Urist

There is about 8.1 billion people in the world. Assuming romantic cliches to be true and that we all have exactly one soulmate out there, we would have a very hard time sifting them out. If you were to use exactly one second at meeting a person it would take you 257 years to meet everyone alive on earth at this moment, which due to human life span being significantly shorter and the influx of new people makes the task essentially impossible without a spoonful of luck. Moral of the story: If you believe you have found your soul mate, be extra kind to them today.

Definitely agree and beautifully put :)

Queue any discussion of Wayland/Xorg, Systemd, flatpacks, snaps, distro choice, Pipewire/Pulseaudio (last one is easy, Pipewire ftw), Vim/Emacs, GPL/MIT, immutability, etc…

Fish is obviously superior (:

We believed that as things had gone well for us for years, that things would continue going that way.

More like right wing politicians dismantled the systems that worked well and now they won’t anymore.

That is part of the process. Under fund the public services and let private companies replace the easily replaceable (read commercially viable parts) and then point at the public ones and say:

1. They are inefficient compared to the private companies.
2. Their efficacy is dwindling and “reform” is needed.

This is at least the playbook they have followed in my country to ruin postal and railroad services, and they are in the process of ruining healthcare as well. To give concrete examples the public postal service needs to be able to deliver mail and packages anywhere in the country while the private ones can target the population centers only. Similarly privatized health care clinics can offer doctors of particular specializations higher pay and less work so that the public hospitals have shortage of such specialized doctors and need to “buy” treatments from the private wards for extortionate sums. The latter example is again used to say that the private are more efficient since it can make a surplus budget, ignoring the whole dynamic in play and that they are actually less efficient and abusing the public system for profit.

How was it?

Just popping in to say the level of reflection and accurate analysis between you and parent comment is dazzling. Spot on, friend.

Chill out. They may be German or something where shit like that is concatenated into one word.

Yeah, we are really, really bad. You should leave before you start transmuting yourself into a tank and begin involuntarily rolling over capitalists.