Liz

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[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

For sure, which is why I only use Mint anyway. I need my hand held. But Linus was doing power-user things without power-user reading. You can't really claim the car is no good when you opened the hood and started swapping hoses without checking to see what goes where.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Linus uninstalled his desktop after ignoring the warning that said °hey, this will uninstall your desktop.°

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah absolutely zero newbies are going to buy a new computer in order to test out Linux.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

I use KdenLive on Mint whenever I need to edit a video. I've never bothered to look for the other two because I use Darktable and GIMP for my photo editing, but I can check to see if they're available if you want me to.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 18 points 4 months ago (28 children)

Just changing the voting system by itself won't get rid of the two party system, we also need proportional representation. I much prefer Approval Voting and Sequential Proportional Approval Voting because the results are as good, if not better than RCV, they're easier for the individual to understand, and it's impossible to submit an invalid ballot using either method. Plus RCV doesn't actually change the winner the vast majority of the time. Fargo and St. Louis both use approval voting and folks there appreciate being able to vote for everyone they like and know that their full ballot will always be counted.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

Whenever a group in power says "we promise we won't do the bad thing" you can be rest assured, they will do the bad thing.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

The explanation I heard was that it was likely Mary and Peter hallucinated Jesus only a few days after he died. That's a very common timeframe for when people hallucinate seeing dead loved ones, and the early descriptions in Bible match the flavor of dead loved-one hallucinations people typically have, with the figure assuring the person everything will be all right and whatnot. Other descriptions (like Jesus appearing to all twelve disciples or crowds of people) seem to have been written later more as persuasive arguments, with doubting Tomas acting as the stand-in for the skeptical listener. This is all from "How Jesus Became God" and I have no idea how mainstream or fringe the author's views are.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I've heard theories that key people probably had hallucinations of Jesus a few days after he was killed, which was the big thing that helped launch him from yet-another-apocalyptic-preacher to (eventually) God himself. I don't know how well these are accepted, though.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah when you get into "proper" photography you quickly realize a "real" image is somewhat subjective. This moon is cracked to 1000%, though.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

Not even Huble can see them. The moon is HUGE and the remains on the moon are tiny.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Samsung moon actually just makes up a plausible looking moon, which is hilarious given that the moon essentially doesn't change, so they could have just overlayed reference images. Instead, you get features on the moon that don't exist.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 19 points 4 months ago

See here's where this analogy is perfect. Sometimes a bicycle is the best solution, just like how sometimes a microcontroller is the best solution. You use the tool you need for the job, and American product design is creating way too many "smart" products just like how American town planning demands too many cars. Bring back the microcontroller! Bring back the bike!

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