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  • Americans saying the metric system is dumb while reasoning that its bad because they can’t do decimals and fractions properly will never not be funny.

    omg 1/3km is 333.33 metres! it doesnt make any sense!”

    1 foot = 0.33 yards? "totally logical, so easy!"

    5280 feet in a mile? “wow so simple

    10mm in a cm, 100cm in a m, 1000m in a km? “its impossible to grasp!

    you guys think you’re so ahead of the rest of the world, while crashing probes into Mars and not knowing a 1/3 pounder is bigger than a 1/4 pounder, but everyone else easily converting volume to weight to temperature to distance at every order of magnitude are just laughing at you.





  • The meme isn’t literally saying modern life is ‘just as bad’ as medieval serfdom - it’s highlighting that despite almost unimaginable progress and development since then, economic and social conditions for the average person are becoming increasingly shit - and that the overlap in this venn diagram is a shameful rebuke of our complacency and the failings of the current system/those which are disproportionately benefiting under current uncertainty and exploitation.

    In any case, suffering isn’t a competition - someone who’s circumstantially stuck in their shitty apartment paying off a lifetime of debt might be (more) free from the TB concerns and formal landlord permissions that medieval serfs had, but it doesn’t for a second mean that people are guaranteed a healthy, happy, prosperous life - or that anybody in a developed country has the ability or the capital to do what they want or go where they please. Shit, I can’t have 2 days to my fucking self without the ordained holy approval of my moron manager, in practice I’m no more free to venture or travel without affecting my livelihood when it comes to needing someone’s say-so.

    Amazon workers pissing in bottles to raise their children in a society which increasingly expects the individual to bear all costs of life but will gladly subsidise corporate malpractice is a crappy situation - and farmers in 12th century England having it worse doesn’t diminish the shittiness of the situation for people alive today. I agree that historical literacy is important, but the meme doesn’t exist to insult the serfs, it begs us to avoid their plight with infinitely more resources, having won hard-fought battles to avoid that sort of lifestyle.

    I don’t want to wait for the economic outlook gets even worse until we’re all living in Meta/Tencent company towns and sleeping in pod hotels eating gruel for a comparison to become fully valid.








  • lol have you ever tried to use windows baked-in support or MS forums with “expert answers”?

    And low-powered doesnt even make sense, there is less bloat and bing/copilot shit dragging the system down, my system on the exact same specs and drive boots into Linux in like 1/10 the time as windows.

    As for useful software packages, services like Flatpak, snap, and deb are a breeze -and not being able to use enshittified adobe software instead of their now better free and open source alternatives is ridiculous - Linux on any distro is what most developers would prefer and browsing is exactly the same. Hell, even gaming which was peoples major “missing piece” has made leaps and bounds last year alone.



  • I agree with intentionally provocational speech hiding behind the ‘free speech’ disguise being stupid, but I think its also important to see a difference between racial slurs and discrimination based on things that people can’t change, versus legitimate criticism of religion - which, although not always easy to get out of (I.e. cults, trapped family members, cultural norms) I see as still a fundamentally voluntary behaviour that you can to an extent opt out of as a belief system, as opposed to discrimination on race, sex, disability, nationality, etc.

    Now of course that doesnt mean I will go into religious buildings and shout obscenities or try to have edgy atheist rants at inoffensive elderly worshippers - but the saying that “your freedom ends where mine begins” holds true for me, and I won’t tolerate outward discrimination on religious grounds, the forcing of those belief systems inside secular systems like schools or courts or governments, and I think I’m well within my rights to criticise harmful and unacceptable behaviour undertaken for ‘religious’ grounds, which would otherwise be crimes or offences. (I.e. animal torture/sacrifice, child marriage, slavery etc.)


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    6 months ago

    France and colonialism need to be studied and their past mistakes interrogated, but being a dipshit apologist for fundamentalist extremist subhumans is substantially worse, because its happening now, and you actually know better.

    Any comments on the kefalah system or insight into how Islam spread around the middle east? (hint: it was also colonialism dummy, just a kind you seem to think is acceptable as opposed to France’s) Interestingly the racist colonisers stopped using capital punishment, albeit way too recently still, but they’re not still fucking crucifying people like fucking savages for aposty.

    Supporters of ignorant turds that can’t handle a secular state’s media’s fundamental right to satirise a pedophile cult leader from 500 years ago should go retreat to the shadows from where they came. You might believe immensely in your god or prophet, but they dont exist in the reality of other people better educated, more inquisitive, or more fortunate not to be brainwashed into that belief by birth or oppression. Killing people who dont share your favourite religious text is stone age behaviour and the mark of an animal, not a human being.

    Dont you dare pollute the legitimately necessary discourse about historical wrongdoings in the world with justifications of terrorism because you never opened more than one book before.

    Celebrating people that reduced themselves and their community to barbarism because they couldn’t mind their own fucking business in a multicultural society is pathetic and you should aspire to be better than that before someone tricks you into doing something stupid and dangerous.