Slackware, of course, but when Debian was first released two years later I obviously switched (and it’s been Debian since then).

It seems this is built upon Linux:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/philipp-ahmann_li-auto-makes-proprietary-halo-os-automotive-activity-7311345110691041280-8Jhm

In times past, when it was still thriving, I was an avid user of Usenet.

The primary barrier for me: I’m not convinced that it’s a good idea.

There is a certain poetic glimmer in reading the phrase “documents of magnificent verbosity that accomplish precisely nothing” in a document of magnificent verbosity that accomplishes precisely nothing.

Please, it’s only necessary to think about it seriously for a single moment to realize that a school where children are taught “that the earth is 6000 years old” obviously doesn’t exist.

But the joke here is about Americans, right? (If not, what is the joke that you’re trying to make!?)

Come on, I like a good “look at how stupid those Americans are” as much as anyone, but for it to be funny it has to be within the realm of what could possibly be true.

Sure. You’re very funny.

The question was about things taught at school.

TL;DR: Very well made, but shallow and lacking in substance.

Some brilliant people invented photoshop

So the real question is whether Photoshop might ever have become successful, if Adobe hadn’t bought it.

[ˈslɑwɐ ʊkrɐˈjini]

I found The Ambassador by Mads Brügger to be particularly gripping, he goes too far and realizes that he’s gone too far and many uncomfortable truths are revealed:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2048877/

For interactive use, apt provides a nicer interface. I can easily see why some people would prefer that.

You need to enter the UK using a British passport as a British citizen.

This is very common and the EU has the same requirement, anyone who has EU citizenship must use their EU passport (or national identity card) to enter the EU (even if they also have other passports that could otherwise have been used).

When scripting, it’s better to use apt-get instead of apt:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/590699/should-i-use-apt-or-apt-get-in-shell-scripting

You had me at “nuclear”.

[…] now that the US is directing their usual behavior towards white Europeans.

That’s nothing new, that’s happened before.

Hm, no, I can’t imagine that I’ve ever experienced a worse purchasing regret than the one you described there with the pizza.