I got accused of being an AI for writing a comment reply to someone which was merely informative, empathic and polite!

Once user trust is burned it’s not coming back.

There are no positive outcomes available now - it’s time to abandon Google.

Linux phones arriving sooner? Hopefully that’s the silver lining.

This is the thing the fascist supporting members of the public need to understand: that everyone gets thrown under the fascist bus and nobody earns safety by cooperating with it. Not even the upper echelons of fascist leadership are safe. Fascism ultimately means that everybody is in great danger of death no matter who they are.

I am really sick of fascism! We haven’t learned the lessons and I’m not even sure we can any more. Human beings have probably been dealing with fascists forever and will need to remain vigilant until the end of time. This year has been educational and not in a good way.

I will die before I will be quiet about it, but we’re all on the list anyway so whatever.

The shitter is that Britain is a few years behind the USA. Tr*mp will be gone, but Britain will continue to elect fascists beyond that. We haven’t even started here yet and we’re the originators of the problem. Ugh!

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Anywhere touched by the British empire is still recovering from the experience. The East India Company were practising fascism “a merger of state and corporate power” [1] centuries before Mussolini even named it as such.

Fuck Britain, a nation of “excellent table manners and genocide” [2] we are the original fascist hellmouth and fascism has been our chief global export since forever.

I can’t apologise enough for this shitty nation, we are trying to sort it out.

Signed, A British Peasant

Quote refs: [1] Benito Mussolini: “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

[2] Terence McKenna: “What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.”

Thanks, I appreciate the catch up!

Much happier to hear the meme isn’t anything to do with creepy unfuckable dudes who imagine it’s only a matter of time until teenager pussy is theirs. Seems there’s a lot of those around in this timeline… mostly in the age bracket about 15-20 years older than me (I’m mid 40s) where I live, which makes it my turn (as it always fuckin was) to call them out.

Only this time I’m a dad of teenagers, and I’ve practised martial arts and being very firm with my words (when necessary) in my working life for decades.

Turns out these “men” are absolute cowards and the best action so far is seemingly to do almost nothing, as they preemptively out themselves by protesting too hard to completely uninvolved people in our local community. We shall see.

Anyway that’s been my year this year, helping my aunty-friend escape from one such shitty relationship full of lies and deception. So I’m particularly sensitive about this topic at the moment.

Glad to hear I totally didn’t get the context of the meme!

Right, time to touch grass. Cheers!

I was thinking that it was coming from a place of Linux “dudes by default” and hadn’t clocked that it’s apparently a Linux/trans meme.

I misunderstood the meme.

I don’t give a fuck what “men” wear though, so I don’t know what you’re referring to either. Perhaps we’re both confused!? :-P

I like the way you assumed I even know what the unix socks meme is. Because somehow I don’t beyond… socks and sandals? I dunno. It flew over my head, in this form. 25+ years on Linux. I have no explanation.

The transwomen I’m friends with aren’t into Linux or stripey stockings AFAIK.

Whoosh!

Thanks for your understanding! The meme definitely went over my head.

I was indeed reacting to the “cis dude by default” thing which as a gender nonconforming guy has pissed me off for decades about computing spaces. “Riced” Linux desktops with basically cartoon tits for wallpaper, still all over Reddit any week. (I left Reddit, thankfully.)

I’ve been nerding out on Linux over 25 years and I have no idea about the socks thing, at least not enough to get the meme. I’m a longtime electronic music production nerd too so I got into raves and running sound systems in fields - I’m more “army boots and piercings” than “socks and sandals”. There are many flavours of geek!

Well in that case it went sailing over my head. I hope you’re right! I’m a trans ally (my child is nonbinary) albeit nowhere near up to speed on a lot of stuff particularly memes.

I’ve lately been helping an older female friend through a shitty breakup where the fact the guy purely objectifies women in a cartoonish porno and pedo sense has been one of many disturbing revelations about what a creepy bastard he has turned out to be.

I guess I saw "disembodied vaguely sexualised teenage girl legs’ and just felt grossed out because there are still a bunch of creepy old sexual predators out there and this meme gave me the same ick feeling I’ve been dealing with, knowing for sure that my teenagers are definitely not too young for a particular 65 year old in our town.

Basically I’m sick and tired of sexually predatory men and I will take them down whenever we encounter each other!

Anyway apologies for not getting the meme… which remains a meme I don’t like, but obviously there’s more to it than I realised.

[ Edit: I didn’t understand the meme! See comments for context.]

Can we choose to stop having teenage girl manga leg fetish memes associated with Linux? That’s my choice because it’s not the 90s any more and I’m a middle-aged beardy father of three daughters. This meme is totally seedy and doesn’t do any favours for Linux or Open Source.

It’s not particularly funny and we can come up with far better memes without making it seem (yet again) like Linux might be mostly for creepy basement-dwelling nerds who haven’t met many real women and who aren’t creating a welcoming community which truly views women as something more than sex objects.

It’s dinosaur-era shit, guys. Please make better memes!

They’re heating the room too so technically it’s a radiator with network attached storage!

Windows: creates e-waste

Linux: collects e-waste under the stairs “just in case it’s useful”