I’m not saying it’s fundamental, sorry, I should have specified. You’re exactly right, GNOME is driven by it’s Foundation and so there is leadership in place to make sure that the software ends up as a cohesive whole. Software projects that don’t, or that create one after the fact, tend to be a lot less so.

Fair dues, Microsoft managed to fuck that up in spite of itself.

Eh. One thing proprietary software has going for it is clear design goals and the leadership to create a cohesive UX. Open source projects tend to be a grab bag of tools that work well for developers.

Not saying I don’t love FOSS, but there’s definitely stuff that proprietary software does better in a practical sense, whatever else your opinion of it.

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One of the reasons I hear for these draconian, inhumane laws is that we should be having more children to sustain the (subtext: white) population. I just only just realized they will do the exact opposite.

Poor woman. What a tragedy.

Or maybe it’s just the ‘we’ that’s going to be out of the equation, which is fine too I guess. Our particular form of life just isn’t that important in the grand scheme of things anyway.

They were all right though, if by ‘the world’ you mean ‘the world as we know it’.

Oh, you mean when you involve a profit motive in health care, providers will act accordingly at the expense of the patient? Get the fuck out of here! No way! Next you’ll tell me when you introduce middlemen into the system they will also abuse their customers to benefit themselves!

Business is people, money is speech, war is peace.

I’ve never thought about it like that, but you raise an interesting point. From the point of view of patients insurance is an inextricable part of health care. I’m not so sure you can separate them that easily. Even in Western Europe the trend is towards privatization so when something happens to me health wise my first concern is insurance, never mind the actual problem. It’s a tragedy. Let’s just go back to setting up a mandatory fund and paying out from that without the profit seeking middlemen. We don’t need them.

surprised pikachu face

Haha, sometimes Lemmy’s ‘nothing to see here’ is prescient.

Everything’s comin’ up Milhouse!

Way to generalize there chief

A “tankie”, singular. By this logic tankies are in to Wheel of Time.

I know what will fix this, 28 lanes!

The fun answer is kill

Lofi girl, I don’t have to think about a playlist, it’s easy listening that soothes the hyperactive monkey that lives right behind my prefrontal cortex.

36 here, I don’t expect to retire

I think it’s evidence of the travels of the Giant Cock twins.