Because without conscious effort to expand your horizons, your preferences and distastes ossify around what you were exposed to growing up and in young adulthood. However, the world continues to change. Aging also can make adapting harder cognitively.
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zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Framework says it's selling more Linux laptops than Windows as new Laptop 13 Pro sells out first 7 batches
4·1 day agoI was so disgusted setting up Windows the last time I had to do so. The installation process was just upselling/shoving adware. And now every other update bricks your pc.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Framework says it's selling more Linux laptops than Windows as new Laptop 13 Pro sells out first 7 batches
11·1 day agoAt the bottom of user skill, you’ve got your aunt who needs a Chrome bootloader. Linux is perfect for them, maybe better than Windows.
My school system had thin clients running CentOS growing up and nobody had issues.
Your fingerprint being one of like five people running TempleOS would deanonymize you lol.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•US at risk of running out of missiles if another war breaks out after depleting stockpile in Iran operations
7·3 days agoYour first postulation is correct. The US is not prepared for drone warfare and it’s showing. The US is firing expensive missiles to intercept cheap Shaheds. I suspect your second may also be true but idk.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/iran-math-trump-putin-ukraine-1-million-missile-20000-drone/
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•US nears government bailout deal for Spirit Airlines
81·3 days agoWait a minute. That sounds like letting the free market work itself out. We only abide by that when it’s the proles getting the shit end of the stick.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data
2·4 days agoThis likely ties back to Stephen Miller. This guy despite being descendant from immigrants with liberal family (who disowned him) is super into white nationalism and he gets off at the suffering of non-whites. He pioneered the kids in cages/family separation policy during Trump I and he directed ICE to be confrontational with immigrants and protestors during this administration.
The citizenship data is two-fold. It gives companies like Palantir more data to train on and also helps fascists like Miller determine who is a citizen, who isn’t and lets them figure out how to exert maximal harm. Previously this meant neighborhood raids with tools like ELITE built on aggregate data. With the backlash of the raids, they will switch to quieter strategies. They may shut non-citizens out of banking, look for any organizations that help migrants out financially and shut them out. There have been murmurs of something similar planned using data acquired from hospitals.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies in Ukraine
2·4 days agoLebanon would have had to have launched a land reclamation campaign big enough to make the Dutch look like amateurs or made their own Greater Lebanon for the headline to have been in anything other than percentages.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Tucker Carlson apologizes for 'misleading' people on Trump: 'We're implicated in this for sure'
4·4 days agoWe might seem something like how his pedo pick Roy Moore lost to a Democrat in Alabama because Republican turnout was so low. Idk about an overt MAGA civil war. Most people I know who voted MAGA are just really quiet now and “don’t want to talk about politics.”
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•How do we prevent another far-right kook from being elected president in the future?
8·5 days agoWe won’t. They are entrenching themselves by buying up news outlets, influencing social media algorithms, pushing American exceptionalism and jingoism in the classrooms.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is X moderation more conservative leaning?
41·5 days agoElon: hails from the OG apartheid state, in his free time boosts racist stereotypes about black people, far right influencers and far right political movements, one of which is literally the remnants of the Nazi party and does the Nazi salute for the whole world to see. This guy: totes not a Nazi
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is X moderation more conservative leaning?
2·5 days agoSomeone has to ensure they’re using slurs instead of that godawful “cis” word.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is X moderation more conservative leaning?
3·5 days agoGet off that shithole. It’s all Nazis, bots and troll farms anyway.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Former Biden advisor says: It's possible that the USA would have done the same wars of agression under Biden.
13·6 days agoIn Saddam, Gaddafi, Khameini Sr (and in a sense Ukraine), the West has also shown that eliminating/diminishing your nuclear program to not be a viable long-term safety plan anyway.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
Memes@lemmy.ml•IRGC follows young girl's request to "strike Israel with a pink missile" – IRIB [2026-04-06]
3·18 days agoYeah but Apartheid Clyde’s AI pumps smog and other pollutants in Memphis which affects its impoverished black residents.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Is USA really going to leave Iran, or is it just Strategy to buy more time?
1·21 days agodeleted by creator
There’s quite a few Discord alternatives. IMO Stoat and especially Fluxer are pretty discord-like. Fluxer is pretty new and still working out kinks. They support (Stoat) or will support (Fluxer) self-hosting and Fluxer will implement (limited) E2EE. I have heard of other alternatives like Root, TeamSpeak, Mumble but cannot speak to them.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Trump ‘threatens to stop’ weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joins Hormuz coalition
3·23 days agoYeah it was pitched to him. We know Lindsey coached Israel on how to sell the war to Trump. But he did ultimately agree to it and he’s the commander-in-chief so its ultimately his responsibility. No other president agreed to this stupidity.
CEOs continue to brown nose him despite his tariffs being bad for business as he at the least will rubber stamp their mergers and other anti-consumer policies.
zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Trump ‘threatens to stop’ weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joins Hormuz coalition
29·25 days agoNobody is sending their soldiers to die for his impulsive, poorly thought out war. especially after he has spent years antagonizing allies.
Hegseth was just in the news for spending almost 100 billion on lobster and crab and steak.