BillyClark

We should definitely tell Trump that the President of Puerto Rico currently has nuclear weapons and that he seems intent upon deploying them.

If somebody had to die for a war, it’s better some old rich man who is causing all sorts of harm, so I guess my point was if we pretend that Trump’s target was just Khamenei, and everybody else who died was just an accident, well, that would have been better than having young people die.

In this case, though, it looks like a whole shitload of young people died, including like 100 elementary school girls, and that’s war for you.

So, you’re right. It’s not even close to the other side of the coin. I was mostly just commenting how Trump clearly targeted a bad dude. If a terrible scenario plays out where Iran launches an counterattack on America, I hope they target our bad dudes.

I do think that it’s terrible that war usually means that young poor people die in abundance, while the rich old men who make the actual calls do not face any danger at all. But I don’t agree with Trump’s ridiculously stupid attack on Iran.

One of the unexpected boons of using Ubuntu is that there are fewer zealots. If I say it sucks, nobody gets offended. Actually, I think more people get offended if you say that Ubuntu doesn’t suck.

The news reporter wanted a feel good puff piece regardless of how inappropriate it is. The interviewee wanted to report the actual news.

Despite my being American, I listen to some British media, and I think it was James O’Brien who I heard wondering about Andrew. Basically, the royal family has “an heir and a spare.” Charles the heir, and Andrew the spare.

The question really is, what if it was the heir who had been accused and not the spare? Actually, since Charles had his own heirs by then, Andrew wasn’t really even the spare. He is completely disposable. But what if Andrew had been the heir? What if he had already become king and all of this came out? What would the UK do about it?

I think the suspicion is that the investigation would have gone nowhere and not have led to an arrest in that case. Neither the current king nor the heir would have been charged with raping children or leaking confidential material, whatever they did.

They’re going after Andrew because he’s a family embarrassment anyways, and because this scandal reflects badly on the royal family, so if they have him face justice, and they can hope that it makes their image look better, then that’s what they’ll do.

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I suspect that most Linux users are former Windows users.

a large chunk of the replies were “well MY displays work just fine!”

I just went to check the previous thread, and I think there’s miscommunication both ways here.

They read your post as “I’m trying Linux, but it’s even hard to get monitors to work.” So, they responded, “I haven’t had a problem with monitors on Linux in decades.”

There’s not much else they can say, as you weren’t really asking for advice, so you didn’t give any technical details, but you were still complaining about something that they like.

Meanwhile, you read them as you said, “well MY displays work just fine!” So their replies seem utterly baffling, defensive, and unhelpful from your perspective.