I wonder how much the current US administration being who they are has to do with this.

Previously, North Korea’s line was that the South was occupied or controlled by colonialist America, meaning they’d always refuse to “reunite” with the one true Korea. But, Trumpian politics and government, especially the apparent friendliness towards the Kim dictatorship democracy, if not some level of imitation of it, have removed the last remaining reason to believe that the South is under US control.

Therefore we might surmise that the North have finally accepted that, no, the South have been doing things their own way for a long time and the US influence, if there ever was any, has long since gone away.

And so there’s no need for any reunification in their constitution. The South is too far gone. Written off as a total loss.

OR. This is some kind of double-bluff and they’re hoping the South will let their guard down and they have the concepts of a plan to have the regime take over Seoul.

I think you’re mixing up who the holster is.

Linux Mint may be for you. It’s literally Ubuntu stripped of Canonical’s crap, and I expect they’ll make the AI stuff something you have to explicitly install if you want it. They already did that with Snaps, for example.

When your neighbour is a bear, it is wise to be wary of it.

FreeDOS is a free MS-DOS compatible operating system. EDIT.COM was a commonly used editor on MS-DOS and can be run under FreeDOS. I was making a comparison with Floppinux being a bare bones OS with a basic editor (vi).

Actually, the original incarnation of EDIT.COM was as the alter ego of QBasic, so that was literally a BASIC editor, but that’s more a fun fact than a selling point.

Admittedly, it’s more of a proof of concept. I included it because it’s probably the most extreme example of how small Linux can get.

It does have vi as an editor though and leaves a few kilobytes free on the same floppy, so whatever ancient hardware it runs on could be used as a very basic journaling device.

Personally, I think I might opt for FreeDOS and EDIT.COM instead, but the Linux purist would almost certainly balk at that.

How small do you want? Floppinux fits on a floppy disk.

Tiny Core’s largest image will almost certainly fit on the smallest capacity USB thumb drive you own*.

Puppy Linux has a diverse ecosystem that pulls from other popular distros and their images generally run to around a gigabyte.

* It’s less than 256MB. There are a few reasons you might have a smaller drive than this, but for most people this is true.

I guess that explains why he and Minnie never had kids.

Man called Cissé cracks down on homosexuals.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say he was compensating for something.

So what you’re saying is that I’m falling victim to a No True Scotsman fallacy.

I guess I’ll have to go away and think about that.

Are you suggesting that people who torture children aren’t subhuman scum?

Look up the paradox of intolerance. This is an instance of it.

Those who dehumanise are the true subhumans.

I hope being part of the British Commonwealth doesn’t exclude them.

Not being sarcastic.

The link, however tenuous, to Britain and our asinine degree of exceptionalism shouldn’t be a stumbling block, but I can see Europe - especially France - considering that to be a problem.

Literally in the blurb:

Carrying cash is too risky these days.

If you’re not getting mugged by the government, you’ll get mugged on the street instead.

Satirists make the best politicians, but most of them aren’t brave enough to try.

So I actually had to drill down into the report itself to find this out:

The organisation releasing the report has offered suggestions and policy ideas to local (if not national) governments that ought to bring down pollution and then relied on those cites to report back the success (or otherwise) of the implementation.

That alone has my sus alarm jingling. People never lie about pollution. Just ask, I don’t know, Volkswagen, maybe.

It also doesn’t report on whether that pollution - if it actually has reduced in a particular area - has simply moved outside the monitoring area. Because I bet there’s a bit of that going on too.

You don’t happen to use a VPN service, do you?

I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of accounts have been using the same exit node as you, and since you all have the same IP address, you must all clearly be the same person running multiple accounts.

Alternatively, you’re on an ISP with a non-fixed IP address and during the various rotations you’ve at some point had an IP address that was - previously or subsequently - leased by someone who did something against Reddit TOS. Again, clearly, there is absolutely no way you could possibly be different people and so all of those accounts must be banned.

Alternatively, alternatively, someone took exception to what you said, went on a power trip, booted you and, when asked for an explanation, pulled the first excuse off the pile, valid or not.

Annnyway. Welcome to the Fediverse.

Yes it can. First you pump the sea full of the most obnoxious, toxic, lethal poison, then you wait for the global food web to collapse, taking humans with it.

Climate will begin to behave within a few hundred years.

Minor correction: Finland is Nordic, but not Scandinavian. It was arguably Scandinavian during the several hundred years it was occupied by Sweden, but that’s a somewhat touchy subject.