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Pretty funny that Dua Lipa is so opposed to this when her entire catalogue sounds like blatant ripoffs of other people's music.

It really is. I've lost count of how many times I've visited the US and the massive class divide and disparity, plus the general state of despair, hits me every time

I think so, because this is too pants-on-head crazy to make any sense otherwise. I wonder how many shares these people own and when they bought them.

China is facing a huge demographic crisis in the next 10-15 years, so I don't think so. More likely the EU steps up but the world becomes more multipolar in general.

Distrobox and Flatpak are more than enough at this stage for most programs

Maybe for you, but personally I could never get by with only that. I have zero interest in atomic distros. To me they look like an inferior version of NixOS, which I have yet to fully wrap my head around. Until then I'll stick to Arch (BTW)

Nothing like cracking open a fresh magazine after leaving empty milk bottles at the door for pickup!

Damn, it must include a lot of CDs

5 pounds for a magazine in 2000 seems incredibly expensive!

Remarkable how that happens, isn't it? The company was fine while they received a paycheque but the very next day they are despicable.

Carney does like that word a lot, although not nearly as much as "if I may"

That keyboard layout gave me a stroke. I'd rather relocate Enter than the apostrophe. I suppose that could be remapped...

Carney also called him a "transformational president" who "revitalized international security" and Trump nodded "it's true!" because he's too stupid to realize it wasn't a compliment.

Nothing says socialism like a lifetime spent in banking and asset management.

And his nominations to the banks of Canada and England were by the radical socialists Stephen Harper and David Cameron, respectively.

I'm increasingly convinced that the US will never escape this pit of anti-intellectualism they've dug.

Easy decision to make when they are nowhere near ever turning a profit.

Being ‘racist’ has, at its basic tenant, has nothing to do with ‘race’ as much as it has to do with ‘being other than me’. A Catholic believing that all other religions are inferior to them is just as much a manifestation of ‘racism’ as discrimination by skin color.

I think the word you're looking for here is xenophobia, which specifically means "fear of those who are not like you". Racism, like fascism, has a narrower meaning than the overly broad way in which you're using it. Words have meanings, and if we start calling everything racist or fascist, those words lose all meaning and it becomes impossible to call out actual racism and fascism. Also, it's "tenet", not "tenant".

The difference is, corporations have no desire to rule over humankind, only to dominate their respective industry.

I think if you read up on tech CEOs, you wouldn't say this.

The Vatican is about as far removed from being responsive to a democratic public as the assassination of Pope John Paul I

That doesn't make it fascist, because it isn't a country. Is it evil, corrupt, and malicious? There's definitely a strong case for that. But is it fascist? By the definition you yourself posted, it can't be. You're clearly emotional about this and seem to think I'm defending the church, but I'm not -- I'm defending language, words and their meaning.

I think by your definition any large corporation would also be fascist, so I worry you're diluting the meaning of the term to the extent that it loses its impact. If we were talking about the middle ages then I'd agree with you, but in its current non-temporal state the church can't be nationalist at all, much less belligerently so. The Vatican is completely at the mercy of a democratic republic!

It's your friend's fault, they are brainwashed by the woke trans globalist agenda and can't understand you're doing it for their own good. Keep draining the swamp and they will eventually see you were right all along!

the cultural change around me has appeared, to me at least, both frighteningly rapid and preternaturally inexplicable.

It looks more like the humanist change of the 60s though to 2016-ish was the anomaly (at least in the US) and what we're seeing today was always present but people just kept their views hidden.