I know. I was sure the EU would stop the DuPont-Pioneer/Dow merger, or the Bayer/Monsanto merger, but alas, these two companies now control seed production for over 60% of the world.

If only there was a branch of the government dedicated to ensuring the free market stays competitive and free of trusts…

I’ve been pronouncing naked as baked for a while now. Thankfully it doesn’t come up in conversation as often.

Gotcha. I wish more languages were like German in their adherence to letter-phoneme pairing.

My mother tongue very rarely completely mutes the sound of letters. More often, they are just deadened. So I can’t help but pronounce a little bit of G at the beginning of those words.

Wait wait wait… How are baked and naked supposed to be pronounced?

Funny you mention Germanic languages, given how deterministic German itself is on pronunciation of letters.

Heck yeah, there’s an elephant community!

Also, what’s a valid reason for harassment?

POSIX shell sucks ass. Just because there are many worse options doesn’t make it any better.

Yes on the snake kit. Keep it coming.

Available and in active development. You can still use GNOME on mint, BTW.

Same here, except I switched to Mint a couple years ago. You won’t be disappointed. And if you’re sanguine about waiting until you get a new machine, just go with LMDE.

It was true at the time the song was recorded though.

The paw says 👍, but the nose says 🖕.

And my wish is granted! This is the dawn of a new golden age for Linux memes!

If you make a meme out of it, this is one of the most helpful and active. Otherwise the others are good too, some perhaps not as active.

I hate them, wish I could go all Mao on their asses. But yeah, Linux rocks. Heard great things about Pop. Looking forward for your meme posts asking for help here.

Gooble gobble, gooble gobble!

Half of it split between the instances of the awarder and awardee, the other half as you said.