It’s likely both. A compromise between hoping to build something real in the half-assed world that is Russia, and between wish to protest against its half-assed totalitarianism.

That’s probably the inspiration, but like hell they’ll manage to actually build something as functional.

The reason why I never wanted a gun in my house is because of looking at the statistics of who is by far the most likely to get shot by that gun. [Either me or my spouse.]

Ah. Same here. Though I can’t get a legal one here anyway, because Russian laws make no difference between ADHD, ASD and schizophrenia for the purpose of getting a permit.

I misunderstood that “anti-gun personally”, cause not wanting a gun in your own house doesn’t mean being anti-gun. One thing is about whether the choice is on your side or on the government’s, the other is what would you choose.

Some people choose the pleasure of ridiculing their opponents over being a little bit more certain that they won’t regret later when shit hits the fan.

Correction - you should believe them that such will happen when nobody else but them has knives and they are certain they won’t get a scratch while it’s happening. Until then they’ll be very afraid.

The dangerous part is that the fact that they are cowards may over time become more notable than the fact that they really want this.

I mean, when somebody says a threat of such kind in a situation which doesn’t yet warrant it, it’s clear they are cowards.

Make no mistake - that bloodshed they want to be done by police, national guard and such. Not their own supporters. Cause no person who says such things first wants to be shot back at.

I hope you do realize that this means you’ve been wrong all the time. Because the main political argument for gun ownership is such events exactly.

OK, well, that certainly should be illegal.

Well, there’s a good side to this - at least the recipe of that totally not poisonous green cocktail will be available from logs.

As the famous Russian saying goes, “suckers are not mammoths, suckers won’t go extinct”.

When I switched to Linux (year 2011), jumping through hoops reduced significantly, because:

running games on builtin Intel cards etc, that is, kinda second-class citizen hardware, was anyways PITA ;

it made my stuff run terribly faster ;

those hoops are not too different in complexity from installing mods for games under Windows ;

for trying to learn programming Linux is much less problematic (have ADHD, so didn’t learn much back then, but) ;

the main issue of uninstalling McAffee went away for free ;

I was at school, so didn’t have any problems with office suites’ incompatibilities and such ;

and also Linux in 2011 was in general easier, don’t believe RedHat fanboys and such, it was very nice before PulseAudio, systemd and widespread adoption of GTK3, say, to change colors you just needed a 20-line .gtkrc-2.0 and .Xresources, and your WM’s config file, it’s 20 minutes from fresh install to feel normal ;

the community was friendlier, somehow back then RTFM was considered acceptable, but people rarely used it, now everybody behaves as if RTFM was very bad, but also too many people use it, sometimes to avoid admitting that they are wrong and a certain thing is absent in TFM.

One thing I appreciate about Arch is that it’s quick to set up if you don’t care and still need something kinda controllable.

Since I don’t reinstall everything every week, I’m fine with Void. But I’ve used Arch for a month or so. It’s sane.

It’s actually simple.

HIG, UX, ergonomics, all that - it doesn’t build up. Acceptable complexity of a pretty mechanical normal 80s’ UI\UX is the same as of a modern one. Humans don’t evolve over decades, they evolve over spans of time which are as good as eternity. They still need the same kind of complexity in tools they use.

A control panel for a loader that a factory worker should be able to use is as complex as a workflow on a computer can be. And that’s very explicitly accounting for the fact that loader’s or lift’s control panel doesn’t change every fucking day and the user remembers it, so computer UIs should be simpler than those of lifts and loaders!

You just don’t make UI\UX more complex than that. There are things humans can learn to do, and there are things they often can’t and they shouldn’t.

The issue is that this creates a bottleneck for clueless project managers, UI designers and such. They can’t throw together some shit in 30 minutes. They have to choose. They have to test. They don’t want that. And no regulation makes them do that, because if a loader has an unclear UI\UX, you might kill someone, while if an email program has that, you’ll just get very nervous.

Sanity.

Right.

… And when you want to create yet another centralized power which will certainly communicate the right information, you’ll get just a third source of the same, wasting thoughts, money, energy and blood on something which is not an improvement, instead of whatever else you could do.

It’s funny, when you say you’re ancap and explain the ideology in a few sentences, people hate your guts or say it’s stupid or that you are a useful idiot.

When you explain the same slowly over the years using current events as illustration, people either agree with you and have nothing to say, or what they say makes sense ; there’s a person in my family who is ex-military, nostalgic over USSR, has kinda Marxist views on the world which he uses to support a kinda fascist ideology, and all my libertarian things considered a channel of degeneracy at some point, yet in the last ~5 years we have no disagreements over how specific things work.

This leads me to a simple thought that maybe social media as “a huge forum” is inherently harmful. Even when we discuss the same things with the same people regularly over years, we may not notice that and not have any progress in mutual understanding.

Insularity allows us to have deeper exchange of ideas with the same people naturally, instead of taking your place in the ranks of blues and greens verbally pummeling each other, you are talking as an individual to another person which is an individual.

I store almost everyfuck in plain text, so what?

Oh, somebody wants to use techbro stuff and expect security.

cannot claim my own writing or characters for themselves

If by “claim” you mean falsify authorship, I suspect this would still be illegal even without all the copyright laws.

I like having the ability to tell people … cannot reproduce them

Well, this is a problem.

Any monopoly incentive does, it’s the same in developing countries with monopolized industries - people need them, so they keep paying, people don’t have choice, so they don’t leave, and no competition arises because of cronyism.

Thus, say, utility companies in Armenia are such crap. Actually any companies in Armenia, it’s thoroughly oligopolized to the degree that locals think it’s all fine, because it’s all the same. Living in Armenia is as expensive as living near Moscow, while wages, eh, are definitely not the same. What I don’t understand is the locals’ stubborn belief that they can make things better without changing the society where oligopolies, things working via acquaintances, theft being socially acceptable, bendable rules and no responsibility are usual ; I suspect envy for people explaining why they can’t is a reason too.

Why did I type this …

“Everyone” in natural languages is very close to “the majority”.

then justify it with a lack of protests, and protests not going anything?

This was incomprehensible for me and requires clarification.

You clearly stated something as fact, then went beyond moving the goalpost, playing a completely different game with your justification.

No, I don’t think so. Also don’t do that “strict” tone, your logic is not strict and you don’t have the authority.

I can’t think of anyone in my communication circle that would ever shrug off genocide.

That’s usually done by ignoring those you don’t care about. How many genocides you and your circle are not shrugging off? You do realize that a 2-digit number of non-sanctioned UN member countries are doing it right now and you are not protesting?

Virtually everyone not taking part in genocide agrees it’s wrong, and anyone trying to justify it or saying “everyone is fine with it to some degree” is extremely suspect.

Everyone taking part in one agrees it’s wrong as well, and says they are not.