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had you installed mint or pop, you could just install multiple chrome variants from the software manager

it definitely is more user friendly, i remember trying ubuntu 10+ years ago and the default driver was awful, the nvidia driver install ran in the terminal and asked questions that i had no answer to, so half the time i fucked it up, and then it didn't support my monitor so i had to edit the x server conf to get the correct resolution and refresh rate. and when the new drivers came out i had to re-do everything every time
for a few years now you just install with a usb stick and everything runs great

TIT (today i teach): you can use https://www.urbandictionary.com/ to explain new words of phrases.
in firefox (and many other browsers too), you can right click the search bar and "add search engine", and you can add a "keyword", i personally use "ud", and then i can type "ud dni" (for instance) in the address bar (ctrl+l to get there quick) and it goes straight to results

if the page isn't supported, it doesn't show "add search engine", google translate for example, you can still add it in a different way
search for a recognisable word, and bookmark the resulting page. then go to bookmark/manage bookmarks (ctrl+shift+o), find the bookmark, replace your recognisable word with "%s", add a keyword (depending on the language i use 2en, 2de, 2jp etc)

i think they address the upset

and also, that's why you should let whatever awful thing is happening, to play out, they will be so absolutely punished for i swear

oh sure, rub it in, mr multiple friend groups

we just had to create a new instance for coder7ZybCtRwMc, we'll merge it back soon

reminds me of that oprah show when a lady reads out then contemporary teenage sexual slang and it's so obvious the kids were fucking with her

the iranian regime is the work of the cia. they thought they could manipulate the religious fundamentalists, so they supported a coup against a democratically elected president, with a budget of $1M in 1953
there is way more, check it out, if you're interested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran

hey! it's andrew huang * clap *

the steel and battery thing is a parallel that i didn't connect, that is a very good point. i just keep stressing out about the poisoning of the surrounding areas. hungarians are already pretty "relaxed" about safety regulations, the chinese are even worse
i would disagree that they pushed communism at all, in marx's theory democracy should be not just in politics, but in the workplace too, but having one party and they deciding what everyone does (and if you disagree, you disappear) is very counter to that
and that was a problem from the very first election the russians had, after the revolution - lenin (who i think was well intended) didn't like the results, that the moderates won, so he forced his way (which was a fatal mistake to be clear). marx did describe a temporary, transitional phase of "workers's dictatorship" before the actual communism, and the bolsheviks latched on to that hard, and kept it going, and eventually this was exported to hungary as well - "the singular party knows what the people want and need, or else"
there are some famous examples of soviets appointing people to important positions because of how loyal they were, like guy who ran the chernobyl experiment, trofim lysenko who caused mass starvation with an untested agricultural theory, or the general who blew up himself and a few hundred other people trying to rush a space rocket launch for the anniversary of the bolshevik revolution, even though nobody told him to do so
fortunately hungary, the "happiest barrack" didn't have it this bad, but it was common that only party members got positions, and often they knew nothing about the subject. a biology teacher told me about how back in the day, the leader of the local farming collective didn't even know what protein was
imo the current system is worse (edit:) in that they don't even put the incompetent people in power to actually do the job, they only do it to enable them to steal as much as possible

i assume you realise capitalism isn't a defense against dictatorship either? almost every country in the world currently is capitalist, and yet, half of them are a dictatorship, or nearing it (how long til freedom country officially stops being free? there's still some resistance)
and also that the usa did everything in their power to curb the spread of communism? multiple democratically elected somewhat socialist leaders were killed or at least deposed, to place money friendly tyrants instead, the ones that survived, were like castro in cuba, because they were extremely careful, to the point of paranoia, or they were too big to tackle, like the soviets and china. not to mention they participated and participate even more nowadays in (state) capitalism