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In China, there has been an increasing number of indiscriminate attacks on people recently, which is heartbreaking. Why do these individuals target innocent people?
  • Full disclosure:

    1. I am not a psychologist, psychology is merely a hobby.
    2. I am from the US, but I will try to stick to my understanding of human emotions as a whole.

    One thing I have observed about violence that seems random is that they are often performed by people who have been proverbially "beaten down" by life. When this is the cause, they may feel the need to lash out, but their "beating" was so severe that they become apathetic. They just need some outlet for their pain, rather than a specific individual or group.

    Some people will take it out on themselves and it becomes self-harm or suicide. Others will take it out on those who are vulnerable in their immediate vicinity.

    Basically, when a person is in a lot of pain, it becomes harder to think about others, because they are already struggling with their own issues. At least from where I stand, random acts of violence is what happens when that idea is taken to an extreme.

    As for articles and videos: I'm not sure if you will be able to view the video on this page easily, but there is a transcription on the page: it was shared by a man who claimed he almost became a school shooter. He described what he was going through and feeling leading up to the moment where he almost did it. I think it provides a window into how suffering makes a person volatile:

    https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_stark_i_was_almost_a_school_shooter?subtitle=en

    In a similar vein, depression tends to cause a person to focus heavily on their own thoughts and emotions and less on their social connections, not because the person is selfish, but as a means of self-preservation, as described in these articles:

    https://neurolaunch.com/is-depression-selfish/

    https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/copingwithdepression/2020/12/when-depression-makes-you-appear-selfish

    This is just one possible explanation, but it's the one I am most familiar with personally. I hope this helps.

  • Fall Cooking
  • Ahhh yes childhood memories...

    (I was a dumb child, I thought it would become a maple-flavored tea)

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  • I'm genuinely curious what exactly is "wrong"?

    It's a theme website. GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and even Cinnamon has one...why is this bad?

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  • To hell with "political violence is always bad", I want to use all these tar and feathers I've been hoarding!! /s

  • How much do Americans actually pay for healthcare?
  • Fun fact: I recently learned life insurance can be used as a mechanism for really wealthy people to dodge taxes. Basically under the right circumstances you can pull money from life insurance policies with little to no penalty (and no, I'm not talking about when you die). High Deductible Health Plans and their corresponding Health Savings Accounts also work the same way, because they accumulate interest and have no tax penalty when used under the right circumstances.

    See here: https://smartasset.com/insurance/how-to-use-life-insurance-to-build-wealth

    In essence, insurance is a scam to rob those who don't have much means, while simultaneously acting as a money laundering vehicle for those who do.

  • How do you use cpusets on pop?
  • Wonder if this has anything to do with how the COSMIC tries to give more resources to whatever is in focus on the screen...

  • class war
  • I wish I could up-vote more than once...

  • COSMIC now supports theming GTK3/4 applications
  • Looks awesome! I love witnessing all the progress the System76 team is making. It really makes it seem like anything is possible.

  • There's way more than these two
  • In a similar vein, Evelyn Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once... She may not start out badass, but oh boy does that change

  • Happi Valintynes Dae!
  • It gets funnier when you realize Berd made a video about exactly how the Internet responds to typos in arguments:

    https://youtu.be/QyU5Js6dINg?si=_zdGnmAhSJRvyZ3X

  • Relationship advice?
  • They are. Which is why these people go for FWB...if they can even get that

  • The History Channel logic
  • You know, I had never noticed this correlation until you brought it up, but it's kind of sad how accurate it is...

  • May as well buy burgers in the US, since you already paid for most of it through taxes!
  • It's funny you mention this, because a few days ago I went to my local market to grab milk, and the regular milk was more expensive that the plant-based milk...never thought I'd see this day in the US!

  • Will Pop! OS continue to be based on Ubuntu?
  • So something I just thought of, and I'm surprised nobody brought up (well, I guess some did indirectly, it just wasn't obvious to me): A major benefit of basing off of Ubuntu is more up-to-date hardware support. While it's true that Debian now supports non-free firmware by default, that doesn't mean that it will be recent.

    Debian support for hardware is truly impressive, but it ultimately lags behind because Debian prioritizes stability over new features. This is why routine Debian updates only cover severe bugs and security issues, and from what I can tell that also is the case for hardware support and the kernel.

    Ubuntu tries to keep in step with new hardware releases, which makes much more sense for power users like engineers, developers and gamers, all of which seem to be key consumers of System76 hardware. Basing off of Ubuntu makes it easier to satisfy that clientele. I imagine it also makes submitting upstream fixes for hardware-related packages easier.

  • Will Pop! OS continue to be based on Ubuntu?
  • Interesting two cents! Your line of reasoning is pretty thorough, and I think your educated guesses are fairly sounds! Thanks for contributing! I agree, while switching to Debian as a base would certainly be a lot of work, System76 has definitely gone above and beyond in far more complex ways, particularly with their COSMIC DE effort.

  • Will Pop! OS continue to be based on Ubuntu?
  • Interesting, I didn't realize that. Thanks for clarifying!

  • Will Pop! OS continue to be based on Ubuntu?
  • Oh, absolutely. Regardless of the underlying distro, COSMIC is set to be an epic DE experience.

  • Will Pop! OS continue to be based on Ubuntu?
  • See, this was my thought as well. Canonical seems to be going the way of RedHat, and I understand that they need to turn a profit, but my understanding is also that most of their money comes from server support. Not really sure how much they can squeeze out of Desktop users, but I guess that's what snaps are for...

  • Will Pop! OS continue to be based on Ubuntu?
  • See, this is why I was curious if they would just set their own release schedules and run based off of Debian-testing. But I guess that would be a lot more work, and they'd effectively be duplicating Canonical's effort, in a sense.

  • Will Pop! OS continue to be based on Ubuntu?
  • This is an interesting perspective! So then by that logic, is there a possibility that Canonical will try and pressure System76 to officially switch to snaps over flatpaks?

  • Roblox is working on Linux again!

    My little bro will be so happy to know I can play with him once more! 😊

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    Will Pop! OS continue to be based on Ubuntu?

    Totally naive question, but is there any merit to Pop! OS continuing to be based on Ubuntu as opposed to Debian?

    I ask because of the following developments that have happened over the past few years:

    • System76 is gunning to develop their own COSMIC DE not based on GNOME
    • Debian now officially supports non-free firmware in their ISO releases, meanwhile supporting this out of the box was kind of Ubuntu's whole "raison d'etre" in the early days
    • Canonical is forcing snaps on everyone, and is making it progressively harder to remove them from the system without having very real impacts (I'm hearing whispers online about them "snapifying" CUPS printer drivers), and to get around this System76 basically has to repackage some software into .deb files by hand and offer flatpak integration as an alternative if people want newer stuff.

    Essentially, the conclusion I am drawing from all this information is that it's going to get harder and harder to base things off of Ubuntu moving forward, and that other than newer packages (which is solved with flatpaks) there's actually not a whole lot of benefit to basing things off of Ubuntu as opposed to a slightly tweaked Debian flavor...

    So with all that said, I'm curious what the community and developers behind Pop! OS think about my line of reasoning. Are there any considerations being made to potentially shift to Debian as a base? If not, are there things I'm not considering? Or (and this is totally out of left field), is System76 planning to become a company somewhat resembling Canonical and create their own distro based on the Debian testing branch?

    Would love to hear some thoughts on this, and apologies if this has been brought up before.

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    Super cool to be here!

    Realized that I haven't done my "introduction" post yet!

    I was a late joiner of Reddit since my need for memes were being fulfilled by other meme aggregators, what really convinced me to join my first message board was that I realized it could be a space to geek out about technology and anime, and see what other people are discussing in those communities.

    When I saw the type of space it was becoming, I realized that if communities want to exist, they not only must be moderated by their communities like with Reddit, but owned by them too! Then I learned about the Fediverse, and felt it made much more sense from a sustainability standpoint in that regard, and decided to hop on this train to awesome!

    I was really excited to see that this instance is pretty devoted to tech enthusiasts and makers of all kinds, so thanks for having me!

    I'm particularly into programming language design, and my favorites are Ada and Raku, despite being a relatively young programmer (cue the ensuing "hipster" jabs), just because they offer features that are truly helpful in intuitive ways for their respective use-cases.

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    Just an anime nerd who also has a fascination with programming language design

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