They’re used as food because that’s how people have been socialized. Nobody would willingly eat a dog, but they would eat a pig. Pigs are more intelligent than dogs.

There’s pedophiles roaming the streets

That was oddly specific.

Not to defend Brave (seriously, don’t use Brave), but it has built-in ad-blocking.

Here’s a good article about it.

It no longer works because of how it’s programmed. Ghostery must use a different method of blocking ads which works with Manifest v3.

I like what they’re trying to do, but damn, launching an entirely new browser engine in the '20s is a heavy lift.

You’re about as convincing as those people who claim that a movie star is trans because of the shape of her head or that some block of text must be AI-generated because it has an em-dash in it.

I know that saying “An LLM would never do that” is completely fucking bonkers in 2026, because I can do a web search and find 5 dozen articles about LLMs doing shit that is much, much crazier.

Oh, he’s one of those people. They show dominance by trying to crush your hand.

Still, that shouldn’t bruise his hand. Unless the person he’s doing it to tries to do it back.

Yeah, KDE is “bloated”, but all that means is that there’s some stuff bundled that purists aren’t interested in. It doesn’t seem to affect the speed at all.

It was stigmatized by Windows, because the Windows terminal was terminally shitty. People swear to me that their new terminal is awesome, but I have my doubts. Microsoft seems to have a problem with making stuff that doesn’t suck.

I use the terminal for terminal shit. File manager is not terminal shit (for me).

I’ve heard the jokes about rm -rf /. I’ve never met anybody who’s taken it seriously and nuked their system.

That command is legendary. It’s one of the first bits of computer lore I ever learned, about 10 years before I ever touched Linux. In fact, at that time I knew two things about Linux: it’s a free OS and don’t do rm -rf /.

Of course you should do some research first, so that you’re sure that you know what a command does, but if you’re getting it from a forum like Stack Overflow or even reddit, you can be reasonably sure that if the commenter was trying to destroy your computer they’d get downvoted and one of the other commenters would warn you about it. Don’t treat Linux like it’s some kind of minefield that you have to tiptoe around. It isn’t conducive to learning.

You don’t have to touch the terminal. You just really, really should.

A lot of that is obnoxious and offensive, but claiming that his hands are bruised from too much handshaking is comedy gold.

Cory Doctorow has a great article about this myth of the usefulness of AI:

If Donald Trump ordered Big Tech to turn off all of your country’s chatbots tomorrow, nothing would change. Every one of your country’s ministries and corporations would chug on with nary a hitch. Households, too, though perhaps a few of the younger members of those families would have to do their own homework again.

…Contrast this with what would transpire if Trump directed his tech giants to switch off your country’s Office 365 access, or to brick your Android and iOS phones, or to killswitch your John Deere tractors. Your country would effectively cease to exist.

There are some things which should be non-negotiable. One of them should be free and universal health care. That seems eminently reasonable, since other developed nations have this.

Naw, it’s about Israel.

“Conservatives are quick to denounce each other, jump on dogpiles, disavow, attack their allies,” The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh wrote…

“The left will keep up the united front and defend their guys no matter what, while we keep throwing each other to the wolves at every opportunity. Great plan.”

Sound familiar?

The right wing base does not demand purity tests.

What convinced you of this? I’ve seen this claim before, but I’ve never seen it backed up by anything.

For example, does the right-wing base support pro-choice candidates? How about pro-LGBTQ candidates? What concessions has the base made to the Republican Party?

CBT always seemed to me like the opposite of easy. It looks like a lot of hard work, and it is.

Yes, I voted for the world that I want. That’s what a vote is.