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Off Topic / Re: ews border crCIA
« on: September 21, 2021, 02:29:20 PM »there are two practical ways to immigrate to the US: family or a job. jobs that will sponsor non-seasonal visas are few and far between (and seasonal visas do not give you any chance of immigration), and family of course is a coin toss. mfs love to pretend that it's just a matter of saving up for a few months and filing some paperwork. that's cus yall don't read stuff. even most family visas take forever, around seven years if you're not the spouse, parent, or child of a US citizen, on top of costing you thousands of dollars, which is a much greater expense for most of the world than it is in america
Yeah, but its kinda like complaining that getting into harvard isnt accessible. Its not supposed to be. But to be fair, we do have less capable and more unintellgieny people born american than migrated. But that may be because of our strict policies not in spite of them.
Still, crossing the border illegally can be a deadly trip. Only to end up on the other end a second class citizen.
It's really not good for anyone involved.
I understand wanting to come here, but many migrants pass through other safe nations relative to where they started.
We may not see them as safe because of our absurd comforts and security, but that does not mean those nations are hellholes.
Certainly they have there issues, but if you say mexico has corruption of drug dealers and mobsters without acknowledging the us has corruption of petrol dealers and labor exploitation, you're not playing a fair hand.
US is great for the meaningfully wealthy. Upper middleclass and above. But illegal immigrants are going to be treated as second class citizens because they can be deported at a moments notice.
And if we were to lift restrictions we would see a downgrade in quality of life for everyone nationwide.
This is a stuff situation. And the way i see it, greedy ancaps are trying to exploit cheap labor and the 'made in the usa' titles.
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Off Topic / Re: DEBATES OF THE WEEK: Grape or Strawberry Jelly
« on: September 21, 2021, 11:03:30 AM »
Raspberry
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Forum Games / Re: Blockland Vending Machine! (OP missed 10 year anniversary and should feel bad)
« on: September 20, 2021, 11:13:37 AM »you get 1.4 million osrs goldYou get banned for that post.
i insert the soul of the ban the user above you forum game thread
I insert a Broken CD. You can't quite make out the text but you're certain it's a trial CD for something.
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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Joe Biden's Awakening [Not News]
« on: September 20, 2021, 11:08:24 AM »291
Off Topic / Re: The Linux Thread | Useful tools inside.
« on: September 20, 2021, 10:30:46 AM »
Updated Thread.
A Whole GNU World
Let's get down to business, this is the list where I'll put useful and helpful Linux software.
I'll be avoiding cliche and usually garbage software like GIMP.
Krita - A Photoshop-like Image Editing tool. It has much less of a learning curve than GIMP.
Librewolf - A Fork of Firefox that removes telemetry among other security risks. Note: All login information is set not to be saved by default, and enabling it requires editing the config file. Browsing history is deleted by default on close and will not reopen when restarted. These are security features, but if you wish to disable them I'll have a guide section later in the thread.
MultiMC - An OpenSource Minecraft client with many features that the default vanilla cannot offer. Such as Isolated instances, Importing and Exporting instances from one MultiMC install to another, or between users. Modloaders can be installed via a setting option on each instance.
KeePass and KeePassX - A Multiplatform Password Manager, KeePass is available on most every platform relevant today, and some that are certainly not. Android, MacOS, Windows, Linux, and IOS. What this means is you can put your KeePass file on a usb storage device, and take it to multiple different software environments and have access to the same KeePass file.
Pakitheme - A Terminal based GTK Repackaging tool used to convert installed themes to Flatpak. If you're having issues with some pieces of software not following the system theme, it's possibly because it wasn't a flatpak install of the theme.
Atom - An open source text editor with a large community supporting it. Nearly anything you want is available to install as a plugin. And those are almost always open source too.
VLC Media Player - I know I said I was gonna avoid "cliches" but this one is an exception. VLC is a useful video playing and capture playback tool.
Virtual Machine Manager - An Open Source virtual machine software. If you still need some things from Windows, or you want to go Distro Hopping without erasing your main install, this is a great option.
LibreOffice - This is a great Office Alternative with file compatibility between MSOffice and LibreOffice. Just be warned, some formatting may be altered from exporting to a MSOffice file format, but otherwise the content will be the same.
Linux Distributions
Pop_OS! - Ubuntu Based, very stable and user friendly, great for beginners.
Mint - Ubuntu Based, stable, user friendly and great for everyone.
Manjaro - Arch Based, stability depends, user friendly, great for slightly advanced users.
Arch - Arch, stability is up to you, not user friendly but well documented, great for tinkerers.
Gentoo - Gentoo, stability = California's tectonic plates, not user friendly and documentation is hit or miss, great for masochists.
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Off Topic / Re: whoops john cena called taiwan a country
« on: September 19, 2021, 01:24:25 AM »
Time to start learning Chinese.
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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Floridian Landlord Mandates Vaccine
« on: September 17, 2021, 01:12:16 PM »Wtf? Went to get my vaccine today and the guy in front of me collapsed and started shaking and seizing. Bunch of men came from behind the counter and ushered us all out of the buildingshoulda talked to his doctor
Bros?
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Off Topic / Re: forget adobe
« on: September 16, 2021, 02:56:19 PM »ngl ever since I stopped hoisting the jolly roger I haven't had a crash.
It's seriously only a thing on Windows adobe.
Back when I was using CS6, and yes it was a legit copy, of Photoshop, Premiere and Dreamweaver, I had crashes.
And they were often just because it was running too long and i guess the garbage collection for the windows versions are stuff.
But for the Mac versions I've never had that happen.
Although for Modern Adobe products, crashes could end up being caused by the DRM which uses an integrated internet explorer.
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Off Topic / Re: forget adobe
« on: September 16, 2021, 12:44:44 PM »
GIMP is over rated.
Even though it's advertised as a drawing tool, Krita is much better as a replacement for photoshop than gimp.
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Off Topic / Re: forget adobe
« on: September 16, 2021, 12:25:06 PM »not really but my dumbass found out i’ve been actually accidentally paying 15 bucks per month since december for adobe. i should’ve did inventory sooner. plus they charged me another 15 dollar cancellation fee???? forget them robbing my ass for like 135$
Come to the GNU side.
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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Floridian Landlord Mandates Vaccine
« on: September 16, 2021, 12:55:29 AM »https://mobile.twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1438172420481765376
Is this legal?
How will this apply to those with medical conditions keeping them from being vaccinated?
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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Centrism
« on: September 14, 2021, 04:49:43 PM »As for US being a democratic republic, that doesn't prevent it's economic system from being capitalist. Proper critique of capitalism is simply a want to bring democracy to the economic system much like the government already has.
No. But fundamentally, at our roots. Our economy is based around our ethics. It was during the 50s we started kissing the asses of everyone offering us 50 cents and a promotion.
I just want to say, I called it from the beginning. I love you all, goodnight.
It wasn't bullstuff. I really did feel the way i did before. But I realized i was doing the same thing i was doing as a Annoying Orange supporter. Just in the opposite direction. Throwing away everything in order to justify my anger and evoke change. And it didn't matter what kind of change. I was fustrated, and not making good decisions.
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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Under Construction
« on: September 14, 2021, 10:28:52 AM »Well, it's that time again, I am once again shifting politically.
I am now more or less centrist.
As I have witnessed the growing extremes in the left, and the right. And I increasingly find myself feeling alien in either category, I realize I belong to neither.
Communism/Socialism - Command Economy that is founded in the despair and loss of an out of control capitalistic system.
Fear of Communism/Socialism - Maintained by the out of control capitalistic system to avoid any regulation over markets.
These are the two opposite ends of the candlestick that have been gnawing at me, fundamentally.
Authoritarian to Anarcho. And it feels like each side is either all in on one or the other. The left is all in on pushing toward socialism
and socialistic positions, and the right is all in on maintaining an out of control capitalistic system the moves all it's power to a select few.
These are basically the same end result, with opposing theories.
In a communist/socialist society, the power of economic control is handed to the government. The government inevitably uses it's newly found leverage to maintain power and stagnate upward mobility. Keeping the masses down gives them power over said masses. "Do what I say or you won't get your stimulus check."
In a capitalist society which has removed nearly all regulation, and is ruled by monopolies or manipulated pseudo polyopolies, uses it's wealth leverage to crush competition and stagnate upward mobility. Keeping the masses down gives them power over the masses. "Do what I say or you won't get your pay check."
We as Americans have fallen down these tribal lines. where there is no difference in outcome, and it the entirety of the battle is just cultural differences. We the people, once ran this country, but now it is ran by fear mongering and othering elitists. It's all too easy to fall down these rabbit holes. They appeal to the emotion of being the outsider, which most of us are.
One promises us false hope in the form of a reformation of government so the other is out of power. The other promises us false hope of reinforcement of government so the other is out of power.
Unless we recognize we need to use (that which would be mindlessly deemed socialist by the right) to maintain a free and fair market,
(which would be seen as being a capitalist bootlicker by the left) nothing will get better.
A free and fair market is not one in which there are no rules or regulations.
When the United States declared itself to be free from the British government, it was not anarchy.
There were laws and rules in place which determined how things were to be run, and limitations on power.
A free and fair market is regulated to keep those with obscene power from abusing said power to manipulate the market.
These objectives were misconstrued by the right in the 50s and 60s by using the communist excuse. "It will give the other power if we don't deregulate."
Then on the other side, the left dishonestly used this situation to claim that "capitalism is bad, become communist." ignoring the fact america is not a capitalist country. We are a democratic republic. We don't run our government based on the almighty dollar, nor should we. Even now, it's still unacceptable to publicly display yourself as a politician of the dollar. It's certainly an open secret there is corruption in the government, but the fundamental foundation is still clearly there. We are not capitalist, capitalism is not our founding value. But simply because we're not capitalist, does not mean we're therefore communist either.
over regulation of the market is as dangerous as no regulation, a balance must be struck so that the average person has more power than the anarchists and the command economists. We once had a sense of community and family, and I sense that many of us still do. But most of us have fallen into the social media casino that is twitter and facebook. These are hyper condensed social niches of crazy ideas stuck together to grow outward. This is how extremist ideologies grow. They grow in the dark or in plain sight under blind eyes. It's easy to shine the light on the dark, it's more difficult to get people to look.
While it is certainly easy to convince most right now there is a problem on the right, it's difficult to convince people there is a problem on the left, and nearly impossible to convince both there are problems on both sides contributing to this growing division. We've become emotional, distrustful and tribal.
If we don't break free from this terrible mindset, we are heading to one authoritarian dystopia or another. And neither will be pretty.
I recognize this focused mostly on the economic part of things, and not the cultural issues. But I consider those to be secondary issues because of the need pyramid.
Before the issue of cultural differences can even be discussed, the most fundamental issues need to considered first.
And all bare bone basic needs are funded by money and regulated by government.
