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https://www.etymonline.com/word/dude

Interesting suggested etymology, I’d never have thought dude about the type of person described there.

If you want to boost USA manufacturing industries I’d look at the sector that killed it first.

Bring in international capital controls, forex restrictions, limit consumer / mortgage credit maybe bring in some directed credit requirements. Badically the bank regulation that was chucked out in the 1970s. When us msnufacturing industry mysteriously started to decline. 70s recessions were not only caused by oil price shocks, and the sectoral shift was reinforced by bank liberalisation.

I’d think you’d want to force the USA finance industry to invest (at least some decent amount) in the future of USA productive capacity, instead of letting them invest in China’s future and have an arms race to fuel a perpetual domestic property bubble.

Tarrifs might still be part of it - but if your domestic companies can’t borrow, they can’t grow or maintain/develop asset base.If they don’t have working capital facilities, they liquidate fast.

Tax breaks might work/help (as might tarrifs), but if taxes are all on profits, you still need to borrow against the future to make the investment in the present (i.e. make a loss and pay no tax anyway) to build the productive capacity. They’d be better for short payback or labour intensive industries than for capital intensive industry - without other stuff.

I guess if you mean income tax breaks for workers in certin types of jobs/companies, that is interesting. Either way you need quite a lot of monitoring to avoid corruption of just wierd distortions with unintended consequences. That’s what banks lending to businesses should do and be good at, monitoring their loans and their debtors.

And Slackware, of course.

I think the idea is that someome wants to avoid being “cancelled” after they’ve been exposed for for abusing social trust and norms of behaviour - usually to their own benefit.

So they denigrate or attack anyone exposing their shitty behaviour or anything similar. If they can do this they can contine to be cunts to society and avoid being ostracised by it.

But once they can get away with it, one can systematically exploit social trust and norms repeatedly, and presumably grow the power and influnce of their subculture. Even at the cost of overall the weath of the encompassing society - it won’t matter to the dicks so long as they can extort a bigger share of the smaller pie.

Polite society will unfortunately struggle to effectively ostracise the people who do this because they’re (rightly) worried about due process, accountability, fairness, and miscarriages of justice.

They’re trying justify making the selfish choice in the prisoner’s dilemma and abusing the trust that is so useful to cooperative/polite society.

They also get annoyed if coperative society is rational enough to slap them with the reciprocity they deserve after being found out for being a twat.

But I think they rationally they do want a 2-tier society, where lots of people in one tier cooperate to build trust and wealth (generally using trust instead of lawyers), then their tier extorts that wealth. And they find ways to protect themselves from consequences (generally using lawyers).

I’m sure many of the brainwashed masses don’t know which tier they’re in though.

Personally I’d advise against linux then. even if it means a million downvotes here.

Windows or actually OSX (if you’re ok with mac hardware) or chromeos will work much better for people who don’t ever want to do any basic configuration of their system. All of those have their own issues of course, so it’s a tradeoff for the user to consider. If doing no basic config is the #1 requirement, then I think that rules out linux as the correct choice.

If a user would stay maybe 12-24 months behind the cutting edge then they might be ok with a rolling release. The one time I did get a latest gen Wifi/BT card, I had to migrate from Debian to Arch to get it working.

I belive the only way youll get that experince with linux is with defined hardware - laptops or steamdeck. Linux is never going to cover all possible bleeding edge hardware combinations in a custom PC with no user config effort.

Until or unless linux becmes bigger than MS, and all HW manufactures get theur linux drivers working before the device goes on sale, as a matter of course. Never gonna happpen unless MS actually goes bust or something. I can’t see linux ever competing in B2B market; do all linux distributers combined have the resources to smarm up to a million corpo procurement twats? I don’t think so.

I see you have only two different answers so far. which is just not playing the game. i’ll give you another two; there are at least 15 “best lightweight linux distro”. For your use, I’d pick any one at random, try it out on a bootable usb.

Personslly, I’d try stock debian and choose LXQT for a lightweight desktop.

puppylinux also deserves a mention, I always have a bootble PL usb lying around somewhere. Its reliable , fast for a usb, very good potato-compatibility, has loads of useful programmes and utilitiea already in there. I’ve never actually installed it permanently though. Scared of making a commitment to slackware that I don’t understand.

I’d avoid Damn Small and Tiny Core though - unless you really need them. Cool as they are they are well out of mainstream.

Interesting thanks. Not all that surprising though.

1 and 2 can be done by human, or at least by industrial processses that have nowt to do with AI. Knowledgeless fabrication describes most of my woodworking projects, and definately any welding I’ve ever do, though in that case it ends with Excrement.

3,4,5 are no where near disparaging enough. It states 5 is “super harsh” wtf.

I much prefer OPs but there are some criticisms here around rendered, and i think it shuld be more general than pictures, so I’d go for something like:

Computer Regurgitated Artificial Plagiarism

And yes that does include scanning the mona lisa and printing it out, still crap.

Or you can do a GNU or LAME style Russian-doll acronym - this sort of covers self reinforcing hallucination/feedback type stuff. Although I have to say that’s the CRAP that provides the most entertainment.

CRAP Regurgitated (by) Artificial Plagiarism

Makes me wonder how ‘real’ roman gladiators were.

No, it’s just another example that words’ usages and meanings can change a lot, even flip, over time. A new usage can literally spread like a virus meme and become the meaning - at least to all intensive porpoises.

Valium Valeum Vallium Valyum … aha , Diazepam! Only the generics are available here.

Table can mean “to discuss a topic at a meeting” (British English) or “to postpone discussion of a topic” (American English). Canadian English uses both meanings of the word

Canada . . . seriously? I can’t sanction that type of behaviour.

People who get het up about “literally” are fabulous.

If Dickens, Twain and Joyce can use it as an intensifier, then that’s awesome enough for me.

Of course literally is often overused figuratively, flogged like a dead metaphorse; but used literally, literally is often literally redundant anyway.

I think it’s got a third use now though, which is even more fun, using it to troll languague purists who think language drives communication rather than the other way round. That might well have motivated Mark Twain too.

And “terrific” and “awesome” are exaggerations of “scary”.

I use the free version, it’s ok. Not as user friendly of feature packed as gmail. I think they renamed to just “tuta”.

I find the web interface and android app are a bit limited - I think you need to pay to get decent searching and autofilter/rules and so on. If stuff is important you need to stick a tag or a folder on it fairly soon othewise it might become hard to find.

Option for encryption, but I rarely use that because I don’t trust recipients to understand why they should care.

Based . . . can’t use that word Located in Germany so believe what you like about GDPR and privacy laws and stuff like that.

Overall I’m happy with it. It’s fine for just doing your basic sbemail stuff. It hasn’t been good enough to convince me to go for paid version, so I can’t say about the paid features.

Meh, sounds like a worse version of notepad++, which has been very popular and reliable since the early 21st century.

If they make notepad more bloated than notepad++ then I’d use it even less.

But each to their own.

Yes. For sorcerors lair, Xbox360 and PS4 were similar, whereas Steam has slight but important differences. I can’t remeber whether they were releeased as “zen” or “fx3”, it’s a while since I’ve played the console ones. I guess maybe they’ve updated the console versions and it’s just a change that’s happened over time.

On steam I’m pretty sure i’m playing this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/442120/Pinball_FX3/

On the consoles the gargoyle ball lock gives 15 seconds ball save , this gives great option to prolong a ball - and forces you into multiballs that you don’t really want, but adds variety. You need ball save because you have to be a lot more precise to hit each of the three discs to activate the sub-games, which are needed before you can reach midnight madness and actually score meaningful points.

The strategy in Steam version seems to be is much simpler, hit 3 discs (far less precision needed), get subgames, get midnight madness. Making the whole game a bit less engaging, I’ve not found any real benefit in going for most of the rest of the table. Maybe multiramp combo for extraball occasionally…

It’s still pretty fun, I do still play it a bit, but on console I just found it a lot better; all for a few minor tweaks in a couple of mechanics.

Hah, and they’re using it to play sorcerors lair . . .

Unfortunately the steam version is lame compared to the console versions that had more diverse strategies and were more fun.