EffortlessGrace

I’m married to a white woman. I think advocacy for segregation is a flawed and impractical position, but, at the risk of hypocrisy, I understand and commiserate with the foundation behind the argument.

Malcolm X talked about our (I am not of European descent) so-called “white allies” and the Uncle Toms they promulgate.

symbolic

It’s embellished.

In reality, Ezekiel 25:17 is much shorter than the film speech. Here is the KJV translation (the same cadence as the movie monologue):

“And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.”

I agree with your sentiment, but I’m compelled to point out that their “billions” is in the valuation of the preferred shares of the corporations they control. If they were to sell to get their billions in cash, the value of their portfolio that analysts purport they have would plummet to pennies on the dollar and very quickly.

Billionaires take out loans using their appraised assets as collateral when they need a couple tens of hundreds of millions in cash.

These billionaires’ egos literally write checks their bodies can’t cash without tacit approval from the Fed and SEC.

It is.

“Dumb” people who don’t demonstrate their stupidity loudly are of average intelligence.

It’s George C. Scott playing General Turgidson.

“Mediocrity” (sort of) implies “middling”, etymologically, which is what most people are. Average.

Reminds me of some lyrics by the Foo Fighters, “There goes my hero; he’s ordinary.”

What’s the reasoning behind it?

We crave validation from others and ourselves by being considered “rare” or capable of creating “rarity” in an ocean of mediocrity and banality to justify our state, choices, and attitudes. We consider “rarity” as inherently valuable and a virtue to aspire to.

Helix for terminal has been fantastic; I like GUIs so for me Zed is my “S-Tier”.

Yes, Zed allows you to turn off the Agentic LLM integration off in settings.json:

{
  "disable_ai": true
}

LibreOffice:

So, appeasement spiced with a paper tiger’s threat? This “proposal” is insulting.

Of course, you do. Accountability would be unthinkable.

As an elder millennial (1983), I too ignore Gen X. Especially after being shown the way they vote in U.S. elections.

You said there hadn’t been any protests in 50 years, Debbie Downer.

This one happened.

A little internet sleuthing will show lots more in your 5 decades of supposedly nothing.

The irony of you making that claim while one of the largely protests in history happened today…

Naturally, I could look it up, but what is Azure Linux?

Is it a fork of RHEL? Cloud Linux? FreeBSD?

Edit: Here it is.

In a similar approach to Fedora CoreOS, Azure Linux only has the basic packages needed to support and run containers. Common Linux tools are used to add packages and manage security updates. Updates are offered either as RPM packages or as complete disk images that can be deployed as needed. Using RPM allows adding custom packages to a base Azure Linux image to support additional features and services as needed. Notable features include an iptables-based firewall, support for signed updates, and a hardened kernel.

We learn about the past to understand the present.

I talk about participation in another comment, coincidentally.