Obviously. That’s why I never said anything against it.

No. You’ll note that’s why I never said that or anything like it.

Look, if I were in a privileged position in life, you can bet I’d also do whatever I could to make the same true for my daughters. 100%. I care for them and want them to be prosperous, and if they have kids I’d like them to be in a good position too.

But what really fucks me off is when these people who’ve benefitted from that then go on to act like they’re self-made and didn’t get the help.

Just own it. Say “yeah, my family runs a businesses, and because of that I’m in this good position. I’m really thankful of my parents for doing that for me, I’ve been really fortunate, and I work hard every day in order to show my appreciation for the opportunities that have been made available to me.”

I’d respect the hell out of that, even though there’s still the degree of nepotism there.

You’re on lemmy.ml

This has always been a Tankie instance for people that hate the west but don’t have the balls to move to the countries they simp for.

Oh fuck off. It’s up to the couple, not you.

This is so nihilistic, dramatic, and ridiculous.

The lives of ordinary people have been far far far far worse for 99.999% of human history.

Don’t be such a doomer.

“feels like I’m being fucked by a rubber duck” are words from my now wife that I won’t ever forget.

Surely you can say this about practically everything you put in a dishwasher.

Dishwashers aren’t really meant to be quick. They’re meant to be efficient and set/forget.

The child in the top image also appears to have an extra finger underneath two of his other fingers

This feels like rage bait.

Americans always try to paint British Indian food as not being British, but they’ll happily claim Tex-Mex as American. Same goes for pizzas and such.

Funny that.

Oh wow, tiktok? Must be true.

The only reason Britain still has that reputation is because Americans repeat it mindlessly in media that the whole world consumes.

Like the teeth thing. In the 2000s, the UK alongside Germany had the joint healthiest teeth in the world (although now they’ve fallen to 8th after the Scandinavian countries upped their game). Did it stop the “Brits have bad teeth” gag in US media? No.

The US, for whatever reason, has been engaged in a cultural pissing match with the UK for a long time.

Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point

??? It absolutely was a thing. A huge thing.

it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK

Christmas celebrations were banned for a 2 year period under Cromwell, almost 200 years earlier. Even then it saw huge backlash and public resistance.

Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth

They never went away.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol because he was very concerned with the plight of poor people, the working class not having enough time with their families, child labour, and the wealthy keeping all their money to themselves with no regard for those below them.

I truly don’t know where you got the idea from that Christmas wasn’t a thing, that Christmas was banned shortly before, or that Christmas was a thing in Dickens’ youth but not his adulthood.

Chip shops in London are always shit, I’ll grant you that. It’s rare you get good fish and chips outside of seaside towns.

As for Brits not liking spice… Lmao. Brits like spice more than anywhere else in Europe, how else would Indian food be so popular there?

British food is unironically great, and the stereotype is based on experiences during WW2 rationing. It’s made funnier that the people who say it comes from a country where people spray cheese from a can…

There’s so many good pies, pastries, puddings, roast dinners, breakfasts, etc that are very good. British-Indian food is often excellent. Even a basic dish like macaroni cheese can be lovely if you make it right.

To be honest unless you include northern France, I’d argue nowhere in northern Europe has better food.

Needlessly divisive identity politics that gets spread around a lot in the form of tweets/articles/memes because it’s controversial.

It feels like it never quite decided on what it wanted to be.

Wow, I feel the absolute opposite. Of all the UXes I have ever used, Gnome feels the most like they have a vision they’re committed to.

Not everyone likes it, and I get it’s very different to the WinUX that most others have settled on, but they absolutely have a vision, and they execute on that vision.

Extensions break with every update.

Sort of.

When a new Gnome version comes out, Gnome’s default behaviour is to mark extensions as unsupported. But in reality unless you’re upgrading to the first Beta releases, you’re unlikely to run into that, as extension developers will have marked their extensions as compatible long before the new Gnome version has hit stable and distros start pushing it.

You can disable the check if you like, but hypothetically that could lead to issues (say, if Gnome radically changes the calendar applet, and then you force enable an extension that tweaks the old applet). Gnome, probably wisely, goes with the more stable option.

If you just use the stable branch, you’re unlikely to ever get broken extensions.

Lamarr!

I’m sorry my corrections to all your many errors are bothering you.