Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
Adding $660,000,000,000 to the federal deficit annually and still not making a dent in people’s healthcare costs?
A single-payer universal healthcare system would be cheaper, as almost every other country’s systems show.
The real trick is to get private equity and for-profit corporations out of healthcare. All they do is drive up costs while lowering outcomes.
Healthcare should be a public service, funded by the government.
A thousand years from now there will be priests delivering sermons on the Book of Linus
It’s not my definition either, just riffing on a common trope.
Sometimes people who are considered successful at something are bad at teaching it, especially when they faced lower barriers to entry, whether for socioeconomic reasons or because the landscape has changed. A person who entered the workforce 10 or 20 years ago wouldn’t really be able to give good advice for finding an entry-level position in today’s job market. Another classic example is boomers telling millennials to work hard and buy a house.
Sometimes it is because a talent comes so naturally to someone that they don’t know what it’s like to have to struggle to learn it. Can you imagine taking music lessons from Mozart? He’d be like “Just play it! What do you mean you can’t?”
I know I could never tutor anyone in math. People used to ask me to explain how to solve something and I couldn’t comprehend what they didn’t understand about it, so I didn’t know how to start. I would just show them how to solve it, and they’d be like “all you did was solve it, that didn’t make things any clearer.” Well then I don’t know how to help 🤷♀️
They couldn’t afford to include the mane though. That level of extravagance is reserved for only the most serious of equine marketing
Rich person’s guide to getting rich: “It’s fairly simple. All it takes is a little bit of hard work, dedication, and an initial investment of five million dollars. I did it, my father did it, and his father and grandfathers did it before him. I come from a long line of self-made millionaires. It must be in our genes.”
They paid extra to customize their billboard shitpost
Please tell me this is real!
So in other words, be clean-shaven, don’t have long hair, dress like a normie, don’t have a stutter, be known by everyone in your community, have enough money to donate a playground to a public park, and hope all the moms are having an okay day? Got it.
I feel for you, and all the dads who play an active role in parenting, especially single dads. Like, how do you even take your own kid to the playground these days without getting the cops called on you?
I know it’s not socially acceptable to acknowledge the ways in which men struggle in society, but that’s something that needs to change.
One time I got called racist for asking someone to move their car after I noticed they we parked in a handicap space without a tag. Incidentally, they just happened to be black.
I didn’t attribute any causality to their race; anyone can be selfish and inconsiderate enough to park in a handicap space, and I would have asked them to move no matter what race they were.
But apparently if they’re black then that means they should be able to get away with anything they want and anyone who calls them out for it is racist. Cause it’s not like anyone could possibly have any reason other than racism to ask someone to move out of a handicap space, right? It’s not like disabled people are systemically disadvantaged and marginalized, right? Oh…
I’ve also been called racist for telling a guy to leave a woman alone when he was clearly harassing her and ignoring her repeatedly telling him to stop it and go away…
You monster! Don’t you know you’re supposed to pay for the original sin of male privilege by being systemically invalidated as a dad and forgoing the acknowledgement as coequal parent?
Would something like Anubis or Iocaine prevent what you’re worried about?
I haven’t used either, but from what I understand they’re both lightweight programs to prevent bot scraping. I think Anubis analyzes web traffic and blocks bots when detected, and Iocaine does something similar but also creates a maze of garbage data to redirect those bots into, in order to poison the AI itself and consume excessive resources on the end of the companies attempting to scrape the data.
Obviously what others have said about firewalls, VPNs, and antivirus still applies; maybe also a rootkit hunter and Linux Malware Detect? I’m still new to this though, so you probably know more about all that than I do. Sorry if I’m stating the obvious.
Not sure if this is overkill but maybe Network Security Toolkit might have some helpful tools as well?
I see that you know your judo well.
I’m more upset about the pizza pan being the clock 😩
Is that like biting the onion?
Socrates only knows enough to know that he doesn’t know anything.
The reason the Oracle of Apollo said “No man is wiser than Socrates” is because no man is wise, and Socrates is only wise enough to know himself to be a fool.
What would we replace it with? The raw chaos of the universe in its unformed state?
That’s so fucked up.
All the linux “evangelists” I’ve seen online just shitpost with inside jokes, or talk about the benefits of FOSS, or explain what makes google and microsoft such evil companies, or post genuinely helpful content about software alternatives or advice for making the switch.
I’ve never seen a rabid linux user. On the other hand, some vegans get so rabid that they actually chase people away from their cause. You’re never going to get people to change a core aspect of their lives such as eating habits by insulting them and going on a tirade about why they’re evil.
For what it’s worth, I’ve spent years as a vegetarian, and it took me years before that to gradually reduce my meat consumption to zero. I tried going vegan a few times but I would get grumpy, lethargic, and start craving things like cheese and eggs.
There is no room in vegan spaces online to talk about the process of reducing consumption or the struggle associated with it. That’s pretty detrimental to the goal of a 100% meat-free society.
The only way we’ll ever eliminate factory farming is through slow-incremental change. But the average vegan will never accept that. They’re a classic example of “letting perfection be the enemy of progress.”