I would honestly recommend against Ubuntu. I had the same issue: tried Ubuntu because it’s “the beginner distro”, and it turns out it wasn’t that at all. Ubuntu for me was a cobbled-together piece of shit with a terrible UI, corporate enshittification, and a major breakage around every corner. After a while dual-booting on my laptop, it started taking ~4 minutes to boot into it. Windows, meanwhile, was taking about 30 seconds. It also nuked my config twice, so everything I’d set up to mitigate Ubuntu’s default “person who designed this just had their eyes dilated” trash was undone. I quit Linux for years before giving it another try, because if this broken trainwreck was the “beginner” experience, why would I want to go further?

If you want KDE (which I think is the best DE and it’s not even a little close), I think you’ll find a nicer experience in something like Fedora. Fuck, I think you’d experience less maintenance burden with something like CachyOS, although please don’t treat that as a recommendation. I use EndeavourOS now, and I would genuinely go out and buy a macOS device if my only Linux distro option were Ubuntu (that’s not high praise of macOS) on the grounds that it’s such a poorly designed hunk of dogshit.

• This isn’t true. Samuel Bath Thomas immigrated to the US in 1874 and founded his business in 1880. References to English muffins can be found as early as 1859. (Yes, this is a different Thomas.)
• Second is correct, although it leads further back to the Frankish wafla.

Kristallnahct in my backyard.

You’re putting up a generous definition of “white”. Trump’s face color is more saturated than that of most Latinos I know.

We actively teach kids to pattern match and “guess” what the other words are from the ones they recognize.

Unless you’re talking about something totally different, that just sounds like using roots and context clues – a normal, healthy, and constructive way of understanding language.

I did actually know that one! Illinois EnergyProf on YouTube recently made what I think is a really good introduction to the topic. I just liked the surrealist image of a human body separating out U-235 from radiation-poisoned flesh.

You enrich uranium through centrifugation.

I enrich uranium through bioaccumulation.

We are not the same.

We need one of these for every field.

It’s not a guarantee, just a prerequisite.

Thankfully I’d have to install Edge first for this to happen.

… You don’t have that choice? Oh, oh, you said uninstall??

“A dinosaur stole my fucking chips.”

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

Fucking gold.

Oh hell yeah. I don’t do too much research into shrimps, but if you ever fall way too far down that rabbit hole, the guy to go to is Sammy De Grave at the University of Oxford. He works on WoRMS (the World Register of Marine Species) and absolutely loves caridean shrimp. Really nice guy.

Congratulations on iNaturalist! We use images from iNaturalist on Wikipedia all the time, so we’re intensely grateful for the work y’all do. Did you see any crustaceans by chance?

What kinds of critters? 👀

Robfefehood

They’d still be wrong about it not being MSM. Politico has been around for 18 years now and was acquired by Axel Springer in 2021 for $1 billion. This is not even remotely obscure. But if you still want to think that for some reason:

• Fox News (sorry)
• CNN
• Newsweek (tabloid trash but mainstream tabloid trash)
• The Seattle Times (Washington state’s largest newspaper)
• Associated Press
• The Independent
• Axios
• The New York Times
• The Guardian

The only logical conclusion is that you said this based on vibes without a cursory check.

Notice how the msm will never point it out.

You’re in a thread about a Politico article reporting on the pipe bomb suspect’s political beliefs.

Lmfao, does the acronym stand for “No Bullshit News”?

I feel like this video has somewhat interesting bits sprinkled within, but for the most part, it sets up a problem most people already recognize, never actually explores why it happens (besides vaguely “money”, which I think anyone could guess), and then interviews Don Norman to give the most obvious “no shit” and high-level explanation for creating intuitive designs. We also get the solution to the door problem – which is also trivially obvious.

Vox imo is usually good and in-depth (at least their written work is), so while inoffensive, this really surprised me.