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So every steam deck that visits the websites that track this counts? It’s probably not many, but it’s certainly likely there are a few counted.

1. I’ve learned a number of tools I’d never used before, and refreshed my skills from when I used to be a sysadmin back in college. I can also do things other people don’t loudly recommend, but fit my style (Proxmox + Puppet for VMs), which is nice. If you have the right skills, it’s arbitrarily flexible.

2. What electricity costs in my area. $0.32/KWh at the wrong time of day. Pricier hardware could have saved me money in the long run. Bigger drives could also mean fewer, and thus less power consumption.

3. Google, selfhosting communities like this one, and tutorial-oriented YouTubers like NetworkChuck. Get ideas from people, learn enough to make it happen, then tweak it so you understand it. Repeat, and you’ll eventually know a lot.

It’s a question of the most stable thing to use to mediate value for exchange of goods and services, right? Fiat currency is just the choice of “the state” as a stabilizing force. Certainly it’s better than trusting the scarcity of rare metals, but eventually “just trust the state” will become a problem, and we’ll need to think about rebasing currencies. In theory, computational complexity isn’t a bad choice, but nobody has come up with a solution that actually functions well as a currency.

But I agree, the finite planet has nothing to do with any failings of fiat currencies, and only makes sense as a failing of the “number must go up” mentality endemic to capitalism.

I’d watch those folders, especially the UPLOAD_LOCATION, when it’s uploading. Are they being written? Do they persist, or are they being deleted? See if you can upload a single image through the web client, and observe that behavior too.

Can Maury moderate it? Bring in some family members before they reveal the test results, maybe some videos played to tell us a bit more about them

To me the question is whether the result of what you’re doing makes the world around you better or worse. Would the people living in your place be better off if you were out of the equation? Then you’re a bad landlord.

If you’re making money from providing labor for the people who live in a place you own, and they’re paying your costs to do so, I think there’s a case for that being a reasonable occupation to hold. If there’s an issue with it, it’s not my highest priority, and there’s definitely some value in flexible housing stock for people.

If your goal is passive income, or you’re making money from owning housing and denying that ownership to people who need a place to live, then you’re behaving as a parasite, and I think it’s reasonable for people to give you an amount of respect proportional to that.

An authoritarian regime putting my ideology into force would be self-dismantling, which is probably a contradiction in terms.

Personally, I’m not just concerned with some set of policies, but the process by which policy changes occur. I don’t want to see society hit some point of improvement and stop, I want to see continuous improvement. A dictatorship will inevitably regress when it no longer has a benevolent dictator, which really isn’t compatible with my goals for how society should be ordered, or how power should be distributed.

Also pre-grated cheese has anti-caking agents, so it does things like not melt as well. A rotary grater and block of cheese can get you a better experience for a bit less money, and just a bit of work.

In addition to cheddar, a block of whole milk low moisture mozzarella for making pizza is excellent

I mean, while it isn’t true whether these are likely voters, registered voters, adults, etc. and there were polling errors in 2020, it’s definitely possible that if the election were held today, Trump would win. RCP leans a bit conservative, and are probably overestimating Trump, but it might not be enough to change the outcome.

That said, it’s probably true that a few percentage point swings in a few key states could move the election back towards a Biden win. Six months enough time, but it’ll take work to get there.

There’s no option to fix major issues on the ballot, and there may never be, but we can slow them from getting worse, and express ourselves politically outside of voting

He could win again, but it absolutely can be prevented if we act.

Reversing the harm he’s caused, and his predecessors who laid the groundwork for his presidency caused… I’m hopeful we can do, but it won’t be easy.

I can only hope it’s many.

If we’re lucky, they’ll just stay home intead

There hasn’t been a Papal starship yet. I’m pretty sure he could Christen one, or delegate that authority to the bishop of the moon, an actual thing that technically exists.

Either he knew, incompetently didn’t know, or didn’t care. (Or some combination of these.) I’m not sure which is worst for him.

Yeah that sounds like a realistic, if a bit hyperbolic, portrayal of at least some people’s experiences.

I haven’t personally been in any conspiracy theory rabbit holes, but I’ve seen a few people slide into them. There are some people who are so far out there they generate much of the nonsense, but I think there are a lot more victims than crackpots. And I think most of them have a nugget of truth or legitimate grievance in there somewhere.

It can be worse than that sometimes. The crackpots see some nuggets of truth, and for whatever reason, they make some leap in interpreting them that leads them to nonsense. They keep finding things that are either true, and add them to their worldview, or made by people who took compatible leaps of logic away from reality. They propagate it to others.

Taking Kennedy’s assassination as a classic example: it’s true that a lot of people wanted him dead, some benefited from his death, the CIA has a history of assassinations, and Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist who had once lived in Minsk. I can see why someone with just enough information to feel confident can arrive at a belief that the CIA or USSR killed Kennedy, while missing critical information to realize there’s no reason to believe either is true.

Hold up. Birds Aren’t Real has true believers now?

I don’t think there’s a contradiction there, a term being gendered isn’t all-or-nothing. Certainly, some men attracted to men identify as gay, as well as some lesbian women, and even some bisexual folks of any gender. In that way it isn’t exclusively gendered.

But if I say “the gay community”, I’m guessing the image that evokes in your mind leans heavily towards gay men, compared to a phrase like “the LGBTQ+ community”. Even if the speaker means the same thing by those phrases, the listener likely interprets them differently.

This is Donald J. Trump. Since when has something being illegal ever stopped him?

I suspect he picks them based on the size of their willingness to represent a work for a client famous for not paying people, who has a substantial amount of his assets supervised by courts because he lost a fraud suit, whose attorneys have a habit of pleading guilty to felonies they committed on his behalf or being disbarred, who seems largely incapable of listening to legal advice, or keeping his mouth shut in the name of self-preservation