It depends on how far away you sit. But streaming has taken over everything and even a little compression ruins the perceived image quality of a higher-DPI display.

Easter is the egg holiday. Deviled eggs, custard, cake, pie, egg salad, etc. Eggs represent fertility and renewal.

And congratulations, the current US administration now considers you a terrorist. Complaining about being abused and exploited is anti-capitalist.

I’d say I am still interested in the philosophy that underpins some religions, I simply reject all mythological supernaturalism. Having been raised by classic Stephen King religious villains, I absolutely reject the entire concept of organized, centralized religion, appeal to authority or deity, and mystical thinking of any kind.

That said, I am a big fan of Jesus’ teaching. I don’t buy the “magical faith healer” nonsense, but I absolutely agree with his teaching, which is deeply humanist. Most religions have a kernel of profound humanism at their center, but all of them have been co-opted by the rich and powerful and metastasized into weapons of oppression, control, and abuse.

He also strongly implied that a not-insignificant part of the old “law” were cultural traditions and compromises, rather than directives from god.

First see, this.
Matthew 22:34-40

Then this.
Mark 7:1-13

And then this.
Matthew 19:3-8

He was very clear that what he laid out in Matthew 22:34-40 was the summary of all law, and that any and all others must be derived from that. If they do not, it is just a tradition.

I have a background in having been raised by religious nutjobs, but I did the same and was very disappointed by how badly these get it wrong. I’d love a handy meme guide of actual contradictions that I can casually share, but this is not it.

I don’t make any distinction between the two. These aren’t people who were tricked once or twice, it is a continuous, repetitious pattern of rejecting reality, which is been playing out in front of their very faces. A person who does not learn from mistakes, who never grows as a person, and harms others as a result, is malicious.

Exactly. “Authoritarian, but only our authoritarians” is still extreme right. All authoritarianism is rightist by definition, no matter how “benevolent” anyone believes it is. There is no egalitarianism or equality or equity under authoritarianism, there are the only rulers and the ruled.

This is a bad take. MacOS is still a unix based system, and is much closer to Linux than Windows. It even comes with bash and zsh shells.

The predatory pricing and business practices are a different topic, but the OS will feel right at home for most linux users.

Awww. I just remembered the cuteness and hilarity of PeopleFuckingDying. Do we have something like that on the fediverse?

This is my rule, too.

I am really excited for Cosmic’s future. I loved the toggling float-tiling functionality, but I was having too many issues with GUI apps, taskbar icons, and annoyances like those. Once it has some more polish I will be happily revisiting it. It may be the first DE in a decade with the potential to tempt me away from KDE.

First Amendment? Sorry, we’re all out.

Fourth Amendment. We’re out of those, too.

Sorry, I’d bring you a Constitution but the manager threw them all away.

Might I recommend the restaurants to the North or South?

I genuinely like their products, but they are dramatically overpriced so we could never made them a regular part of our diet. Now they are on the shit list and they won’t be purchased again until this MAGA nazi is thrown out with a lead parachute.

And now Impossible is on the boycott list. Godammit.

Nashville Hot Chicken exploded during the pandemic, and Dave’s was the worst we tried.

The context is that the US President is an illegitimate usurper who is Constitutionally barred from holding office. He is a felon, a racist, a fascist, and a literal nazi. He is robbing the populace to fund his own private militarized gestapo and they have been kidnapping, assaulting, and murdering people en masse across the country with impunity.

There is your context.

Red lentils would be a good replacement, and you can still get them in bulk at a somewhat reasonable price. For now.

If you want them to taste more like ground beef, give them a pan quick fry with a bit of soy sauce and worcestershire before incorporating into whatever you’re making.

Beef is unaffordable and hamburger helper is more expensive than buying the basic ingredients.