I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

I endorse this as an IT technician. I do this to every new Win11 device I set up.

As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech's debloat tool on it.

It allows you to add tools, remove/disable shitty parts of windows, and easily change some settings. My default is running the preset for a desktop/laptop and applying security update settings, but there are so many options to customize. I used it on my personal laptop.

found out that Mr Rogers, in spite of being notably protestant, received last rites from a good friend of his who was a Catholic priest and monk

The Religious ENTITLEMENT Is Insane Leftists: We have to import as many Muslims as possible, because we are tolerant! Muslims: We have to force you to be Muslims, because we are intolerant! Leftist Politicians: Anyone who objects to either is guilty of hatecrime.

People talk about how everything is a scheme by the Jews to bring down Western civilization. If you ask me, the far more likely culprit is Muslims.

Who’s at the top of the Progressive Stack? Arabic Muslims. Who does the West have a moral duty to import en mass? Muslims. Who is it bigoted to force to fit into your Western society? Who’s immune to prosecution from any crime? Those Muslims you just imported.

Who’s been at war with the West since its inception? Islam. Who has a religion based around conquest and theocracy? Islam.

Who hates Jews? Well, everyone, but who’s got the biggest hate boner for them? Muslims.

Why would Jews surround themselves with their bitterest enemies and render them immune from any criticism or prosecution?

What makes more sense: that this is all a Jewish scheme or that it’s a Muslim scheme?

That's so fucking funny

Honestly as much as I'm torn about the use of Ghibli style animation being used in this way....... Especially given the fact it's being used via machine learning imagine generation, I have to admit it's still funny. Yet leftists are mad because it's "mean spirited".

The news headline:

The story

Understand something here. Do I think abortion should be illegal? No. I however 100% PERSONALLY believe in exceptions for rape and incest. This despite not being 100% fine with the idea. However, abortion as contraception? Yeah no go fuck yourself. Take precautions or keep your legs closed.

As to this story, sure could have been hiding an abortion. Not to mention there's the fact that she should not have disposed of the body the easy she did. NO STATES criminalize miscarriages. They just don't. And any doctor afraid to assist you during or after one is ignorant to the law, or intentionally causing panic and fear by refusing to help. Because you dead? Or in jail. Or injured like better for the news. Because guess what? Abortions make money. And you're cutting into their cash cow.

Color me shocked that people would fight for what's in their interest. And for doctors, often, that's making money.

@anamericangirl ...... Shit. I had another person I normally tag for this stuff I've seen you talk to and I can't remember who it is~

It infuriates me when the headline reads "woman jailed after miscarriage under abortion law" when no actually a woman was jailed because she threw a human corpse in the trash, which has nothing to do with abortion laws whatsoever. They are completely unrelated.

I guarantee if she had not thrown the body of her dead baby away she would not have been arrested because having a miscarriage is not illegal and never will be.

All headlines that say a woman is getting arrested for having a miscarriage are a lie 100% of the time.

Oh no, she didn't something so common that the NHS wrote an article telling women it was a normal response.

Something that nobody would have even cared about if abortions weren't illegal. Because it's just as common in the US. But wasn't actually a problem until abortions were made illegal. Maybe these two things are related.

Aside from the fact that it's actually a biohazard which is kind of important it's also not a normal response nor should it be.

Normally in the instance of a miscarriage there is a decent amount of unnatural blood loss that happens and normally, if you are having a miscarriage you want to be seen by a physician. If not for any other reason then the fact that they found her passed out. Clearly there were problems. But because of fear-mongering and panic over states laws, rather than doing that she just opted to deal with it herself.

And this is the same b******* as all of the other people who supposedly died because of anti-abortion laws except in 99% of those cases it had nothing to do with anti abortion laws and 100% to do with doctors who weren't doing their jobs.

Abortion should 100% be a state's rights issue. Because fun fact if it wasn't it would be outright illegal across the board. If you want to know how I know that consider the following.

Under the United States Constitution you have a right to life. Human beings under the Constitution have a right to life. Every stage of development of a child even inside of the mother, it is a human being. And it will never be anything else. So if this legislation were to ever be properly represented at a federal level in front of the supreme Court abortion would be outlawed because it would be considered unconstitutional.

But rather than you care about the Constitution, which unfortunately most people who are pro-abortion do not care for the Constitution; You would rather probably see, based off of the way responded, abortion completely legalized across the board for any reason whatsoever. Of course if I'm wrong correct me. Because your statement very much sounds like you would prefer it not be illegal. But constitutionally it should be. And this is coming from somebody who is actually pro exceptions and so I would rather it remain with the states.

I would also rather doctors actually do their job rather than being whiny little children who would rather dead women than enforce laws. Because another fun fact is there is never a medical need for an abortion. Because medically and legally an abortion is one very specific thing. Abortion is the intentional termination of the child in the womb. And fun fact as long as you are attempting to save the child, if the child happens to die it isn't an abortion. And abortion is the intentional termination of that life. But if a pregnancy isn't viable, then it isn't an abortion.

Which effectively means that the only types of abortions are elective. Meaning you choose to have them. And let me be clear as if I wasn't already in my top post. I am not a hundred percent anti-abortion. But I am 100% against abortion used as a contraceptive. Either learn to use as much protection as humanly possible. Or, learn to keep your legs closed and your pants on.

You clearly didn't read the article I linked, as the title is very literally

About miscarrying at home. Meaning it is medically safe enough to do so that health organizations will give information on it.

The next few paragraphs?

Literally options for disposal. Which includes disposing of the remains "the way you would normally dispose of sanitary waste." Meaning, throwing away.

Abortion is healthcare. People want them for a multitude of reasons, and abortion related deaths typically happen when mothers have to take care of it themselves instead of seeking a medical professional. No matter what I say, youre going to ignore it because you refuse to see medical needs for abortion. Those needs are there, but you will probably continue to ignore it unless it happens directly to you. Which I hope it doesn't, those decisions are difficult.

Why should states get to dictate healthcare? Why do they get to know private medical information and control it? Why should anyone get to dictate what should be a private and very personal matter?

Everyone also gets the right to their own body and decide what happens to it. Someone else does not get to decide for them, and forcing a pregnancy steps all over that right.

I want to point out as well: miscarriage is called "natural abortion." While people can chose to have them, they also just happen. And people can miscarry without even knowing they were pregnant, meaning they'll pass the fetus without knowing. And then flush it anyway

What you shared was NHS. We have an abundance of biohazard laws in the United States probably more than we should realistically. And also there are states that have banned abortion outright. Because the states themselves are in charge of it.

Why? Because a child's body is not your body regardless of if it is in your body. It is no longer just your body. And I stand by that. Because if you were to have asked literally 90% of the global population in the '80s '90s and the early 2000s when they thought life started almost every single one of them would have told you at conception. Including doctors.

And if you can't keep your legs closed or be bothered to use an apt amount of contraceptive. Well, that's not my problem. Not to mention the fact that the NHS in the United States is laws are drastically different. We actually have freedom of speech whereas y'all have the freedom to be polite and bow to your government and worship them in every way.

Also to add an additional point to the whole how to dispose of sanitary waste. In the United States that's functionally different because the way you are supposed to dispose of things that would be considered a biohazard is very delicately. Like with injection needles or EpiPens or literally anything else there is a protocol to disposal of it.

If you live in Wisconsin make sure to vote for Brad Schimel in the Supreme Court Elections on April 1st (this Tuesday). He's running against a far left judge and if he wins, the Republicans take control of the WI supreme court. If he loses, WI will redistrict before the midterms and remove two Republican seats, which will seriously threaten the slim majority Trump has in congress. I know non-presidential year elections fall under the radar, but this one is important. Vote. Get your friends and family to vote. Anyone you know who likes Trump should be voting in this election.

Today's the day folks. There are also two special elections going on in Florida to fill vacant seats left by Trump appointees, so if you live in one of those districts get out and vote for the Republican to add to the slim majority we have in the house. There's going to be a big reconciliation budget coming up, the "big beautiful bill" Trump keeps talking about, and every extra GOP vote will count.

most people view God as just a very large/powerful angel instead of Being Itself

It’s sort of hard to visualize/conceptualize God the Father in his transcendent form so people tend to default to what they can grasp

Yea, I’m just pointing this out because it leads to lots of errors especially in terms of the problem of evil and the omnipotence paradox.

oh it’s Pope Benedict XIV’s birthday, top 10 pope of all time absolute goat

now I must know your top ten papal rankings

tentative list:

1. Peter

2. Leo I

3. Gregory I

4. Innocent I

5. Innocent III

6. Gregory VII

7. Pius IX

8. Benedict XIV

9. Leo XIII

10. Celestine V

*subject to change*

Zero hits on tineye

This is machinespew!

whyyyy would a batman cowl have crinkles 'round the eyes!?

why would his chest piece have nipples?

It could just be fanart or cosplay.

It says ai at the top so it's a pretty safe bet

Whoops!

I can think of a hundred things we could do to improve our collective health a hundred fold more than replacing sugar with a slightly different sugar that breaks down to be the same sugar in our bodies.

Free cancer screenings.

Eliminating food deserts.

Free vaccines.

Free birth control.

Drug treatment.

Naloxone to anyone who wants it.

Okay, I am too tired to do one hundred. But I'm sure I could.

I'm no nutritionist so I can't claim to understand it but I will say I have always found uneasy and how people are negative towards the man-made products and food especially considering how useful they have been and producing the positive outcome of more calorically dense foods and a world that was once starving and I think that framework is the framework that is the most missing and how we view food today.

The popular food of today was designed and made and a time period where starvation and privation was a simple fact of life. And it is taking a great deal of heroic efforts from a lot of people who we give our thanks to for ending this cycle of history of famines and overpopulation and famines we broke the cycle gentleman we broke it now we know periods in which the human population is not defined by periods of rapid starvation but prosperity.

That being said I cannot as I've said condemn any of the moves people have done over the past to make these foods what they are knowing what came before because if I have to choose one or the other kind of existence I'm picking the one in which I'm fat unhealthy but I ain't starving.

And all of this being said at the same time I do recognize as I get older it is very important to be careful what you put in your body because some things aren't necessarily bad but they could be better. And I think that's the main takeaway we should have.

If the choice is between fake sugar that tastes bad and real sugar that tastes good, and both are just as bad for you, why is it wrong to say "I'd rather have the good tasting stuff? Which should also be cheaper?"

>Eliminating food deserts.

How, exactly?

A food desert isn't 'people are starving', it's 'lack of access to healthy food'.

Do you want the government to force supermarket companies to open branches in unfriendly neighbourhoods? Subsidize those stores with taxpayer money?

Or just to give out free food?

Never thought I'd see the day when people on the left started to defend HFCS, guess all it took was the right person suggesting reducing it.

As for food deserts, the simple way to solve that problem is for the people living in them to request the products they want to have and then purchase them at a rate where the store they get them from isn't losing money in the process.

Stores will stock what people purchase provided the product is available.

This is so far below basic economics a toddler could understand it.

Another big thing to end food desserts is for fucking junkies and assholes to stop stealing. Then, stores won't close due to a huge money loss.

on a note related to the previous thing, there's people in that tesla arson thread saying "Of course you're supposed to hate it! Protests are supposed to inconvenience you!"

and like it's incredible how many people think that and how none of them thought about it. because what you think is going to happen is, you make a pain in the ass for someone, in order to get them to do something that you want. and then this will make them switch to your side instead of telling you to go fuck yourself.

That's because they're rationalizing the attention as the point of the protest, not the actual change they want to achieve. Like kids throwing a tantrum.

I can see the argument that a protest is supposed to inconvenience the people in power, but not regular people. We're just as powerless as anyone else. Why do they think inconveniencing or actively harming regular people will motivate the people in charge to change things?

The answer: They enjoy the feeling of power they get from harming regular people.

That and/or getting to feel self-righteous and rebellious without actually having to put in any real effort. There's no long term goals, no follow up, no organizing to get something done. They just set some fires, destroy property, get in the way and shout their slogans, and that's it. Being a nuisance so they can act like they're sticking it to The Man. But it's almost always regular people they're targeting, because that's easiest. Going to the corporations or the government is too difficult and scary, or might require them to go out of their way, and Lord forbid they inconvenience themselves.

I remember asking, on a post about a protest blocking a road, what they hoped to accomplished by doing that. Someone replied that the point was "to bring attention to the issue"; by blocking traffic, people would have no choice but to pay attention.

Which was stupid for multiple reasons. The issue at hand was the alleged Palestinian genocide, which obviously had no shortage of attention to begin with. The people being blocked were ordinary American citizens, who had no sway over a foreign conflict. And the only ones being forced to "pay attention" were the people in front of the protesters; everyone else stuck traffic weren't going to know what was going on, they probably just thought there was a crash or something. This stunt did absolutely nothing for their cause. If anything it actively hurt it.

But the people doing it got to feel good about themselves, and isn't that what really matters?

on a note related to the previous thing, there's people in that tesla arson thread saying "Of course you're supposed to hate it! Protests are supposed to inconvenience you!"

and like it's incredible how many people think that and how none of them thought about it. because what you think is going to happen is, you make a pain in the ass for someone, in order to get them to do something that you want. and then this will make them switch to your side instead of telling you to go fuck yourself.

That's because they're rationalizing the attention as the point of the protest, not the actual change they want to achieve. Like kids throwing a tantrum.

I can see the argument that a protest is supposed to inconvenience the people in power, but not regular people. We're just as powerless as anyone else. Why do they think inconveniencing or actively harming regular people will motivate the people in charge to change things?

The answer: They enjoy the feeling of power they get from harming regular people.

well because what they think a protest does it motivate the regular people to Get Up In Arms and cause them to change things. it's supposed to bring enough normal people to your side that the people in charge have to listen.

of course what these guys think about protests is that they should do things that actively piss people off, and also they think that the people in charge are fascists who will never ever listen. this is because they view protest as ritual magic.

Soy bitch gets arrested for keying a Tesla 👍🏻🙌🏻

Looks like a work uniform. I wonder if he was on his lunch break and decided to commit a little domestic terrorism before clocking back in.