Because of prevailing attitudes and upbringing, a statistically significant portion of those cops come from the same pool that generates the white nationalists.

Those cops rise in the ranks to be the people in charge of the police force, where they have command over which protests get dealt with harshly and which don't.

Because of the perceived nature of a cops authority simply because they carry a badge and a gun, the people who most want to become cops are the very people that should psychologically never be allowed to become one.

Patriotism is a social disease.

Agreed. Imagine being proud of where you're from like it's some sort of personal accomplishment.

Nationality isn't an accomplishment, it's a statistic.

Short answer: No.

As far as I'm aware, the first step in an autopsy is to drain the body of blood before any incision is made. You'd be dead long before you got to "see your insides".

"Sorry we can't/won't stop arming the people who are creating the need for aid. But to make it up to you, here's billions in aid spending."

So so so stupid.

I don't know why I'm bothering to feed the troll, but here goes...

Hurting "no one" and hurting "not Jews" are two very different things, you do realize?

Guy says "She's not hurting anyone". And your response is "Hitler wasn't hurting anyone...except the Jews" as though that's somehow an equivalent rebuttal? What the absolute fuck is wrong with your fucking brain?

Best...episode...of Stargate...ever....

Yeah. I use Krunner quite a bit myself. I have two monitors, so if I have a program running on one and I need to do something like bring up a browser or something in the other one, I just move the move to the right and start typing. It's great. Maybe I need to get into the habit of using it for my main launcher...

In the meantime I found the Andromeda Launcher, which at least allows me to centre it. It's a little gaudy for my taste, but oh well. It'll do until I apparently teach myself to fork Minimal Menu.

Yeah. I had tried Simple Menu as well. It suffers from the "can't centre it in the display" thing for me. And it says "unsupported" when I try to launch it as well. At least hopefully it has the possibility of being updated.

In the meantime...ugh. Thanks anyway. Might be time to start looking elsewhere design-wise, but I can't stand Gnome or its derivatives. literally the only thing I don't like from KDE is it's application launchers. This really really sucks, personally.

I don’t know enough to know if my ideas are achievable, or if I’d just be bashing my head against the wall.

Achievable is subjective, and even if you progress a ways and learn something that makes you realize that that particular project can't be achieved how you envisioned it, you still have the knowledge to either a) figure out new ways to achieve the same effect, or b) take to a new project.

Knowledge builds on knowledge builds on knowledge. If factor in not starting a project is not knowing enough to know if it's achievable or not, you'll never actually get the necessary knowledge to figure that out. You can't know how to do something until you try to do it...fundamentally.

I'm 48. Last year, during a period of unemployment, I decided that to kill time I wanted to create a 3D aircraft model for my flight simulator (X-Plane). I had dabbled in Blender in the past, but nothing too in depth. So I sat down and just did it.

Some of the features I wanted to implement required plugins that had to made with Lua (a programming language) so again...I just did it.

Age and learning have nothing to do with each other. Regardless of the topic. I feel like maybe the only valid reason that such ideas took hold is because the older we get, the less time we have to focus on learning new things, and so it can seem as though we can't learn, when in reality we just don't have the time to. That's certainly what I found to be the case personally. It wasn't until I had literally nothing else to do that I could focus on really learning 3D Modelling and basic programming.

The solution to that, that I found, was to be project based. I wouldn't have made as much progress if I didn't specifically have some thing I wanted to make, whether that's an app, a 3D model, or whatever.

I was actually kind of blown away by the scale and verticality of the open world in Elex. It has some jank (as most AA games do), But surprisingly in the end, it actually honestly soured my feelings towards Bethesda games somewhat because in Elex, your choices matter far more.

It always annoyed me in Bethesda games that if you do one factions quest line, you can still go and do the other factions quest lines and no one ever mentions it. It doesn't change the game whatsoever except the ultimate ending. In Starfield, for example, you can do the entire United Colonies Quest line, and then go join the freestar collective and literally nobody mentions it, or trys to stop you, or treats you literally any differently because you joined their erstwhile enemy. Each quest line is a separate game in itself. For example (spoilers for Starfield...) When you're trying to get the Freestar Collective's cooperation to get access to some data, if you've previously become a Freestar Ranger, that should have mattered to the story in some way. But nothing you do in a Bethesda game has any bearing on anything else that you do except in the most cursory of ways.

Elex doesn't play by those rules. Once you join a faction, that's it... And the other factions treat you very differently as a result, with different dialog and different options. None of this "essential character" garbage either. If you kill them, you'll get a notice on screen that says ("x"s death will change the story moving forward...) and stuff like that. Sometime that change is immediate, and sometime it comes back to haunt you hours and hours later in a completely different quest line.

It's also HARD because it doesn't lock off areas until you've reached a certain level. You can go anywhere and do anything right from the beginning, but if you stumble upon an enemy that is twenty levels above you, tough luck. Often, getting to a quest requires going through those areas, which means early on, you're not necessarily fighting all the time. You pick your battles and you pick when to sneak by at night and when to just run like hell.

It was honestly a very refreshing open world experience. And the world was extremely "vertical". And by that I mean you could jump off a mountain and fall into a valley that's about as deep down as some other game maps are wide, with absolutely no loading screen. Really impressive for a AA game. Can't speak highly enough about it.

A couple of other one's that I enjoy but not on the level of Elex is the Spider Software games, The Technomancer and Greedfall. Fun enough for what they are, but not nearly the same scope as Elex.

Mad Max get's not nearly enough love either.

The most advanced russian technology...the shopping cart armour.

Can we NOT judge a book by its cover, please.

Let's look at what we know. There's a picture of a dude in a camo cap, and a heading that is clearly making fun/criticizing so_called red-necks who honestly think that way. (and rightfully so.)

That's literally ALL we know. For all we know it could be this dude himself who posted the photo and the caption to comment on the people in his town that he sees all around him. He could be as left as any of us and just happens to live in a small town. Hell I grew up in a small town in the most hillbilly province in Canada and I'M a damn socialist.

Just because he LOOKS like your typical Trump supporter, doesn't mean he is.

Furthermore, if you read that caption and thought it was sincere instead of sarcasm, I don't know where the education system failed you.

Ah. Gotcha. Makes sense.

From my initial read it sounded as though you were suffering from some kind of pop-culture FOMO, which is what I was responding to. If you're just looking to find new stuff for yourself, than more power to you. But I still think you're giving it a little too much thought. New tastes, new likes tend to come quite naturally without really hunting. Very much like you discovered Kendrick. You didn't go out searching, it just came up.

To use myself as an example, at 48, most of my new music has come from just hearing something I like on the TV and looking it up. I discovered "The 88" through How I met your Mother and Community. I loved the theme music from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and was pleasantly surprised to learn that not only was it an actual band with MORE music, but it was literally a side gig for a comedian that I had already been enjoying for years. (Valley Lodge, if you're interested. They don't get enough love.) I discovered the Decemberists and Hawksley Workman both because I was trying to impress a girl at two different times in my life, but it turned out I really dug it.

My point is, don't go looking for what's popular, just keep your ears open and listen for stuff you like. Just looking by studying what's popular at the time would have made me miss most of the bands I just mentioned.

Just my opinion, but I feel like you're far to concerned with being "current". No offence.

I'm 48 and when I was younger I swore up and down that "I wasn't going to be like my parents, stuck in my ways musically, blah blah blah." But you know what, it doesn't actually matter. Literally at all. It's vapid pop culture stuff that in adult world, no one actually cares about. Your friends aren't going to be your friends simply because you like the same music as them. You're social circle isn't going to rise and fall based on how "current" you are because outside of highschool, literally no one gives a damn.

Like what you like. Listen to what you want. and don't worry about staying "hip" because the entire concept is subjective and meaningless in the actual day-to-day world. No one is going to shun you for not knowing what's happening between Kendrick whats-his-face and The dude from Degrassi. And if they do, they're not really the kind of vapid social media obsessed people you should be associating with at your age anyway.

Again...just my opinion.

It's a scam. Right Wing politicians up here in Saskatchewan have been rolling on about it for at least a decade as a response to the "damn lilbural's and their climate agenda."

It's not viable. It's never been viable. It's a through-line that they can feed their idiot followers to say "look...we aren't bad for the environment, it's just the left telling you we are."

I mean there really is no way that they won't I'd imagine.

They owe their entire careers to him, Len, Don Dohler, David DeCoteau, Amir Shervan and Jim Wynorski

Doesn't finish reading the headline before clicking...

"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined."

I'm not going to say that Boeing definitely killed them. It's suspicious, sure, but in the end no one really knows except them.

But the funny thing is that even the perception that they might have is having kind of a weird Streisand Effect for them. People who may not have been whistleblowers before; people who would have been too scared to open their mouths are probably now moving from fear to anger as they try to ensure that their colleagues deaths (potential murders) are not seemingly for nothing.

I mean, true...but I don't think the average user is paying for the service rather than they're paying for not having to worry about setting up everything needed to get syncthing working.

I don't consider myself a luddite in any way, but within five seconds of reading syncthing's install instructions even I basically just said, "yeah...no." And I say that AS a nearly 12 year semi-advanced linux user. It's not that it's difficult. But difficult enough to not be worth it for the average person.