Pretty hard to drop your ballot off at a drop box when you never got it because the postal service disappeared it.

You can save 100% on tokens by not being a clucker.

The Republicans have distilled their hatred to be only for “biological sex” and included a specific exemption for that in the text of the bill.

Someone will still get arrested for that though.

The Republicans have distilled their hatred to be only for “biological sex” and included a specific exemption for that in the text of the bill.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has acknowledged committing perjury.

Trump told the Palm Beach police chief that his fingerprints were going to be all over everything and tried to convince him to ignore it.

Charging someone to use something they already own is extortion.

If you live in the US, George W. Bush went to war in Afghanistan in October 2001 and war in Iraq in February 2003 and Donald Trump arranged the surrender/withdrawal from Afghanistan on Feb 29th, 2020, ending the war exactly as the COVID-19 pandemic was ramping up. Then in January 2021 there was a coup attempt just as the first COVID-19 vaccines were becoming available for essential workers outside healthcare.

All I see is 5-6 hours of doing things. Good job and be kind to yourself!

Didn’t work. Application doesn’t even need compatibility mode to run. Running the app copied by someone else from their previous Windows 10 computer sorta works but didn’t find files installed to system directories. Windows 11 just deliberately refuses to execute the installer probably based on recognizing the old family of installer programs specifically.

The users wanted a new Linux laptop. I installed LMDE, showed them how to run the installer with wine. It made a menu item. Drag and drop from whatever the cinnamon file manager is doesn’t work, and there was no file association to open the program’s files. I added one that just opens them with wine and lets it figure it out. I also showed them where their wine c drive was.

After a few weeks they wanted to print to pdf as well as their printer from wine and I had them install cups-pdf

Oh, it should work and it will if you put all the files in the right places yourself by say installing it on wine and copying the changes to the wine system directories over, but starting in Windows 11 running the installer gets a deliberate “this program isn’t meant for this version of Windows” error.

Windows 11 won’t install those 25 year old programs anymore. Wine will.

30+ years ago skies used to be silver in cities from smog. Going across the mountains into Los Angeles could be like going to a different planet.

I’ve seen the sun orange and even red from smoke and pollution.

Hierarchies are good when you want to distribute decision making across a large number of actors. Some actors can integrate the decisions of others around them and repeat them back so that other nearby actors have a better understanding of the larger scale situation without paying attention to it themselves. Similarly actors with long distance relationships can coordinate decisions for a large number of actors across very large groups.

This leads to a natural form of heirarchy with some actors being more central/abstract/supportive for a particular task or goal with other actors being more peripheral/direct or immediate/active.

Heirarchies work when the central, detectched actors serve to spread the decisions and needs of the peripheral, immediately involved actors.

Heirarchies fail when the central actors use their increased access to obtain resources, power, additional access, divide other actors to make themselves more important, etc.

JenniCam’s existence was mainstream, it was talked about on all the morning news/late night talk shows as human interest/disguised mocking/outright derision.

I have a to-do list with just one checkmark on it. The list was made after the thing checked off was done. I then extended the list backwards a month and added another thing checked off to show myself it wasn’t a complete fluke.

Compensation is inversely proportional to productivity.

• Have task to do
• Do the task
• Feel absolutely miserable as soon as it’s done and sob until somebody else comes home

That url is terrifying