Discord is less a messaging platform these days as just like an open source data aggregation service for cyber criminals. It's like they have a huge data leak every 6 months or so.

I've worked in places before where you had to deal with human bodies being transported and the number of people who couldn't even handle knowing there was a dead body IN A BOX nearby was shocking. Like the thing is hermetically fucking sealed dude. Relax.

I mean the NKVD was executing people during WW2 pretty frequently idk about it being public persay. But they were also being invaded by the Nazi's at the time and were basically just killing anyone they suspected of being a Nazi Sympathizer or Nazi. I think they also did a few public hangings immediately after the war for people the Soviet Military Tribunals found guilty of war crimes. So Nazi War Criminals in that case.

So, idk if you can compare that to the global hegemonic superpower the United States deciding "Wouldn't it be cool if we live streamed shooting this guy?". Now am I saying every single person the NKVD killed deserved it? Certainly not. It's impossible to be entirely precise when doing massive operations like they did, but it's also certainly more justified when you are the victim of a war of extermination from the Nazi War Machine rather than yknow... just doing it for fun I guess?

Personally if I knew someone and got invited to their wedding and I went and found they had decided all the gay people needed to be seperated from the rest of the group I'd just leave. Clearly that's not the type of person whose wedding I want to attend.

Well I can't speak to what its like in places I've never been.

Stop being willfully obtuse. It's obviously about the major recent news event.

"Oh well what if they just coincidentally made a post about a russian biolab worker making a mistake at the same time as this massive international story being in the news?"

without telling me you’re from the US.

I... mentioned the US in my comment?

Another great vid: https://youtu.be/RnCCY2YtVX0

Actually it is a communism vs capitalism thing. The problem arises in both, but the solutions available depend on the system. I reccomend you look up how China is handling its massive elderly population. For example the elderly there have huge public parks and get outside moving and socializing a lot. In big cities it's common for them to have mid day slow dance meetings in the parks. This is only possible because the government's priority is not producing profit for billionaires but caring for its people. So it maintains these things and the public transport required to get the elderly there, and the assistance to keep them fed and healthy.

This video is 15 years old: https://youtu.be/SvmV7GRRPq0

When people stay active and a part of their community into their old age instead of sitting in their huge houses alone or in a nursing home they require much less support to keep living.

Also I would heavily advocate for Debian Testing if you need a rolling release distro. It is less vetted than stable but is still more vetted than many other rolling release options and you can just stay on testing as versions change while getting features pretty fast compared to stable.

Oh for sure I just wouldn't want anyone having my face scan personally. I'd love to have a law passed that designated biometric data as personal property requiring a warrant or explicit consent to collect.

Also something new people don't realize is that Mint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian. If you can't solve your issue by searching for mint you can usually find a solution meant for Ubuntu or Debian that will work.