Even without Gemini, many of my searches are covered by the few word snippets from the top few results. Most of my searches are quick queries with quick answers, usually not me embarking on some huge research effort.

I don’t know if that’s blame, or just acknowledging that USA’s general direction leads to China becoming ‘the’ world power by USA forfeitting their soft power around the world.

The environmental causes are availability of options we crave but are still not forced into, so individual responsibility is absolutely a thing.

I was obese and it sucked but I got down to a healthy weight, and keeping it off kind of still sucks but it doesn’t take a lot of time or money, in fact it’s generally cheaper.

Fast food is constantly highlighted as an impossibly unhealthy reality, the nicer places cost more and take too much time. Except you can choose passable choices in fast food.

If you can freely pick, there are fast food places that offer salads with maybe some grilled chicken, which can be healthy unless you opt to drown it in ranch.

But let’s say you are in a group and they pick a restaurant without an option like salad. Just asking for water instead of a big sugary drink gets you so much closer to healthy. Skip the fries, skip the mayo, get a smaller burger. All these things are cheaper and friendlier to a reasonable caloric budget.

It sucks because it means eating to feeling “ok” while skipping the most awesome foods and rarely getting to feel just utterly full, but that was just life when people had healthier weight.

Similarly on activity. It does suck that work has people sedentary, but our idle pursuits are similar. When I was a kid, TV was stuck on a schedule and video games were only so engaging, so we would get bored and want to do something. Maybe it was walk amongst some trees to see if anytime interesting was around. Maybe do something with a ball. Nowadays we can get endless engagement from streaming, video games, and Internet. So tempting to just be on the couch. We can still choose those more active things, but we don’t want to.

Note all this awesome stuff is still great in moderation. I just went full on gorging at a restaurant a week ago on pretty much whatever I wanted. The thing is this is maybe like once every 2 or 3 weeks, not daily like we really want to.

Actually, if I recall it was ultimately still slightly less than half (after the massive excess of California votes that don’t count came in). He still had the most votes of the candidates, but no candidate garnered more than half.

Which is really just splitting hairs on a technicality, ultimately 77 million people voted this way, and it would have still been a deep problem even if Harris had won the popular and electoral votes.

I assume it’s just the badly done cosmetics. Usually you associate that with someone trying to plaster over their age, it makes people seem older when they do that despite being young enough not to need to.

Well, when scruples superficially suggest a similar reaction as racist stereotypes, the racist stereotype can drag her to the right side of an issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn_(TV_series)

Ironically, in Harley Quinn, Joker actually becomes mayor and he actually was a good mayor, much better than Trump as a president.

I was listening to another union leader talk on current situation and he transparently expressed how good the tariffs were that specifically applied to his specific industry but lamented how it was also impacting other goods making them unaffordable for the union members…

I suppose the question would be the alternative.

Note the devices actively discouraging offline save is a huge asset to schools, since kids screw up a lot, forget their devices and need loaners to get through a day and such. Extra bonus if the device can’t be too fun, to avoid them being overly used at home and get broken more.So Chromebook is desirable because they suck so much.

The good time to sell was December…

Suppose it’s now a “less bad” time than it’s probably going to get.

Eh, I think if there’s significant room for conspiracy theory bullshit around his death I would be too concerned how that might be weaponized. So I am very much hoping nothing even potentially suspicious kills him off.

Yeah, a way to play both sides of pushing for a harsh sentence whole you use a puppet to drive empathy…

Should have been a slam dunk without the video.

They are down significantly harder than the S&P 500, despite logically being in a market that shouldn’t be as vulnerable to things like tariffs.

I do all my video editing in emacs

Openshift kind of incidentally does virtualization almost begrudgingly. Red hat started to try to be a VMware competitor with ovirt but find VMware customers too stuck in their ways, then abandoned it to chase the cloud buzz word with open stack, but open stack was never that good and also the market for people who want to make their on premise stuff act like a cloud provider is actually not that big anyway. So they hopped on the container buzzword with open shift and stuck libvirt management in there to have an excuse for virtualization customers that there is a migration path for them.

Meanwhile proxmox scratched their head wondering why everyone was fixated on stacking abstraction layer upon abstraction layer on libvirt and just directly managed the qemu. Which frankly makes their stuff a lot more straightforward technically, and their implementation is a solid realization of the sort of experience that VMware provides. In fact much more straightforward than a typical VMware deployment, and easier to care and feed since it is natively Linux instead of an OS pretending not to be an os like esxi. It also is consistent to manage, unlike VMware where you must at least interact some with esxi but that’s deliberately crippled and then you have to do things a bit differently as you deploy center (which can be weirdly convoluted).

I’d say that if you tend to like Microsoft products, then hyper v. If you tend to be annoyed by then but like Linux, then proxmox is great. It manages to be a good blend of approachable with a GUI but also having solid API and cli that didn’t overly abstract things away from the underlying implementation

But if you aren’t really a Linux person, then I’d wager hyper v is the right direction.

I just can’t do the word bureaucracy

The money supply guess up and down, it’s ultimately a number that is open for manipulation to some extent.

This isn’t necessarily undesirable, when the number can’t be controlled at all bad things happen as the mass psychology of economic participants do things to the market that can’t easily be countered.

Actually, I’m sure he’s quite interested in there being a nice big class of desperate labor pool ripe for exploitation.