When federal agents were actually protecting minorities.

As a normie, I love Bazzite because it’s as intuitive as Microsoft without the intrusive and monopolistic proprietary features, and Bazzite is also built for gaming.

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It sounds paradoxical but a lot of the things we were taught and developed presumptions of from our parents become obsolete. For example, while thrifting never becomes obsolete, simply working hard and saving alone are not enough anymore to enjoy life, buy a house, raise a family and then retire comfortably. This is something that older generations don’t grasp on the frustrations of today’s young adults. This is why it’s important to either have side hustles, or do investing if they can-- anything to supplement the traditional means of income.

The world constantly changes at an exponential rate, but the human mind isn’t evolved to deal with such rapid pace. While some but not all traditional knowledge becomes obsolete, the human capacity to adapt doesn’t.

Problem is if it’s a coworker to whom you’re interested in. A lot of people are hesitant to ask their coworkers for date because of the adage “don’t shit where you eat”.

To the surprise of nobody.

The stupid 2FA-ception is the worst. You need 2FA app to use an app that requires you to register with an email and then asks you to use another 2FA app. Thankfully, I am using a FOSS 2FA app that got rid of the complications.

I don’t see much difference between here and Reddit tbh. The major difference,however, is the in-fighting amongst the instances here, namely the tankie instances such as .ml and hexbear versus the rest of the fediverse.

Precisely. And to belabour the point, if they really want to “do good”, just shut up and do it. No need to announce on the megaphone that they are good for wanting to donate most of their wealth, but are still billionaires and getting richer. If they are serious about helping, their net worth would have decreased by now and would not be billionaires anymore.

That’s why one should not trust billionaires who make noises about changing the world for the better. It is merely to stoke their egos. I’m not even religious anymore but I still remember being taught that it is better to share the success without bragging about it. There are genuinely good rich folks, but they don’t brag about how nice they are. Chuck Feeney, the billionaire founder of Duty Free, quietly donated the majority of his wealth by the time he died. He was left with $2 million after the donations and was renting an apartment in New York. There is also a millionaire who built houses for the homeless. But I would say that the “good ones” are far and few.

However, the darker side of trying to “be rich and be quiet about it” are some billionaires donating to regressive causes. I think I don’t need to mention the Koch brothers and Murdochs. Being the “power behind the throne” is more effective way to actually wield power. That’s why I don’t think ridding Trump will solve anything unless there is a more robust system to prevent money in politics being put ever again.

“If I am working this hard, everyone should too.”

I think this is the mindset of bosses as to why they power trip. Not all but this is far too common.

The impression I get from Schumer is that he gets someone else to do the dirty work for him.

“Promise me you won’t be sending 15 year olds to your island next time, Epstein, or you will be banned if you do it again for the 16th time.”

Although, seriously, this explains a lot why Trump admin and the oligarchs are sexual deviants.

Catharsis. As on the individual level of “get it out of the system”, the angst and anger also needs to be let out in societal level. Seeing as where the world is heading, the Pandora’s box has already opened and there is no way of putting back the angry genie. It will become worse before it gets better.

They played Fallout and want to larp as the Enclave. I just wish the real techno-fascists won’t be as competent as the Enclave.

Mayor Mamdani

Red Apple

They actually have nice ring to it.

My suspicion is that the clock accelerated significantly because of climate change. Even if we don’t nuke each other, climate change is a slow burn, self-inflicted destruction by humans. Either way, both scenarios lead to a hot extinction.

In more objective fields such as STEM, the Nobel prizes are genuine. The only outlier is the peace prize for more obvious reasons.

7zip and VLC.

Truth of the matter is that predicting and determining when the stock market crashes or if a recession already happened is hard. Saying definitively “there were warning signs and I should have sold my shares” is hindsight bias. When COVID happened, everyone thought that a recession will occur and pulled out their investments. The COVID-induced recession didn’t happen and we have come with a better economy than before thanks to good handling of the economy by governments across the world. Those who sold their investments have to re-buy their shares but it is now at higher price than when they previously bought, and they missed out on potential higher profit had they stayed.

Of course, the world is not black and white and not all circumstances are the same. It is always a case by case basis and there are variables always at play. We came out well after COVID because we know that we definitely had a good leadership back then. But with economy under Trump, there is a higher chance of recession happening for obvious reasons, not just with AI bubble burst. In that case, it is still bad idea to sell all your shares because you would have to re-buy them at now premium price, but you could diversify your investments to safer countries or sectors in preparation for the high likelihood of a market crash. I have divested from US stocks and bought more European and Japanese ones, and invested in energy sector because it is more resilient even during economic troubles. I might have to rethink about my US healthcare stocks, however.