this isn't why America is divided what lol. It's divided because of misinformation and an education system that is totally failed so critical thinking is fucked.

It's divided because people believe every whacked out conspiracy theory and even policy makers make policy on said conspiracies.

It's divided because the super wealthy want to remain in power and it's easy for them since money is allowed in politics.

Biden joining Truth Social is just plain comedy.

So they just become ocean trash instead? Seems like we should put a stop to that as well.

Grifting out in the open.

haha thank you!!!!

it's also really stupid considering the liberal cites are literally what MAKES Texas. There's mass amounts of population in rural areas that just flat don't vote. If everyone voted in TX it's be blue as fuck.

Either way when the cities themselves lose all the workers that high paying jobs need the cities start to fall and the revenue for the state will follow.

Literal idiots that just think the oilfield will go on forever and nothing else will matter

Perl is still the best. 😁 😁

yeah I told my doc that I had really dropped my overall beer drinking down to about 8 beers a week like I was super proud of myself and saying "I don't drink all that much anymore" and he looked at me and just said "well that's still debateable"

I'm like BRUH... Down from like 20 beers a week I felt accomplished but he didn't think it was an accomplishment.

down votes take you down the chain in reddit so you can basically be downvoted to where no one would see what you wrote. If they had a brigade they could take you out of a conversation

It's the absurdity of the shit the supposed supreme creator taught us the one time he showed up. He taught us that gay sex is bad but forgot to mention that burning coal would also lead us to a bad time.

It's just absolute nonsense when you think about it. Especially the part where there are literally trillions of planets around trillions of stars and many of which can possibly harbor life.

Totally didn't mention that part.

Because it's made up nonsense

I've legit never understood it's appeal. Like what even is the purpose of it?

truly sad state of things. It's disinformation like none other. These people are completely oblivious to the facts of his criminal activities because the media they consume is only focused on cultural issues. It's literally all they see. They have no ability to look things up or fact check or think beyond whatever their pod casts are telling them.

It's such a bigger issue about this country as a whole. Education has failed so many. Those same people will vote for people that want to further erode education. They also have lots of kids and groom them to believe nonsense and deny education's importance. They attack teachers and doctors as being "woke" etc..

I hope we can come back from this, but the reality is it gets much worse from here.

ubuntu is the most widely used distro and very simple to setup and gaming out of the box with steam is very simple. Distro end of the day doesn't matter all that much because you can change them to your hearts content, but for a beginner, you'd probably have the easiest time with an ubuntu distro.

Doesn't hurt to have virtual box windows on your linux box just so you can easily do some of that other stuff. While I have done fine with libre office for a long time there are definitely problems with formatting so having a windows VM would just solve that issue. Plus teams and w/e.

Epic games will take some serious tweaking, but not impossible.

google is also spyware.. so is facebook while we're at it and literally ANY OTHER APP YOU PUT ON YOUR PHONE. Ever notice how every single thing has an app? It's not to make it easy for you to buy stuff from them, it's so they can utilize your data to make them more money.

lol straight up troll bait. Also funny cause it's probably people who "believe in freedom and the constitution" who voted in that dumb poll. Somehow we need a nanny state to take over control of the internet.. FREEDOOOOMMMM

troll shit.. Probably half the voters were trolls too

yeah and all the "problems" with America are soooo fucking external to them.. Like they are never confronted with drag shows or LGBTQ stuff in general. They'll say things like "you see what's going on in San Fransico" and I'm like.. NO.. I don't live there lol..

Like they consume ONLY this nonese..

You see it on reddits /r/conservative and other the_donald wannabe subs. They just non stop talking about gay and trans stuff and I'm in a very liberal city and literally never see any of this supposed "wokeness" or w/e they are so scared of.

It's like they are living in an alternative reality it's very strange.

no drilling is the issue lol. Shale wells deplete crazy fast. The decline rate is 70% in the first 3 years. We are reaching peak production. If you reduce the number of operators through buyouts it's only going to make it impossible to crank out new production quickly.

try some of the settings these guys have posted: https://www.protondb.com/app/1086940

oh yeah that reminds me of an 80 yr old lady I know. She's land rich and insanely poor. Like if she sold all her real estate assets she'd probably have easily over a million dollars. But she doesn't want to sell anything just cause. But she's super poor. Like she literally needs a new roof on her trailer and can't afford it. But is sitting on 7 figures of assets lol.

Hell my FIL is that way not that I'm thinking about it. He can't take care of his house he's in a booming hood in Houston and has like 8 acres to boot. He keeps borrowing against it to afford shit and still owes like 100k on it which would still net him a pretty penny for the whole set up. I keep telling him just sell the shit and buy a small home out right and get out of the debt and whatever, but he's super stubborn about it.

this is exactly what is happening. Even in the US. The big ones are buying up all the little ones and stopping their drilling programs entirely. They want to slow the output, reduce competition to kill the service industry.. Then years from now when our production begins to plummet and prices skyrocket politicians will act real surprised.

Can't wait for this to come about actually.

Most boomers and whatever came right after boomers don't even have decent retirements.. That's what's sorta funny about all this. I know quite a few 60s and 70s yr olds that legit don't have enough to sustain their lifestyles and still have to work. The system failed LONG before Millennials showed up.

Many of them went their whole lives "not trusting the stock market" just to literally have no retirement. Much of it was lack of education and access to the stock market when they could have been investing, but then at the same time it is a pretty stupid fucking system of retirement when without notice you can lose 40% of value because some bankers fucked around.

The system sucked for them that's why they still have to work, but instead of trying to fix it, they just complain that it's their kids fault.

if you are found not guilty you can't be tried for that crime again.

That is kind of the funny thing about autos. Like most manufacturers are terrible in many ways. Environment, political, the way they treat people or how shitty their quality control is. Planned obsolescence. There is still a fake "supply demand" issue that they have literally concocted to jack prices through the roof. Literally price gouging asking 15k over MRSP because they pretend they have a supply issue lol.

All the US majors are in on this scam and it's sad we don't have a government worth a fuck to fight it..

Elon is just mouthy about it lol. I couldn't even tell you who the CEO of GMC is. They are awful as well tho.

why is ANYONE still on this platform?? it's so pointless

They'll figure out how to get it appealed up to the bought and paid for supreme court and that'll save him.

Yah the people I know haven't even read a single thing about the "don't say gay" bill nor have they even read 1 thing about the Trump documents. They call it a political hit job and I ask them about the specifics of the documents that were IN HIS BATHROOM and they legit hadn't heard any of it lol. It's because the media they consume actively avoid its.

I'd argue that MOST of these whackos are so disconnected from reality because all they listen to is pod casts and watch fox news. They don't read articles written by actual journalists with sources.

yeah like.. WTF you gonna try to do this on a major social media site.. how stupid is that shit.. Go to IRC, fools.

I'v been using Ubuntu for nearing 20 years now. Maybe like 18ish.. It took debian's rock solidness and made it ez pz. It's super easy to install and configure and runs like a dream. Has long term stable releases especially important for server architecture. Has the "server" install that is minimal on disk space.

Etc.. Just really rock solid distro that I've run for decades and has cost me $0 to do so.

I ran red hat till all the cool kids told me it's got to be Debian and then Ubuntu hit the scene and that was that. I'm sure Arch is fine and I'd bet had I chosen to stick with Red Hat and move to Fedora it'd also be fine. End of the day it's still Linux.

The people who support him don't know he said this.. They literally don't know shit about these people and only watch Fox news which wont air this

we have the worlds most advanced, trained, and funded army. Lets let them riot..Lets follow up with force and throw them all in jail.

We can't let the justice system bow to the threat of violence.

I'm in a town of 3600.. People are super fucking poor and still work their asses off. None of them would give a fuck if you "try that" or w/e the fuck that guy is on about.. They'd go on about their business because they are just surviving. They'd sure as fuck not give a shit about any sorta of vigilante justice. They'd say "that's definitely not my problem"

Pretty sure this dude is pandering to wannabees who probably have never actually spent any time in a small town in the US.

Just use home assistant. Open source and can connect to lots of different devices

nah I know the kind of people you are who call entitlements welfare. You purposely conflate the 2 and spread your misinformation for more idiots to pick up. You're brainwashed by a party that has become completely radicalized. I say this as a person who use to vote republican.

Our government has to spend tons of money on all the shit it spends money on. We should consider other ways of collecting money to defeat the inflation problem. It's really very fucking simple if you get right down to it.

As soon as we get rid of the theocrats we can probably solve it.

I mean people like you are actual dumbasses..

What do you think happens if they ended entitlements??? Where do you think all of that money goes? INTO THE ECONOMY.. if we end entitlements we'd see the largest depression ever in the US.

Our economy is what it is BECAUSE of them. You think if the government just spent 0 money we'd somehow be better off? Even though literally every other major economic powerhouse hase entitlements and welfare lol.

It's just pure propagandized stupidity.

When the US government stops spending the entire world will spiral into a depression and the US would take longer to come out of it. We'd be ruined economically for the remainder of your life.

But yeah go on with your stupid fucking take.

Sending weapons to Ukraine is also a huge economic boost with the added benefit of securing yet another eventual base and massive political power in that region while destabilizing an aggressive dictatorship shit hole.

Fucking pittance in the grand scheme of things and amazingly smart move by our current leaders. If you think they'd actually spend it on our citizens that's the other funny part. The republican talking points are on and on about "look what we could do with this money" while they themselves want to further take from citizens and give to billion dollar organizations.

Oh but they are too busy trying to install a theocracy to give a fuck about helping citizens anwyay. Mostly republican states that still have not legalized weed because they rather throw people in jail than get a major boost to tax revenue that could go to actual communities in need.

Republican states with the worst education by far and shittiest teacher pay.

Republican states with the worst health care and highest infant mortality..

etc....

But yeah for sure we'd have magically taken that money and put it to good use instead of defending an ally while boosting the shit out of our economy with said defense lol.

Stop listening to pod casts.. You want to know why the government needs to spend that money follow the federal reserve and modern monetary theory. Economically we are still a leader in the entire world with not even close to the highest population. How do you think we keep that going? By cutting off entitlements, welfare, and allowing Russia to expand it's territory and influence?

Fucking brain dead fucking take.

Entitlements are not welfare. Period. Welfare is hardly a drop in the overall bucket. Entitlements are money that people are owed because they paid in. As in they are entitled to that. Welfare is paying for poor people to be able to survive.

You are purposely mixing the 2 because you fall for the serious propaganda on the "right" that somehow social security should be ended. If they end it they owe us that money back.

the majority doesn't go anywhere near welfare wtf are you on about: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/

dude you are legit stupid. I'm done arguing with you. Banning books is a 1st amendment violation. Parent's dont have a right to do that. Period. You can deal with YOUR kid.. not other's and not pass laws that literally ban any book that says gay.

You are on the side of actual shitty people. Own it, you fucking loser.

No you are a bigot for wanting the government to burn books and pass laws that break the first amendment. You are the clown. Go hang out on your pod casts and figure out who else you can hate.

lol typical bigot thing to say. BUT 200 YEARS AGOOOOOO..

Nah you loser.. BTW those books aren't for you or your kid. They're for kids who are confused about why they are different. It's that fucking simple. Just like the products you scream about in Target aren't for you..they are for people who would want them.. Which there are a lot of.

I was jerkin off to cosmopolitan magazines by the time I was 8. You want to kids to be ashamed and repress any feelings they have that are part of being a normal human. The 3 books in a school library that talk about gay and trans are for those kids who are going through that.

No one is teaching Timmy to dress as a girl. You have been groomed by propaganda. Literally it's not happening in any meaningful way you are just a literal bigot that has taken the side of religious whackos based on actual false information.

You're one of the idiot parents that definitely shouldn't have shit to do with what happens in the education of ANYONEs kids. I feel sorry if you actually have one. I'd bet you are actually just a loser incel that pretends shit's happening in mass based on some dumb ass pod casts you listen to.

Might want to learn about actual journalism that has backup sources and data. Where you'd find literally none of the shit you think is happening is happening. Instead you've chosen the weak minded bigot route. You've been groomed and continue to this day to be groomed.. It's all republicans have. They want to dumb you down as fast as they can because if not you'd realize they are trying to strip all sorts of rights away. 1st amendment, 14th amendment. Meanwhile they pass 0 actual useful legislation. Completly deny the existance of climate change and think the earth is 6000 years old.

looolll... You're parents fucked up with you. Hope to shit you don't actually have a kid because you are already fucking up with it.

Yes. Parents are idiots. Just because a couple religious bigots don't want a book is meaningless. Parents don't know how to teach kids or what the data says about what is important to learn. Parents don't set the curriculum and they shouldn't because by and large they are idiots.

You've at the very least buddied up with a bunch of bigots who would be fighting to keep black people out of their schools of this was 60 years ago.

Well done, bigot.

All LGBTQ people are asking is for basic rights. The republicans are passing laws to literally ban the words gay from school books. Literally banning books lol. You have no rights on what other people's kids are not allowed to learn about. If you want to take your kid out of school do it. Otherwise ur just a bigot