That’s my understanding and experience.

My local waterways aren’t so fucking filthy that swimming has been banned for a century. We spent the 4th happily boating (electric!), swimming, fucking around on the local river, no thoughts of foul water.

Netanyahu ending the war? The war that’s postponing his corruption trial? Magic 8 Ball says, “BULLSHIT”.

The moon masses 8.1 x 10^19 tons. Every single thing mankind has ever produced in our entire history wouldn’t dent that.

Reason #4,538 why I’ll never live in or near a large city.

If OP got his last paycheck, done deal. Yes, he surely signed for it, but no laptop is worth the legal cost of a lawsuit.

SOURCE: Issued hundreds of laptops, of all varieties and prices, for multiple companies.

This is not happening in the wider world, not on any appreciable scale. Here comes lemmy:

“NOAW! People ARE switching in DROVES!”

LOL, the vast majority of people can’t spell Linux.

Pornhub requires a VPN or other workaround in many states/regions. So yeah, the more tech literate do that thing. See also: Steam Deck.

Yep. Given the choice, most people would rather be getting laid. Apparently lemmy finds this idea distasteful.

Even in Florida, even in tiny lakes and swamps, the water is plenty cool under the top 2’.

My shotgun’s flag is nailed upside down.

“The enemy’s gate is down.”

The side with the seam is down.

Been that guy. Didn’t get word until the last second as my head was on the chopping block as well.

We’re sending war materiel, not so much (if any?) small arms.

I’d be shocked if we can’t. Since WWII, our whole military mission has been predicated on simultaneously fighting two major fronts and one brush fire. We’ve only recently dropped the brush fire bit.

OTOH, maybe I’m wrong. Put my comment in ChatGPT:

• Obama-era Reassessment (2012): The strategy began shifting toward being able to fight one major war while deterring or denying another — a step down from the full two-war capability.

• Trump and Biden Administrations: Strategy documents further refined focus on peer or near-peer competition (e.g., China and Russia), moving away from the rigid 2-MRC structure. The “brush fire” idea has largely fallen away as the military now emphasizes great power competition and integrated deterrence rather than trying to be everywhere at once.

That last question is the most interesting to me. I guess it doesn’t take much intuition to realize that rubbing things together makes them hot. Rub your arm really fast.

Still, watching experienced woodsmen starting a fire from scratch is an education. Even the best struggle.

🎵 Only the good die young! 🎶🎷

Hadn’t thought of that, but just checked and NYC is 42% of the state’s population. I would think state politicians crossing a popular mayor a highly risky proposition.

“And we don’t hand out disciplinaries for honest mistakes. We hand them out for shifting blame and shirking responsibility.”

^ My CEO two jobs back. That was the company culture from the top down, amazing to see in action.

New to El Reg? I suspect quite a bit of their humour will get past you.