That’s not it, but you got me curious enough to go looking. Apparently on some keyboards you have to press Fn as well to get them to work, and this model has one of those.

Good to know, next time Nouveau acts up maybe I can unfuck it without restarting.

For most people under most conditions I’d guess so, but it’s not inevitable. It’s all stardust in the end, and I think you can compare yourself favourably or unfavourably without too much danger, if you keep that well in mind.

Donwloading an RSS reader and possibly failing (that doesn’t look right). It’s also good to always have one open because the hotkeys to move to another TTY don’t seem to work on this machine, and it has an awesome, poorly supported vintage Nvidia chip powering the GUI (edit: the trackpad has caused problems too).

It seems like most people will believe any technical-seeming message shown to them.

Huh. So the depression was using up so much mental bandwidth it made the difference between being able to reflect and improve and not being able to. Interesting. I’m glad you’ve figured it out.

Parents modeling shitty behavior definitely happens, but usually kids gravitate towards or away from it pretty continuously, depending on their own personality.

Ah, okay. With the bad stuff people do literally just announce it sometimes.

And it was depression that was keeping you in that mindset?

I don’t have so much advice around this because around the time I heard about incels I looked at the subreddit and the thought occurred to me "if I want to have any relationship with a woman, of any kind, if I wanted to relate and communicate with them, then investing time with a group of people who self professed an inability to do so would be a waste of time.

Brilliant observation. I wish more people made it.

Wow, congratulation on coming all the way back from that!

Are you still angry at women for it?

Ah yes, all nonstandard behavior is gay. What a very intelligent and non-nonsensical way to sort the world. /s

“When people tell you who they are, believe them. The good and the bad.”

Hmm. Good too? I usually take the bragging with a grain of salt.

If you talk about how you’re a cheater, or signal affinity with a hate group, or just are rude to waiters I’m certainly not going to forget that, though.

Ask you friends about the kinds of women they like (I’m assuming Incels are almost all strait guys). I almost guarantee most of them will have different preferences. Look around at the people you know with partners. The whole spectrum of people out there have all different kinds of partners. You don’t have to be a Chris Hemsworth type, or a Taylor Swift type. Most people aren’t professionally hot, and they still date and fuck all the time. Re calibrate your expectations, for you partner sure, but also yourself.

I’ve noticed women seem to fall into the “one ideal body” kind of thinking quite often as well. Obviously, the resulting breakdown takes different forms than inceldom, but they’re still plenty bad.

Yep. I’m never going back to balancing on one foot while I awkwardly smush my other foot past the back of my shoe.

Maybe try and figure out how to actually care?

Yeah, Bellingcat is the closest thing to a real Batman.

It’s nice to see a (former) cop getting to talk without everyone spamming ACAB. That doesn’t actually help anything.

None of that came close to bringing him down, though - it was normal clothing and I don’t think anything he did with his phone would have given him away in advance of being captured.

The thing that really did it was his distinctive eyebrows being all over the news. A bit of basic disguise work would be smart if you want to do that kind of thing and get away with it. And probably don’t target a random health insurance bureaucrat.

Anything remotely rural. It makes sense that Lemmy would be mostly city-dwellers, but I still manage to be surprised by the gap.

Going undercover to eventually blow the whistle could be doable, I guess. I seem to remember reading in a criminology text that there’s actually career snitches that do basically that in hopes of a reward. Which seems crazy, but whatever.

It’s not really what I think OP was thinking of, though.

It’s true, this isn’t Mario and the money won’t come out just from jumping on them.