Too many people forget that at the end of the day, if we’re willing to do what it takes, the U.S. is still a democracy and votes are what choose our leaders. Lots of problems and lots of obstacles, but the people saying that voting doesn’t matter are lying to themselves if not to everyone else.
It’s a lie that only benefits the people who don’t want us to vote. If they put that much effort into the lie, it proves that voting matters enough for them to try to stop it.
As someone who loves and prefers Linux but is forced to use Windows for work, I wouldn’t necessarily have down voted you, but I can understand why people did.
Edit: but I up voted you here, if that helps.
You find out, let us know.
He got brain cancer and died.
My mom was horrified when I was happy about it. I told her the person I was before him would not have been happy, but he destroyed that person.
If I weren’t agnostic, I’d say I hope he rots in hell. As it is, I’m just glad the world has lost another piece of shit.
On the other hand, it needs to be made clear to the less tech savvy consumers, and that is sometimes far from easy.
My mother-in-law received a rechargeable electric lighter as a gift. The instructions included told her to use the 5 inch long USB C cable to plug the lighter into her computer to charge.
She doesn’t have a computer.
She does have a smart phone that came with a USB C charging cable and power adapter. It took us almost 20 minutes to get her to understand that she could take the cable she uses to charge her phone and use it to charge the lighter. She was incredibly confused by the concept that a phone could share the same charging hardware as an electronic lighter.
When I was in middle school thieves broke into our house and robbed us. They got some of my dad’s guns and some of my mom’s jewelry. The jewelry hit her hard because it included things her father has given her.
When I was in college I had an amcient, yellow VW rabbit that got broken into a few times. The vent windows had hardware that was just glued to the glass, so you could just wedge something in and pop the glass out. Each time they’d rummage through it looking for valuables. It had to be someone who was a complete moron because I don’t know how else they could imagine someone driving a $50 VW had anything of value.
Eventually we replaced the vent windows with windows from a newer model that had the hardware bolted on and it stopped happening.
Someone also stole the antenna off it when it was parked once. I hope that bastard died slowly of malignant ass cancer that just ate him from the bottom up. The closest thing to nice about that car was being able to listen to the radio, and that son of a bitch took that way from me.
Two things:
Cigarettes contain ingredients to suppress some of the negative symptoms of smoking. One reason you might have irritation without the cigarettes is because the cigarettes are preventing you from feeling the irritation they cause. Just a thought. It might make sense to see if you can get other medication to help with those issues until you are able to stop vaping too.
Also, hearing that the death of your grandpa caused a relapse suggests you might want to try quitting again, but with some sort of therapy/support. Try the book method again, but make sure you have someone to talk through issues with.
My kids. It’s been more than 26 years.
Mostly just bugfixes and maintenance now.
I’m descended from an officer killed by the British in the American revolution.
My parents and my brother all voted for Trump.
the invention of the Piano
So the French Revolution led to the career of Billy Joel?
I see that “snitches get stitches” is still in effect in Philly.
US, Cricket, $160/month for five lines
This post gives me “people don’t want to work anymore” vibes.
Another way to look at it is, people don’t want to pay people to work anymore. Either the pay is such shit that the employees have no incentive to give a crap, or the employer doesn’t hire enough people to get the work done.
If only there was some government organization in place that could propose and pass legislation to limit the TSA.
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My personal desktop machine is a Linux box I assembled from $500 worth of parts about 14 years ago. I’ve increased RAM and added about 8TB of storage for an Emby instance.
It still manages to get the job done, but it is obviously way, way, WAY overdue for replacement. We’ve been struggling financially for about 25 years.
Now I’m thinking I need to finally pull the trigger and get it done before January.
If the electoral college had worked as intended, Trump would not have won in 2016*.
So, yeah, get rid of it. It’s not working anyway.
If you don’t have a car that can drive in snow, don’t drive in snow.
Last blizzard I was in, I had to pull over to try to help two people get up a small hill.
The first woman was afraid to steer while me and and a tow truck driver pushed her up. She wanted one of us to steer her car, but that just couldn’t happen. She ended up paying the tow truck driver more than $300 to tow her.
While that was going on, a Honda Civic ended up sliding backwards down the hill. I pushed that one about 100ft along the road until it leveled out enough to move on its own.
We have a Civic, but it sits in the driveway for blizzards.
If you get serious snow where you’re moving, and you have to drive, get something with all wheel drive. Just remember that all wheel drive doesn’t mean you can stop. You still need to drive like a Granny in Sunday church traffic.
I’d argue that in some ways they are more active. Posting on Reddit was like farting in a hurricane.
In Lemmy there seems to be more interaction. You don’t have to get a million up votes for anyone to see your post.