Truth.

The point is there was a good agent there before that one quit. Therefore, they weren’t all bad.

Trump wants the violence. He wants the escalation. He wants to cancel midterms, enact martial law, whatever.

The agent quit because they refused to be a bad person.

Those prices aren’t coming back down.

Reeducation camp.

Joe just says whatever gets clicks. He’ll be rationalizing why the files haven’t been released on a show next week.

EA’s battlefield is what I’ve been playing, which requires Secure Boot.

Cheaper to ask forgiveness later than permission up front.

Damn, nothing stands in the way of these companies anymore.

Games with anti-cheat don’t work.

Secureboot doesn’t like GRUB.

Solidworks doesn’t run natively on linux, neither does my Sketchup Pro program.

SteamVR doesn’t run well on linux

What does work that I use regularly? My older DVD drives work fine, ripping my music and dvd/blu-rays works well and seamlessly with multiple instances of the programs running simultaneously. The typical FOSS stuff I use is a no-brainer, from Gimp to Blender to Libreoffice.

But for the stuff I work with most and the games I play most often? It just doesn’t work well or at all.

Oh look, this isn’t an argument.

People need to stop treating it like a source, one stop shopping for info, like copypasting AI search results.

Both of them require the reader to dig further into the information to find corroborating information and also to attempt to look for any information objectively critical of the result; and definitely check the source, hopefully being something reliable and objective as possible.

What kind of useless article is this? We’ve had troll farms and social media bots operating for at least a decade now. This last campaign in the US saw a crapload of AI generated material. There is nothing new here.

If anything, this is good. It’ll put a bunch of those troll farm clowns out of a job. (Half serious)

The 3.5% is a concept and not a truth. I don’t remember where it started to spread, probably reddit, even if the idea has been around for a while. It’s stuck in the online psyche now. I’m all for protests, but thinking 3.5% is some magic button isn’t right.

Edit: I went digging to find a source of some of the idea. Here it is. A paper that discusses tbe original concept. There are some key points that people are missing when online throws the “rule” out there, and one of them is this:

The movements on which it was based were maximalist ones, i.e. overthrowing a government or achieving territorial independence. They were not reformist in nature,…

So any protest would probably need to accept violence as a possibility, I don’t think Trump and his goons are going to leave peacefully.

Also, the linked paper suggests that the majority of peaceful protests that succeeded had to surpass 3.5%.

The photographer is just closer to the ground to lick the boot.

Generically.

I’m really tired AF of authority figures pointing out the obvious and doing absolutely fuckall about it.

This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

Orwell, 1984

Did she fall asleep on the couch?

Learn where the water shutoff is to your house.

If the worst happens and you lose power for any significant amount of time with no way to heat your home, and you face leaving your house find someplace warm, shut the water off. Some might suggest leaving taps trickling, and that might work for sinks, but won’t for toilets and other pipes.

Open the lowest spigot in the house to drain as much water as possible. Flush the toilets enough times to empty the tanks. Pour cheap vodka in the toilet “S” traps and sink “U” traps as a cheap antifreeze.

I’ve had to winterize a house on several occasions, learned the hard way on a couple occasions when I came back to a busted toilet or cracked drain.

E: oh, and clean your damn car roof off. I’m tired of chunks of snow flying off cars into mine, or almost as bad, the clowns that hit the brakes and the snowpack slides forward completely blocking their windshield. Now they can’t see and are blocking the road.