ObjectivityIncarnate

Island has an ‘s’ in it. This was started as a stylistic choice to make the word look more Latin despite the fact that the English word has no Latin roots.

Seems a little more complex than that, according to this. Specifically, the first syllable was modified by association to the word “isle”, which does have a Latin root word (insula, same root word for “insulate”).

To be even more pedantic, “would” and “will” don’t mean the same thing, either. 🤓

Instantly thought of this from Goldeneye:

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This seems alright, no?

The executive order directs the HHS and the Treasury and Labor departments to ensure hospitals and insurers disclose “actual prices of items and services, not estimates” and take action to ensure “pricing information is standardized and easily comparable across hospitals and health plans” including prescription drug prices.

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Well, in a general sense (meaning, to be extra clear, I am not referring to Mamdani specifically), “these ideas won’t accomplish what he intends” and “these ideas will mess everything up” are not mutually exclusive at all. They’re essentially the same sentiment, if you think about it.

I think the confusion is in the incorrect assumption that only the successful execution of a policy/idea/etc. can do the latter, but the same level of damage could easily happen in the course of an ultimately-failed attempt, as well.

That’s enough pedantry from me for now, though, lol.

Pretty sure that falls under the “productivity” umbrella, lol.

The vast majority of the increase, is what I said. In other words, I’m saying it wouldn’t be nearly at the 3% mark without those users, and with over a quarter of all Linux users coming from the Steam Deck userbase, that is, in fact, true.

Just boot the computer, choose which DE you want to install

Yeah, that’s not at all accessible to the average consumer; they don’t know what a “DE” even is, much less why they should choose any over any other.

Very, very few people want to deal with something other than a ‘just works’ situation.

I think it will continue to rise. People are updating their rigs all the time. Whenever they update their rig they’ll have to ask themselves whether they want to continue with Windows on their new rig, or try with something new.

The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks, which run on Linux, not from people switching to Linux on their PCs.

If it continues to rise, this is the reason. The general public is less and less into using a desktop at all as time goes on, much less running, and much less changing to, an extremely niche operating system on one.

EDIT: The previous sentence is actually more of the reason, upon further reflection. The total number of people playing on desktops period is falling, and the vast majority of desktops are Windows, so non-Windows OSes will comparatively gain ‘market share’ as that happens, even if their numbers don’t change at all.

It always felt a little wrong to me, but as I got older I realized these people are living lives of despair and it’s really just not the biggest problem in society when you have the rich engaging openly in corruption and violating laws while going unpunished.

Sure it’s not the biggest problem, but it’s not only the biggest problems that deserve attention.

Heart disease kills more than just about any other physical ailment, so should we put all research money/resources into that and ignore everything else?

Don’t like to think about things, do you? You just comment.

I repeat the oblivious words of someone projecting their own thoughtlessness onto another, as well-deserved mockery of their foolishness.

Mad? Make it not true, and I’ll stop.

Don’t like to think about things, do you? You just comment.

Yeah, there are a lot of comparisons like these that at least partially break down when you don’t consider the way the US is set up, re state governments.

Another big example is minimum wage. While the federal minimum is $7.25, it is a very small minority of places where it’s even possible to find (above-board, of course; if you work under the table, all bets are off) work at that low a wage, both because of the above (state minimum is higher) and because other market forces essentially negate it as the minimum, even in most places where $7.25 is in fact the legal minimum wage.

1. “Actively trying to avoid looking gay, is fucking gay.” is not a joke.
2. That’s actually not really true. A lot of great comedy is born from the ‘dissection’ of previous comedy, understanding how/why it was so effective. Analysis isn’t destructive.

Don’t like to think about things, do you? You just comment.

Don’t like to think about things, do you? You just comment.

Extremely ironic thing to say, considering you’re the one actively failing to follow your own line of thinking.

Why does it make you so uncomfortable to be asked a simple question that directly follows from your own words? Ironically, your decision to insult me instead of simply answering the question “screams insecurity”.

Also ironically, you’ve almost certainly put zero thought into how statements like that are fundamentally homophobic; they indirectly perpetuate stereotypes about how gay people act.

Perhaps think about that, instead of projecting your thoughtlessness onto others.