Maybe it's because I'm a foreigner; maybe I'm also too disconnected, but I didn't get half of the supposed contentious items listed in this post.

Reading the comments, I was like, 'oh, that's what they meant by...'. The body count really surprised me, and in a negative way. Body count sounds so... tasteless. But who cares. Since I don't use that expression, I'll probably forget it soon (the good side of having a lousy memory).

Having opinions about other peoples gender, sexual orientation, private matters. Also legislating about that.

Rock solid review. A bit hard and on the wayside, but still putting it out there.

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
Source: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/...

Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.

It's worth mentioning that Arch wiki is the best place to go to solve that.

I've had a brother WiFi printer on the recent past and managed to get it going by... reading carefully the CUPS instructions on Arch wiki.

A month ago, my non-geek uncle had a similar difficulty with his wireless printer. I again got it going by pointing out where to look and what instructions to follow.

So, yes, printer problems on Arch stations are a real thing.

I read it differently. It's an ambience. The author is not taking off actual interviews being scheduled.

Rather, replies to your applications are so few that you end up getting frustrated. Because of that, in the long run, you forget checking the website. Now, if in the meanwhile you get a reply, nobody's home to receive it.

You miss it not because you're lazy or careless, but because you're human and there's so much you can do to keep hoping.

Maybe you'll like it more under this new guise: I named my cat Goofyball. But since Linnaeus named the species Felis catus, you remind me that my cat's name should ackchyually be Felis catus/Goofyball. To which I reply, very appropriately, 'it's MY cat'. So Goofyball it is.

Understand now the authority argument? Authority in the sense of authorial, having an author.

This may seem a tangent, but bear with me. You make an interesting point. Your view should be considered.

You look deeper into the mentality us vs them behind this meme. You identify that as a possible strategy to keep people apart. That is something worthwhile considering.

Now, problem is your post is hard to parse. You have what amounts to a whole paragraph with only one period. My suggestion: break information into small chunks. That greatly helps your readers. It allows them to become more engaged with your content.

Now, leaving that aside. Thanks for trying to reason through this shallow us-them mentality.

I've been using it for more than 20 years, but I still love when someone pulls the GNU/Linux card.

To me it feels like reading an old plaque in Latin. It reminds me of an important past that shouldn't be forgotten.

I'm confused about your comment. Why assume it's childish to act in a way that distances you of any drama?

Why that us vs. them attitude of name calling someone as childish? How is that any different of the childish behaviour that is being hoisted upon in the first place?

Perhaps that's an indication that a side is already being chosen?

Anyway, don't take my comment in a wrong way. I really have no dog in this fight. I barely know who this Linus guy is. I just dislike seeing people being rude to each other, unneedingly escalating discussions by being unkind.

In the Republic, book VIII, Socrates identifies as democracy's leading cause of corruption precisely that thing makes it seemingly so beautiful. In a democracy, citizens become inebriated with freedom (Euleteria). By making it the highest goal, people in a democracy end up leading democracy to its downfall.

True ca. 2400 years ago; still true today.

I felt the same at first. But then I remembered that Calvin hates baths. So he's just doing his schtick, complaining. With that he wants to push his mother's patience to the limit. He believes that by doing so his mother will reach a point where she'll quit making him take baths.

Here's another example:

Guy Debord captures the problem best in his The Society of the Spectacle (1967).

In theory, you could probably go against it. Problem is that the Spectacle (capitalist ideology visually manifested) is tautological and self-reinforcing. Even to critique it you have to make the critique a spectacle, which immediately undermines that very same critique (think of any YouTube video critiquing YouTube).

So no, it's no the same. The odds are insanely stacked up in favor of keeping the structure in place—unlike breaking away from said belief in the divinity of kings.

The rotary disc on phones!

Any history book will be filled with such stories. Depending on the outlook, I'd say all history is like that.

Take any one event. Let's pick any decisive moment in history. Say, the battle of Salamis. Now flip it to the side of the Persians and you have the kind of blunder you're looking for.

I read the arch elitists as a slur directed to the arch user. So in my arch-user brain, that became akin to a prejudiced label, like 'ageism' or 'ableism'. Is there a kind of 'archism'?

Yes, I had to put some work to have my computer running. But that was so long ago that I don't even remember when or how it was. So now that statistic is screwed. I don't think about my install 99% of the time (I do think about it when I topgrade it weekly).

But I do get it. This is supposed to be a joke, and an easy one. As my comment reveals, I'm not the target audience. If I was fuming, I would be Tom on that bottom picture. Maybe I woke up in a more philosophical mood and got myself carried away by my initial question. I don't know.

For the poster, I want to wish them a wonderful day. Thanks for the thought-provoking meme you shared.

Definitely the weirdest timeline. I'm sorry for those who, by being already vulnerable and dispossessed, will get further tossed down.

Exactly. Whatever side-effect is cast upon you, you THINK it was chosen by you. You're 100% sure it was your decision. You're blissfully but unfortunately erroneously way too self-confident.

First time I read that, and it's brilliant! It describes perfectly what's happening.

If you came up with that on your own, congrats. If you read somewhere, thanks for sharing.