I’m sure this is common knowledge but Lyon’s worker uprising in the 19th century is the origin of the word ‘sabotage’. The workers were protesting against semi-automated loom weaving machines that used punch cards like primitive computers. When the managers weren’t looking the workers would through their shoes (which were called “sabos”) into the mechanism to break it.

Just got back from a holiday in Lyon. Super interesting place! I got the impression that the quality of life was good for the locals. Met a bunch of friendly Lyonnaise at a music festival and they were extremely generous sharing their party supplies.

Edit: I believe Lyon workers movement were also originators of slogans like “workers of the world unite”

Thanks for explaining

Do we need experts to tell us what the average enthusiastic gamer has been saying for years?

NixOS sounds like ansible in OS form and that has never seemed appealing. Happy to hear why my impression is wrong though!

You need to check PorntonDB

I’m somewhat proud my generation is actively seeking out parody porn. Those videos tend to be higher budget and more sex positive (less gonzo misogyny).

Edit: well, should caveat that by saying relatively less misogynist

This is the monkey’s paw Year of the Linux desktop. I know we’re wankers but didn’t need reminding!

I got the light version of this as a joke birthday present. It plugs into a USB slot and makes an anemic light source. Haven’t used it much in summer but it might have some limited utility in winter.

mpv is worth a shout out as well

Agree, haven’t had to use it for a while. Not sure why I was defending it… maybe couldn’t resist an opportunity to dunk on zoomers.

Voice notes on WhatsApp/iMessage is essentially the exact same thing as voicemail but for some reason zoomers are happier with those.

This is what I sometimes feel as someone who isn’t from the USA, a bit alienated from the discourse online. Our politics is more boring so it can be hard to understand the cultural wars unless you are a huge USA-phile who follows the world news extremely closely.

Edit: Like right-wing people here mainly have a reputation for being wankers as opposed to “nazis” or anything else dangerous. Makes it hard to understand the apocalyptic rhetoric sometimes but we’d probably behave the same if we thought our democracy was in danger.

I also found it underwhelming which is a shame because I generally love Obsidian RPGs. They did a much better job with Avowed recently in my opinion.

The whole “le wrong generation” thing is kind of a fallacy because being alive now allows you to enjoy all the pop culture that has gone before and today’s pop culture too. We’re in a win-win situation being alive now.

5% of the population is probably the max that would be interested in a parade/march

Kieth is still preferable to some of the other mascots out there. Looking at you Sudo Sandwich -

I was just shitposting really. It might be UK-specific since the boomer old folks here are all aligned on big policies like “the triple lock” (state pension rising with avg earnings, inflation or 2.5% each year).

I was thinking of doing it how the boomers have done. Old people make up a majority of the voters, especially if their generation makes up a plurality of the society’s demographics. So basically boomers were able to demand all the assistance in terms of acquiring assets (including low taxes) and now they’ve got them they are demanding all the social security goes their way despite it being less than they paid in initially.

Millenials need to make up for lost time though. Maybe we can tell the politicians we’ll only vote for parties that exempt over 60s from any form of taxation and demand that the state retirement payments triple. Just for a start… then we can live another 20-40 years and gradually claw more each year.

Edit: Another idea, we could start building affordable housing again but earmark them as only being for millenials. This is going to be sweet!

Us millenials are going to become the next boomers. The other generations around us like genX, zoomers and genA are comparatively smaller than the millenial generation, substantially so in the UK where I live.

Can’t wait until my peers and I capture the legislators and start redirecting all of society’s resources into our interests.

Edit: Already drafting comments to leave on the comments section of major newspaper articles about how genA need to pull themselves up by their bootraps, stop enjoying avocados, and cultivate some “stick-tuitiveness” (sub in other made-up phrase here).

Trump wasn’t giving him the policies/legislation he was asking for that would put his businesses at an advantage. Additionally Elon was unhappy with the tarrifs. Lastly, they both have large and delicate egos.