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Yet another thing that sucks about fascist corruption: you can’t even trust the good things the regime does to (a) be real and (b) not have some ulterior motive.

Thinking opposing patriarchy is misandry is such a self-report, LOL.

I like this particular version of Spooky Scary Skeletons: Dave Wave - [Electro Swing Remix] Spooky Scary (Swingin’) Skeletons - Extended Club Version

Aside from that, the classics, obviously:

• Bobby “Boris” Pickett - Monster Mash
• Sheb Woolley - The Purple People Eater
• Michel Hackson - Thriller
• David Seville - Witch Doctor
• Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
• Rockwell - Somebody’s Watching Me
• The Classics IV - Spooky
• The Searchers - Love Potion No. 9
• Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You

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Also I haven’t finished the final season, only a few episodes in, savouring it.

Which final season?

$ hollywood

$ cmatrix

$ sl | lolcat

Or the silliest one of all…

$ emacs

I’m confused at what I’m looking at here. Is that a carpet with a cartoon rat on it hung on an exterior wall? Why?

I’ve been trying to learn French so maybe it doesn’t quite count anymore, but I really enjoy Papaoutai – both the original Stromae version and this Pentatonix cover that introduced me to it – as well as various other songs by Stromae.

Just giving someone $1000 doesn’t stop their landlord from increasing rent by $900 to match

It doesn’t need to; market forces do that. The supply and demand for housing don’t actually change just because the buyers have more money in their budget (to divide among housing and other things) so it’s not reasonable to expect prices to rise all that much either.

I admit, that’s not a super-satisfactory answer, but it’s a complicated and counterintuitive enough topic that nothing I could write succinctly enough for a Lemmy comment would address all possible counterarguments. As such, best I can do is cite some sources that explore it more fully:

• https://widerquist.com/will-basic-income-cause-rent-to-increase/

• https://ubiadvocates.org/will-universal-basic-income-increase-house-prices-and-rents/

• https://ask.metafilter.com/367648/How-does-universal-basic-income-not-mean-rent-going-up-the-same-amount

• https://www.givedirectly.org/how-do-cash-transfers-impact-neighbors/ [this is the “Kenya study” referenced by somebody in the Metafilter thread from the previous bullet point]

In the sense that “poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich,” you’re correct that putting a floor on wealth can’t solve the whole problem by itself. But that doesn’t mean it can’t help, especially when you consider:

1. UBI’s ability to lower the opportunity costs for things like retraining and entrepreneurship by helping people sustain themselves during that gap in earning, which gives them power to get themselves out of exploitative work situations. Addressing that power inequality between employers and workers is real, and is something UBI accomplishes a lot better than schemes, especially stuff like welfare with work requirements that do the exact opposite by forcing people to take any job, no matter how shitty, to remain eligible.
2. That the money for it has to come from somewhere, and most proposals for funding UBI involve making other taxes more progressive.

It’s pretty hard to fit all of what you just said into a meme.

I see that now!

Anyway, if what your meme is actually about is people that only use the browser and then refuse to switch but still constantly complain then yeah you’re dead on.

My meme is indeed sort of about that, but it’s even more about pushing back on the other thread and similar sentiments, where their flying monkeys defend their useless complaining and then try to make us out as the bad guys for responding in any way short of wallowing in their misery with them.

Yeah it’s a tough switch. It’s a lot like getting out of a relationship that you know isn’t gonna work, but every time you go to end it you think “hey it isn’t that bad right NOW is it?” and put it off.

A clean break would be faster and easier for everybody involved.

Exactly! And having enablers of that toxic relationship, like the person quoted in that other post, scolding people for making that exact point only makes the situation even worse.

I was using “you” in the general sense the same way the post I was quoting used it, not to address @prettybunnys in particular. In fact, I’m well aware that specific-you was not among the general-“you” I was addressing, as I referenced people with “your [Windows] problems” and specific-you had made it clear that you’re a Linux user. (Cute tattoo, BTW, although I’d have believed you even without the picture.)

Anyway, I apologize for not making that clear enough. I should’ve noted it explicitly like I did in this other comment, but I thought the context was sufficient. Or maybe I just got lazy, and have no good excuse. Either way, personally attacking you was not what I intended.

First of all:

Just use this other thing instead” has never been a good faith solution

Bullshit. That is very often an excellent solution!

Second, the thing this post was made in response to is as follows, and I quote:

Sometimes people just want to be able to complain about Windows or iOS without being told about Linux.

…

If the obvious reply to the post is “use Linux,” as a rule, do not post that. You are not adding anything.

I counter with this: if you [speaking generally, the same way the the original post was – not referring to @prettybunnys specifically] know the obvious reply you’re gonna get is “use Linux” and you don’t want to hear it, don’t fucking post your complaint in the first place because you [again, speaking generally] aren’t adding anything! You [still speaking generally] are not entitled to complain and then tone-police the responses you solicited! Who the fuck do you [even more speaking generally] think you are, to believe that you have the right to bother us publicly with your problems [continuing to speak generally, and that part makes it obvious because “your problems” refers to Windows problems and @prettybunnys apparently has a Tux tattoo] but we don’t have the right to ‘bother’ you with the solutions to them in response?! How is that behavior anything other than incredibly toxic and condescending?

IIRC some of the big unions are timing contract expirations to line up for a strike in 2028, but IMO we can’t wait that long.

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So let me get this straight: Linux users trying in good faith to help people are obnoxious, but Windows users who bitch and moan and refuse to take responsibility for their self-inflicted problems somehow aren’t?

Did you actually see the thing this was posted in response to? It was about scolding Linux users for even politely suggesting switching, which is the bare minimum to even begin to try to help solve the complainers’ real problem (corporate enshittification) instead of just the symptom du jour they were complaining about at any given moment.

Don’t scold us for trying to help you and then have the utter fucking gall to try to police our tone instead of your own!

Maybe you play a game with kernel anticheat, you don’t have a choice in the matter.

Who’s holding a gun to your head and forcing you to play games with anticheat?!

There’s no reason to just be a dick about it.

There’s every reason to “be a dick” (your words, not mine) to lying assholes who claim in bad faith that they have no choice when they obviously do.