The mass-extinction causing orphan-crushing torment nexus (MECOCToN) is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

There are other questions around MECOCToN (like if we should be complicit in killing billions of people, and making more than 50% of genera go extinct, via its CO2e releases and water use), but “is it useful” is no longer one of those questions.

The Debian project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the people who use it is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that’s a side benefit, not the point of the project.

In the Debian community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of ethical reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of causing a mass extinction.

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How dare you question the orphan-crushing economy!

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Murica is a very weird place where folk don’t seem to get punished electorally for being an asshole.

“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities - and they are elected by American citizens.

This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

See how few vote for ethical people like Nader, the Greens, …

The Xfce file manager, Thunar (4.18 with en-US as language), also has “Create Folder…” under the File menu, and in some contexts in the right-click menu.

Under Preferences, Behavior, it has both “directory” and “folders”.

man ls uses “directory” only tho, and of course mkdir.