There’s so much more (taxable) revenue from the World Cup than just the ticket sales. Travel, merchandise, TV rights, sales later on from notariety, etc. Tbf I don’t have an exhaustive understanding of soccer profits so that’s not an exhaustive list, but I know a TON of money that trades hands around these events.

Ooooooooooh h8 breaking from law based rule but oooooooooh we do love money money so good

Polymarket disaster?? Is this related to the top shortage I’ve heard about?

It’s all the proof one should need to see that he’s on their side, not mine, not yours.

Check what your local laws require. Some areas require both front and back plates, some only require rear plates.

Yeah… reading the stuff about Frey telling ICE to get out of Minneapolis really stunk of “because I don’t want a repeat of 2020’s unrest” not “we think ICE is gestapo”

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My sister is so into this mindset but doesn’t do anything about it, it’s so annoying.

Every conversation with her ends up being about how to monetize something. Fucking A, I’m not gonna start a food blog and sell ads, I just wanna make dumplings!! I’m not gonna stream my boyfriend and I playing games, we’re just trying to relax! I’m not a brand or a product I’m just a person, get off it.

I’m thirty to forty years old, I don’t need this shit.

We did just fine in IRC with no accounts just handles. Recognize me or don’t!

This is it. The door is warmer than the back and the mayo will separate if frozen

Oh, well, then I guess that tracks then.

They’re sugar candies tho??

I imagine it’s easier to make puns in mandarin.

Have you encountered one of these people in real life?

I have never met anyone who espouses any values like this nor have I see any online presence of someone like this, either.

What I mean is, don’t overvalue the people on this online community you’ve found in a way that impacts your life. There aren’t throngs of people out there trying to castrate or kill you for being polyamorous because they want to replicate toxic relationships in anime and manga.

Why the hell would someone who wants to move away from Firefox because of their user unfriendly decisions want to use Comet, an AI browser from the same exact company Firefox is using to poison their own browser??

Personally, the issue is ease of installation and configuration of programs.

Some things (edit: admittedly, most of the “important basics”, such as web browsers, Steam and Office-suite equivalents) are just as simple as they are on Windows and iOS with just clicking a button and using a wizard of sorts, but some things need you to parse a series of terminal prompts and figure out how to rewrite parts of the instructions to fit your particular machine and setup.

Often I end up missing or misunderstanding some step and it doesn’t work and I have no idea why.

It’s not impenetrable and it’s not a problem exclusive to Linux, but it does make setting things up a bit more of a chore.

I got Ubuntu on a laptop now to test out how to use that as my daily OS before I commit to figuring out how to swap over my Windows 10 desktop sometime next year and it admittedly is MUCH EASIER now than when I last tried around 2008, but I still run into problems.

I’m currently trying to schedule a weekend where I can diagnose why my raspberry pi won’t boot after a power outage when it’s survived that in the past and another weekend to figure out why the self hosted tandoor app I got successfully running a few months ago suddenly stopped and cannot run now, even after what I thought was a clean install.

I wanna switch. I do. But so many steps of it are full on projects. I’m learning a lot and it gets easier every step of the way, but it’s still at a state where I need to schedule time to address these things that “just work” on Windows.

Edit: I understand why this is the case. A lot of these things are free, open source projects made by teams who don’t necessarily have the time and resources to make their program out-of-the-box ready for every conceivable software and hardware set up out there. And I understand why someone might think that a corporate backing of resources might be able to address that issue, but I agree it isn’t really isn’t in accordance with the goals of Linux or helpful to the point of moving away from these corporate structures.

Lmao

I don’t think ibuprofen is safe to take with alcohol either.

Pretty sure the label warns against this here. But lots of water and sleep is a good idea.

Do I have to get shit faced to get braised beef tongue for breakfast or can I just ask nicely? I’m open to either.

Oh honey it happens, it’s not a clear sign of any larger problem, sometimes people just get too drunk.

…if it becomes a pattern, that’s a different story. But he was probably a bit nervous meeting the family and overindulged. If he’s doing it out of boredom, make the boy cook!! Anyone can peel or chop vegetables. I got mine a lil apron and call him my sous chef (don’t tell him he’s the actually the garçon de cuisine)