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Oh fuck. The assholes that thought Windows was perfectly acceptable until late 2025 are flocking to Linux. Maybe get a Macbook? Do you even know how bad Linux is? The video drivers…

"Free" health care paid for by whom? "Free" health care paid for by people richer than me? There aren't enough of them to pay for all us slackers. "Free" health care pair for by pe…

I forgot I had this installed, thanks for the reminder!

I'm planning for retirement. One rule of thumb is that you can spend 4% of your investable net worth a year, there are people that say that is too high and 3% would be a safer numb…

That wasn't the only time Lou Reed did performance art for the Australian press, the other one is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-mH9ZjnuM . "Are you happier as a brunette?" …

>> You are eating in the same place were the cooking happens, without going outside replacing your gloves, putting of your hairnet, apron and mask, and without washing your hands? …

When I worked in fast food, they gave you a meal allowance, but it didn't really matter because I would grab a hamburger patty right off the grill and chow down. God damn, now I'm …

Two weeks to flatten the curve. Institutions can only lose their credibility once. That was one of the worst things that Covid did.

>> they mispronounced a lot of words that they had only ever seen in books but never heard out loud I did that as a kid. Still do. I read more than I talk. Nothing wrong with that.…

Automatic transmissions for cars. I'll be sticking with manual. New-fangled music formats like 8-tracks, cassettes and compact discs. Vinyl records work just fine. Any payment tech…

>> I have never in my life heard or read anyone, of any social standing, political affiliation, education or station of life discuss the abolition of police entirely "Yes, We Mean …

>> Many (possibly all) of the boats in question were not capable of making it to the U.S. Now none of them are.

>> Having 500k in stocks is different than 500k in your primary residence. Same net worth but if you need to tap into 500k of stock, you can do that tomorrow. Liquidating your prim…

Absolutely. And it's not just cat's. Look at the number of deer that get hit by cars every year. And like I said in another post, I saw two dead raccoons by the side of the road ye…

Saw two of them dead on the side of the road this morning in the stretch of a couple miles, that will drive some evolution.

Not anymore they're not.

The people who are fleeing the country aren't just fleeing a specific rate of taxation. They are fleeing the idea that their wealth was, as you put it, simply given to them. They a…

Where I live, it's common for them to not answer when you call 911. They were out trying to steal my neighbor's car, and my girlfriend called 911, and no one would answer. She went…

>> SCOTUS hasn't been liberal since Nixon got Rehnquist as chief justice The Rehnquist court made rulings that allowed burning the US flag, that made abortion even easier to get th…

For further reference, a 55 year old early retiree who wants to spend $400,000 during the year might sell $400,000 of stock with a cost basis of $200,000 and pay a little over $60k…

I played around with some of the easier problems, my favorite was a couple times when starting with the obvious brute force solution in code and then refactoring and simplifying it…