I really don’t see the point in voting when the executive and legislative branches are bought and paid for with candidates I don’t approve of.

Bernie Sanders’ constituents are incredibly fortunate. The candidates available for my districts oppose socialized medicine, returning stock market regulations (e.g. outlawing stock buybacks), and the 32 hour workweek mandate.

When I have someone I can vote for, then I’ll vote. Otherwise fuck it, waste of my time.

• VRR is finally in but experimental, and will need to refactor the explicit sync codebase when that’s merged in…so we’re 4 years away from usable?
• Fractional scaling still experimental, after 4 years, so terrible experience for people with 4K displays
• Still no UI menu to alphabetize apps automatically
• Still no proper kstatusnotifier solution, so people will still install that extension
• Still no auto-hide for Dash, back to using dash-to-dock
• Breakage for extensions AGAIN

Garbage project by garbage devs, backed by a garbage corporate sponsor (IBM). Expect a garbage experience, thanks for nothing Guh-nome. Thank goodness for KDE and the Plasma project, which has UI solutions for all of the above and much MUCH more to make a cohesive well functioning DE with sane UX.

That’s pretty badass of the women. Using the bike to pin that big cat down in just the right spot must’ve taken some brass too. The thing would be hissing and freaking the fuck out trying to claw you while holding it down.

When your friends fight off a mountain lion, and then pin it down, that’s how you know you have some good friends.

“How old are you, mate? Does this look like Jackanory to you?! I know you’ve lost a lot of money, but you won’t find a penny of it in them books. If you wanna know what’s happening in the world, take a look at the world. Go take a walk down the high street. See all the shops closed down. Look at the homeless people under the bridge. Go home, and ask your mum about her financial situation. Ask your friends, ask your friend’s mums. The time for books is over, mate. You’re here now. Look at the world with your fucking eyes.”

That’s pretty damn sobering, and accurate. We’re so use to being told what to think, and my whole takeaway from this, apart from “Eat The Rich”, is to look for yourself. What he wrote after that paragraph is something we all should be doing. Looking at housing prices, looking at where real people are squeezed, and to act based on that. We’re just cattle.

I look at the US primaries and caucuses and I see nothing but bullshit, “cute moments” as described in this article that won’t help us at all. I look at Bernie Sanders’ bill about the 32 hour workweek and I think about the weak willed moderate Democrats who won’t vote for it, and all the scumbag Republicans who are not even hiding that they’re part of this exact problem of enriching the rich while removing wealth from everyone beneath them.

Capitalism can work, when its heavily regulated with active oversight and robust enforcement. We haven’t had a free market in many decades, the joke is on all the BS Republicans are peddling.

Deeply saddened by such a tragic loss, and we send our condolences to his family.

Meanwhile, Boeing execs

One thing I think we can all agree on is that the time change sucks. There appears to be a trend of studies that take a position statement on which time is more compatible with human biology meriting more research but that’s going to take time. Meanwhile there’s a mountain of evidence with an overwhelming avalanche of studies that conclude the abrupt time change is fucking dogshit for human biology, mental well being, and energy consumption accelerating climate change. I wish standard time was proven healthier just out of preference, but I’d be fine with just picking a time and sticking with it.

I dunno, I’m fine with adopting it, among other language like getting their necks under a guillotine if they don’t like it. If I voice that I want their “corporate profits” to collapse, that’s rather alarming to them when people state that their goal is to deprive them of wealth in whatever terms they’ll understand.

I agree with you, all castles in the air dreamed up. That’s really well said.

Ironically, centralizing it back when Netflix was the only company doing it made it so convenient, it was “in one place” with little restrictions other than having a good pipe.

Now with the fuckery of so many services, it’s across many places, each of them enshittifying with ads or obtuse announcements…it’s not a little easier to pirate, it’s a hell of a lot easier. Half the work to stream something legally now is just finding out what service hosts it, then debating burning the free trial for the one thing you really wanted to watch on there.

Well said, that’s what we call canard advice. Unhelpful advice that’s obvious to everyone and does no fucking good to say whatsoever. You can cook more when your primary financial needs are met, so you can just work 40 hours in a week. That and the RTO mandates going around are robbing people of a significant chunk of time yet again ontop of overemployment. When you have to work a 10 hour day and commute an hour plus each direction, then come home and “cook” something, it usually translates to heating up frozen shit and then wishing you weren’t miserable.

Been there and done that, fuck hustle culture.

Dunno but he sure looks salty while playing it off that he’s having a good time being there.

After the story of the blue LED, it just makes me wonder who will find this solution, and my bet is not with conventional thinking based and/or investor driven corporations. In our current industrial and corporate environment, most likely it’s going to be a smaller organization with more radical thinking and forgiving financial metrics that allows exploration in a true R&D based sense.

There are rare instances where people don’t hate and despise their job and bosses. Rare, but in your case, it does happen. For the vast majority of us we’d afford nutritious food, get in to see a medical professional, and afford a home…while loud-quitting and telling the boss to fuck himself.

As a resident of one of these towns, another issue is that many people who are knowledgeable or capable are simply trapped. Several years ago in the area I live we use to have an economic development council that sponsored some proposals on alternatives to the anchor industry here (coal fired power generation), I shit you not, one of the remarks made by the workshops was a reference to a 2017 WSJ article that stated "rural is the new ‘inner city.’”

Rural areas have, and I’m quoting someone who presented at a workshop “lower economic status, lower education levels, higher wage gap, poorer health, higher rates of teen birth, and greater impacts from the opioid epidemic.”

The largest obstacle facing the trapped knowledgeable and educated people in rural areas is the obscene fucking cost of housing and the double-negative we’re facing on having little equity and cheap housing, where we want to move somewhere desirable and progressive having housing that’s beyond our lifetime earnings potential.

For the ignorant, this feeds into the anger cycle of wanting to just burn the whole thing down, and for the reds they look at every way they can fuck things up for the rest of us as a middle finger back at the country for the squalor they’re stuck with. They’d rather burn the forest down than try to fix anything, because they’re also lazy. Lazy in the sense of not wanting or accepting change. They’ll work hard at what they know, but learning new concepts is pushed against.

That doesn’t make it right, and I agree with you on all counts. Unity would get them a hell of a lot farther than the same tired old Reagan rhetoric they peddle. I’m just extremely fortunate in threading the needle through economic transition and getting to stay at my house without worrying about having to move, and I don’t like the city after having grown up in the Bay Area California. What you said still resonates with me as I can tell you understand it. We have no action plan and no hope because these towns are full of people who would just rather be angry than change.

James Gunn can fuck off. I hope this bombs.

Sure, Right here.

“I think eggplant tastes horrible”

“Got a source to back that up?”

Yep, sounds about like some motherfuckers around here.

First off, 10 billion on a failure shows a great deal of business acumen failings at play. Yes, they can “afford it”, but they afford it with all customers bearing that failure. What’s perhaps even worse is how easily they can afford it, much like Meta’s VR boondoggle.

As for playing it safe, Apple is the posterchild for that.

And I’m sure it was all the workers’ fault, none of the upper crust fuckers who wasted the money will see any penalty for it.

For those who will be leaving SIE: You are leaving this company with our deepest respect and appreciation for all your efforts during your tenure.

Now get the fuck outta here, you’re fired.

Nobody “earns a monopoly”. I’ll take advocating for the public trust over ethical bankruptcy. I’m not aware of anytime that nVidia did anything in fairness, only through high pressure antitrust tactics that border on illegal. Fuck Jensen and fuck nVidia.