My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees’ home offices.

A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.

They use the same banks as us, they just have a VP’s direct cell number rather than talking to a run-of-the-mill teller during business hours.

JP Morgan didn’t get all their assets by exclusivity serving low net worth individuals.

The most proper use for a Real Book.

Loose leaf tea, re-steeped several times over the course of the day. The caffeine content goes down with each successive stepping, but good quality whole leaves will still let you get several cups out of them.

I stop making it at 3, which usually gives me enough time to metabolize it and sleep normally.

As far as I’m aware, all 50 states let you bring a “cheat sheet” into the Voting booth. Do your research at home at your own pace, write down your choices for each item, and bring that sheet into the booth with you.

I agree that vote by mail should be universal, but lack of it isn’t an excuse to be uninformed at the polls.

I think his implication is that he’ll veto everything, not just let it desk rot.

I hesitate to ascribe any sense of strategy to the guy, but the presidential veto is one of the most direct exercises of power that he has, and this is a guy who salivates at any opportunity to flex whatever power he can.

Keeping it a single state means fewer senators. Not that Canada is like a communist haven or anything, but they’re FAR from our MAGA bullshit and they don’t wanna dilute the power they’ve accumulated in that chamber of congress.

Also, Canada would be the 3rd or 4th highest GDP in the US if it became a single state. California and Texas have it solidly beat. NY is neck and neck with Canada.

The “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my Clam-o-naise” mug is tempting me.

Not worth it.

It’s almost the absolute worst of humanity made anonymous and public. “Almost” is only there because they will delete blatantly illegal content like cp, but anything else goes. Overt racism becomes normalized because people engage with it so it keeps getting bumped to the top. Some legitimately mean it, some are just trolling for the lolz, but either way it desensitizes people and normalizes the view.

Repeat for any other kind of bigotry or harmful view you can imagine.

In terms of real people behind the accounts

One of the defining features of 4chan is the lack of accounts. Most posts are anonymous. Even harder to tell if someone is human or bot when you can instantly just roll a new anon ID.

“Arch isn’t a difficult distro! All you need to do is run pacman -Syu now and then! Even my grandma could handle it!”

(Which is true until something goes wrong and now you’re way more on the hook to un-fuck the system than just about anything that could ever go wrong on a Debian or Fedora based distro)

Kansas is fucking weird because they do shit like this but also voted to make abortion a constitutional right in the state.

But it can be “software I forgot I installed and consumes resources despite me not really using it”

Labor has value. You have access to some amount of labor each week that you value at [your salary]. Your employer values your labor at [some higher value, because they only pay you if they believe you’ll bring in more money than you cost] and thus “wins” at the trade.

There’s a big difference between a $100 sound system and a $1000 sound system. I’ve gotten the “audiophiles are dumb” lecture for suggesting someone upgrade from 2x4" computer speakers to actual studio monitors for working on their music. But their speakers literally could not reproduce some of the frequencies thru were trying to make, so they mixed the bass WAY the fuck too loud.

But yeah, diminishing returns start to kick in around that point. Quickly becomes the eternal story of a Fool and His Money.

There is no changing the minds of their base, what matters is getting uninterested voters to realize they need to actually participate in democracy while we still have it.

Man, this infographic is like, EXACTLY why people are scared of Linux, lol.

It has a lot of good info but it’s just so overloaded. Can’t decide what story it wants to tell so it tells like 7 of them.