I didn’t want to come off pissed. I’m sorry if it was perceived like that

You did not come across that way, just that you assumed I put in Merkel when I deliberately avoided putting her in, so in terms of tone and whatnot, there’s no problems.

I guess people could interpret the decisions of Thatcher in multiple ways as well. Those people would be wrong though.

With thatcher it’s a bit more straightforward for some of the things she did and it’s wide ranging impacts. I don’t think Merkel decimated entire regions of germany the way thatcher did to britain, even though she made some people very rich.

Merkel may have made choices that had undesired impacts, but thatcher was really something else.

I purposely avoided putting her name in as she is a complex ruler who is largely average and debatable the same way most male leaders are and her decisions can be interpreted in multiple ways by multiple people…

unlike May, thatcher or kitchner.

The world would be so much better with women in charge.

The women in charge we end up with :

(nb : I’m not saying women are incapable of power, just that assuming women would be great leaders is a stupid idea. There are examples of great/not horrid female leaders like Jacinda Ardern, but thatcher, this woman, Kirchner, theresa may, the lettuce woman are all terrible)

I’d probably reject PRs into my FOSS projects, because the aim is to put the code out there for other people to see and do what they want with it. I’m expressing myself, and sharing what I made; I’m not setting up a tentpole project for others to pitch in and take over on, and start managing their contributions and collaborate with them.

If they want to take the code and do something with it, great. I don’t want to be involved in their endeavour.

Idk, I just don’t understand how I’m “moving the goalposts”? Or perhaps I’ve just misunderstood the point of your comment.

CGP Grey made the video for “get rid of the penny”. When they got rid of the penny, he made the video “get rid of the nickel, and the dime.” When the original goal as getting rid of the penny, once that was achieved, he moved the goalposts to get rid of the nickel.

Your statement is in line with CGP Grey’s (correct) viewpoint.

Pointing this out in a facetious manner is meant to be humorous.

CGP Grey is a youtuber who made a video years ago about stopping printing the penny. when trump announced ending printing the penny, he made basically the same video about stopping printing the nickel, and the dime.

Due to Inflation.

The same reason that Bernie sanders pushed for a $15/h minimum wage, which should itself be inflated from its 2016 amount to 22 bucks an hour.

While I think both of you are making reasonable arguments, I wanted to make fun of the situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SrtQNt4YE < kill nickels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U < Kill pennies

just use the sink ffs

Thanks CGP Grey. You keep moving them goalposts.

Just like how the federal minimum wage needs to be over 22 dollars, not just Fif-Teen bucks an hour </bernie>

Basically cedeing power to the presidency should be effectively impossible, but power decaying back to the states should be the norm.

I can’t wait for the yanks to rub in my face that “AcKsHuAlLy, MeDiCaL mEtH iS lEgAl In WeSt ViRgInIa” while ignoring that women initiating divorce is illegal in idaho.

EDIT: maybe I fucked it up, but it’s already intolerable when shitheads brag about “The USA has legal weed” when it’s in certain states with many restrictions, and ignore all the shit that other states ban, like abortion. Or, permit, like child marriage.

well, in terms of pragmatics, this is internal policing by the royal family, as what’s at stake is if the royal family continues to exist or not. Andrew is being forced onto his sword by his brother in order to keep the hope of maintaining the royal family going for at least one more generation.

EDIT : that is to say, this isn’t a punishment by the democratic powers of the united kingdom, so they have nothing to brag about.

My extremely popular opponent can’t take over my role if he’s in jail for a zillion years

And they stopped enforcing measles vaccination for kids in school during COVID.

fucking hell

how did canada lose it before the US?

PiHole DNS

that’s what I’m missing

the fucking intrusiveness on that webpage is what’s going give me heart failure jfc

I don’t think I’m using any really fancy KDE features I just like that I can bodge together whatever I want it to look like… which is basically windows with re-orderable applications, shoving most things I have in the background into the system tray, and jerking off furiously that I don’t have to touch my phone because of KDE connect, but I think you can install it on non KDE systems, since most of the apps that start with K in package managers has some KDE affiliation, but run on any linux system regardless of KDE Plasma graphical shell or any alternative like GNOME or MATE

I mean, based on their previous most recent titles, and what the ad budget is going to be, they are going to expect at least a billion dollars in profit

bait. he’s complaining, not snapping and freaking out

Part of me thinks that this game will always sell gangbusters no matter what.

Part of me thinks that this is going to be the one where no one fucking gives a shit because of all the BS that R* have been doing since GTA5, and the oversaturation of open world games, and the stagnation of the series is going to make it sell WAY less than expected and fuck them over significantly.

I barely gave a fuck about 5. I’m 100% not going to buy this one.