Brilliant Bonehurtingjuice

They’re just yelling for joy at the light turning green

Then it wouldn’t be reasonable to assume the US would collapse right at the average (mean) though. If the majority of empires collapsed at the same age (the mode) it would be different, but the mean tells you very little about when any particular empire will collapse.

The mean number of children per household is a decimal, that doesn’t mean any households have partial children.

So it will fit right into Meta’s work culture then!

Out of the loop, why did they shut down?

Computer speak is disturbingly similar to text message speak

Bugs are bioengineering masterpieces.

The most recent Zefrank video is a great example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spuO7OpS6zw

Two Australians go to North Korea to get a hair cut while debunking Western propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E

Arguably that’s because they were basically conquered and made a vassal of the country that dropped bombs on them.

The cool thing about this is you can just arbitrarily pick which part of the cycle you consider the “start” of the conflict in case you want to selectively accuse one side of being the aggressor.

Reading it back I can see how I might have come off as arguing with the OP. I had just intended to add some context in general around why “straight pride” isn’t a generally accepted thing but gay pride is, because whenever this comes up you usually get at least one person asking "what, so we’re supposed to be ashamed of being straight now? That’s just discrimination in reverse!”

“Straight pride” isn’t a thing. It’s purely a reactionary response to gay pride.

The point of gay pride is for gay people to show that they’re not afraid to be who they are in the face of systematic discrimination. It is specifically countering the culture of gay shame that had been the norm in the past. Straight people are already the overwhelming majority and have never been oppressed for their sexual orientation. There’s was never any shame associated with it so it makes no sense to proclaim that you’re “proud” to be straight.

It’s like someone who finished a marathon expressing their pride for their accomplishment, and some loser who has to make everything about themselves says “well I sat on my ass all day and I deserve to be proud of that too!”

The issue is not that it’s not okay to be proud of being straight, you’re welcome to feel pride all you want. The issue is when you but into someone else’s moment and make it about yourself.

This is so poorly written I have no idea if it’s sarcasm or not.

TLDR: While Linux is less susceptible to malware in some ways, it mostly boils down to Linux having a more technically minded userbase whereas Windows is a “mainstream” operating system.

Most Windows malware nowadays come from social engineering scams (complete this “captcha” by pressing Windows+R and pasting in this powershell script we conveniently put in your clipboard) or untrusted third party installers because Windows doesn’t natively have a package manager. Like others have said, the old school self-propagating worms and drive by downloads that activate just by clicking on a link aren’t really possible anymore (outside of state actors with unlimited budgets to buy zero days) unless your system or browser is horrifically outdated.

In terms of social engineering, Linux is not necessarily better at preventing it than Windows. In fact, sudo in Linux will unquestioningly delete the kernel and system software or make unlimited changes to them. Windows, for better or for worse (tbh more worse than better), uses TrustedInstaller to limit access to system files. Windows 11 won’t easily let you delete or modify System32 for example, even if you’re an admin. So it’s in theory easier to do more damage to your system on Linux if you don’t know what you’re doing. But if someone is using Linux full time, they’re most likely technical enough to not be fooled into running random untrusted bash commands.

The biggest thing is to be careful with those Linux terminal tutorial sites that have a “add to clipboard” button, they can put literally anything into your clipboard, including an enter key to run the script as soon as you put it in your terminal (though this may or may not be possible depending on your terminal app). Actually, they don’t even need you to use their copy button. They can just set an event listener for control-C anywhere on their site and automatically replace the clipboard content. Just double check everything you copy before running it, especially since there’s a lot of times where Linux users have to rely on obsecue tutorials hosted on untrusted websites.

You also don’t really need to run untrusted installers on Linux because almost everything you need is in a properly moderated software repository, be it your native package manager, Flatpak, or Snap. Everything is signed by the authors and has a ton of eyes from the open source community on it. The only things to look out for is compiling something from GitHub, random AppImages, Elf binaries, scripts, and last but not least third party repositories that can be added as an installation source to your package manager/Flatpak/Snap. Basically, Linux gets most of its “doesn’t get malware” reputation from the same place Mac does: you rarely have to manually download and run an executable from a random website, which is the norm on Windows. Add to the fact that even when that’s needed, the Linux userbase is more technical and is more able to discern which sources are reputable and which are suspicious.

Another major source of malware is pirated versions of Windows or untrusted “license activators” from the internet. This just isn’t a problem on Linux because there’s no license to activate and it’s free to begin with so there’s nothing to pirate. And again, if someone is running Linux, they’re probably technical enough to know not to run random pirated versions of paid software to begin with, helped by the fact that the vast majority of paid software is Windows only.

They have the same mentality as the people dunking witches in the middle ages. “It’s fine to kill them because they’ll go to heaven if they’re not a witch Jewish.”

Doesn’t Israel claim that Iran imprisons Jews? They can’t even pretend to keep their propaganda consistent, or worse, they actually believe it and wrote any hypothetical imprisoned Jews off as necessary sacrifices.

The most desperate US citizen is still far more privileged than the people overseas they were sent to murder.

A private condemnation is a commendation but they’re too afraid to outright say it.

It’s fitting because at the end of that episode, they learn that the US was in fact the alien invaders declaring war on other planets.