Just a reminder that the raid on Waco was about more than modified and stockpiled guns, but it was also about David Koresh raping little girls. So as bad as the three letter apes are, still better than pedos.

Also, I just want to point out how impotent all those guns were when it came time to oppose the government. Some of you 2nd-brained people should study that.

I started with Debian and am driving Catchy now. Catchy will pull you into the terminal more than Debian will, but you don’t sound like someone put off by that.

The good news is that pacman is easy to learn and Catchy’s default terminal app is superior.

Humanoid robots are as dumb as a bag of hammers. It’s like when the first automobiles looked like carriages because that’s what everyone was used to.

The only practical reason to make a robot look like a person is so you can fuck it. That’s it. Every other task can be performed better by removing human limitations and complexity.

So now Ubuntu is the OS where “advanced users can just turn all that crap off”.

Tech in general has a huge boomer-humor problem in that all those old fucks that wrote the original code stuffed it full of puns, in-jokes, and idioms that are only relevant today in retirement homes in Ohio.

And I don’t mean this is annoying or funny, but as a legitimate problem. It’s bad enough that you have to learn English to code, you also are disadvantaged for not sharing the culture with retirement age white dudes from America.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was good boomer humor, but remember, these are the guys who think “Linux Is Not uniX” is funny.

To the gun-brained “progressives”: have you ever noticed that the elites, owners, and conservatives all promote and encourage gun ownership? Why do you suppose that is?

It’s bad enough that all the rednecks think their hobby makes them Daniel Boon without fools on the left thinking a fetish object can turn them into Fred Hampton. You’re just a volunteer gun salesman, congratulations. The NRA loves you.

It’s not just hot/ prepared foods. Had a relative who worked in a grocery store and there is like a whole list of what you’re allowed and not allowed to buy. Maybe people who know more can fill in the details, all I remember is that you had to buy 2% milk or skim; no whole milk for poor kids. ridiculous.

If conspiracy people were vulnerable to reason, they’d cease to exist.

(A neighbor mentioned that there is some sacrificial part that can be replaced every so often to extend the life of the tank.)

It’s called a sacrificial annode. It’s purpose is to attract all the rust to it’self to prolong the life of the tank. They’re supposed to be replaced every 3years or so, even more frequently if you’ve hard watter.

Most people don’t know and have never checked. If it’s been more than 5 years, it’s probably just a thin red mud at the bottom of the tank. (one of the reasons water is drawn from the top).

My first distro was Debian and I loved Gnome so much that I’ve never gotten around to trying anything else despite being on my 3rd distro hop.

I’m an old head and a firm believer in keyboard first computing. And I think an OS’s job is to be invisible until I need it. Gnome get’s out of my way until I summon whatever I need from it with the keyboard. For someone who’s labored under Windows for so long, Gnome is like escaping Plato’s cave.

Yea, I talk about my balls! My eyeballs are shaped like footballs and I require expensive corrective lenses.

He also quoted the Bible: Ezekiel 25-17

If you’re a Pulp Fiction fan, that’s fucking funny. If you’re a Christian, not so much.

Their are already Linux phone options. I’m talking about full-fat installations and even distro-hopping.

Bribing ladies to hang around men in shitty bars was a plot by big lesbian the whole time.

they did not have the right to violate international law and wage an all-out war of enormous destruction against the entire Palestinian people – in what experts have correctly concluded is a genocide.

This should have been the opening. Bernie shouldn’t have to spend 3 paragraphs proving his bona fides; preemptively defend vacuous accusations of bigotry; and acknowledge that Hamas are assholes, just to begin to list Israel’s crimes.

After that opening, Bernie really cooks. I just feel like preemptive apologetics cedes too much ground to bad-faith actors.

I was getting angry reading this.

Poverty rates are extremely difficult to measure. I’m sure this data is good-faith, but there are lot’s of statistics like this that are dishonest and spread by people like Stephen Pinker in order to shill for neo-liberalism.

For example the cash/day measure can be tweaked until you get the trend you want. We all know that cost of living varies between the States, so imagine how much it varies between different countries and continents. Saying a person only makes X/day would mean completely different things in a poor vs. wealthy country. Accounting for this difference is more opportunity to dial in the answer your looking for.

I’ve heard conservatives argue that “assets” like refrigerators and ovens be counted as wealth; owing to their belief that poverty is a choice and the privations are exaggerated. Meanwhile those of us on the left are automatically skeptical of figures that don’t show that poverty is bad and getting worse.

My point is that numbers like this should never be accepted credulously. Microtrends, the source of this data lives in the “market analysis” data space and I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the numbers align with the priors of conservative business types.