What if we give everyone a vibrating massage gun?

It was a joke. It was a funny joke. She didn’t take it as such. Oh well.

I laughed out loud at your predicament!

You didn’t fuck up.

She fucked up.

Surely you could blame it on your mom. But it was not your mom, or you. It was her.

Ultimately it was her who decided to “honor” some stupid bullshit promise. She is an adult.

If the love of my life shows up, and her parents say “promise us you will never date her,” and she says “but I love you!” FUCK THE PARENTS. I’m marrying that woman. She didn’t say “fuck Cheradenine’s mom,” welp, that’s on her.

Plus you did the right thing with the drunken part. I’ve been in your position. I don’t take advantage of impaired people.

I hope you’re a happy individual nowadays.

Find proof and come back to us, then.

(I didn’t downvote you, by the way.)

Exactly! I have a friend who said a similar thing to his daughter, who came to him crying because her friends said she was not American enough because she wasn’t white. My friend said “you’re top of the class, excellent at sports, well spoken, well educated and very friendly and polite. They try to attack you for the sake of doing it, they try to find something bad about you, and they get nothing. So what do they resort to? Skin color!” (and yeah, I know this is about language, but it’s pretty much in line with your comment.)

What gets me is when they complain about Spanish, a European language. Where does English come from, you may ask? Oh right! Europe!

So they’re proud of speaking a language that’s not even 'Merican. Learn Navajo, Comanche, or any of the several native American languages, then we’ll talk.

What is this “public consciousness” you are talking about? Like, tech writers? And that’s a genuine question…

Because if I tell my elderly father “hey dad, I’ll install Linux on your machine,” he won’t say “ah, Linux, yes, I’ve been reading for the past 15 years that it’s a difficult operating system, right?” He will say “what the hell is Linux?!”

Freaking autocorrect, man…!

The analogy showing a difficult task is the point. “It’s more difficult.” Yeah, to you. Opening a terminal and typing a command for something you don’t do often feels like second nature to you, because you’re an expert. You’re already using Linux. Try teaching that to a thousand grampas. Good luck retaining your sanity.

“It’s less steps” is not the point.

The point is that a lot of people will never ever use a terminal. EVER. And if they have to do that just to install a program, that’s already asking too much. They’re used to pointing, clicking, double-clicking and typing for communication.

Imagine if you’re used to driving cars and filling up the gas tank, well, the usual way. Now there’s this new tinkerer’s car that everyone is raving about. And your dad asks “how do I fill up the gas tank?” (or recharge the battery, or whatever), and someone says “oh, just go under the car and plug the cable into the orange slot right behind the left back axle. It’s that easy!”

Because AI!!!

lets* them do it.

As simple as an exe? You mean clicking on the installer and follow instructions? That may be typical, but easy, it ain’t.

Oh man. In one comment I’m defending how easy it is to use Linux.

And here I am, still surprised that, in 2024, there are techies saying stuff like “oh that’s easy. Just open the terminal and…”

…and you’ve lost a potential convert.

The second part of your comment is on point, though.

That hasn’t been true in at least a decade.

Who’s upvoting you?!

Fucking GBoard, man!

Car making without the tracking bullshit!

Stop using windows

lol I’m sure OP meant mobile apps.

I hate windows, but c’mon. Stick to the main point.

It’s like saying “I prefer oranges over strawberries” and then in comes someone and says “Trump prefers mangoes. Fuck Trump!!!”

occasionally

I won’t say how, but YouTube has more than one video showing how it’s done

You just said how.

(And I’m kidding!!!)