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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.

Makes me wonder how 'real' roman gladiators were.

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

Unfoortunately, it says prices (presumably domestic) dropped though - that should be good for US consumers, all else equal.

I'd expect the people in Montana to have more/cheaper food in general at least in the short term. Farmers might make less profits, but even if they are making a short term loss - you'd expect them switch to a lower cost crop rather than stop production entirely.

In this case it is the Canadians that suffer lower food supply.

In the long run Montana food supply might suffer if their farmers struggle to get say fertiliser, pesticides, seed crops, bull semen, tractors and so on - that depends on their supply chain for those things.

Lower income might also impact the state's general ability to import other stuff, exotic foods and luxuries, but as far as domestic food is concerned I'd think they'd be ok.

Don't be so sure, did you see the quote fom next UK prime minister.

A total cunt admitted he would allow American chlorine-washed chicken to be sold in the UK as part of a free trade deal with the US.

Laptops run off batteries a lot of the time - so compromising outright performance - full instruction set - for battery life will be attractive for many laptop users who use it on the go.

I'm no apple fanatic, I'd never get one, but I do see the appeal of those apple laptops.

I'm sure x86 could get closer on the performance to battery tradeoff if they wanted to; but I bet they'd be looking to price up at the apple level for that.

And something like a machine can "seize up" too.

I think the trick with English is to just keep seizing any old random words out of a hat until the other person nods convincingly enough.

Looks a wee bit like Calculon, facially at least; a bit skinnier in the torso.