Bet.

I went with Mint. Cinnamon edition. Get my feet wet with this. Slip deeper into the pool later maybe.

I started with DOS. Upgraded that to DOS3. Then Win95. Then 98. And since then I’ve been trying to get back to that simplicity. Best or not is wholly subjective. But that’s what I want.

Start menu ruined. All the UI is garbage. Fucking OneDrive.

I’m over it. Shopping distros as we speak.

Edit - Making this edit from a fresh Linux Mint install. Cheers.

I just bought a brand new thumb drive so I can install Linux.

Definitely. Gonna be absolutely insufferable for the next 4 years. Gonna get me some trump pointing “I did that” stickers to put on gas pumps. Gonna whinge and piss and moan about egg prices and bread prices. Gonna make infantile memes and post them everywhere.

I’m tired of being smart and well informed. I return to Monke.

As it always does. In case you missed it all those things were hitting records all the way through Biden’s 4 years.

It’s a giant casino. And the only time real people feel it is when it crashes and suddenly shit costs way more than it did last week. It doesn’t matter to anyone worth less than 8 or 9 figures.

Oh I have no doubt that the Blackrocks and Birkshire Hathaway’s of the nation are absolutely throbbing at the prospect. Literally diamonds. Those dusty old corpses won’t need their hourly viagra until 2030.

They have different lists for different things. Real unemployment is closer to 30% than 3.

Not insane. They’re illiterate. Literarily, economically, emotionally, etc. Fed a steady diet of reactionary pavlovian conditioning since at least the mid-90s.

We actively harm ourselves for shits and giggles apparently.

They are all bastards of the highest order.

Yes.

All they really care about is strengthening the oligarchy. Cutting taxes. Deregulation. If it benefits big business, they’re for it. And that’s where the conflict will arise. The loud and proud fascists want shit like mass deportations. The Reaganites know that’s bad news for a lot of businesses. Construction, agriculture, etc.

Yes. It is too late. This was the inevitable outcome. Sooner or later.

Dems here are like UK Labor. They’re a right wing party who occasionally cosplays as a left leaning one when they need to. They stand as the bullwark against any form of left wing populism. And they’ve done their job to the letter.

Our economy is almost entirely debt driven financialization and gambling. There is another subprime mortgage crisis brewing. Exactly the same as the one in '08, except way bigger. And our economy is far more precarious than it was then.

He could. Totally legal thanks to the SCROTUS. But Dems are cowards by nature. They never would. Which is why this outcome was inevitable. If not now, later. We might actually end up being lucky it was Trump and not someone truly competent, but I doubt it.

Breathtakingly fucked. Wannabe dictator with a mandate from the dumbest mfers alive.

But take heart. The battle for the US is now a fight between the old guard Reaganite Republicans and the out&out Fascists. For the next 4 years at least the Dems are a complete non-factor. I hope the DNC is proud of their accomplishment.

All the worst possible things that could happen are now not just on the table but incredibly likely.

War would be an exclusively defensive prospect. Truly defensive. Like attack our shit first. No more strategic bullshit “in American interests”

Are you proud of yourself? You ruined it.

I hope you step on a lego every time you get out of bed. Twice. For the rest of your life.

Dude my brother-in-law.

Fuckin’ aliens built everything! Baghdad Batteries? Aliens. Pool of mercury in a pyramid? Alien Power Cell that we don’t understand yet.

Over the course of half an hour. With lots of revisions and proofreading. If i’m putting in the effort, I’m putting in all the effort.