The SCOTUS and Republican Congress abolished the rule of law.

… are there any women here today?

“There weren’t any campaigns that had failed after they had achieved 3.5% participation during a peak event,” says Chenoweth – a phenomenon she has called the “3.5% rule”.

Me scatching my head thinking,“10% of Hong Kong protested and still got stomped by China’s boot.” I suppose it could be argued that it’s not the same thing.

Reddit was shitty, just because it’s people and people suck. But I hung around because…I’m a masochist I guess. I left because of the 3rd party shit. I’ve never gone back. As that great '80s pop band said,“People are people.”

I had to read your comment to realize it wasn’t some cool home-chicken-owner egg holder.

In my experience, it’s just a couple topics that bring out unreasonable assholes. After I spent a little time blocking the assholes, and then using a keyword filter to just skip shit I don’t want to have any interactions with, the experience became much better.

I hate it so freaking much when I’m thrown into nano. I have to quickly exit and fix whatever made that happen.

A wizard.

My limited experience in my little pocket of the US is that the produce sections have gotten much shittier. There was a great produce store near me that was in business since the '60s, but they closed last year. Maybe that’s what I’m noticing, but all the grocery stores in the area have a pretty shit selection of fresh produce.

It is weird having the corruption so in-your-face.

I was living in Germany in the '80s. My mom, a civilian US citizen, had to get a hysterectomy. She chose to go to a German hospital (as opposed to the US Military hospital) and just pay whatever it cost. She mentioned the other day she doesn’t think they ever sent her a bill.

I don’t even know what anyone means when they throw out “liberal” anymore.

I was hoping the title indicated this person had used 9 different distros for over 9 years each. That would be weird, but I could see situations where they might want to run a few different ones at the same time (distroFOO on desktop, distroBAR on server, etc). That would have given some insight. Instead, this is just someone who distro hopped, talking about the feel of the desktops and not into how they actually behaved through years of updates and continuous use.

Once or twice every 4-5 years.

The link gives some arguments. It’s mostly stupid right wing claptrap.

Opponents of ranked-choice voting argue that it benefits voters with more time and information, leads to decreased voter confidence in elections, and disconnects voting from important issues and debates. Opponents of ranked-choice voting also argue that RCV winners do not necessarily represent the will of the voters.

It goes on to giving statements for those reasons from such respectable organizations as The Heritage Foundation, so do what you want with that.

Students turn in bullshit LLM papers. Instructors run those bullshit LLM papers through LLM grading. Humans need not apply.

I don’t have any sudo needing app that opens a gui, so I don’t know.

I know a lot of people will freak out about this and bitch about security. I know, but on my system, with only family and everyone having their own logins, I just don’t care. The benefits (for me) outweigh the risks. Anyway, that aside, I have edited my /etc/sudoers file and added the equivalent of:

ceiron       ALL=(ALL)  NOPASSWD:ALL

I still have to run sudo for root apps (99% of what I do is command line), but I don’t have to type in a password every time. As I said, obvious security risk, so you decide if it’s worth it.

It’s not something I obsess about, but when it’s mentioned, then yeah, I think I am still upset.

An old family friend has done this a few times. They have a place in Colorado. They’ve spent a month or more in Netherlands and NZ for sure, and I think a couple other countries. They’ve had good experiences doing it. I don’t know the details though.