Lettuce eat lettuce

Sadly, this seems like it’s likely a case of psychopathy. Technically you can’t diagnose minors with it, but they have pre-adult terms for the same thing.

Children at that age, at least according to the majority of modern research, have extremely low rates of successful behavioral reconditioning towards socially acceptable norms. It’s almost zero.

The best researchers have been able to do, even with extremely intensive treatment, is to slightly curb their most violent and predatory tendencies.

I agree that we should take a non-retributive approach to justice, but the sad truth in these cases, at least as far as we know right now, these folks cannot be fixed and reintroduced into the general population, they are too dangerous.

Their brains, either through genetic misfortune, or through extreme sustained trauma from infancy, are permanently malformed. They lack any significant capacity for empathy or love. They cannot relate to other people on any level, especially emotionally. Their brains are literally not wired for it, as awful as that is.

We shouldn’t throw them in a hole though. They should be permanently imprisoned in specialty facilities that constantly treat their mental disorder and try to employ them in productive jobs that can help society. They should be provided proper medical care and resources, possibly tightly supervised short term release in condition of exceptional behavior and treatment response.

Getting better all the time!

Friendly reminder to give your fair and honest Steam review of Apex Legends after EA’s most recent changes. 😈

Sorry to hear that, typical hierarchical power structure.

We need more worker protections, and more workplace democracy.

Remember, he’s the real victim here, he had to sign off on all those layoffs, he’s going to have to live with that decision…

…in one of his multiple mansions.

He gets paid that much because he’s one of the few people on earth who can make those kind of tough choices. The poor guy must be weeping into his caviar.

Lol, get mad.

Right on!

One suggestion:

Bring in the national guard fully armed and blast the shit out of any rogue militia people threatening the lives of FEMA workers.

In Minecraft of course…

Wow, I’m so shocked!..

Lol, I wouldn’t even use MS Office on Windows, Libre Office all the way.

I guess he did Nazi that root he tripped on…

Jellyfin for only music streaming would probably be fine, if it’s just you using it. PiHole would be good, you could probably get a low impact distro on there to run Docker containers, but only pretty light services on it.

About to build my first really nice homelab NAS for Jellyfin, archiving, etc. targeting between 30-40TB if all goes well :)

alternate title: “Bosses frustrated that Gen-Z hires aren’t interested in becoming good little drones.”

You could confiscate 99.9% of the wealth of the top 100 richest people in the world, and they would all still be wealthier than 99% of the world’s population.

Fair points. yeah, there’s a reason I use KDE on my main gaming rig, I love the look and feel, and it’s super customizable.

That’s my only complaint with Cinnamon, is it looks kind of dated. Not bad, but dated for sure.

Like I said, if you already like something else and it’s working for you, no need to switch. But, if stability and out of the box functionality are your top priorities, Mint with Cinnamon is a great choice.

I might have missed it, but why isn’t Mint on there? From what I read on your list of requirements, it fits in. I will say this, Mint with the Cinnamon desktop has become my workhorse distro of choice.

It’s the most stable and no-fuss distro I’ve used, and I’ve tried many.

That being said, I personally use Nobara for my gaming PC and it’s been really good. It’s not as stable though, and that is partially my fault, I’m a tinkerer on that system. Part of it is KDE Plasma though, especially on Wayland.

Don’t get me wrong, it still works great and plays everything super well! But there are several little annoyances that happen. Menus not popping up in the right place. Windows sometimes opening completely off screen so I have to manually drag them back into view, some recent flickering with certain games in the menus. Once every 4-6 weeks, my mouse will stop responding when I unlock the PC., and I have to unplug and re-plug it in.

Again, nothing game-breaking or super frustrating, just little annoyances. Comes with the territory of tweaking your systems and using newer tech like Wayland.

If you like Kubuntu and it’s been working well for you, stick with it, it’s a solid Ubuntu spin for sure. Don’t fall into the grass-is-greener trap.

Awesome

Totally, one of the boomer managers at my company was ranting about remote work a few months ago, saying stupid stuff like, “If somebody is remote working, how do I know they are actually working and not just mowing their lawn or cleaning their house?”

1. That’s the point, it’s better for people to have free time in their day to actually take care of life stuff.

2. If your management method requires you to constantly monitor your employees to make sure you’re squeezing every last ounce of “productivity” out of them, you’re a shitty manager.

3. How do you know your employees are working now and not just idly clicking their mice and staring at their screens zoned out? How do you know if an employee is deliberately sandbagging you and pretending they are at 100% capacity when they are actually at 75%?

All those questions betray the fact that they don’t actually care about their employees well-being, they don’t actually care about creating intelligent metrics for productivity or work capacity, they just want control. They want to impose the same brutality they had imposed on them.

It’s very similar to the mentality that those anti-student loan forgiveness folks have. “It’s unfair that I had to slave away to pay off my student loans and they don’t. So I want everybody else to suffer just as much as I did.”