@atomic the English are still far removed from getting it.
@WayoftheWorld not adjusted for inflation..
@SamHarris i would not blame people too much though. i think the main culprit is lack of education.
Married With Children was airing from 1987 to 1997. Not a single person found it strange that Al was able to own a house, a car, have stay at home wife with two children and a dog on a shoe salesman's salary. That was less than 30 years ago - a span of one generation. Now compare that with today, yet people are totally compliant with the devaluation of currency.
@SamHarris https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/27/your-word-documents-will-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows-going-forward/ they just keep digging the hole deeper and deeper
@SamHarris actually i would like if FreeBSD would become the new alt OS as that is a full system("distribution"), unlike linux. so everything is included and works flawlessly. there is a ton of money being poured into server versions(netflix for example) and sony uses it in playstation and they too sponsor a lot of money.
@SamHarris i know there is a bit of push away from microsoft in the east due to sanctions. i know linus has banned russian programmers from kernel and that chinese are making their own OSs, harmony seems to be the most advanced right now. but i think the days of windows monopoly are over. though i do not expect Linux to be the winner as it is the gnu principle that makes is unusable for the masses. there needs to be centralisation and one driving force. which there never will be.
@SamHarris there is a chance they will get too much backlash about the spying and technical issue whilst also seeing plummeting sales, which might prompt them to take a different direction and turn w11 into another windows millennium, windows 8, windows longhorn, windows vista. it's not like all their windows verisons were a success. actually it is the opposite - win95, win95, win2k(servers), win xp, win 7, win 10 were only successful windows. so their success rate is about 50:50.
@SamHarris i ripped out all the guts related to windows defender and i have a firewall that blocks the background services(like windows update) so i update only when "I" want. so far no problems. but i will definitely not be going to w11. i will either survive until w12 and see how it fares or move to linux as well. gaming is now possible, i no longer need adobe sw so i should be fine. i think that microsoft windows will lose its prime one day, just like google will lose the android market.
europe needs to turn itself into whites-only and no-islam zone, preferably in a very violent way. it should kick usa out of nato and have its own european army as aggregate of all its members. it should mend fences with russia and get on board with belt and road project and focus on the east. europe has no natural resources left as it was the cradle of the world for millennia. it is time to shift focus to services and specialised manufacturing and industries. only way to survive 21st century.
@atomic For Sweden, that's just another Monday. Netherlands needs to catch up and stop being a bigoted, backwards and racist country.
Because you still have hope that this war will end with your honor intact. Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.