I think you’re right, and the original post is wrong to say that vans do it better every time, no exception.

However, I think that a van would be a more practical and better vehicle for a vast majority of people who are driving trucks. It’s just that people don’t care if things are practical, they want things that they think are cool.

Mmmmm, ohhhhh, the aalphabeeeeet

I’m so good at not understanding stuff. My time has come.

I haven’t watched much of Linus’s stuff, but his behavior in the three Linux challenge videos reminded me of the way Conan O’Brien would act with his staff. It struck me as an off-putting blend of arrogance, entitlement, and impatient senility.

I just watched that Linus tech tips video where the guy uninstalls critical system components by accident while trying to install steam.

First the GUI for the package manager refuses to do it, then apt gives him a warning that he’s going to break his system. It even makes him type “Yes, do what I say!” but he’s too much of a clown to read the warning messages all over his screen. He even smirks at the camera about how silly it is that he would need to type such a thing before he proceeds to mess everything up.

People were trying to defend him, saying that the system shouldn’t have allowed him to do it or that the warnings should have been flashing and shooting rainbows out of the monitor or that a robot arm should have come out and started honking his clown nose to let him know he was doing something stupid.

I get by pretty well just using my bank’s website. If you need the bank’s app for something like occasionally depositing checks, maybe you could keep your old phone in a drawer with your checkbook.

I’m sure this will draw some criticism but I’ve found duck.ai to be extremely helpful in troubleshooting minor issues with my Linux mint installation and recently with accessing and understanding SMART hard drive diagnostic data. It’s very helpful in figuring out which commands could be useful in the terminal and in understanding exactly what each terminal command is doing. Of course finding answers in forums and manuals is still relevant and important but as a beginner, this has been a fast and easy way to get advice.

Setting up a stupid question just to deliver a pun as a punchline is 100% a dad joke in my book.

I’m interested to hear what you think is required for a joke to be a dad joke.

Dad jokes are classically built around puns, as is the case here.

Setting up context doesn’t make this a knock knock joke.

Enshitified product exists - > good alternative arises to meet demand - > good alternative becomes popular - > good alternative either becomes enshitified to maximize profits or is purchased by owner of original enshitified product.

The capitalist way.

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Frame it however you want but this was how 12-20 year old American males spoke to each other in the 90s and early 2000s.

It’s only satire here because their doctors are talking like that.

Haha. Well done. At the time that this movie came out, this dialogue wasn’t even considered that offensive.

It was kind of like an Australian calling someone a cunt.

OK, but really wouldn’t amazon and the publisher take a fat cut? Shouldn’t this be like, how I made $50,000

Being rich is a little different than being a beach bum.

Living radical takes a toll, bro.