and you’re just very bad at explaining your position on an extremely sensitive subject?

An extremely sensitive subject is normally discussed the same way as an absolutely mundane subject, just very sensitive.

Like a big system is like a small system, just big. And vice versa.

Order of statements in a conversation or actions in a conflict matters, and a statement or an action can have different weight.

Quite obviously if you are generally right, but have used some nasty insults, you are still generally right. Even if the other side is perfectly polite.

And, again, why are you listing other ways to insult people, as if they are fine when they’re not?

God, are you dense.

Life is a rarely a zero-sum exchange, and quite often both sides aren’t perfect people. Just because someone slapped you after you called them a slur doesn’t mean you’re now in the right because they escalated to physical violence.

You even write that yourself. When someone is violating your private space or just attacking you on the street because they don’t like you for whatever reason (autistic people get a lot of that) and they are a humiliated good-for-nothing creature with no other ways to reinforce their self-confidence, you might say a lot of things including slurs to get rid of them, and be right.

Like I fundamentally am having trouble relating to you on this. I can’t tell if your mental is that fucked, if you are terrible at explaining something I’m missing, or if you’re trying to troll. I’ve come across differences in opinions, based on severity and direction. It feels like we’re not using the same system.

No, you are trying to play intelligent refusing to admit you get a very simple mechanism.

They have a simplistic tit-for-tat moral code

The alternatives are limited to “my group is always right” and “I pick one aspect and ignore all others, and the one aspect is always arbitrarily chosen, and when the comparison kinda equals, the result is arbitrarily chosen”. If you have any to add, you are welcome.

And the word “simplistic” is usually used by people unable to defend their position with actual points. It’s kinda useless otherwise.

and ignore the relative degree of contempt telegraphed by different ethnic slurs.

Since it is not given here what the particular slur would be compared against for any “relative degree”, your comment clearly presents you as someone who

tends to not be very bright

, and the advice I won’t accept wasn’t answering my comment. I said that a continuation of an argument doesn’t say much about the beginning.

Ethnic slurs are a subset of insults here. Not much different from addressing someone’s body features, impairments, life story specifics.

There is no situation where you are on the right side when using a slur.

Of course there is, every time it’s a minor part of the event. Like 3000 is greater than 2001, despite 1 being greater than 0. Seems simple enough.

beyond trying to kill the app via the task manager

Which is exactly what I said, just in shell commands because that’s quicker for me. Except pkill steam kills everything containing steam in the process name, steam is a little bitch spawning a lot of them. Quicker.

What you said sounds like mystic gobbledygook to me.

“Task manager” is not some fundamental term either. Someone who hadn’t use Windows, if there were many of such people, wouldn’t know that it’s a GUI application listing running services and some of the processes.

Mass Linux adoption is still far out of reach for the average user.

If you are going to measure it by what advanced users are used to not being immediately understandable for others, then it is.

Ah. OK, stopping defending her.

It’s funny how these things work, where I live nationalists are rather intelligent people, that kind is just thugs. And something about “white race” being said seriously I’ve only heard from people, eh, limited in their worldview and thinking it’s absolutely normal. Older teachers, for example. Or my idiot dad, but at the same time anything right-related in my interests he would perceive as signs of scary-scary fascism, I don’t think one can see that combination often.

Not being protective of telling children anything such, but I have used ethnic slurs in the past, especially when answering other insults. And when you were being unjustly attacked, then slipped and said something bad, and then are being attacked for that too as if that justified the beginning, then it’s a natural reaction to double down on the unfortunate words too.

So, eh, depends on the situation. I think I have right to answer people attacking me and putting me into a fight-or-flight situation with any words, they’ll still be in the wrong. But if this is not what happened, then using someone’s race as an argument worthy of repetition should be punished.

Many right-wingers … just want to hurt their out-group.

You are right, it’s just that there’s a weird embedded quality to this statement.

Technically cooking rice with vegetables (cabbage, onions, potatoes, carrots, bell peppers, a bit of everything) and a few pieces of turkey or chicken meat is good food and is easy to prepare.

But from the interwebs it seems that there in Kennedy land everything is fried and heavily seasoned with a lot of cancer-causing fats of all kinds.

W lies and propaganda led to Putin and Trump

At least talking about Putin, that jerk and his family (both actual and “family”) created most of the lies, propaganda and war in the ex-Soviet space themselves. Starting right with year 1991 (Yeltsin had a different public image, but it was one team), hijacking a honest democratic movement, breaking what institutions limiting them USSR still had (under democratic excuses), and making every regional conflict a thorn in its body, either hard to remove or fulfilling their goals when removed. Consummating their achieved right to answer legal arguments with cannons in 1993, their achieved right to arbitrarily wage war on their compatriots in 1996, and their achieved right to kill anyone they don’t like in 1999. They literally rule Russia as an occupied country, they even live mostly abroad.

So by 2000 Russia was already deep in shit. Dunno about USA.

The terrorists won.

Like Bush, Putin, Erdogan, those terrorists. Yep.

Spitting out drones.

A cannon is good, but a vibro-pike like the old days would do too, imagine a robotic lancer charge at some terrified Muslim idiots.

Liberalize zoning laws and strip nimbys of their power.

Maybe zoning laws are bad, but I’m looking out of my window and see a mall that was built in place of a big square of grass where people would have picnics and sunbathe at summer in my childhood. The wind was also wonderful, and you could see all the way till the court building behind it from me (new, but not as ugly), and the ship-like Soviet enormous building on the side of it made the whole place beautiful. Now it’s just asphalt and that huge ugly mall in place of grass. Looks depressive and too expensive.

And right before my window there’s a two-story (almost 1.5) Soviet abandoned (some disagreement between ministry of defense that owned it in Soviet times and someone they illegally sold it to, there was some deadlock in deciding who owns it) cinema building, apparently the legal problems have been resolved and instead of it I might behold a buttfuck-ugly 5-story building instead soon. I’m certain that if that happens, a few trees and grass there would too vanish as if they never existed.

Moderation is gold, and all that.

It’s less efficient use of space, it should be more expensive.

No. The spaces with more density and better infrastructure have also bigger commercial demand, as offices, malls and such. Well, where I live we don’t have zoning laws, so maybe it’s different in your land of cowboys and coyotes, but I think rented apartments still fit the definition. And already developed places are more contested than empty areas. The function is quadratic, so in uncontested areas it’s commercially viable to own and support homes cheaper than renting. The expenses of living there come from transport, fuel, anything from food to matches to medicine being more expensive due to logistics (except probably for things produced nearby), worse connectivity, electricity outages, having to spend a lot of time to get to work.

Provided the supply isn’t artificially prevented from reaching the demand. Which is what, I’ve heard, your country does have as a problem.

Tried to install Mint on my laptop, wouldn’t work. Googled the issue, had to rename a file in the boot directory for some reason.

UEFI problems, sorry. Would have them with Windows too probably.

Tried again, wouldn’t work. Googled issue, had to turn off secure boot in bios.

Unfortunately Microsoft pushed Secure Boot everywhere, so yes, for most distributions you have to turn it off (some have signed kernels or whatever).

Loading… Loading… Loading… Okay it’s clearly stuck. How do I kill a process on Linux? Google it, okay that’s not too hard. Try launching Steam again, same thing. Google this issue, get a lot of different potential causes, involving delving into some obscure directories.

So removing the ~/.steam directory after doing pkill steam didn’t help? That seems simpler than most Windows tasks. Anyway, I have Steam working even under FreeBSD.

Nobody will believe that you don’t have some Windows experience exceeding what you seem to consider the maximum acceptable requirement for Linux. Don’t even try.

So imagine far in the future scholars discussing, how heavy cavalry revolutionized XXI century warfare.

TBH something really useful would look more like a “General Grievous mode” exoskeleton.

Lightsabers would be good too.

https://www.tcl-lang.org/

Yep, try writing a Gemini client, I just did, it feels well.

For easy things this comes up in Google https://tcljava.sourceforge.net/docs/website/index.html . I was playing with LEGO TBH. EDIT: … in those years