sin_free_for_00_days

I just have some syncthing shared folders with friends/family. It may be a little weird to set up, but once there, it's seamless.

Aren't they elected? Voters are so freaking stupid.

I read somewhere that Germany has a pretty good anti-propaganda education. That was a long time ago, so I don't know if it's true now. At schools here in the U.S., a buzz phrase for a decade or two has been to teach "critical thinking". I rarely actually saw it done. I feel like it needs to be explicitly about recognizing propaganda with current events and media coverage. Starting in like middle school. I know it'll never happen because every school will have to teach the bible or something. And parents would freak out about their kids learning to think instead of just being passively, or aggressively, indoctrinated at home.

I was working in a record store at the time, and I knew the soundtrack way before I saw the movie. I still break it out at least once every year or so and play it through.

No mention of how fucking good the original Crow soundtrack was.

My grandmother ran Linux for a couple decades until her death at 101 years old. My 80+ year old mom has been running Linux for at least 2 decades. Yes, I'm tech support, but I don't really have to do anything. It just works.

"They are primarily funded by corporate interests such as the Koch Brothers and Exxon-Mobil...this is a right-leaning Libertarian think tank" mediabiasfactcheck.com

OK, I see the weird place you're coming from. Carry on, I guess. I'll just block and move on.

Don't forget their freaking stock buybacks.

English is pretty fluid and acceptable words and definitions morph with time. So in current use, they are pretty much interchangeable, but that still pisses me off. It's a loss of nuance. It's like we are actively dumbing down the language as if Newspeak is a good thing.

Let me take out my cane and say,"Back in my day..."

• Envy: You wish you had something someone else does.
• Jealousy: You worry about losing something you have.

Example: I jealously protect what I have, probably to an unhealthy degree. At the same time, I sure envy that person for having something I wish I had.

Yep. Just supporting my statement.

Time and place. At one time, the conventions were a great place to try to affect policy. Hasn't been like that since..oh... I guess around '80. A little before I became aged enough to vote. Every thing about conventions now are sound and fury, signifying nothing. Protestor efforts there are just wasted effort, or seemingly self-serving attempts to "look at me!! I don't have a lot of respect for people that care more about a religious war that isn't going anywhere, than defeating the fascists at home. I hate the DNC specifically, and most Dems in general, for multiple perceived or real slights on my sense of righteousness. But that's nothing for what I see in that other party.

That said, it just seems like obnoxiously farting on your 30 year old cousin, in a decades long game of fart payback, at a birthday dinner for your 90 year old grandma. Sure, I guess, go ahead and fart at your grandma's birthday, but I'm not going to respect you for it. Even if I would in just about any other situation. Farting on your grandma is probably just going to piss off your family.

Since a rational person wouldn't fart at the party, or try to undermine the Dems so uselessly, it must be some GOP/Russia fuckery. We know people are easily mislead, so it's not a jump to feel bad for these so-called leftists who are perfectly happy trying to undermine the country.