Some of those are pretty solid, especially if you catch them on sale. Get that physical media while you can.

I didn’t make my comment based purely on my personal feelings. This article sheds a little light on what could have been the motivation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab-girls-school-strike-as-israel-us-deny-involvement

100% feel that in my bones. There is a clip in the video of a boy in a kahki colored jump suit that turns to the camera gives a stunningly beautiful smile. What a beautiful boy, and we are killing boys and girls like him as if they were nothing. The missile strike on the girls school should have stopped the attacks. A fuck up of that scale (assuming it was a mistake and not deliberate), should have stopped all attacks until a full investigation was complete.

Smells Like Trump War Crime

Depends on what aspects of Canva you speak of.

• Graphics manipulation, a la Photoshop - GIMP
• Generative AI graphics - There is no ethical alternative
• Printing (t-shirts, posters, etc) - There are many out there, but you will have to create your design in GIMP first.

Nobody actually believed they would. Literally nobody.

LMDE Cinnamon. Boring. Rock solid.

I installed Pop!_OS on a Thinkpad in 2020 and have been using that install as my daily driver without issue. That includes multiple LTS release upgrades. The key is to stick with LTS releases. It’s boring because you do not get the latest and greatest features, but the payoff is rock solid stability.

EDIT: As far as distros, I stick with Pop!_OS for myself, Linux Mint for my wife (we’re both IT professionals), and LMDE for my servers.

Server or workstation?

Jesus…fuck. Those paragraphs were really difficult to read.

It’s a weird hill you’ve chosen to die on, but ok. You do you.

Lolita is meant to be disturbing. A horror story told from the perspective of a very unreliable narrator. Intellectually, I appreciate it, but I too could not get through it.

I haven’t seen the movie, only read synopsis and reviews…

The main actresses were of age (17 & 18 at time of filming) but the movie was about a girls camp. Most of the other girls were much younger. Cynthia Nixon was 13 and looking younger. My issue is more with the portrayal than the plot. For a few years in the 70’s and early 80’s there was a trend to make jailbait movies for the pleasure of adults. Little Darlings wasn’t the worst, but it is still problematic. The plot of Tatum O’Neil’s character flirting and trying to bed a man in his late twenties or thirties was included for no other reason other than to feed the fantasies of the adult males in the Audience.

Manhattan is another disturbing example. The actress was 16 and the plot was of a man in his forties in a sexual relationship with a high school girl.

The Fog. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a teen hitchhiker than promptly fucks the rando trucker that gives her a lift.

Examples seem endless and they all point to the same obsession that generation of men have with young teen girls. Woody Allen, Trump, Epstein, Ted Nugent, etc. They all demonstrated the same issue.

It, and other movies of the seventies and early eighties opted to sexualize young actresses, primarily for the enjoyment of adults and not to help young people feel seen and represented.

You bring up American Pie, a movie about teens trying to get laid. Not a single one of those actors being sexualized was a minor or presented as a minor. That’s what I have a problem with.

I do not have a problem acknowledging young teen sexuality. I have a problem with the sexualization and exploitation of young teens by movie makers at the time.

Read my comment again. In the edits I clarified that my memory jammed Personal Best and Little Darlings together.

Yes, I am younger than a boomer, but I am still in my fifties.

I’m bisexual and have been dealing with homophobic bullshit for over forty years, so please kindly fuck off with your insinuations of homophobia.

One thing rarely touched on is how her image and movies were used to groom other children for sexual abuse back then. I know a few people, including myself, that were abused to The Blue Lagoon.

I was a bit young so I don’t remember well, but wasn’t there a mainstream movie about a girls sports team that was essentially just teen (13+ not 18+) softcore lesbian porn? I think one of the Hemmingway sisters was in it.

EDIT: I think I am jamming two movies together. One is Personal Best (1982) with Mariel Hemingway. I still can’t remember the name of the young teen girls one but I do now remember that the plot was that these young girls were trying to lose their virginity. Fucking boomers. Seriously.

EDIT 2:

Found it. The second movie was Little Darlings about girls at camp.

Pretty Baby is a 1978 film where she portrays a child prostitute. There’s a scene where her virginity is auctioned off and a main plot point is that a grown man falls in love with her and wants to marry her. I watched it as a young teen (~12) and I was horrified.

T60, my dearest, oldest friend.