Interestingly this is how it started out here. You bought fire insurance and were protected by a fire company. I want to say it was one of Franklin’s things that established the first public fire company in Philadelphia, but this is a forum so if I’m wrong I know I’ll be corrected!

We still have a lot of groups, at least in the northeast, that refer to themselves as companies, though it’s used more like an army company or battalion and less like a for-profit endeavor.

Oh I actually know how to beat this one. “I do not recall.” “Fifth.” “What is that? This is the first I’m hearing of it.”

Am I doing it right, Shitler?

I’m not actually confident he does know that, to be honest.

The cynic in me knows that since it would be only D’s going down there, the fascists would use their absence to cram some shit through. The smart play would be to send only congresspeople and keep the senators here to make sure that nothing Mike LovesJohnson slides up can pass filibuster and get to the Diet Coke Desk.

But was also the most UnFAir trade Deal EvURrrR

ETA: according to Shitler himself

Same. I wish I had better choices available but we’ve got to work with what we’ve got.

I like Lemmy better. There’s a lot more effort to have value when you post and have conversations rather than arguments.

But the porn collection over here isn’t great yet.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any dumber. Is there no bottom they won’t race to?

Same. And my bank account is better off without them. Gods know we’ll need whatever help we can get.

My daughter has a gymnastics class one night a week and there’s nowhere for parents inside the building so we’re expected to sit in our cars. Instead of using the gas to keep the heat on, I go to Target to take a dump and walk laps. Even my wife, one of the whitest women I know, has stopped shopping there.

Yes, but also to sue one must be able to prove injury. I don’t know much about this group, but it is possible they hadn’t been injured yet. Or that, knowing this was coming, they built their case months ago and have been waiting until this drops to do anything.

Not saying they’re at all worthy of trust, anyone on that side of the aisle isn’t, but the case would be tossed immediately if they sued before he took this action.

I guess the /s wasn’t as blatant as I thought it was

But really, from Canada’s perspective, it is free market choice. The products have a price that they’re not willing to pay, be it fiscal or idealogical, so they’ve opted to not buy them. It sucks for the sellers in the States who have relied on Canadian sales, it sucks for the Canadians who don’t have the same access to products they want from the US, and it sucks for all of us little people who have to pay an additional 200% tax on medical equipment because it has pieces which can only be made on highly specialized machines in Japan. All because of an amphetamine-addled, semi literate, profoundly incontinent Neo Nazi.

The only winners in this game are the ones that are high enough above the waterline that they’ll weather the flood, the rest of us are headed down the drain.

Super valid points. Cortisol is one heluva drug.

I know this is petty, but I don’t care. Why is it that these people always have the most generic, first-gen AI created names and the most fucked up faces? I know fascism doesn’t inherently attract the best, brightest, and most interesting but come on. It’s like they just hit random on the Oblivion character creator and said “Brooke Rollins with the fivehead? Looks good to me!”

Free market baby!

If only we had a way to predict this exact scenario.

Except when they play uncle touchy like Matt Gaetz and the Shitstain-in-Chief

Literally Shitler

For sure, you never lose your right to complain. But be fair to yourself too, even if you complained incessantly, you stuck it out (and what is a Linux user without incessant complaining?).

The point is what you said though, they could very easily solve an issue that could be preventing a large group of potential users from adopting… because the maintenance team doesn’t want to update the installation guide or the file names. Again, it’s a very Linux thing for them to take that position. And that’s why I end up recommending an Ubuntu spin to people, even though I think the whole package that Mint presents is nicer out of the box.

I love Mint. It’s still my favorite Debian-rooted distro, even though I moved on from it more than a decade ago. But their refusal to adapt their install image to newbie-proof it frustrates me so much. I can’t think of another mainline distro that’s given me any problems in creating install media or installing, and that makes it impossible for me to recommended Mint to anyone who won’t have me over their shoulder during the install process.

I commend you for sticking to it and figuring out what the issue and fix were. 90% of users would have given up, reinstalled Windows, and went on Reddit to complain about how shitty Linux is.