You are getting down-voted on this, but you are absolutely correct about how so many Americans vote like they suffer from childhood ODD.

So many voters don’t want a boring but competent person at the helm, one group wants the reality tv version of a “president”, another wants a magical pony. If they cannot get one of those, so many think the whole thing should just burn down. Meaning millions will suffer, but these children in adult bodies don’t care because they didn’t get their way.

I just can’t even with this mentality. It is so infuriating.

Even more infuriating - the people that say, “well, don’t blame the voters”. WTAF? Yes, Hillary is/was not perfect and I am not her biggest fan, but…JFC. I’m supposed to blame her for that? The voters have no culpability here? And don’t even get me started on the MSM when it comes to discussions about Hillary and Kamala.

One of the best gems from the MSM? Saying Hillary was “overprepared”. LOLWUT, JFC, and WTAF.

/facepalm

It comes down to the mullahs who walk around enforcing rules arbitrarily like beard and pubic hair length.

Wait, is that last part for real?

Some companies cut employees as a basic threat and the implication is that others pick up the slack.

If youre an influencer with millions of followers a degree should be a small road block. Unless you dum.

That last sentence seems to describe a great deal of “influencers” that I’ve seen.

PS The only derogatory I can say about the young generation as a whole is, where the fuck is your rock and roll? You’re listening to your grandparent’s music. Lame.

I think about this all the time, actually. I think part of it is that music is so atomized into a zillion sub-genres, and there doesn’t seem to be really big zeitgeist-level types of things. Streaming vs. curating has changed the dynamics back to being more similar to what the boomers started off with, ironically, when they were buying 45’s, and before albums became a thing. :)

Anyway, the things that make the really big $$$ all seem rather nutless and uninspiring, if you ask me. Where is the music that might scare the parents?

But then, if you look back at what was charting in a given decade, you might be surprised at how schmaltzy things were way back, too. Look at the Seventies, as a for instance, and see what the top 40 was playing.

In Canada it wasn’t until 1964 that a woman could open her own bank account without her husband’s consent.

My mother would always remind me that in the United States, this was not lifted until 1974.

Eh, this seems to be looking at things with rose-colored glasses. That generation, in the prime of their youth, had to worry about getting drafted into going halfway around the world to fight a war of empire, for instance.

Boomers expected that civilization would end before they got to adulthood.

I figured that was our (Gen X) curse. I remember being fairly sure I’d not see age 20, given all the dystopian nightmares that seemed to surround us. Maybe it was all the boomer-created media we were saturated in.

I seem to recall Douglas Coupland writing on that in much more evocative ways than I could ever muster…but then, even though he coined “Generation X”, I think he’s one of the very oldest in that generation.

This kind of thing coming to 'merica thanks to Taco and pals.

Thanks. Appreciate the info. I’m kinda jazzed about this, TBH. I might buy another low-end gaming machine - this one was one I had specced out in late 2020, but it’s running out of disk space as gave it a very small drive - throw Linux on there, and start migrating over…I don’t want to play high-end games, mostly Metroidvania type of things and my kids play mostly the same types of things - stuff like Undertale, etc.

Linux is always such a pleasure to use. I’d love to remove yet another Windows machine from my life…

About Minecraft - what launcher(s) are you using on Linux? One of my kids is going through and playing all the old versions of the game, but I don’t know if that would work on Linux?

Well, damn. I might have to get a low-end “gaming” machine and use Linux on it. Windows is so frustrating to use - I don’t want to have my identity managed by their stupid fucking cloud just for a low-end gaming machine. They try to hide the local user path and they seem to keep trying to further enshittify everything about trying to use an OS for the way I want to use it. (Reminds me: I need to read Cory’s book)

I’ve used Windows off and on for years - I mostly stopped paying much attention to MS once I was able to use Mac/Linux for my work daily driver, and only use it in anger for things like gaming and mining.

Don’t some games have a “Windows only” logo on them? Are you saying it will use Wine to launch Windows only games?

I haven’t tried it yet out of sheer laziness, since I already have several Linux bare metal/VM instances running. Right now I have a Windows machine mostly dedicated to Steam. I have sometimes launched Steam on my macs.

Have you tried out Steam on there? I don’t know if there are any workarounds to running Steam games that require Windows; otherwise I’d probably switch one of my last Windows machines over.

Uh, I still have the same question. Linking to Wikipedia doesn’t really answer the question.

I am sure that most of the cereals I’ve tried in recent years have changed since I was a child. Not for the better.

corporate America has spent the last 15 years hiring people based on their race instead of their qualifications

Wait, in what universe did that happen?

…and a lot that are not that independent. I never stopped using RSS. It’s only because it’s not so easily monetized that it’s not more widely known, I bet.

I always think of Kramer saying he faked orgasms, LOL. 🤣

Came here to say this. I wish other browsers would catch up to Firefox and add this feature for when I have to use them (esp. Chrome/Edge).