I didn't mean that King had read the stand, just that he would be wrong for that part. I can't think of one he read that he wasn't a good choice for, except maybe Desperation.

"Oh no, someone pointed out I'm a dick in a public forum! I'll mock him because that's that's dicks do!"

Sad dude. Just be less of a dick.

So say that. One word answers don't contribute anything, don't explain anything, and come off as, at best, insulting and dismissive.

Already agree with you, by the way. For exactly the reasons you just outlined. Well, except that I've taken to calling it "the bird site" because I don't think it deserves a proper noun.

Yes, that was the gist of their point I think. The thinking being that choosing the lesser evil is still choosing evil. My point was that if evil is going to win no matter what you do, isn't it better to pick which evil you're going to have to deal with?

Oh fuck, I'm dying 🤣😂

Klaphat. I need to remember that.

I can't speak to running Scrivener, but other folks have that covered, so I thought I'd weigh in on your "extra irrelevant info."

If it were me, I'd just give them Fedora. I set up my partner's computer with it and they were fine. They adapted to Gnome like it was nothing, and everything went smoothly.

If you're worried about the UI, you could use some Gnome Extensions to set it up like Windows (dash to dock, Arc Menu, etc.) or set up a KDE, Cinnamon, or XFCE spin to work like Windows.

Mint is an okay choice for beginners, true, but if you're setting it up for them and will be their tech guru, any significant advantage is kinda lost. You're the one who's going to set up the starting packages and the DE and all that, which nowadays is about 90% of the advantage Mint has over Fedora when it comes to beginners. Because of that, since you're tech support, you should just set up what you're most comfortable running support for.

That's just my opinion, though.

Somewhat unrelated: what are your issues with libertarian policy?

I don't think it's at all unrelated.

Their general sentiment is consistent with many of the issues you listed.

It is. That's why I used to be a (literally) card carrying member. But at the end of the day, the party has too many places where we differ (gun control, health care, and education are three places where I just can't support the party's platform anymore, for instance). Also, it's got way too many creepy members calling for the abolishment of age of consent laws. I know it's just a vocal few, but it skeeves me.

Regarding the green party, I am strongly pro conservation and against rampant consumerism and corporate greed, but I'm not confident that the government will solve the problems without making things worse and wasting tons of money in the process

I'm not confident either, but the free market hasn't done a great job, and other countries have had a great deal of success with regulation. Heck, we've had success with regulation.

Based on the year, that was a good guess. But nope. It was pro segregation.

Which brings me back to my point. If:

• My vote isn't going to help further discourse, and …
• Odds are good that even a popular 3rd party option isn't going to be remembered all that well, and…
• If nobody represents my ideas all that well anyway, then…

what's my choice from a moral standpoint? You mentioned Gary Johnson. You couldn't have paid me to vote for him. The Green Party is closer to my value set, but their idiot said anti-vaxxers might have a point (among other takes, not least of which was a seemingly complete misunderstanding of how economics work), so that would have been a no-go too.

And nobody was talking about ending the punative justice system, federal bans on cash bail, demilitarization of the police and radical law enforcement reform, legal protection for LGBTQIA+, ending first past the poll elections, massive education reform, or (outside of the Green party) anywhere near the investment we need in green tech and fighting global climate change.

So I voted for the one that a.) had a chance of winning, b.) wasn't specifically speaking out against most of that stuff and was at least paying lip service to some, and c.) wasn't a cretinous rapist; she was just married to one.

That was voting my conscience. The cretinous rapist won, but that's not on me.

So when you say to vote on principal, okay. I'll do that. I will do my best to vote for people I agree with or, at least, against people who spout shit that makes me want to vomit.

But that's what I was already doing.

Edit: changed out a word for clarity and to reduce repetition.

Wow, they've really gone all in on AI. It looks like impressive work! I wish them luck!

Ugh. I'm not pro establishment. People who are pro establishment think it works. People who are pro establishment have hope

Where the fuck did you get that out of what I wrote? Do I sound hopeful? Or like I think the system in any way works?

Or is that just your canned response when someone disagrees with you and you can't think of a decent comeback?

Is that what you kids call a "cope"? It sounds like a "cope". My generation just calls it "What the fuck are you even talking about?"

You don't seem to know what "lesser of two evils" means.

It doesn't mean "that guy's bad, so the less evil guy is good, actually, and totally deserves our support!"

It means "no matter which one of these assholes wins, I'm fucked, but if I'm lucky the one guy will use lube."

I can't do a damn thing about the two party system. That ship sailed before I was born, and nothing I do as an individual can change it. In fact, I can't see a solution short of possibly violent revolution. If that happens before I'm to old and feeble to help, great. Other wise, I'm fucked no matter who I pick, so I'm sure as shit going to pick the one who just wants to fuck me and not fuck me plus kill my trans neighbor.

I'm sick and tired of being called stupid, gullible, or uninformed just because I can actually see how completely fucked we are. Your shit is great for people who still have hope. My shit is just trying to survive without the Gestapo coming for my neighbors.

So come get me for the revolution. In the meantime, stop calling me stupid for being depressed and practical.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to copy and paste this in reply to some other lemming that thinks I'm a gullible moron instead.

I usually bring up the dock by tapping the super key or using a three finger swipe up. I barely use the hot corner at all since Ifigursed that trick out.