More specifically, it's the definition of antisemitism that the zionist lobby wants you to believe. Standing up for a people's right is somehow hateful for the other group yet they don't bat an eye to actual, true antisemitism. That's because when the IHRA definition was adopted, pro-Palestinian movements are now defined as antisemitism in the reports, resulting in a massive sea of noise, resulting in actual antisemitism cases being looked at much less.

Funny how a foreign lobby claiming to fight antisemitism ironically has cases where actual antisemites aren't prosecuted for their crimes.

was too incompetent to install arch one time so i used archinstaller and created a separate home partition. couple years later that root partiton's close to filled up, and i do an update after deleting come programs to free up space. then some weird text appeaerrs in terminal, and so i try to update again (this time specifically wine), says loads of files already exist in filesystem. i think "this is weird", so i restart.

what instantly gets my attention is this text greeting me on boot

loading Linux linux... error: file '/vmlinuz-linux' not found. Loading initial ramdisk... error: you need to load the kernel first.

Press any key to continue.

yup, i just borked my install, so i hastily whipped out an outdated arch USB, updated it using a spare laptop and am now on a reinstall (luckily i keep the important files on a separate drive, so not all is lost). extra insult to injury was that my previous install had my drive LUKS encrypted, so i couldn't evne get in there to possibly backup anything if i tried lol. but it's feels refreshing starting anew though.

this seems familiar. where have i heard this before?

The biggest punchline of all of this is that our tax dollars are paying for this propaganda. Not in my name.

consistent one-sided reporting

Remember the statements the IDF and Israeli media put out when the Al-Ahli hospital was bombed? first they said it was a Hamas rocket, and after that was debunked they say that the hospital was a Hamas base/bunker, without providing any evidence.

Sure sounds like propaganda, conspiracy theories and one-sided reporting to me.

Yet you guys freak out when this argument is used on Ukraine. Both are bullshit arguments btw.

And when they laid off their QA team with the testing lab of thousands of unique computers, they replaced it with VMs and AI. Because VMs are a totally good way to troubleshoot very specific bugs. The AI part is used to supposedly figure out when you're "idle" so what Windows can update.

Imagine needing AI to update a computer lmao

Yeah I think they do that for movies as well. If directors want the real thing (because who doesn't like practical effects and having the real thing in shot?), they'll have to contact the DoD.

The DoD reviews the script for the movie, and they just water it down to absolute propaganda (they even say it out loud, they don't hide it). US is always good, enemy always bad, US wins and saves the day. If there's any criticism of the army, it's usually brief and with a very weak point.

Full Metal Jacket isn't approved by the DoD. Says everything you need to know about the, imo.

US when Russia invades Ukraine: They got invaded, we're sending weapons! Fuck off, Russia, we ain't negotiating with an invader. We're helping Ukraine get their land back.

US when Israel's occupying Palestine: We need to negotiate this with peace. Sure, Israel occupies the land, but it's to prevent terrorism! Don't you see the the rockets that are sent into Israel? Think of the civilians in Israel who are being killed by Hamas rockets. We need to de-militarise before we can bring peace.

The suits at Washington speaking on anything dealing with Israel seem very similar to the likes of Russian propaganda being spewed about on RT. Just replace Donbass with Israel, and Azov and Banderites with Hamas and Palestinians. Aside from a few talking points, i just get that vibe.

Before anyone goes all keyboard warrior, I think the invasion of Ukraine and occupation of Palestine are both illegal and unjustified.

the reason why people dislike huge margins and rounded corners is because they grew up in the oldschool era of computing (say from late 90s to maybe early-late 2000s). UI back then was designed to be relatively compact and be readable, everything useful is at a glance and it's primarily designed for a keyboard and mouse, so if ther's any margins it's bound to be at least a couple to few pixels at most.

this kinda clashes with the more modern age where designs are a bit more simplified and spaced out (i guess inspiration came from mobile phone design, idk), and text is mostly discarded for more visual design, which if you know what the icons look like it can be a bit more simplistic, but when in 115 there's a small little cloud with an arrow as the get messages button, yeah it's a bit abstract (and now a bit harder to get to that button), meanwhile the new message button is more or less in the spotlight. it's inconsistent imo.

i think it would have been more successful if they stuck to the pre-115 design but just touched it up a bit, maybe get some more modern icons for it and make it feel a it more sleek but without changing the overall layout and design.

and rounded corners are a taste thing, some people might like very slightly rounded corners while very rounded corners just aren't their thing. (i'm one of those people, i just like corners that are like 1-3px rounded, 10 to 20 and above is a bit excessive and i generally associate overly rounded corners with the likes of google and microsoft with their current products).

and this is coming from a gen X lol, i just grew up XP what can i say. although i do like flat design when it's done well (discord gets it right, excluding some rebranding choices).

Those polls you got your source from are actually polls done by state-run polling facilities. of course poeple are going to say what the state wants to hear. here's a video on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQCNjIHeqU

Btw, by saying that "80% of Russians support this war", you're spreading Russian state propaganda.

And of course protests in Russia died down, people get jailed for like 10-15 years in prison if they protest, so by fear of getting jailed, protestors stop. it isn't pretty but it's how the system works.

discovered a workaround that i could get to the C drive, then discovered a program that could change the wallpaper and info text on the computer (the change was local to that specific computer). had a little bit of fun with that a couple of times. i also brought in a USB stick with Linux Mint installed on it and booted to that whenever i had free time (i mostly browsed the safe side of the darkweb [back when it was still interesting] and made keygen music in OpenMPT). fun times those were. also booting to mint led me to fully switch to linux so ye :)