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I get this response a lot, but I also see a lot of those crazies online. There are actual people who do want to bring children into this. (Using them as scapegoats to push some third agenda is another topic.)

That’s a minority of people who aren’t conservative so much as they are extremist. Just very vocal. On the other end of the spectrum, there are actual people who want to transition their toddlers. They are also very vocal.

But so now you have people leaning left judging everyone right of them by the most vocal extremists on the right side, and vice versa. And then the divide between left and right seems to widen, because in politics it’s apparently law that every action be met with an even bolder counter action, so if you try and be neutral about any of this you’ll lose your mind!

Can’t you see that this isn’t even about you versus me, both actually just very mildly distant in our ideals, but about you and me versus whoever is profiting over us spending the time to debate this in the first place?

This is going to sound weird, but hear me out; I’ve gotten so very unused to the concept of comments that don’t really serve a purpose, or form one cohesive whole. There’s no cheap jabs, no witty one liner. No great philosophy or instruction, not even any content filled with the poster’s passion for the topic they’re discussing. It’s just so…everyday, common.

Oh how I’ve missed this slow kind of internet, where content is added perhaps weekly, and the discussions around it are just fleeting thoughts of passersby, the technical possibility to respond being the only real invitation to reply at all. A stark and permanent reminder that none of this really matters, and there’s a life to live outside this screen. This whole reddit fiasco has perhaps been one of the greatest things to have happened to my online life.

Re arch,–because at this point I feel almost like trespassing without acknowledging the topic before I derailed my train of thought–I could never wrap my head around the hours needed and pages of wikis read to come to the same destination already offered out of the box by so many other distros. To me, an OS is just a baseline for other tools that I need. If using one specific distro gets me into my tools faster, without having to pour hours into installing them, then it’s a no brainer to me to just go out and use that distro. I could change them visually, but really the icons and the colors shown in nautilus (or whichever prepackaged alternative) are of no significance to me.

Maybe I’m getting old. I used to love spending hours just to fix and move minuscule things on my devices. Nowadays, I just pick whatever will take the least time to get stuff done while causing me the fewest headaches, which is what sitting at a computer has become for me anyway.

Man it’s been a while since I cared about minimum karma requirements for posting. You’ve gotta be either obtuse (to your own detriment) or very stupid to not rack up karma.