I really have no fucking idea about the technicals when it comes to Wayland vs X11, but I do have a little bit of experience now as a user. I've resolved numerous issues instantly (and usually these are issues around running games with wine) by just switching back to X.
I have had good results with Pipewire, especially with respect for easy audio routing, and it's nice not to have to start up jackd just to get that done, but I can't say Wayland has really helped me out yet in a practical way.
Well, good luck to you in the future, fren. I've been out of work now for longer than I'd like to admit outside of a little contract work I've been able to pick up thanks to good friends. It's painfully obvious from my perspective that the game has changed for the worse. Things like my name and the prevalence of LinkedIn in the hiring process make it all too hard to disguise who I am, even if I felt good about that.
The entire scene, even the in the Bay Area, was completely different back then. I'm old enough to remember when even Reddit in its infancy was dominated by a fairly hardcore libertarian set.
Yes, there are countless examples of this. Mark Cuban is a recent and prominent example who has been getting called out for this two-faced behavior because he waded into a debate with Elon Musk about the BLS data showing that only 6% of the jobs recovered since the coof went to white men.
Ask American jews whether or not they're white and you'll get situational answers even though most Ashkenazim are predominantly European genetically, having lived and intermarried in Europe for a millennium or so.
Now I find myself wanting to get into how you can draw a direct line from the NYT 1619 project, the entire purpose of which was to put all the blame for slavery on the heads of white Americans in the 21st century while remaining utterly silent on jewish involvement, right to the recent events at Harvard, but I feel like I've written enough about all of this for the moment.
The term "antisemitism" is a canard on its face if for no other reason than the simple fact that the majority of Semites aren't jews at all. Ironically, Palestinians are Semites. And hilariously, the Wikipedia article on this topic describes "Semite" as an "obsolete term" in the first sentence.
It certainly isn't obsolete as a means of obfuscating and suppressing free discourse.
Yes, jews will regularly express frustration or confusion at being grouped together, but this is inevitable because of how they will defend individuals of their group as a group. The ADL is a perfect example of this. It's been 110 years and they still act like Leo Frank dindu nuffin.
Tucker Carlson is an example of someone who somehow ran afoul of this just by talking about mass migration and the involvement of people like Soros. To the best of my knowledge, he never once mentioned on Fox that Soros is a jew, but being willing to talk about this in terms of "replacement" ultimately cost him his job.
If you generalize about jews and their cultural norms and values as a group, you are labeled an antisemite. But if you speak calmly, rationally and factually about specific individuals and things they have objectively done and said without making mention of their jewish identity at all, some jews will still pop their heads up and accuse you of antisemitism regardless.
Pointing out that not all jews engage in that equally in every circumstance does not obviate this at all. It still happens like clockwork and the examples of this pile up by the day now.
"Late-stage everything" and "yada-yada" are pretty meaningless deflections to me in this context. You aren't really engaging with the things I've said. America is not analogous to the Fediverse or "anything that becomes popular."
I'm going to make one more attempt here to engage substantively. For full context, the link is here:
I want to zero in specifically on that final statement in the screencap because what has become painfully plain for many people to see, especially since Oct 7th of last year, is that jews - as a group - are engaged in both of these projects. In America, in Europe - even in countries like Ireland that were on the receiving end of English colonization - they practice open borders and "multi-culturalism." Alejandro Mayorkas currently holds our southern border open like the Gates of Toledo. This has very real consequences for Americans.
However, in Israel the project is vicious ethno-nationalism and ethnic cleansing. Americans are also apparently not free to oppose this. Anti-BDS laws, for example, abound. Even right-wing governors like Ron DeSantis fly to Israel to sign anti-1A legislation.
See the recent debacle at Harvard for an example of how these contradictions are coming to a head.
Terminally online antisemites did not make this bed. They actually didn't have to say anything at all in order for these circumstances to occur. And none of this has anything to do with the guy who runs the deli or even Jerry Seinfeld.
My solution is to speak the truth and let the chips fall where they may. But there are people you might know of - like Greenblatt or Yoel Roth, formerly of Twitter "trust and safety" - that go out of their way to characterize any and all honest criticism, even when it is directed specifically at individuals, as verboten speech. What happens when difficult but necessary conversations are suppressed? Surely you of all people must have some understanding of how large organizations like the ADL loom when it comes to direct assault on the First Amendment.
There is a bubble that hasn't yet burst, but is growing precariously thin. That is when culture war conservatives realize that America did not wake up one day and go to war with itself culturally in some schizophrenic fit, but rather that a disparate culture was imported over the last century. The gatekeepers of this project are failing by the day, in part because the masks are slipping.
Do you think there might be a reason that people aren't pissed about Jerry Seinfeld but are actually and truly pissed off about people like:
Alejandro Mayorkas Merrick Garland Antony Blinken Victoria Nuland Janet Yellen Jonathan Greenblatt George Soros Reed Hoffman James "Jennifer" Pritzker Mark Zuckerberg Sam Bankman-Fried Nearly 100% of second-wave feminists Nearly 100% of the Frankfurt School
etc etc etc just to name a few? Also, many people have alleged Hitler to be of jewish descent, typically on the basis of his father's given surname. But that doesn't really matter much because Hitler's animosity toward jews didn't come about because of Seder dinner. It came about because he grew to see them as primarily responsible for fomenting violent socialist revolutions in Europe.
Allow one of the few rabbis who has ever had the sense and courage to read Mein Kampf and speak about it honestly in public explain this important point: