Dual UK/US citizen here . . . living in the Scottish highlands. Hate to break it to you mate, but Brits do not think about this. Ever. 1/3 of the countries on Earth celebrate their independence day as being independent FROM England. The US just isn’t that special.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom

PS. I personally spend quite a bit of time working to add Scotland to that list!

In the age of a 1TB SSD costing $50 . . . frankly who cares. Flatpak’s are the easiest to deploy Linux packages . . . a perfect pairing for Mint - an OS designed to “just work”.

Was there no window nearby??

There is a word for the future you are describing: exterminism.

Sadly the world appears to be heading that way. This is the most bleak future described in one of my favorite books- Four Futures:Life After Capitalism

It’s a quick read . .and highly recommended. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/59-four-futures

Translation: Imagine if the world’s lingua franca wasn’t English but Mandarin.

It appears you are confusing moral absolutism with moral universalism. I stand by what I wrote.

You rather made my point - everything about morality is relative. There are no moral absolutes - it is up to your (and my) prospective. For the record, I do wrestle with my employment there . . . yes, we did stop many, many Russian tanks. But I also suspect other systems have been used in Gaza by the IDF.

As for speeding and taking out Musk - 100%, sign me up for that moral tradeoff right now!!!

Everything is relative to your prospective.

I worked 10 years for a major EU defense contractor. Mostly on civilian projects, but not exclusively. For many years, I hid my employer from acquaintances & friends - when asked, I would just say “I work in software”. After I left that company, one of the anti-tank missile systems I had a very (very) small part developing started to tear the fuck up Russian tanks across Ukrainian farm lands.

I don’t hide that history today.

This. Right here. This quote. I suggest his family make his tombstone out of stainless steel so they can easily pressure wash away the marker pens of people scrawling these words across it.

Thoughts and prayers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Did I misspell all of them?

Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

MoneyManager EX. It is the closest FOSS application I’ve seen to Quicken. Imports bank statements, catagorize different expenses, monthly budgets . .

https://moneymanagerex.org/

Linux, Windows, Android, iOS versions all available.

Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

I will quote George Washington to explain the why: “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

Alternatives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition (we use this in 1/3 of our government today - juries)

Political parties and religions. All of them.

I did! Hello from Scotland . . .

Hello my fellow Scot!

Trying to. This is a FANTASTIC tool to find new “subreddits” on Lemmy: https://sub.rehab/