FrankenTan

That already happens and it's about to happen to millions of people in the US: it's called eviction.

Being a Nazi isnt a mental illness. Sane people were nazis. Last time Nazis were in power they, in fact, murder quite a lot of mentally ill people.

Nazis also dont need to be in power to kill people. Nazis already kill people. Being organized and in sufficent numbers is enough. Being in power mainly means they have less resistance and more ability to do so.

agreed. plus that's more accessible for ppl with mobility or fatigue related chronic illnesses which is nice.

It's my (uninformed and second-hand) impression that tipping-culture is often defined whether the waiters\servers are given minimum livable salary or whether the tip is the larger income.

I use gEdit for both text and programming for a couple of languages.

The Cobalt theme is the best dark theme\colorlayout I've ever experienced, and I'm yet to find any others which I find as pleasant to the eyes while simultaneously allowing me (I am colorblind) to pick out the various things gedit highlight.

If I'm not going with black-on-white I'll have to roll my own color layout based on Cobolt whenever I use anything else.

I'm admittedly a newb, but I find that a lot of my programming includes trying to think in a good way and then reading documentation to figure out how to implement it.

So far it has applied to every technology I've used. :p

Possibly irrelevant, but adding my experience anyway:

It might be niche experience, but twitter is awesome for me. My swedish twitter-bubble is boiling with discussions, humor and interesting links and topics every day. Some politicians even keep an active presence and respond\discuss in tweets when they can or even in blog-posts arguing their point or explaining a difficult topic.

I don't know if it's an English quote originally, or if it's confined to Swedish twitter, but there's a saying that goes "facebook makes you hate people you know, twitter makes you love people you don't." which I find quite apt.

There's a general positive attitude and a lot of people enjoy the every day struggles and joys of others rather than the self-censorship or inane postings often found on facebook. Admittedly, I'm sure that exists on twitter too, but in my twitter-bubble it's rare.

Some brave companies use it to give\encourage support for complaining users and to notify problems or errors rather than try to sell stuff. Even if few manage to actually _inform_ rather than try to sell things.

Journalists sadly tend to mostly only follow journalists, and social media experts follow social media experts, so their experience tend to be quite different and closed off.

While I, and most others I follow (so I guess it's equally 'closed'!) follow various people from various stratas of society, politicians, sick people, journalists and even homeless people.

It's quite alive, active and enjoyed, but I suspect it's quite easy to find relevant and amusing twitter-users when there's only a few thousand (Swedish tweeps) of them and the interesting\fun\literate ones follow other interesting\fun\literate ones.

[edit]It's also been described as "a competition in one-liners" and "a collection of lovable narcissists", which I also find very accurate.[/edit]

Wikileaks sadly lost a lot of respect from me and many people I know when some of their comments and many of their followers weren't about Assange's innocence, but instead in defense of rape, both directly and through criticism of conditional consent.

Even if only some zealous defenders had done so rather than wikileaks (most likely) accidentally doing so, it would still taste quite bitter.

While I wholeheartedly agree it's not been handled well at all by the Swedish prosecutors and government, and that there are irregularities and that Wikileaks and Assange should* criticize and question this, seeing people defend rape to defend them is bizarre. Although I am well aware this happens whenever rape is discussed.

Conditional consent IS a legal concept in Sweden, and one I personally agree with.

This saddens me, as I'm a rather big fan of Wikileaks and since I am also a fan of Assange I hope he's innocent.

*Conditional Consent:

While you might argue that there may be a need for different words for varying degrees and types of sexual crimes. Rape, at least for now, is defined solely by the presence of consent, as far as I understand.

If my consent hinges on a condition, and this was explained, my consent is nullified if the person willfully lies about this condition to be able to have sexual contact with me.

Ex: A woman lies about being on birth-control or a man lies about condom or being sterile.