Guy Debord captures the problem best in his The Society of the Spectacle (1967).

In theory, you could probably go against it. Problem is that the Spectacle (capitalist ideology visually manifested) is tautological and self-reinforcing. Even to critique it you have to make the critique a spectacle, which immediately undermines that very same critique (think of any YouTube video critiquing YouTube).

So no, it's no the same. The odds are insanely stacked up in favor of keeping the structure in place—unlike breaking away from said belief in the divinity of kings.

The rotary disc on phones!

I always read out loud. Always. And I do most of my readings while walking. So I imagine hearing me waking around taking to myself make other people think 'wtf?'.

Vegan when eating, Arch Linuxing when computing, communist when sharing, capitalist when investing, ...

The list knows no end. Why not just say what's appropriate for each particular circumstance?

For arch Linux, there's Topgrade. All there, in just one command. All. There. Official repos, AUR, even firmware upgrades.

Here's my alias to update the whole system. It includes fetching the fastest mirrors, topgrade, and cleaning the update's packages cache. Tailor it to your own needs.

alias update='sudo fetchmirrors -q -s 5 -v -c PT && yes | topgrade -c -y --no-retry --disable gem --disable vim --disable emacs --disable gem --disable sdkman --disable rustup --disable cargo --disable remotes && sudo paccache -rk 0'

Exactly. Whatever side-effect is cast upon you, you THINK it was chosen by you. You're 100% sure it was your decision. You're blissfully but unfortunately erroneously way too self-confident.

I'm really enjoying Lemmy so far. I've posted more here in one and a half months than in 16+ years on ~~reddit~~ astroturfbay. Why?

Because here feels like friendly neighbourhood square where people actually care to listen to each other. Whatever happens here feels way more organic and people-oriented than elsewhere. No algos dictating agendas just because more engagement=more profit.

So yeah, I really like this place.

Unexpected. I laughed! Thank you for posting.

I read the arch elitists as a slur directed to the arch user. So in my arch-user brain, that became akin to a prejudiced label, like 'ageism' or 'ableism'. Is there a kind of 'archism'?

Yes, I had to put some work to have my computer running. But that was so long ago that I don't even remember when or how it was. So now that statistic is screwed. I don't think about my install 99% of the time (I do think about it when I topgrade it weekly).

But I do get it. This is supposed to be a joke, and an easy one. As my comment reveals, I'm not the target audience. If I was fuming, I would be Tom on that bottom picture. Maybe I woke up in a more philosophical mood and got myself carried away by my initial question. I don't know.

For the poster, I want to wish them a wonderful day. Thanks for the thought-provoking meme you shared.

Any history book will be filled with such stories. Depending on the outlook, I'd say all history is like that.

Take any one event. Let's pick any decisive moment in history. Say, the battle of Salamis. Now flip it to the side of the Persians and you have the kind of blunder you're looking for.

Definitely the weirdest timeline. I'm sorry for those who, by being already vulnerable and dispossessed, will get further tossed down.

I felt the same at first. But then I remembered that Calvin hates baths. So he's just doing his schtick, complaining. With that he wants to push his mother's patience to the limit. He believes that by doing so his mother will reach a point where she'll quit making him take baths.

Here's another example: