Speaking of saber rattling, I found this quote mildly amusing:

The flex notably comes amid persistent tensions with Russia, which has been rattling the nuclear saber lately

“lately”? I mean, if you’re saying repetetive nuclear threats for 2 years + since starting a war with Ukraine, then sure?

Not singing loud enough - straight to jail.

Surprisingly, singing too loud? Also straight to jail.

Imagine having $700 million, having almost no responsibility, and still being that much of a putz.

100%.

F-that! Take pride… Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, “just works” and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack. You can run at the bleeding edge if you want to manage it yourself.

And for any haters - here’s my take: I’ve been working with Unix for 30+ years, I installed Slackware off of floppies when 16MB of RAM was god-like. I have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point certainly the upstream giants. I’ve been there for the birth of all of them. I’ve also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there’s a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide “This is the way” - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels.

Mint is the bomb and I’m done pretending. Fight me (not you, OP, you’re cool)

Not an excuse… but unironically this is why so many rural States are Red. Lack of opportunity and the only hope is in religion. Addressing very real existential erosion of their livelihoods and economic fears would go a long way toward avoiding a civil war. Which another Trump presidency might just bring about…to the Russian’s joy, having set the wheels in motion decades ago.

The salt-water of life!

Huge swaths of companies have ditched VMWare entirely due to their enshitification. Anyone still licesning already has a plan to transion away. I’ve only heard of extreme corner cases staying because whatever it was supporting was end of life anyway. Fuck em.

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Months?

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

a sunk cost is a sum paid in the past that is no longer relevant to decisions about the future.

Isn’t that partial autonomy the ONE thing that allows China to have trading status around the world? I suspect that their cheap export power turns many a blind eye, but I’m pretty sure I remember reading that their entry into the world stage for trading partnerships was predicated on Hong Kong NOT becoming China when the UK pulled out.

“We have them with us all the time

“We have lost most of them to time, disrepair and corruption”

constantly in a state of combat readiness

“A few might still work, we’re really not sure”

The WGA and SAG both had very successful strikes in the last year that brought new scripted content to a halt. Unscripted trash tried to fill the gaps, but this came right as all the streaming services are starting to implode themselves with price hikes and content deserts.

The public saw it. It has already inspired others - Starbucks, UAW, Amazon, etc. have all had significant gains. There’s a reason that Trader Joes and Amazon are suing the USGov over the National Labor Relations Board as unconstitutional.

The beautiful thing? Demographics are shifting rapidly - there will be fewer and fewer workers overall in developed countries, and larger and larger aging / retired pools who still have huge demands. And frequently the same politicians who don’t want immigration also don’t want to pay workers what they are worth, so there will be a reckoning…

I’m assuming your post was joking, but the truth is great here and workers of the world should acknowledge the success!

That book? It’s an advertisement…

The main drawback is that you have to live in Nebraska

To be fair, it will also get stains out of clothes.

I think I watched this episode of Handmaid’s Tale

I’ve got.some bad news for you…