Generally speaking, to shut the player up about it

Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward

Depends heavily on your definitions of “worked” and “well”

That and he has some charisma when speaking

He has zero charisma and I think that actually works in his favor because it reflects his followers. They see themselves in him.

That is not a reasonable bar by which to judge any living human being.

You might deserve it, I’m pretty confident saying the trans kids and legal immigrants who are being disappeared off the streets probably don’t.

QAnon was the precursor to MAGA. It depended on stories of “deep state conspiracy” to sow distrust in the functional parts of US government, then quietly disappeared once its function was performed.

All this to say, it was a blindingly obvious psy-op that rolled up as many idiots as it could into one giant katamari ball of civil unrest, then loosed that ball toward US elections in a specific effort to remove Democrats from power.

I have a feeling I’m going to be getting a lot of use out of this one soon

BRC is an incredible replacement though. It’s not quite the same as OG Jet Set Radio, and I think that’s okay, but it is very clearly walking around with JSR’s bones inside. Besides which it has probably my favorite video game soundtrack from the past decade.

Have you looked around outside recently?

I use “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it” pretty frequently myself

Not really. This is another thing that falls neatly into Boots Theory.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.

A new car, well taken care of, will support a driver for a decade or more. A used car, especially a cheap used car, will have problems you don’t know about and you can safely assume the previous owner did not properly care for it if not outright abused it, that will be true more often than it isn’t.

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American, I bought a 2005 Honda Civic in 2020 for $7,500

Nepenthes does about the same thing but isn’t managed by a corp.

Because not every metabolism is built equally? I ate like shit and barely exercised for 10 years working as a programmer and my weight stuck at 180lb/82kg the entire time. Nowadays I get a lot more exercise and still eat like shit and weigh 170. My buddy watches his food intake properly and takes a walk every day, and he’ll gain 10 pounds just by looking at a tray of cookies, bounces over and under the 200lb mark constantly.

I would call them “unfit for their position” as a judge’s personal beliefs have zero influence on the written law and a judge’s job is to interpret the law as it is written. If you’re bringing your personal politics into the courthouse as a judge you have failed your job requirements.

I am happy to see a liberal judge in our current situation, because conservative judges have been flagrantly abusing their positions for many years now, but the parent comment is correct. Having a liberal vs a conservative judge should be nonsensical. Unfortunately the nonsensical is commonplace in America now.

People taught AI to speak like a middle manager and thinks this means the AI is sentient, instead of proving that middle managers aren’t

However bad you think that is, it’s almost definitely worse.

TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto, a car endlessly memed on by an entire generation for its flammability.

You should go read that article, because it’s short, but just look at this chart I pulled from it.

The only thing that Trump being such an absolute dipshit has taught me is that if a competent evil arises then we’re all totally fucked. Trump, Musk, et al are the least effective versions of themselves that it is possible to be. They’ve failed their ways into these positions of power largely by accident, they aren’t even good at being evil. Replace them with someone who is, and who cares about their public image, and we’ll end up with real serious trouble.