Wasn’t there a song during the pandemics, precisely about this, with the author swearing, and also kind of mad that this was his biggest hit? I can’t remember the title.

EDIT: Found the song this made me think about, but it’s milder than I remembered. It’s “Well, This Is Shit”.

There’s a song about this phenomenon in Québecois French called Dégénération, from Mes Aïeux.

It starts with your great great grand father clearing the land, your great grand father plowing the land, your grand father making a profit out of it, your father selling it to be a white collar, and you, living in a one room apartment, owing debts to corporations.

The lyrics are pretty conservative and portray a rosy past, but it goes with the traditional style and the fact the band’s name means “my ancestors”. This being said, the song is still pretty spot on about this phenomenon. Here’s a link to the translated lyrics, and the song.

EDIT: Oh and there’s a parody (no translation, sorry) stating the obvious, like “your great great great grand mother, she took dumps in a bucket, and she only had three teeth left, but it was paradise.”

I have a hard drive filled with this, no need to have a constant internet connection. Streaming is just being a slave to corporations.

Maybe I’m just old, but I lived in the era of dial-up where downloading MP3s at 4.5 kb/s was common, and you didn’t want to have to download it again, so you kept it safe in a folder. Well, multiple decades later, I have multiple folders filled with multimedia.

So you can watch the world turn to fascism in 4k, and have your daily dose of ads and propaganda, while isolated in the woods.

So, you can install malware on other distros from the AUR?

Usually if the software I want is not on debian’s repos, I’ll try to get the source and compile it, or last resort, use an appimage. I’m not really fond of mixing different installation methods coming from different distros, but… it’s good to know.

It may just be a question of cultural acceptability. I visited a few European countries (Germany, France, Belgium) where it seems very acceptable to park on sidewalks. They even have road signs telling car drivers that they can just hop on the sidewalk and park there.

Yet, I’m in Québec, a North American stroad paradise, and parking cars on sidewalks is usually a no-no. I don’t think there is even rules to allow this. It’s just generally not acceptable and those doing that will usually get a fine. It still happens, obviously, but I very rarely see a row or cars parked on the sidewalk. However, the acceptable part here, is that people will park their mobile living rooms on bike paths. Separated or not, we even need bollards and chicanes in some places to physically stop them. And unfortunately the police tolerates this. In fact, they also park on bike paths.

I envy you if this is not something common in Sweden.

Some people like linguistics. There are several communities about reforming English or its spelling. There’s also some YouTubers making videos on that subject.

The YouTuber Rob Words has a whole playlist about the alphabet used in English, and how it could be changed.

I hope the person is not getting downvoted just because they are spelling differently.

It would get old fast because I don’t drive a car and would turn crazy in such a neighbourhood.

I’ve been using Debian for years and prefer deb based systems, but recently I messed a bit around with Manjaro, and the amount of packages only available from the AUR is, erm, remarkable.

It depends if an ouverture counts, and how popular of a song.

Bad Religion has Ouverture before Sinister Rouge. They are different tracks but they merge together.

Also, one could argue that most of the songs on the album American Idiot by Green Day, are a prequel to the next one. The songs can be separated but they are parts of a story.

This is universal. Wherever you are in the world, if there is a bike path or a bike lane, there will be cars parked on it.

I went to the small caribbean island of Marie-Galante last year and rented a bike. The only bike path on the island has cars parked in it.