qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the private business can do what it wants.

"Noooo not like that..."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

I was gonna say SuperTuxKart but it's available for Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android per their site.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago

While "the system" is absolutely at fault for this, lifestyle creep


and changing finances


is very real.

For example, if you can almost afford a house, and your rental is modest, you're probably not spending all of your take-home. But if you make just a little bit more it might make financial sense to buy a house, stretching your budget to the max. Short term this really hurts, but long term may end up being a savvy decision.

Opting for a hefty mortgage can be risky, but can also pay off in the long run


especially in a place like California where property taxes are basically fixed at time of purchase.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Come see the vise grips inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being drill pressed!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

You can roll your own saline nasal rinse, but it takes a little care to get the salinity just right. And best to boil the water first in case of brain eating amoebas (seriously


not common, but very, very bad).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

I'm holding out for Aperture Science, if for no other reason than that their AI has a dry, dark sense of humor.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Louis nana

Louis nana

Hey hey

Goodbye

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think it's a good question. My take, and I dunno if it's right, is that they fucked up with Roe vs. Wade, and they know it


they were the dog that caught the car, so to speak. But once you catch the car, what do you do with it? It's no longer something you can use to activate your base. They pivoted the messaging from "abortion bad" to "states rights," but I think that's less of a hot button issue.

So I'm really hoping it's the same with the ACA


they want to talk about how Dems are socialists and socialism is bad, but they don't necessarily want to "catch the car" here. I do think that any changes will be explicitly about "Obamacare" and any replacement (even if it's exactly the same) will be pushed as "Trumpcare."

I'm probably way off though, and I wouldn't be surprised in the least if they indeed repeal the ACA. And as much as I feel like a horrible person saying it, I have pretty much zero sympathy for those about to get their face eaten by the leopards


I voted D, and I'm not reliant on the ACA, so basically sorry, but go fuck yourself (not you personally, just the regretful Trump voters


I am deeply sympathetic to others affected by this).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IIRC Torvalds uses Fedora.

(Debian for me.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

Same, an R4 with an i5 4670k I built in grad school. It's my ham radio computer now, as happy running Debian as the day I built it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

UN-Verified

Unfortunate abbreviation...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I keep hearing about grocery prices, but no one has any explanation of what Biden was supposed to do about it that he wasn't already doing, or how Trump will handle it better.

Completely agree. I think it's a "you break it you buy it" situation with voters.

And it's not based in reason


Biden's administration was staring down the barrel of a recession, and yet here we are, having completely avoided it. That's a pretty successful navigation of the economic hand that Biden was dealt, if you ask me. But at the end of the day "groceries more expensive" = "we need someone else in the white house" for a lot of voters, I guess.

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