^^^^^ This, so much this.

I cannot ever re-watch this goddamn movie for that performance. I hated it back then, and hate it even more now knowing it came true.

… also F-U to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, perhaps Luc Besson just exists to piss me off. What a shitty movie with horrible casting and overall stupidity.

Edit: … and yet, here I am. Sigh.

Very good point… it would have been uncomfortable for many to cling to more foreign forms of their surnames during & just after WWII I suppose.

Yeah, you’re right there, that one makes more sense as it isn’t a common sound in English.

Bonespurs’ tongue should have burst into flames, him reading that oath to others is… rich.

God I need to stop reading news these days.

Good catch, yes.

Came here for this, not disappointed. o7

Ya know what grinds my gears? This American penchant for pronouncing Germanic names incorrectly. Like ‘stein’ as ‘steeeen’. EpstEEN. WeinstEEN (even more frustrating, that last one, as the ‘ei’ is pronounced how it ‘should’ be, but not the second occurrence!).

Even the people with these names often insist themselves on these pronunciations. I mean it’s their right ultimately, it’s their name after all – but why/where/how did this pronunciation take root in the USA?

I was taught in German class that ‘ei’ is always a long ‘i’ – hence ‘schtIne’ not ‘stEEEn’. Hmmph.

Same with Robert ‘Muller’. His name’s spelled Mueller, so by German language rules it would seem it should be pronounced ‘Müller’ (‘ue’ in English being a substitute for the umlauted ‘u’).

I guess it falls out of what appears to be an American myopic view that everyone else has ‘accents’ and they must be purged from American speech since it’s ‘foreign’…

Grumble grumble… OK, I am done my little rant now.

Somewhere, somehow, those bunkers will need air intakes. Some potatoes to plug tubes, or mustard gas packets down the hatches … the problem is, bunkers make excellent prisons and/or tombs.

Good point. That definitely disrupts things to some extent – but the government doesn’t literally stop everything, AFAIK. Don’t departments still get their funding throughout, until the new government passes another budget?

… kinda like every other sensible nation ON EARTH. Sigh.

… and there’s talk she’s planning to run for President. Hah.

I heard on a podcast (Pod Save America) this morning that she’s apparently talked to confidants about running for President next election. She’s trying to wash her reputation by suddenly sounding a tad more reasonable.

It’s a trick, get an axe

… and can the police officer who LIED (perjured himself) when saying the sandwich “exploded all over” be privately charged if the court won’t do it themselves?

In a link from the main article – I know it’s not a trilobite, but dang does that look like a trilobite!

This. If the ones in power now were sane, they’d take this as an obvious signal that they should engage with their voters in order to re-consider their agendas and policies.

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Wait, let me breathe for a moment…

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Yeah, this is just a start, and it’ll take a massive push to force those fascists out following this, since they’ll just double and triple-down until/unless they’re forcefully ejected from all seats of power.

Holy hell, wasn’t expecting that many downvotes. Wow. I wonder who I pissed off more, systemd or Wayland folks? :P

That’s fine, this is why Linux distros should always be diverse, to allow users to build their system using the tools of their choice. And why one project should never be in a position to unilaterally obsolete entire subsystems by fiat. Which is what I fear is being attempted here – that was my point.

Debian has a lot of sway, but if they make moves some of us don’t agree with, we have the freedom to go elsewhere. Thank you, Devuan maintainers, for what you’ve done so far.

Sad though, as I was an OG Debian fanboy, using it since the late 90’s.

Yup, guess I am :) … for now.

I have tried Wayland a few times over the past few years, probably bad luck on my part with what systems/chipsets I’ve had every time, that it hasn’t been a great experience. But I have read it’s getting there, so I expect someday I’ll just switch and not really notice the difference there.

As for systemd… yeah I’ll be “a wierdo” for the foreseeable future I suppose. Good ol’ sysV init scripts, or openrc, have always, and still do, work well enough for me.