The Nordic nations are societies. They care for one another. They don’t resent their taxes being used to aid and elevate the other members of their society. They root for one another in more than empty rhetoric.
We the US are just a bunch of rugged individuals competing against one another at eachother’s throats due to decades of propaganda by our owner class to keep us divided, isolated, and distracted from what they’ve inflicted upon our former society.
There’s a reason they hide behind gates and door guards, they know what they’ve done to this country outside their steel towers and golf clubs.
Nordic societies are also largely homogenous. Sweden has seen massive increases in violent crime and poverty ever since they started allowing anyone in. America has a very similar policy with immigrants and it’s really difficult to create such an insular culture with such a large landmass and variety of people. Americans to view themselves as -Americans and you don’t get the same with the Norwegian’s or Icelanders. I’m all for the Nordic model in Nordic countries (less Sweden until they clean up their policies that are turning their country into the third world) but America needs a different form of social welfare, starting with UBI, universal education, and socialized healthcare.
An absoluteky outstanding song by Cash btw. If you haven’t checked it out, I suggest you do so. Even if you have zero interest in Country do yourself a favour.
I know this is obvious, but Cash’s beliefs are endlessly fascinating. The same man who recorded “Ragged Old Flag” also wrote “Man in Black” and covered “Out Among the Stars.” The latter is a song about a kid who commits suicide by cop because he doesn’t feel like his life matters.
I dislike a lot of country music, but Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson are practically a genre in and of themselves, seperated from even the outlaw country genre they started.
We listened to the song in English class when I was about 14 years old and we discussed it quite a bit afterwards. I guess it was kind of a first transitioning into adulthood for me, seeing how much is going wrong and hurting people. Since then about 95 % of my wardrobe is black. It’s a statement and a reminder for myself and I want need to carry it everywhere I go.
Hey, if you’re in the USSA, that shit’s been blasting in your ears for years, decades even. The only “star” ever created by a vocal talent show was Carrie Underwood,
The country music community may be problematic, but country music itself is wonderful. And many country musicians are fantastic, unexpected people. If you want country like it used to be, dive into Melissa Carper’s catalogue. She’s the master of the brand new old time song.
Coors was among the first companies to extend benefits to same-sex partners and was named the Corporation of the Year by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, despite being a right wing company in general.
Didn’t know that, I was just commenting on what the unhomed Bud Light drinkers drink now. I don’t drink any of that shit because it’s not good beer. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I go Yuengling. Best of ALL. It’s not available in my home state, but they said a year or two ago that they were partnering with IIRC Miller-Coors, got a deal to brew their beer using M-C facilities. And they’d service almost every state. Still waiting for that day. 😔
Im just here for the lols and some memes age like fine wine, others like fruit flies. If it makes me laugh i give it an up arrow, if it doesn’t i also give it an up arrow 'cause fuck it its free.
A lot of people commenting on how the kid is stupid, but nobody asking if the parents had it coming. A lot of kids have abusive, neglectful, or otherwise shitty parents. If this isn’t a cry for help or spiteful revenge I’d be surprised.
Bruh I had neglectful parents and never once did I do stupid shit like this. Mostly because I knew if I did I’d get an ass whooping and it’d make my life 10x worse.
A cry for help? Maybe. But doing this is just making it worse, not better.
One day, you too will be old and understand that kids aren’t always blameless and treated terribly, and you’ll see your peers whom you know to be good parents being treated terribly by their kids, and you won’t look back on this moment because you’ll have had hundreds of thousands of more important life experiences… But you will have an interaction like ours from the other side, and you will be hit with a strong and deep sadness that extends far into the future.
If you’re lucky, they’ll apologize for saying something so devoid of empathy for the people who actually have to deal with the damage caused in favor of a hypothetical person who was hurt by them. But most likely they’ll double down, because they’re 14-25, and the only thing more important than being right at that age is proving that age doesn’t matter
Not an IT expert, not a sysadmin, not a tech guru by a long shot, but as Linux user, I call this post bullshit.
The biggest problem wouldn’t be about having it manage all the machines in a network; it would be having to deal with every dick and jane complain about how they can’t change their desktop background or some other trivial thing they can do on windows or how a specific program is not available or doesn’t feel the same.
Transition into an all-Linux production environment would require a top-down non-negotiable decision and the willingness from top brass to provide trainning down the line and deal with a good deal of shennanigans from middle management.
And no virus on Linux? Yes, it has some built in features that make a bit more robust but there are rootkits and other malware out in the wild capable of hurting a linux system. And if popularity is to come to Linux, at some point there will be a need to harden the standard security protocols to ensure system safety, not forgetting that 90% of the time the main problem is between the chair and the keyboard.
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