Yeah. Most of my formative years where spent with both of my parents living off assistance. It was steak on the 3rd of the month and ramen the rest of the month.

When I moved out I was flabbergasted to learn many of my classmates & colleagues considered McDonald’s cheap and would eat out regularly, and some of them didn’t even count fast food as eating out. While we would go only like when we were traveling to visit family.

Not sure where these numbers come from, but its probably close to true

[The actual outcome of this election with •the whole US population• as the denominator:

22% voted for Harris 23% voted for Trump <1% voted for other 26% eligible but did not vote* 28% not eligible to vote](https://pod.haxxors.com/posts/cef4a6408974013d2c4b3b1e797ecdfc)

i dont’ care wacha all say. It will never beat a hard-wired connection.

against the idea of Net Neutrality

Did this ever actually do anything. The only change I noticed was that shortly after it was repealed we could actually watch YouTube videos at my mother-in-law’s hosue (I’m assuming they were paying HughesNet to be able to make their content go faster than the artificially throttled maximum).

yep. I just with some car company would choose not to do this and advertise the fuck out of it. (looking at you Chrysler you have nothing to lose)

Is that hyperlink a bad copy/paste or is there some connection there that I’m not understanding?

I can only speak for myself, but I used to love to get home from work and contribute to free software projects I found interesting. Since I got a good paying tech job at a big company, the last thing I want to do is more of the same when I get home. (having kids around the same time probably had an influence too).

I guess it matters what you mean by hippies. My dad and all the other old foggies he smoked pot with in the '60s are all #MAGA now.

you are thinking of SaaS not Free Software.

A network switch

The only reason I use Google Maps is I use an old ass phone with limited storage space, and it won’t let me remove Google Maps.

this is what they mean by “just works” is that it doesn’t do much of anything.

THANKS. I didn’t get the flag joke at first @sukhmel@programming.dev

source?

If one where to think that Trump where the lesser of two evils would you discourage them from voting Libertarian?

For most people a vote for Trump or Biden is actually a wasted vote. Most states are solidly Blue or Red so voting R/D won’t change anything. It is far more likely that your single vote for a new Party’s candidate will get them over the threshold to maintain ballot access for the following election cycle, than your vote for an old Party’s candidate will get them over the threshold to receive the plurality of the vote. Maintaining ballot access for new parties allows them to spend more money the next time actually getting out their message and building votes rather than having to spend most of it paying petitioners to get back on the ballot again. Eventually this could lead to a more representative multi-party system in the USA. But treating every election as “the most important election of our lifetime” and refusing to vote for a candidate that more closely represents your values rather than the one more likely to beat the candidate you dislike most, purpurates the system of abuse. Its like a person returning to their previous partner that verbally abuses them because they fear their partner that physically abuses them.

yeah, that’s not going to happen, its just scare tactics.

THe Libertarian candidate will be on the ballot in every state

https://jacobforliberty.org

The fact anyone ever thought this was for any reason other than making it easier to hide your porn browsing history from your mom is just silly.

Dang, we had barn cats as a kid, and then dad let one inside, and then more, but they would demand to go outside regularly so my parents let them, but the prettiest one, a calico, was always so proud of her catches, she’d leave them on the welcome mat like a present. Sometimes the whole bird, somtimes just like the feet left, she must have been hungry those days.

what green marks are you referring to?