I put the hook from “Freddie the Freeloader” as my ringtone on a flip phone back in like 2010. Even though I love that song, associating it with someone calling ruined it for me, and I still wince a little when I hear it.

Tech in general has a huge boomer-humor problem in that all those old fucks that wrote the original code stuffed it full of puns, in-jokes, and idioms that are only relevant today in retirement homes in Ohio.

And I don’t mean this is annoying or funny, but as a legitimate problem. It’s bad enough that you have to learn English to code, you also are disadvantaged for not sharing the culture with retirement age white dudes from America.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it was good boomer humor, but remember, these are the guys who think “Linux Is Not uniX” is funny.

To the gun-brained “progressives”: have you ever noticed that the elites, owners, and conservatives all promote and encourage gun ownership? Why do you suppose that is?

It’s bad enough that all the rednecks think their hobby makes them Daniel Boon without fools on the left thinking a fetish object can turn them into Fred Hampton. You’re just a volunteer gun salesman, congratulations. The NRA loves you.

It’s not just hot/ prepared foods. Had a relative who worked in a grocery store and there is like a whole list of what you’re allowed and not allowed to buy. Maybe people who know more can fill in the details, all I remember is that you had to buy 2% milk or skim; no whole milk for poor kids. ridiculous.

If conspiracy people were vulnerable to reason, they’d cease to exist.

Small reactors, like ones to power a neighborhood or a single factory are being developed and built right now. Some of these reactor designs cannot melt down and nuclear waste is solved problem, even with the absurd politics.

Black people of wealth maintain that wealth by exploiting labor.

A dirty bomb wouldn’t “work”. As in it wouldn’t cause any more damage or fatalities than the explosives would on their own. You’d have to hang out at ground zero for a while to get radiation dosages that are dangerous, and other than having to clean the effective area like a super-fund site, the explosives are still the dangerous bit.

The Chernobyl disaster was similar to a dirty bomb, and no terrorist could hope in their wildest dreams to get that much nuclear material. But even with the scale of nuclear release, and gross mismanagement of the event, today the site is contained and safe to visit.

Nuclear is just scary, that’s it. I’ve often wondered if the whole idea of a dirty bomb was to get the terrorists to waste any nuke material they found.

No, it’s like college football: when you get a new country you have to choose a rival. If you don’t, then it defaults to France.

(A neighbor mentioned that there is some sacrificial part that can be replaced every so often to extend the life of the tank.)

It’s called a sacrificial annode. It’s purpose is to attract all the rust to it’self to prolong the life of the tank. They’re supposed to be replaced every 3years or so, even more frequently if you’ve hard watter.

Most people don’t know and have never checked. If it’s been more than 5 years, it’s probably just a thin red mud at the bottom of the tank. (one of the reasons water is drawn from the top).

Some people need concrete examples because they can’t work things out in the abstract. So it’s a good thing this is in the NYT, so plenty of conservatives will see it.

Take care of your eyes. That’s fine work and being able to see well will make everything easier. I’m not familiar with the gear specific to the task, but I notice Louis Rosman using jeweler’s lenses and different magnifying glasses.

Fred Hampton once said (paraphrasing from memory) “a pig is a pig is a pig. No matter black, white, yellow, or polka dot”.

I think this applies here in the sense that race can be ignored as a factor in the corrupt, the same way you can rule out a coherent doctrine. The only academic question about Thomas is has he received a bribe, or is he angling for a gratuity?

I’m saying this as someone who’s tried to comprehend his political/ legal philosophy for years. Observers have often said that Thomas believes that black Americans can find more equality in capital than they can with the franchise. The reasoning goes that black Americans can never rely on voting because they’re a permanent minority and therefore perpetually dependent on the good will of white America; good will that can never be trusted. Valid point IMO. But nah… Justice Thomas was just corrupt.

Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence

What?!? The central idea of progressivism is egalitarianism, or to put it another way, All Men Are Created Equal… What kind of an RV or Private Island retreat paid for this ironclad legal and historical reasoning?

My first distro was Debian and I loved Gnome so much that I’ve never gotten around to trying anything else despite being on my 3rd distro hop.

I’m an old head and a firm believer in keyboard first computing. And I think an OS’s job is to be invisible until I need it. Gnome get’s out of my way until I summon whatever I need from it with the keyboard. For someone who’s labored under Windows for so long, Gnome is like escaping Plato’s cave.

Only if you consider mocking the POTUS political.

Yea, I talk about my balls! My eyeballs are shaped like footballs and I require expensive corrective lenses.

He also quoted the Bible: Ezekiel 25-17

If you’re a Pulp Fiction fan, that’s fucking funny. If you’re a Christian, not so much.

Their are already Linux phone options. I’m talking about full-fat installations and even distro-hopping.

Netanyahu did this. Allowing support for Israel to become a partisan issue in the US will go down as one of the classic blunders.