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Fair point, I can only speak directly about my local experience.

That’s true but we, that includes me, can look around and see what’s happening beyond our State and National borders to see if a theory fits.

Realistically, the standard of living has been falling for a while.

IMO that’s the crux of the problem right there. The Standard of Living has been falling everywhere and it’s been falling faster as “Globalization” took hold. The real issue though isn’t trade between countries that have roughly similar economic systems and lifestyles, it’s the one sided importation of goods between countries that do not have roughly similar economic systems and lifestyles.

The problem with Globalization is that it tears the floor out from underneath the vulnerable. The under-educated and the poor struggle to make a living because their jobs have been shipped away to another country where someone can live for less and thus work for less. It’s a race to the bottom.

Those vulnerable people, and even the once privileged who’ve watched their livelihoods ripped away, are increasingly desperate to find a way out of their situation and so they’re increasingly turning to the only people who seem to care. To paraphrase a bit “It’s the (real) economy, stupid!”

This isn’t my idea either as this outcome was widely predicted by Union Bosses and Business Leaders during the Clinton Administrations runup to NAFTA and MFN Trading Status for China.

If they were correct, and it appears they were, then the only way to stop the madness is to re-onshore the jobs as much as possible with a special focus on geographic areas that have the highest imbalance. The U.S. started doing it under the Trump Administration and the Biden Administration has accelerated the trend. If everyone will just hang tight for another 12-18 months the effects will start to get really noticeable and the Right Wing rise will ebb away.

Having said all that, it should also be said that we do still currently have a very real Nazi problem.

Nearly every country in the world is experiencing a shift to the right and it’s accelerating.

In Europe we have all that

You had all of that but as it has trickled away your populations are also accelerating their move towards the Right Wing. I can’t believe how many people in here think that this is only a problem in the United States when it’s happening in nearly every country.

Imo, a big part of what I am seeing now stems from a lack of proper history and or civics education.

That doesn’t explain what’s going on in much of Europe. You bring up the Holocaust but Germany has about the strong laws imaginable against Nazism / Neo-Nazism and yet the far right is about two whiskers away from holding power. It’s much the same in France and they already have power in Italy. This accelerating trend towards the right is a Global phenomena.

I think what’s really happening is a populist uprising against globalization and the hardships its created for so many people. Those same people are trending right wing because the RW are actually talking about the problem and possible solutions.

it was the 80s/90s, windows didn’t exist

Wow, that’s a pretty narrow gap. The 80386 started mass production in 1986 and Windows 3.0 (the first actually usable one) came out in 1990.

I refused to use Windows until Win95 and even then I was experimenting with OS/2. In 1997 I installed Slack 3.4 and have been around every since. I’m currently running Linux Mint but I sorta miss SuSe and may go back to it.

Big truth right there.

Welcome to the Club!

Today you can use an inline “RunAs” command such as "runas /user:Administrator “powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -command Set-Location "$PWD"; .\install.ps1”

Or you could use Gsudo.

Additionally, Sudo will soon be available in Win11.

In the US only diesel gets its own pump, at least in my experience

Yeah I always thought so too and then I ran into pumps like this in North Platte, Nebraska last June.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/ab6bd220-9b30-47e6-aab6-dbc24ad683c3.jpeg

Edit: I couldn’t fuel up at that pump as my car requires 92+ Octane.

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Hi!

I can’t speak for all users of lemmy.today but as a user of lemmy.today I would prefer it if we took reasonable steps like email verification to be a good neighbor, especially if it prevents other instances from de-federating us. Just my 2 cents. :)

If you’d like help managing it I’m willing to donate time and effort.

Huh, I haven’t installed SUSE in at least 10 years and seeing the Gecko is giving me a bit of nostalgia. I may have to run an install and see what’s changed.

What happened to Hanlon’s Razor?

Rossman happened. He has videos that need watched.

Have you tried Pinta?

"Yeah sure, whatever, it’s not like millions are going to end up using this thing.”

Literally. GIMP started as homework back in 1995 for two College Programmers who didn’t want to write a compiler in scheme/lisp.

But GIMP developer should match their UI layout to industry standard.

People have been asking for that since at least 1998 so I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen.

The damn thing was written by a couple of College Students who had no experience with graphic arts and man does it show. The UI has been the number #1 complaint since the 1.0 release back in 1998; how it’s never been updated / overhauled is simply beyond me.

Reolink.

I had a Z Flip 3 and didn’t notice the crease while I was using it. The bigger problem, and the reason I don’t have one anymore, is because the damn screen broke (delaminated) 6 months in and Samsung wouldn’t fix it.

The picture is showing someone with a hunting rifle, which is not banned

This Remington Model 742 chambered in .280 is a hunting rifle.

This Benelli R1 is a hunting rifle.

Both of those were on Trudeau’s list to be banned and confiscated not even a year ago.

Your own indigenous peoples were pissed off at this.

In October of 2023 the idea was brought back and expanded.

The Canadian Government is absolutely trying to ban (not registration) an entire class of firearms that does in fact include more than a few hunting rifles. People who care are once again trying to stop it…and that’s why there is an ad and that’s why it’s not “misinformation” no matter what you personally think.