Frankly I was a little more stoked for team Canada because I recognized more of the NHL players on it.

Then team USA went on to act like complete assholes and it kind of soured their big win to me. There’s such thing as being a bad winner and that’s exactly what they were.

My observation is that the accomplishments of older times would be entirely impossible today, like basically all the public services we enjoy wouldn’t be possible if they were proposed as a new thing.

Take the post office, if somebody had a big idea for the government to build tens of thousands of buildings and hire over a million people just to move around pieces of paper - they’d be laughed out of the room. Impossible, the government couldn’t and shouldn’t do any of that. All public services: the fire department, the police department, and especially public libraries, that all couldn’t be created in the current political environment if it hadn’t already been built.

I just use vi

Is that stupid? It’s all I ever bothered to learn, hasn’t failed me yet. Now I’m not some big time linux guru but I’m a sysadmin and regularly find myself elbow deep in a CLI for stuff.

It’s unfortunate, but it was always coming. I was quite refreshed to see so much open piracy talk too, good indication it’s an “anything goes” kind of place.

But I guarantee they’ve received a copyright order by somebody, probably the mpaa, and failure to act would result in legal action.

When my mom had cancer, I swear every relative and distant acquaintance came out of the woodwork trying to sell some kind of nonsense. It was already a devastating time, but on top of that it was insulting being forced to hear about all these delusional snake oil cures and conspiracy theories.

One thing that hasn’t been mentioned yet - have a good backup solution. If there isn’t anything on your computer that can’t be restored, then you’re not going to feel as much pressure to protect things.

Of course there’s crypto miners, identity theft, botnet stuff, all sorts of things that run undetected and don’t simply render your computer unusable. But if you’re absolutely sure you’re not losing anything, then “nuke it from orbit” becomes a more paletteable solution for virus removal. A hassle for sure, but format and start over again becomes an option that results in no loss other than the pain of having to reinstall everything.

Seems to me there’s a concentrated effort to convince the public that there’s outrage.

I’ll say I have a considerably higher opinion of him now than I did in 2020. Then, I basically voted for a seat-filler, hold down the fort so the fascists aren’t in power. Now, I’m fairly impressed.

But the fact remains that the man is 80. Sometimes he looks like a canny old man, and I kind of like canny old men, those old guys who are sharp as a tack with a wit to match. And sometimes he just looks elderly. I don’t like the idea of the oldest president ever three times in a row. Frickin 80, he’ll be 86 by the end of a second term. That’s a problem. And while I don’t have any problems with Harris, a lot of folks do.

My best hope is that he’s saying he’s running because it’s politically weak if he doesn’t. And if Trump is convicted of something before 2024, he’ll bow out and there will be a democratic primary. Worst case scenario, I won’t feel bad about voting for him again.

Well maybe a little - the man deserves a comfortable retirement.

You know, I’ve heard it said that democracies founded in Europe after WW2 had an advantage because they could see the result of mistakes in the USA’s founding.

Like clearly X, Y, and Z was a mistake that they couldn’t have known at the time - but now we know better, so let’s not repeat that.

I just read a thing on the subject https://news.northeastern.edu/2017/07/03/how-do-lawyers-handle-jury-selection-with-high-profile-clients-like-shkreli-or-cosby/

Basically the selection process (voir dire) is more like an interview than what you’d see in your low level petit courts where they just ask questions to the room. They focus less on familiarity with the case and more on impartiality and dedication to rule of law. I’m sure they go through hundreds.

If that is the case, and it absolutely could be, blame the prosecution lawyers.

Striking jurors during selection is their responsibility, both defense and prosecution can say no to a juror selection until you get a jury that both have agreed is fair. Incidentally it’s how you get out of jury duty, say something crazy on purpose and they’ll throw you out.

The fact remains that this process can fail, you can still get a juror who will not hear facts and will not make a decision based on rule of law. But it’s supposed to work, it’s supposed to weed out any juror that will not reach a fair decision.

I’m glad to see there’s still a community for it.

I wouldn’t call compressed air extremely dangerous, but more than you’d think.

It can hurt you in a lot of ways and it’s often played with like a toy. Like blowing air in somebody’s face, don’t do that, think of it like coming at them with a handheld drill. Treat an air compressor like any kind of power tool, not exactly dangerous but can hurt you.

Republicans don’t distinguish between undocumented immigrants and legal residents. Or between Mexico and the rest of central and south America.

They say “come here legally” and then when they do, the republicans are still mad.

I think that was Obama’s greatest failure - insistence on bipartisanship even when they didn’t have to. Pretty sure he actually thought they were negotiating in good faith for at least his entire first term, and they smacked him in the face over and over again.

Like they proved they can’t be trusted every single time, and he kept making sure they had a seat at the table.

Yeah by this reasoning no kind of crime that involves speech is actionable.

Yes, you can say things that are illegal, there are combinations of words that are criminal to speak. Like, I could tell you some of the classified system vulnerabilities I know about at work - but that would be really really illegal. That is not protected by free speech. All kinds of things are illegal to say.

This defense suggests that to not be the case.

Yeah even as a technician that’s one I run on the off chance that it actually does something.

Which, sometimes it does, just often enough that I wouldn’t call it useless.

Predatory loan practices, rate hikes, agreements where you can’t pay extra on the principal, can’t just straight pay off.

Like, I was lucky, I didn’t get screwed over too hard. But I was in school before it got really bad. So, my low fixed rate federal loans were sold to a private company after I graduated, and they raised the rates considerably. Not only that, but paying extra on the principal raised your interest rate. I got out of that by just paying interest until I had saved up enough money to pay in full. These days you would pay in full plus interest over the original life of the loan.

Friend of mine, her student loan’s interest rate is 18%. It was much lower when she took out the loan, but now it’s so much she can’t pay it off. Current plan is to pay interest for the rest of her life.

This shit should be illegal.

Same with preventing the circumstances that caused this problem in the first place - regulate the banks? That’s communism!

Same here, I’ve tried plenty of them and landed on Nova Launcher. Even put it on my dad’s phone because I couldn’t get things to be simple for him with the default launcher.