Well, I was an Amiga user. That was already unix-like, preemptive multitasking, etc. It was fading fast in the early nineties, and while i was already working in I.T., I was not interrsted in using Windows 3.11 and 95, so I began playing with Slackware Linux. I figured it was a good way to get comfortable with “real” I.T…

I learned Bash and had to compile most of the software i wanted to try. Since, like all programmers, I’m lazy, I wrote some simple scripts to build the code and make them into packages (tgz) for Slackware. This took tedium out of the work, and i could use the packkage manager to install and remove them.

Those were rough days for desktop users, though. I really had to use windows when i needed to pass output to “normies”. I tried several window manager and desktops, and eventually landed on Ubuntu.

Know anybody on the east coast who could participate? I’m becoming truly scared at this point.

Classic movie! It was commenting on the Regan era trickle-down, job exporting, tax-cutting agenda and the people behind it

True gallows humor - in a dad joke. Well done. (Seriously)

I’m going to sit down in the corner over there and weep quietly now.

The fact that Trump has not already been removed from office on the basis of violating the constitution tells me he’s already won.

There are no consequences to ignoring the rule of law, so he will simply continue. Since there are no consequences to ignoring law, he will simply cancel elections. Who’s gonna stop him? He’s already declared himself king and few even shrugged.

It’s over. The only thing left is a violent uprising. Pretty soon even saying that will be enough to put the speaker in prison as a terrorist.

Thanks, I will look into this. I don’t speak the language, so it might be a challenge getting a job.

That said, i have long had a fascination with Scandinavia and learned much about the Eddas, the different cultures of the Scandinavian people, and of course the pantheon of dieties. I feel i have at least a thin base of knowledge to start.

Any countries out there willing to take in an American who lived in France for a while, is sane, reasonably intelligent, and does not think he’s better than everybody else?

I think I might have lost my country, could use a good home and community. Skilled software engineer, so i won’t be a burden.

Looks that way, doesn’t it?

Many Democrat peers are urging AOC to do just that.

Of course he did. Toss him out and gice AOC his job.

Operate the gas tank? What new feature did they add that requires a container of liquid to be networked?

Perhaps I’m not seeing the sarcasm in this. The level of hatred one has to have for a whole population to genuinely want them all killed in disgrace reminds me of something that happened in recent history several times… hmm… what could that be? Cambodia, Serbia, Germany… hmm.

Mighty high horse there. Got a mirror? Consider using it.

Excellent job taking what I wrote and reframing it to make it appear i asserted something I did not.

Reading the room, I can see this forum is filled with people who have an axe to grind and have already decided I am a “part of the problem” because I had the audacity to suggest that we should not demonize the American founders.

Good luck finding a nation that has any redeeming qualities, given that no founders are unimpeachable for anything.

Really? You think because people existed who held our view of what is right means all who did not have an epiphany, and whole-heartedly agree, are horrible subhuman beings?

Okay, fella - take a few breaths and relax. People are products of their times. The better ones fight for virtues and values they see as better at the time. They see an opportunity others do not and rally people around those.

Others they don’t see and continue wi5h those norms, or they see the wrongs but don’t believe they can rally people around fixing them.

Do not demonize people in the past who do not meet current norms. There will never be anybody who will meet those standards.

Judge them against the standards of their peers.

What if MLK did not support feminists? Would he now be considered scum, thus negating everything good he ever did?

Heck, i don’t know if he had a stance on women’s rights explicitly. Maybe he didn’t. Is he evil if he didn’t?

The revenge!

I think he sould have included Chromite. Regularly updated and a fork of the abandoned Bromite, which was a privacy-centric project. I still use Firefox, but also use Chromite.

It’s everybody else stuck in this mess who do not deserve it that is the problem. If it only affected the people who made that dumbass choice, it wouldn’t be such a moral disaster.

… we’ll, not THAT shocking.

Sounds like our democracy is dead, if true.