Isn’t there a version of win11 like Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC?

Gotta get that. All stripped, just the OS and security.

Not specifically grass, just roots. It can be grass roots, but it can also be a square root.

Because they don’t want fingers pointed at them, just in case they want to do it too.

The US desperately needs a grass-roots movement that lies low and makes do with harm reduction so the ones in power do not see it coming, and then suddenly switches their vote together all at once when they know they have enough numbers for a third party to surpass the other two, and be able to pass constitutional amendments, fix the electoral system, and other changes to start undoing the damage of McCarthyism.

Unfortunately truth serum isn’t really a thing, and perjury is still hard to prove.

I don’t like it when fiction makes a minority “special” like only queer people being protagonists who can save the world, because it still singles them out. It doesn’t matter if it’s something positive. We are all one, nobody is special or less than a person because they were born with this or that characteristic.

Remember that quote from Rick and Morty? “Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV.”? Add “nobody is special” and we are cooking.

Then the epic protagonist can save the world even if they aren’t really special, and still happen to be queer. Not because they are queer, not despite being queer. They are simply who they are. And they are someone who saves the world.

I say it was a process of elimination.

In a world in which heroes like Superman, the Flash, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and Doctor Fate exist, your city has to be freaking cursed to keep getting all those cases of mental illness and corruption, keeping the city from really ever improving.

Organizations like the League of Assassins and the Court of Owls alone wouldn’t cut it. Detective heroes would unravel their plans. Tech heroes would root their data out. Magical heroes would counter their spells, fast and strong heroes would weed out the thugs, henchmen, and mercenaries.
Eventually, it would get more under control, like Metropolis, Star City, Central City, or Keystone City.
They would need something so ingrained in the city that nobody can really ever remove it to get to the high levels of madness and crime you get in Gotham.

So at some point, a writer had to give up, throw their hands up in the air, and go “then… then… it’s freaking cursed!”

And then you watch the God/King of Cities talk with the avatar Gotham (Stormwatch #3), and it’s a freaking gargoyle talking about “the madness in me”, while Paris and Metropolis are just human-like women.

No utopia can exist without achieving post-escarcity.

I perdonally prefer when people grow a conscience, because then they have to live torturing themselves with what they have done and may even work to undo their harm and help others grow a conscience too. But it sadly happens so rarely that you practically never see it outside of fiction and a few documentaries about repentant ex-nazis and stuff like that.

I use it to refer to those who call themselves “communist” but make excuses for regimes that go against democracy and human rights.

But isn’t good implied in integrity and evil in corrutio n?

To be fair, they did set expectations when they got rid of the “don’t be evil” moto.

They likely have a replacement ready. When you manage to get a group all-in on tribalism juice, they’ll come up with cognitive dissonance and narratives all on their own and fall in line no matter what happens.

What is the most orange alloy? Copper gold? They should make it out of that.

As long as the wealthy can put the finger on the scale with control of media and funding propaganda, the pendulum won’t stop swinging.

One group does damage.
The next does some changes that will take about 4-20 years to fix that damage, and do not try to fix everything, letting some damage stay.
People are unhappy with the after-effects of the damage and switch again fooled by the propaganda, preventing further fixes from continuing.
The destructive group claims any improvements as their actions, and any problems as caused by the fixing group, and do some more things to make things even worse.
The damage eventually becomes patent again, so people switch once again.
And repeat.

And things slowly ratchet to worse and worse.

Corporations can’t stand it a logarithmic graph. They need freaking geometric progressions, and then they do stuff that gets them an anti-logarithmic graph.

Gotta give credit to games like Stardew.

Like Bo Burnham sang once From God’s Perspective, we may be “just a bad game of Sims”.

And it’s not something new or anything like that. There are lots of cultures through history in which people choose their own names or alternate names throughout their life for a variety of reasons.

I got you, fam, the word you are looking for is “jingoism”.

The MAGA DOJ is the Department of Jingoism.

The only reason I even knew about him was because of people mocking him and denouncing his grifting and reprehensible ideology through memes.