It’s a lunchbox, not a purse. Get your facts straight.

I can’t find video since everything is flooded with news people talking about it and won’t show the actual footage. Got a link?

I installed Pop OS on my ten year old laptop two days ago. I’m not sure it’s my forever distro, but it’s running fine now that I got the right nvidia driver set up. In any case, now that I’ve gone through the process, I feel a lot more confident that I can build a Linux desktop instead of buying a PS6 in a few years. I’ll probably go AMD to simplify the setup.

And so now you’ve learned that you need to regularly flush the water heater and change out the anode rod every few years, right? I just bought my first house. Hot water wasn’t working right. Heating element was dead. Why? There was so much scale that the lower element was covered in it. Replaced the element, flushed as much out as I could reasonably remove, and then flushed again six months later while replacing the anode rod. This keeps the corrosion at bay.

No? Like I said, Italian immigrants brought pizza to America. They didn’t come to America and then invent pizza. Trade routes brought chili peppers to those areas and they did new and interesting things with them to incorporate them into their cuisine in fundamental ways. I’m just saying that those dishes are recent, not completely coopted.

Not OP, but maybe they’re alluding to the fact that tomatoes were exclusively native to the Americas, so pizza in Italy never even had tomatoes before 500 years ago. A quick Google search shows that the first modern pizzas came from Naples about 300 years ago. So no, not American, but not possible without moving tomatoes from the Americas.

Italian immigrants brought pizza to America and it caught on.

I recognize that this probably qualifies as “picking holes” as he said, but his questioning of Hamas seems to be more of a rhetorical device than a sincere request for information. It’s not like things had been good in Palestine before the October 7 attack, so questioning why they did it sort of implies that it was out of the blue and not in response to decades of failed attempts to peacefully end settlement expansion and violence against Palestinians. And while acknowledging the horrors that Israel is raining down on them, is it not obvious why Hamas would still have hostages? The hostages are their only bargaining chip, and without the hostages, Palestine would’ve already been wiped off the map.

I’ve been a Radiohead fan for a long time, and I’ll continue to be, but this was an unexpectedly neoliberal take to criticize both sides and yearn for going back to how things used to be, completely ignoring that how things used to be is how we got here. That’s how time works.

I think of this quote from JFK pretty often, and it just refuses to stop being relevant, and apparently more people need to hear it. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” That’s the reason for the attack. The reason for having hostages is “to cling onto hope for survival against an otherwise guaranteed complete genocide.” They’re holding on and hoping that the world that is watching actually does something to help them, and we just aren’t.

I wasn’t really thinking of covid. Biden made sure we got free test kits mailed to us when they were impossible to find, but yeah otherwise he just kept on course. Covid vaccines were maybe the one thing that I agreed with trump on. And he could’ve sailed to reelection if he had just let the experts talk to the people instead of sowing doubt about masks and lockdowns. If he had just sold red masks that said “trump 2020” on them, he would’ve won reelection while lining his pockets.

Biden’s first half achievements that I was referring to were things like the infrastructure bill and the chips act. Inflation cooled, shit got fixed, manufacturing started coming back, and we started investing in a greener path forward. He should’ve communicated those accomplishments much better because most people don’t really get a glimpse beyond what catches their attention in everyday life. Like egg prices. But there’s a very good reason that egg prices rose, and it has very little to do with Biden and everything to do with bird flu, culling, and supply & demand; reduce your egg use for 6-12 months and the prices will come back down.

The same strategy will not be so effective in the incoming crisis due to tariffs, mostly because trump is such a stubborn dipshit that I’m not sure he’ll ever fully walk it back. He always chickens out of the high rate shit (probably mostly as a pump and dump scheme) but he’ll never admit that he was wrong about what tariffs are and what they do when deployed the way he insisted on doing them. His whole thing is pretending to be brilliant at business, but he doesn’t know basic shit that most people know before even enrolling in econ 101, so that’s pretty damning for the knowledge of the tens of millions of people he managed to trick into believing that he’s even remotely passable at business. His multiple bankruptcies are evidence of either incompetence or maliciously fraudulent looting, and the latter is only really necessary if you’re so bad at business that you have to cheat to get ahead despite the monumental inheritance left to you.

Sorry for the wall of text lol.

I would say that Biden did better than I had expected in the first half of his term and then more or less coasted off of that momentum through the second half. The probable dementia can’t be ignored, but even without that he should’ve been doing more. He mostly stabilized shit, which is what a status-quo neolib is supposed to do, and he even expanded equitability and built framework for a better tomorrow, but he was I guess too humble to brag about it? He should’ve been holding up graphs every week and told the people “this is an improvement, and you may not be fully feeling it yet, but you will over time. I’ve expedited relief to get to you faster, but that means it’s on the scale of years instead of decades. The downside of bureaucracy and democracy and proper checks and balances is that solutions can take time, but that’s also a benefit in that any would-be malevolent authoritarian couldn’t break everything overnight. Just hold on. We’ve stopped the bleeding, and now the healing takes a little time.”

Instead, we got bounced from our hospital bed and immediately started picking at the scabs with a rusty knife. We’re fucked. Tariffs? What a fucking moron. We’ll be referring to turned-out pockets as trump flags by the end of the decade.

ALL AROUND THE WORLD, STATUES CRUMBLE FOR ME

That’s your choice, but you don’t get to then complain about the prices set by the people who read the manual for you so that you could enjoy your life instead. You either pay them or pay yourself.

We can’t lay all of the blame on trump.

The problem is conservatism in general. Every Republican president of the past 50 years has caused economic turmoil. When Republicans get power in the legislature, the only notable thing they work towards is tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, and gutting things that help people in order to pay for it.

Trump isn’t singularly the problem here, but he is so fucking stupid that he’s speedrunning the economic crisis. A Republican with a halfway functional brain would know to move slowly enough that the economy falls apart as they’re heading out the door, not within the first 20% of their term.

Start selling trump “I did that!” stickers of him pointing up at the eclipse. You’ll start seeing them everywhere soon. Gas pumps, grocery store shelves, car dealerships, etc.

Legitimate question as I’m gonna move from Windows 10 within the next couple months. Is there something wrong with Bazzite or Nobara? I had narrowed my decision down to those two since they seem to be an easy transition, they do the things I need, and they’re popular enough that I can probably find fixes to any issues I experience. I pushed off my plan to build a desktop, but I still have an aging laptop that is losing security support in a couple of months.

Also, my wife needs Excel specifically for school. Can Excel work on these distros or are there just good alternatives? She might need to keep a Windows 10 partition just for Excel stuff if she can’t run it in Bazzite or whatever she picks.

Edit:
Thanks everybody for responses! School is not flexible about using Excel specifically, and she has to share her screen during exams to show that she’s just using regular Excel. It’s not a hill we’re willing to die on lol.
We aren’t super interested in doing anything beyond gaming and basic browsing type stuff with our computers, so I’m not sure that Bazzite being immutable really means anything to us. There were some good tips like a /home partition to easily swap distros when needed without losing everything, plus some people pointed out that some of these distros come and go over time so it would be harder to find fixes and continue getting updates if we get too entrenched in something that won’t be around much longer.
Overall, I don’t think we’ll be too picky. We just want a pretty simple process to get something that’s like an unbloated Windows, and we don’t want to rip our hair out looking for a new distro and starting over every six months. Most people are not power users. I can do pretty much all of my computer stuff on my phone and all of my gaming on my PlayStation, so I really won’t notice the difference between most of these recommendations probably.

They mean more “bored of life” than “bored in the moment”.

Used habitually, it can be a pacifying kind of drug. You’re unhappy with things, so you get stoned to get a little escape. If you didn’t have the out of that little escape, you might be more inclined to make choices and put in the work to make lasting changes.

On the other side, shrooms makes you uncomfortably confront the shit that you don’t like about yourself and neural pathways get a chance to reroute, so you can kinda give yourself the kick in your ass you need to see the problem and make changes.