“for users that just wants to have a system that works without the need to use terminal or being afraid of destroying system files”

Wouldn’t such users want a distro they can trust because people they trust have checked it to be safe? No Wikipedia article yet, no ratings or reviews on distrowatch. Why would a normal user trust a distro who’s 1st preview was announced less than a year ago? Shouldn’t the distro be targeting tinkers and super users, so they can give a thumbs up or down for the normal users?

I trust Debian even tho I don’t have that much confidence in people who think GNOME is a good default UI. I dislike Ubuntu for many reasons, but lots of people vastly smarter than me have looked at their code for more than 20 years now.

I think “mama”, “papa”, and “baba” are also some of the easiest things for human babies to say.

preemptive war

OK - reacting-only would reduce wars of aggression.

How about if 98% of UN members votes for an allied attack against something that almost everyone agrees is psychotic, like ISIS, NK, Eritrea, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, etc.? Does the combination of actions and clear intent not make pre-emptive war and regime change of these seem like the right thing?

Ahmed Yassin

Here I don’t agree - I think the 1988 Hamas charter is utterly indefensible.

these type of groups form as a direct result of imperial violence.

Yes, and Israel was formed in response to the Holocaust and pogroms. Hamas is also genocidal, just incompetent - but would be worse. I think both should be boycotted and sanctioned, until Israeli voters stop voting the way they have been (which might not happen until they reject religion and racism), and Gazans overthrow Hamas (which seems more possible than in e.g. NK).

nuclear weapons

not offensive, but defensive

Yeah, allowing Iran to get/create nukes and intercontinental delivery, would reduce the chances of attacks against it like the recent ones by USA and Israel, which would be good for the normal people of Iran in the short and medium term.

When it comes to the people (not the regimes) I think that the Israeli, older Gazan, and USA citizens are the worst because of the way they vote(d); while the Iranians might be the least bad (tho that may just be because they haven’t had real elections for so long).

Putting violent desire on the same moral plane as actual murder victims is a silly thing to do.

Agreed, but what if not stopping the IRGC ends up causing orders-of-magnitude more suffering and deaths? (Tho, is Trump actually unleashing the IRGC because Mojtaba gives them free-er reign than Ali; and causing some Iranians to actually side with their own psychotic countrymen against the attacking foreigners? If yes, then US voters may be more harmful than Iran.)

Would Hamas not be vastly worse than Israel if they had the same military power as Israel?

ISIS?

Shouldn’t intent count to prevent access to biological and nuclear weapons?

Some think that respect needs to be earned. I think everyone deserves courtesy, but I wouldn’t blame someone for this stare when confronted by MAGA-level idiocy/sociopathy/greed.

• 45% of women voted for Trump in 2024.
• Those 45-64 mostly voted for Trump.
• 80% of white evangelical women voted for him. https://cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/gender-differences-2024-presidential-vote

The last one makes some sense, since people who call themselves Christians are usually the ones who are least likely to live according to the sermon on the mount, and religiosity requires being dishonest and/or too stupid to distinguish between reality and wishful-thinking fairy tales.

Yes it’s rude, but there are some people who think that insincerity, dishonesty, and wasting time is rude. They’re probably a minority even within Gen Z, and possibly just see the world differently from extraverts.

and then tell them to have a good day

Might this be an extravert thing? Do extraverts enjoy being told to have a good day?

I prefer not to, and I also don’t want to be told to smile. I’ll put up with banalities like “Hi” even when there’s no need to actually get attention, and “Thanks” when the person clearly isn’t thankful; but if asked “How are you?” I might actually answer and they probably won’t like my answer if they didn’t mean it.

Maybe introverted people put more value in honesty and not wasting time?

car is something I’ll never go without again

Anthropogenic climate change cascade says “Good luck”.