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[Frumple]

EDIT: I've just tried fiddling with the screen's position, and it stopped all of a sudden. That sounds ominous.

Or like a loose wire or somethin', which probably wouldn't be much trouble to fix beyond the whole opening the laptop thing. If you've actually got warranty you care about, you could probably swing it by a shop of some sort and have them sort it out.

[Felissan]

I've got a ghost line too! It's been around for a long time, and it comes and goes without a clear pattern. Sometimes I won't see it for months, sometimes it'll be there every time I boot up.

Are you on Windows 8?

Windows 10, actually. But yeah, the loose wire sounds likelier.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

I have a glitchy opening screen too. It's not present anywhere else, only in the part where the circles are spinning as the computer loads. Sometimes, the dots leap from side to side across the screen. It's quite odd.

[Neonivek]

Update
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My Ear infection hasn't been fixing itself quickly enough (I have to go back to the doctor)

All the while other symptoms are starting to pop up

[Neonivek]

Why in some forms of Elitism

Is there a voice of the strong protecting the weak...

Yet a very vague explanation of how that is done exactly... with antagonistic view of any attempts to actually protect the weak?

There is this weird dichotomy I can't logic through here.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Dude can you into formulating your question in a way that is comprehensible?

[Neonivek]

Why is it that sometimes Elitism teaches that the strong will protect the weak, yet never goes as far as to unpack that in a way that isn't vague, while at the same time being antagonistic towards anything that does in fact protect the weak as well?

Why is it that an elitist system often seems to be more about protecting the elite at the expense of those who are not, yet insists otherwise?

[sprinkled chariot]

Because it is point of elitism, and protecting weak is fancy  rhetorical part?

[Frumple]

Not very many people like to see themselves as a bad person, neo. Is probably the most of it. They insist otherwise because it looks better to others and makes themselves feel better (more deserving of their advantages, etc.), too. They're not suppressing any challenges to their power, they're helping people by maintaining the... whatever. Hypocrisy can be a hell of a drug. Along those lines.

[Neonivek]

Is there a term for what I call the "Austerity Apocalypse"?

Where we reach a post scarcity society but where capitalism is maintained...

Thus the only people with any wealth or comfort are the super rich and everyone else is hopelessly poor... Yet because it is a post scarcity society there is nothing anyone can do because well... One person with a button has power equal to millions.

Also... How... likely is that to happen?

I actually find it MUCH more likely then us actually hoisting capitalism once it becomes a noose around our necks... and that kind of terrifies me that humanity is kind of edging towards what is essentially economic feudalism.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

If it's getting harder to rise through the economic ladder, then I'd say we are definitely slipping back toward feudalism.

I'd argue that some variant of socialism, communism, anarcho-syndicalism (my favourite), or such would be the best solution, btw.

[Calidovi]

there is communism and there is applied communism

only perfect men can sustain such a system as that

[Frumple]

Or perhaps the perfect machine. Brain implants for everyone!

[Calidovi]

☭ANDROID COMMUNISM☭

if there is no inequality, whence comes the revolution

☭ANDROID COMMUNISM☭

[Comrade P.]

Applied communism wasn't that bad. Several generations of my family lived through it, I live right after it.
A certain degree of cultural isolationism sucked really hard and ultimately led to the downfall of the system, IMO. People tended to take the benefits of socialist state for granted and failed to recognise the main flaws of the capitalist way, only looking at the benefits they did not have.
You can't have all the best of both worlds. Not on a multinational state level. It's either-or, as it turned out.
Country of my ancestors fell apart, and it feels bad. A feeling millions of people shared, that we, together, as union of very diverse nations under one banner, against the odds, are going towards some big dream, is gone. All the dreams people have these days are small, even the grand ones.

Now I have internet, vidya gaems and dank memes.