Districts are nice in that you have a local representative beholden to you(ish) that you can bring issues to.

That happened with Windows 8 and Vista as well. There was a running joke that every other Windows release was garbage when I was growing up.

And the joke works with 8 and 10 both being shitty, because they skipped 9, which would have been the good one.

They really should have gone with Windows Nine, to bring the naming scheme in line with Xbox One while also avoiding the startswith.('Windows 9') issue

This meme is older than windows 8

It helps when you start rich

Trump has addressed the wrong city during speeches a bunch of times. Wrong state a few times too, iirc

Which works fine as long as you don't mind keeping your worst employees, while all your best ones quit, which is generally the opposite of how it works during layoffs

There's one important difference: with layoffs, Amazon gets to selectively lay off their worse performers. With mass-quitting, the quitters will be the people who will have the easiest time finding a new job, which I bet is mostly the high-performers, not the low ones

The company formerly known as Twitter is also a private company

So...where can I short this?

Well there's always self-executing archives

Technically a machine gun by definition uses a rifle caliber

Stalking a cat would be hard, but trapping one is easy.

The reason people don't eat their neighbors' cats isn't because it'd be difficult, it's because most people aren't absolute psychopaths like JD Vance

So, uh, when is he allowed to sell? Do we know the date? I'd been thinking about buying puts

And I guarantee if Valve allowed it, they'd be involved enough to make sure it didn't suck

Shit, I'll be flying for Thanksgiving

Hopefully on an Airbus

It does not

The moment the right wing started pumping out AI pictures claiming Swift endorsed Trump, her endorsing Harris became basically inevitable

They mutilate the genitals of their babies because John Harvey Kellogg thought it would prevent masturbation

I think a debate schedule like that would give Trump an aneurysm

Crash Nebula and The Crimson Chin from Fairly Oddparents are both great

They didn't say auto insurance shouldn't be mandatory, they said that it shouldn't be privately run

It doesn't matter if I am; they aren't. MBAs can't see past the next fiscal quarter.

Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that?

It's backslashes all the way down

If land is cheaper than construction costs, then they build a parking lot. If construction costs are cheaper than land, they build a parkade

An AR-15 isn't really powerful enough to hunt deer reliably unless you are an incredibly good shot

Not even a particularly good deer rifle

Wage? Naw. Executive salary and stock compensation? Absolutely

I was going to pipe in that I paid for Minecraft in infdev, so pre-alpha. But now that you mention it, it was dirt cheap, and they had already had several free access weekends in indev, so I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting myself into

Basically veggie balls don't try to look like meat, a vegan meatball does try to look like meat

The beanposting is unrelated to the vegan drama, Lemmy just really likes beans. It was one of our first home-grown memes

Gross

Fair; that was mostly a general warning, not necessarily directed at you, because many people do copypaste terminal commands without knowing what they are actually doing.

As long as you understand what a command does, absolutely go for it. No point typing that shit out when somebody else already has

Rankine and Kelvin have zero at the same point, which is absolute zero, and should not be used with the degree symbol

This concludes my TED talk

Do not copy and paste into Bash if you don't understand the commands you're pasting in

This is the biggest thing. I'm very comfortable in Bash, but that is not the norm; the second my wife needs to run sudo apt get, she's out, fuck that

It's probably the standard in both POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification, so I guess ask Ken Thompson?

LxQt is nice, it is barebones like Xfce, but built on the Qt framework like KDE. Xfce uses GTK, like GNOME.

Stop fucking creating terrorists. America can't though, creating terrorists is their favorite pastime

Fuck Henry Kissinger

I specifically like Xfce or LxQt, because I generally run older hardware; I suppose my biggest question is how easily I could use either (not overly picky about which). I'm not sure which desktop environment LMDE defaults to, but both Gnome and KDE are deal-breakers for me, unless it's easily changeable.

I don't have that problem on my actual Debian machines, because they're headless anyways, there is no desktop environment at all