Yeah, I’m the socially awkward one lol

So people who paid their taxes? Yeah, I don’t imagine you feel much.

Your unawareness concerning her activites during non-election years sounds like a you problem. She is a regular presence at major state-level annual Green conventions.

Idk about your state, but that is the case here in MD with Greens and the Working Class Party. Also true for the Working Families Party in other states. Presidential elections have a purpose in generating attention, though.

Part of building a viable alternative is getting enough votes for consistant ballot access and other resources that are afforded by default to the two primary parties. Winning comes in degrees.

I’m younger than you. Had my home broken into once. Brother had his broken into three times. Not to say a gun would have helped in any of those instances, but homes do get broken into.

I switched to Startpage a few months ago. I’ve personally found the search results to be better than DDG. I still use Google for shopping. Can’t say I ever use the video search function, though. Never been prompted to sign in or create an account. Never downloaded an app.

When there are alternatives, yes. For most people in the Western world they have alternatives.

Us surveyors use it every day!

It’s definitely a small community. I haven’t used it in years, but it was one of the most stable and pleasant OOB experiences I’ve had on Linux. The Budgie version was very polished.

I use KDE on my desktop because I don’t care about maximizing screen real estate in that context. I have a large monitor, so I can afford to lose some pixels to my taskbar or window borders. That being said, if I did care, I can make the taskbar autohide and pick a slim/minimal theme for the window borders. With regard to XFCE, I said I make it Unity-like. As such, there is no taskbar. I have a slim panel at the top that shows stuff I want to be able to see easily (i.e., pinned background applications, battery life, date, time, etc.) My dock-like panel autohides, so it takes up no real estate. Maximized windows merge into the top panel like in Unity, so the window borders take up no extra room.

Any DE can become “hotkey-first.” For example, I launch terminal with CTRL+ALT+T. My application launcher is CTRL+SPACE, and it is text-based. Most DEs have default hotkeys for a lot of functions, and they are customizable.

Of course, all of this comes down to how one’s workflow is. I don’t ever see myself wanting to scroll my desktop or deal with windows auto-tiling. Multiple desktops is another example. It’s something just about every DE offers, but I’ve never had a use for it. Different strokes for different folks.

I’m pretty much always picking XFCE or KDE over just a WM. In the case of KDE, I use it like Windows. I make XFCE as Unity-like as possible, which I believe is the best interface for limited screen real estate.

To be clear, I eat a mostly plant-based diet due to environmental considerations, not because I find it bizarre to consume animal products. Do you somehow find it bizarre or gross that worms and other microorganisms breakdown dead matter from sentient creatures to produce the soil used to grow crops? Or the involvement of insects in the production of said crops? Do you find it gross for a baby to consume breast milk?

I’m failing to see what’s weird or gross about it, honestly. I don’t think bugs or their activities are inherently weird or gross. I don’t personally use honey in anything other than honey roasted peanut butter.

Because it tastes good? Anything we eat can sound gross.

Hard disagree. I quite like the plant-based burgers, hot dogs, jerky, cheeses, etc. They really do satisfy me in the same way as the “real” ones.

Yeah, it’s been a real challenge. In my effort to break from the internet as my social outlet, I’ve been volunteering at my local fire company, going to church, and trying to get involved with some local politics. Difficult for sure.

Why assume masculine pronouns inherently refer to a guy? /s

Nice to meet a fellow volunteer on here. Of course, I also volunteer for the people. It is undeniably true that part of our responsibility is also the protection of private capital, though. That’s all I was really making a point about.

So we agree that this is a matter of degree rather than kind. As for the degree of difference, I fail to see much of one between the non-combatant service member and, say, the average US citizen who pays no mind to how their lifestyle and choices impact the world.

When you speak of the US military, you are speaking of an institution. It is an institution that you and I likely share similar grievances about. The difference is that I don’t attribute moral condemnation on every person who just so happens to be in the military. Likewise with every person who just so happens to work for Amazon, Google, Walmart, etc. The cook serving on a military base is about as responsible for an atrocity that occurs in the middle east as you are responsible for whatever negative outcomes are associated with the way you earn and spend your money.

Are you trying to ask what would be the good outcome of a massive labor strike in the US healthcare industry? Quite a lot of good could come from that. But, yes, profiting off the illness of children and sending their families into financial ruin is, once the scale is put into play, in my opinion, about as morally problematic as dropping bombs on children.

I get the impression you’re once again trying to excuse yourself of moral blame by saying the producers of animal products are significantly worse than the consumers. Much of the labor in animal “processing” facilities in the US comes from undocumented immigrants. Much of foreign meat comes from impoverished laborers or even slaves. Consumers of such products are directly funding those atrocities. And, yes, that also makes voters responsible for the atrocities that are perpetuated by their democratically elected governments.

And no, I don’t believe you have a moral right to be a terrorist.