I’m not telling you to tolerate intolerance. I’m telling you that what you have attacked is something entirely unrelated to their intolerance, and actually perpetuates some of that intolerance.

It’s not like I’d be spared from concentration camps either, I’m part of a few demographics which have been some of the first targets of fascism too.

Dehumanization is a core mechanism of fascism. It’s not possible to eradicate fascism by using its tools. Your statement also stands in stark contrast with your position that empathy is the most important part of a person.

The problem is, we’re all capable of atrocities, even if some are much more easily convinced to participate than others. It’s an uncomfortable truth of being human. But we have the choice to attack the parts which are actually contemptible - their words and actions. Alienating people based on their physical appearance equally alienates the people who perceive themselves to have a physical similarity, even when they hold entirely opposite views. That collateral damage is neither necessary nor desirable.

I don’t doubt they hold ghoulish views, but it has nothing to do with their appearance. They look like older women fetishizing a revolting idol while subscribed to white supremacist ideals about youth and beauty. Describing them as “things” is dehumanizing in a similar way as they would likely dehumanize us. The more ideologically revolting members of our species are still people.

People. They’re people. Objectionable people with grotesque views, but people nonetheless.

I was going for the idea of fallen royalty and involvement in crime, but I think we can’t rule out the possibility he was also trying to steal his title back so I quite like your read too.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for letting me know! I’ll be sure to add more context if I post one of these again.

For this one, I guess I should have added that Pizza Express was his alibi for how he could not have met the person who accused him of rape. It was a disastrous interview in 2019 that I expect has come back to haunt him. https://archive.md/mPBis

Thanks, I always try to include them, but I’m never sure whether to keep it as alt text or put it as a caption, or how well alt text works on Lemmy.

Out of curiosity, why do you find them helpful if it’s not for vision reasons? I apologise if that’s too personal a question.

Same for Japan. No chance they’re wearing full hiking boots or sneakers inside the house in Japan - the shoe cabinet is built in right next to the front door of houses, tiny apartments, temples, many restaurants, etc. I assume the schools still do too.

Nah, it’s 24.04 LTS

1. Ubuntu memory allocation and limits (I think). I haven’t dug too much into finding the root cause, but I have a recurring issue where the GUI freezes up, and it looks like it might be related to not handling well how much memory it needs for the task.

Maybe it thinks it has more memory available than it does, or the gc isn’t running efficiently, or it’s allocating to 100% without including a sensible safety gap, something like that. It’s a significantly low-level enough problem that I’m wary of tinkering with values I don’t fully understand even if I wanted to spend the probably large amount of time necessary to find root cause.

2. The fact Ubuntu now withholds package updates unless you’re paying for their “maintenance and compliance subscription”, but that’s probably on me to change distros. I get that Ubuntu employees need money so they can eat, just like I do, but … The idea of paying for core package updates feels like a nightmare waiting to happen, for both Ubuntu developers managing package dependencies and end-user experience.