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I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression. @stinerman on Mastodon.

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They’re absolutely right. I don’t believe this.

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Taco Bell most likely.

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I would auction it off and then take the proceeds and give it to an organization that is dedicated to fighting fascism.

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I think it’s better to take the Nazi’s money and use it for good. YMMV. Whatever you do will be fine, I’m sure.

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Sent this to my wife and we talked a bit about how I don’t like lights on.

I realized that even when I’m home alone at night (and not taking care so that she doesn’t wake up), I will use the flashlight/torch on my cell phone rather than turn on lights in the house.

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I’m old enough to remember when Doom 64 for the N64 was $74.99. In today’s money that’s around $145.

I’m not saying that’s reasonable, I’m just saying it used to be a lot worse in the cartridge age.

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I just picked up Fallout 2 at GOG for $2.49. There are so many games you can get for less than the price of a coffee. The best way to fight against these prices is to simply not buy.

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Absolutely.

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Really the bank should know what they are, and they should say “we don’t accept these.”

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No it is not. You can appeal if the judge was biased before he was assigned the case. After he takes the case if he becomes “biased” because you called him names and defamed him…no. If you could, every defendant would try to piss off the judge so that they could win on appeal because s/he was biased during the trial.

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MIT used to have the Billion Prices Project which tried to determine inflation numbers independently of the government, but it no longer exists. My recollection is that it was generally close to the official numbers.

If you think the reported numbers are wrong, you have to give a reason why, backed with evidence. As much as it sucks when rent and food, etc. are more expensive, but those are only part of the number. Inflation encompasses everything and some goods/services are higher than the average number and some are lower. For instance, car insurance has gone up a ton, but apparently fuel oil has gone down (econofact.org/inflation-and-prices).

I think what people are (rightly) concerned about is that the necessities of life are higher than the official numbers (because those are an average of lots of things). This makes them think the real numbers are “wrong” based their specific situation rather than the country at large.

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Yes. The “why” is that in 1787 it was unthinkable that a felon would be elected President by the Electoral College. The electors wouldn’t bother voting for a felon.

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We don’t have parliamentary supremacy. What we have is what we have. A rough equivalent is that (assuming you’re a UK citizen) the Lords could still veto bills and the Commons couldn’t force the issue.

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    The graphs if you’re talking about the economy as a whole.

    stinerman ,
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    That’s some catch, that catch 22.

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    Make money with this one weird trick by sending people paperwork they must fill out or else they owe you money. Accountants hate it!

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    It appears that I am not genius.

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    He (Linus Torvalds) made Linux as a hobby during his time in college/university to teach him about operating system design. Because it was the part of the operating system called the kernel that the GNU project didn’t have yet (more on this in a moment), it became very popular. Richard Stallman created the GNU project because he believed that every person should have the right to study and share the software that runs on their computer.

    There is nothing specifically anti-corporate in either of their motivations.

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    “I fucked around and then found out. Can anyone help?”

    4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?

    Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like “oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great” I was like “Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good…”...

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    It’s not crazy. You should get one every so often just in case. Better to find a small problem now than a big problem later.

    I’m more shocked that you could buy the house without an inspection. My bank required one to give me a loan.

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    Real “who do you think you are? I am!” vibes on this one.

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    Running an absolutely ancient kernel.

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    I think at one time in Nevada (or possibly still) you can get allodial title to property. You don’t have to pay taxes on that. However in practice you’re simply pre-paying property taxes for a certain amount of time.

    IANAL, but I recall this being a thing in a few states.

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    In Soviet Russia, contract refuses you!

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    This is why they won’t shop at Aldi. They don’t accept coupons.

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    I’m confused. Are you baffled by the sound at a venue? Is this a structure that baffles sound?

    Joking aside, this does look pretty cool.

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    How many divisions has the Supreme Court?

    They can order him released but unless they’re going to send a bailiff to try to break him out of federal prison, they’re just words on a sheet of paper.

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    If you want to be hyper-technical about it, he could order a hit on Trump, but if Trump was already on the ballot and received 270+ EVs, he would be ineligible to be President. His Vice President would take over as President.

    If both were assassinated, the Speaker of the House of the newly-seated Congress would become President.

    I don’t think you meant that specifically, but yes if ordering a hit is an “official act”, he could conceivably order the murder of anyone who cares to stand against him, including those in Congress who might wish to impeach him or remove him from office.

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    I’ve known people who are the best workers on their team, but put in like 40% effort. Does that count as quiet quitting? IDK.

    To be clear, I’m not excusing the article, which is a bad joke. That being said, there are plenty of people out there that are really good at their jobs, but don’t put in full effort. I don’t have a problem with these people at all (really who does 100% effort all of the time?).

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    World HQ is in Columbus, OH. Represent!

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    Columbus is kind of known for not being known for anything.

    I’ve lived here for a little over 15 years and various places in Ohio for every bit of my 40 years. There are things to like about it (low cost of living compared to the rest of the country, 4 seasons of weather) and things to not like about it (really, too many people for me – I’m from a rural area, and local and state government are not great). I like that it’s kind of a generic Midwestern town. Plenty of sports to watch if you like that kind of thing.

    I think it’s underrated. People are moving here like crazy, so maybe they agree, but it’s causing rents to get out of control. I feel bad for those moving here. It’s a lot less affordable than when I came in 15 years ago.

    Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

    Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

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    I’ve been using some Linux flavor for about 15 years. The biggest thing about switching (at least back then) was I knew how to configure Windows just to my liking. With Linux it was a lot more difficult because I had to google everything. Like “how do I change the wallpaper?” How do I get the login screen to appear on the correct monitor, etc. It was just frustrating because I knew how to do this in Windows, but I felt like a major noob again with Linux.

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    the only viable alternative, for 99% of the population, is Apple

    This is largely because Windows and MacOS come preinstalled and that’s how the vast majority of people interact with operating systems. If you had to choose your OS, I’m sure there’d be more choice in the market. Not necessarily Linux, but just more choice in general.

    Is the season after the reboot (after season 7) worth watching ?

    Do they still have many highly intelligent and over qualified people working on it to make wacky science plots/theories/jokes ? How good is the show nowadys anyway ? Does it still hold that standard ? Been a hot minute since i last watched also i am talking about hulu reboot to avoid future confusion as one person asked me in...

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    I thought it was, by far, the worst season of Futurama. As @CorrodedCranium mentioned it seemed like they were trying to make up for lost time with a bunch of forced, topical jokes.

    It was still a decent show, but I didn’t think it was nearly as good as it has been.

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    It all makes sense when you realize that a good number of them feel that Palestinians are not people.

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    Yes.

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    My understanding is that being nearsighted is a relatively new phenomenon that is largely due to being indoors a lot. Farsightedness in old age has been around since humans have been humans.

    I took a quick look and Wikipedia partially bears this out re: nearsightedness.

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    I felt this way at one time when I was younger. Now I don’t give a shit what people want to do with their own bodies.

    stinerman ,
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    On the internet, everyone is American.

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    I’m O- so I give two units of red cells and get saline and the plasma/antibodies back. The guy at the donation site says “make sure you don’t drink any alcoholic beverages for 24 hours…but you can have one if you want.” He looks back to see if his manager is around and then whispers “you can have two but don’t leave the house.”

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    You have to be A- or O- to do power red.

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    I stand corrected.

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    Yeah I’m wrong. Thanks for the correction.

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    Better than 30-50 feral hogs.

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    It seems like alternatively you could cross the border to some other country and not have to do this anymore. Slovakia gets all the breaks.

    I just learned that the Time Cube is no more. (lemmy.world)

    Some of you may remember this absolute diamond of insanity that was the “4-Day Time Cube.” This was the go-to example of the internet as a universal amplifier for communication - for both the sane and insane alilke. It was there from nearly the start of the world-wide web, back in the 1990’s. Alas, it ceased to be some...

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    We’ve got proof of Poe’s Law right here.

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    Thanks for that link. I’ve never heard of that site and it’s really informative.

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    When I was truly destitute, I ran a computer without a case. It was literally in a cardboard box on the floor.

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