baltakatei

a large … dumpling

So… a dumple?

1/3 of US renters not paying their rent in a coördinated strike for one month would unwind a lot of landlord loans and collapse Wall Street which is where Trump stores his wealth.

“You are reading at college level.”

Translation: “You are baseline literate.”

No one loved her enough to fight to free her, so she wasn’t worth much to society anyways. — the local DA, probably

I tried Cosmic for a week. It looked nice but I returned to LXQt because I want:

• To display time in ISO 8601 without also messing with locales
• To customize my file manager columns
• To use Emacs in a terminal emulator
• To not have my windows scattered to the four winds every time I lock my screen because the fancy window tiling feature is half-baked
• To have the X window manager back. I’m sure some people with use cases besides mine that are compatible only with Wayland, but I simply don’t see the need nor do I wish to be a guinea pig submitting bug reports when so many guinea pigs before me had years of their lives sacrificed polishing X.

Also, the performance of programs like the default Cosmic file manager was much slower then comparable alternatives like pcmanfm-qt which I know run fast even on 2005 Compaq laptop hardware.

That sounds like a very expensive chronic issue.

Given Studio Sunrise’s logo on the bottom right, it’s probably Gundam-related. That, or Daily Lives of High School Boys.

Edit: Looks like Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Boooded Orphans (2015).

Missile striking aircraft: My tax dollars in action

Aircraft being struck by missile: Also my tax dollars in action

Because I can understand “Open” while “Libre” sounds strange. — most people, probably

Great Simoleon Caper

Sounds like Daemon (2006) by Daniel Suarez in which a decision tree established and runs a criminal organization to parasitize then displace nation-states by hiring talented people disaffected by corrupt governments.

Cargo cult happiness.

Thanks for the summary. I’d’ve only watched it if he died mid-speech.

How politically expedient.

The Corn must grow.

Texas flips blue is on my Bingo card.

Reminds me of a quote from Small Gods (1992) about an eagle that drops vulnerable tortoises to break their shell open:

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection. One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.