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[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In the Chicago black community

I'm sorry, what‽ As a black Chicagoan, no the Hell we aren't.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

I feel like we've run this meme further than is useful; there's absolutely criticisms to be had about how the separation of church in state operates within American government but it's hardly the only "developed" (hate that word but you know what I mean) country to have a government that takes for granted Christianity as default; Britain, after all, has a state church – for (pun slightly intended) Christ's sake – that definitely bleeds into the way its government thinks about what a religion is and how much "religion" gets support.

I'm not saying I wouldn't prefer (and hope we move towards) a more strict and complete separation but let's not pretend America is astonishingly unique…

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 13 hours ago

Beautifully succinct

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Mmm; I guess it isn't a direct face eat (but my brain sort of made the assumption as he's a conservative commentator and has been pushing how Trump's policies would be good for American citizens).

Basically, he's been talking about immigrants have been taking jobs (and, apparently, actually believes that the immigrants Trump have been deporting have mostly been dangerous) and, now, is suddenly surprised that citizens like himself are getting deported, as if the xenophobia and cruelty-is-the-point of the trump administration wouldn't fall back on U. S. citizens (or, perhaps more accurately, as if the administration would care if it did).

But, yeah, you bring up a good point that it isn't a direct face eating.

 
[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

Always felt like it was taking up too much of the screen space but I'm using counsel, for opening files, already; maybe it'd be easier to just find something along those lines than directly imitating the bash experience. Thanks for the suggestion!

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah; I hate Android's file navigation capabilities…

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

I mean, people always think teaching not to bully people is boringly obvious and it is, if you stop to think about the concept in theory, but it can be different, when you're in the heat of the moment; teaching the fundamentals do help people, even if painfully clear to those at a higher level. I think those're actually pretty good.

The issue (as you've kinda noted) is they never go beyond that. The Honey scan might be hard to impart as, if I didn't know some of how the system worked because I program for a living, it would've seemed like magic gibberish. The other two are good ones, though.

Honestly, teaching the fundamentals of how the intervals work in some way I think would go far. The number of people who don't know what file extensions are always worry me.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Do E-mail providers no longer let you search the E-mail body?

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This always surprises me as I'm younger millennial and my Gen X dad always feels more technologically behind than me.

But it's funny because I'm only so into computers because of him as he had things like Windows 3.1 and 95 and 98 in our home from a young age and he even went to school for C++ but he doesn't really remember it (it got him an accounting gig) and his pursual of technology these days is pretty limited to pre-built stuff from Samsung and Sony than any real grasp of how it works. I struggle to get him to show even passing interest in something like Linux (like, I get liking Windows; you grew up with it: you're more comfortable with it. But not even curiosity, even if you'll never use it?).

Expert on Excel and OneNote (because it's his daily bread-and-butter) but probably would ask for my help on rotating a PDF.

What OP describes sounds much more aligned to my millennial peers than the bulk of Gen. X I know.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago

Still one of the absolutely best things I've ever read; always reread in full.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago

"I'm not a member of any organized political party; I'm a Democrat."

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago

I mean, how is that any qualitatively different than people enforcing stove regulations themselves? They could do it themselves, with enough motivation.

 

Dunno if anyone would know but, basically, I want something similar to Ctrl-r, when you're using Bash.

eshell-isearch-backward kind of gets at it but it seems to fail at detecting commands that have definitely been used in the past, randomly (and finds them when invoked a second time…; the other issue is there doesn't seem to be an easy way to reinvoke it. Commands like eshell-isearch-repeat-backward don't seem to work like anticipated).

Figured I'd throw out a line, in case anyone knew.

 

After one-too-many "Buy <different hierarchical business/corporation suggestion>" posts and struggling to look up resources for my own needs, I figured there might be use (and an audience) for a hub for people to go to and collect resources at.

I considered just posing questions here but, while definitely a sub-topic, this sublemmy seems more expansive than my more limited scope (which, obviously, is also a good thing); just wanted to share here as, like I mentioned, there's obviously overlap.

Also, the original thing that kicked me to finally make this is I wanted to make and order stickers for a design I had; I could, of course, use something like Zazzle but that felt like a less good decision. Feel free to let me know if there's anything cooperatively owned out there, possibly.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15985272

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15985043

They've got a few different things going on, including discussion groups, a journal, and a publishing house.

They're also running a fundraiser with the main aim of getting people paid, which seems laudable!

 
 

A picture titled with "The Right reacting to a leftist meme;" it's followed by a picture of the Disney character Gaston looking confusedly at a book and captioned as saying, "How am I supposed to laugh at this, there is no bigotry."

 

Husband: He's gonna have an egg.

Husband: Well, he had an egg…

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