code for "heil Hitler"? And isn't putting it in binary to disguise it evidence that he knows full well what it means?