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Yeah, he was a pipsqueak.

Fucking nauseating.

There wasn't supposed to be any fact-checking!

And, things have gotten objectively harder. It's damn near impossible to get into UT these days, as an example, and I am sure there are many others. And I think the good jobs are more competitive school- and grade-wise. The days of dumb lazy white guys graduating with a "gentlemen's c" average and getting anywhere in life are diminished, if long gone.

It's true that he does not know how to govern in the sense of leadership of the legislative branch to accomplish broad-based goals that only the lege can achieve. However, he does know how to govern by fiat and executive order, or has people (Project 2025) that mostly do. I think there's enough play in the immigration laws that he can make a semi-successful attempt to do a mass deportation. It will get hung up in the courts a bit, because he's bad at it, but don't think he ultimately cannot. Also, I think the Project 2025 people have given great thought to making him a more useful idiot than last go-round. And those people are insidiously smart.

A couple of additional thoughts. I am assuming here that you don't need to login to a corporate network using M$ credentials. And, relatedly, that you don't need to use a bunch of corporate-type software that tends to be windoze only. Even those may not be that big a deal anymore, but that was a hassle with linux, and with osx, many times. So many things are browser-based now, that you may not actually encounter problems with any of that, unless you are a heavy-duty user. There also used to be some problems running things like Netflix when semi-proprietary things like Silverlight were required. I think that has gone the way of the dodo, though. Libreoffice is good enough that you no longer need an emulator to run a decent/standardish wp like Word. You can find a pretty good substitute for any Windows app in Linux if you don't need it to fully integrate with a corporate environment. Mozilla Thunderbird is/was a pretty good outlook alternative. You can probably get by pretty well with most "home computing" things without knowing much command-line Linux and ease your way into it for the more complex things. The other thing you can try, that has some limited functionality, but will give you a good taste, is to run a Linux distro off a thumb drive. That way, you can at least pick a GUI (KDE, Gnome, etc.) that you seem to like and see what warez are out there and how it generally works. Does windows still tend to corrupt a second boot partition like it used to?

Elaborating on the above, I think people expected something political and some aspects of it dovetail with the current environment, but I don't think that was particularly intentional. Yes, it is about a civil war in some respects, but more about observers of it than participants/combatants, or the war itself. Therefore, I think the title is a double-entendre. If there's a big criticism, it might be on character development on those observers. I suppose the development of the Spaeny character was supposed to reflect the development of the Dunst and Moura characters, as well as perhaps the Henderson character (in sort of an opposite way).

Yeah with the guis, you don't really need to know much, they work pretty much like windoze and OSX. The choices can be overwhelming, though. But, sounds like you're going to dick around with it quite a lot, so you'll need to brush up on your command-line, posix lingo. Not impossible, and possibly easier if you never knew any DOS. I use it a lot on a Chromebook, but that's kind of a virtual machine and hardware issues are taken care of. Historically, the problem with Linux was hardware/driver issues. Not insoluble by any means, but takes some knowledge of drivers, settings, and command-line Fu to tweak those config files. I'm not sure where Linux is on that these days. And, gaming could be something of an issue. A lot of things can be run using Wine or other windoze emulators, not sure about where Linux gaming stands, though. You could try it out on a dual-boot system, maybe. At one time, windoze was pretty actively hostile to a second boot partition, though.

Avenatti filed some clown-ass defamation suit that she lost bigly and he was awarded $300k in attorneys fees. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/stormy-daniels-must-pay-300k-donald-trump-losing-defamation-case-appea-rcna21002 As a prelminary matter, it's a pretty dick move to attempt to collect attorneys fees when the economic imbalance is that of Trump and Daniels, but apparently Trump or his attorneys (likely the latter, because he stiffed them), filed suit against her and they're trying to coerce her into another NDA.

Perhaps the title civil war, given that it is an oxymoron, is a clue. War is decidedly uncivil, even when it comes to journos who are just trying to document and report it.

Really don't have any ability to recommend one. One name that came up in Dallas is Jeff Rasansky. I knew him in undergrad as a decent guy, I assume he still is one.

People seem to think Elmo is smart because his companies do technically somewhat amazing things. That's a fallacy. No one credits Chainsaw Jack Welch with GE's successes in various technologies. Or claims Tim Cook is primarily responsible for Apple's innovation.

I hate this so much. I have a lot of bones to pick with FBI/DOJ and state authorities on prosecutorial discretion and charging of criminal offenses, along with sentencing. Those are legit questions. But Trump has always been a grimy little pimp criminal and he raised his profile just enough to get stung for it when maybe others are not. With all my objections to these various charging decisions, I don't have a problem with those against Trump. Well-deserved. But all of this boils down to fucking opinion, basically.

If the opportunity arises, that was a statewide law that affected every victim of sexual assault/violence in the state of New York. It wasn't directed at Trump specifically. Moreover, it's a private lawsuit by Carroll, not by any government agency, state or federal. Edit to Add: I see this has been covered somewhat. But some additional perspective. Most states have had fairly conventional SOL for sexual assaults, namely the usual 2, 3, or 4 years for assaults and similar personal injury torts. There has also been a trend toward lengthening those SOL to 10 or 25 years or "never." When that is done, there is often an issue of retroactivity, that is, does the lengthened SOL revive claims that were dead under the old, short, SOL. NY compromised and, instead of making it fully retroactive, or fully non-retroactive, gave one year for those with "expired" claims under the old, short SOL to file their claims, otherwise they remain barred.

Yeah, that was a pretty herculean effort by the defender and Tre was covering up and making an effort to secure the ball (and that might actually have contributed to his losing it). The defender was pulling on his arm and Tre was putting both hands on the ball and his own pull back basically ejected the ball.

Yeah, benzos create high-tolerance quickly and so there's a definite withdrawal. You might have done well to have "tapered" or "titrated" from it. The good news would seem to be that the "rebound anxiety" and insomnia are withdrawal symptoms that will go away eventually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_withdrawal_syndrome You seem to know that already, but a reminder is always helpful.

That's fair. My "analysis" of the topic is hazy at best. There is a clear desire or demand on the part of racists that others "assimilate" or acculturate. The motivation alone seems to negate the desireability of that. Nevertheless, there seems to be an advantage to a society if the various cultures can find a common ground and the more the better, however that is achieved or attained and whatever it looks like.

I'm going to guess that because Elmo is not a real engineer, he gins up wild-ass ideas while in a K-hole or something, some of which are feasible and many of which are not. Guessed example: wouldn't it be cool if we could retrieve rockets/stages without destroying them or splashing them down in water? Yeah, Elmo cool idea, not particularly original, I'm guessing. Probably not a priority idea at NASA for various reasons, nor at other private aerospace because they can sell more rockets if they're single-use. The real brain geniuses at SpaceX were able to so far at least somewhat implement it with what seems to be reasonable success. Another example: FSD and robotaxis. Well, the real brain geniuses at Tesla are not able to implement that with reasonable success, likely in no small part to Elmo's capricious management and employment practices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Eberhard

I was having the same thought, but remembered this. He was solid in The Spy, very solid.

Also, Biden has some personal experience with addiction that probably makes him wary of the whole thing. But I think it's mostly because he's old.

I believe the Brits call that a "squiff," which, when you think of it, is really just perfect.

So, all this talk of "black ppl bbq" raises the issue of "assimilation." Thatguy's story relates code-switching and behavior designed not to alarm the honkies. In some ways, it's a shame that has to happen, especially because "his people" in most cases were not voluntary immigrants and were essentially forced not to assimilate by not being allowed to participate in society. In other ways, such assimilative behavior is probably a natural and beneficial, maybe, consequence of immigration. It's the melting part of the melting pot. Clearly, those minority/immigrant groups that have not yet or not rapidly assimilated make the majority or minority/majority (e.g. wypipo) very nervous. I think, historically, the "separatism" of a lot of Jewish sects has reinforced anti-Semitism worldwide (it's the Hasids and orthodox that draw the caricatures and less so the more Reformed and secular Jews). And, you hear that kind of complaint ("they don't assimilate") for Muslim immigrants I think especially in Europe. Also, assimilation tends to imply an acceptance of aspects of the minority culture by the majority, so it's a two-way street. I don't think assimilation should be expected or required. But it is what tends to make even us honky, cracker-ass Americans more American than English, French, Scottish, German or Dutch. Kind of a thread-jack, but I have been curious about the role of assimilation by immigrants in "national racism" for a while now.

The problem, right there.

Are "economic clubs" the new name for John Birch Society? He's talking at a lot of em.