I had a somewhat strange upbringing, because my divorced parents ended up at very different ends of the economic spectrum, with me living with my mother on the poor end, but then visiting my dad for holidays in whatever European country he was living in at the time, and then turning around and going right back to the banned-from-all-the-fast-food-restaurants-for-bouncing-checks life at home.

My partner only really sees or hears about the glamorous side (and I certainly don’t deny that I’ve been very privileged), but I think the stints living out of our car, or dinner being a heinz tomato soup can heated on a hot plate with kraft singles melted in, for n days in a row (back when that only ran you 35 cents a day), gave me an appreciation for the absolute bullshit crapshoot and stacked-deck poker that is economic success in the US.

And it’s funny because my partner often comments on how the food I’ll eat if left to my own devices is “absolute crap” (bologna on white bread with mustard is a perfectly good sandwich!), when I can afford to eat much better and we regularly do, but for me there’s no stigma to eating like that, it’s just food.

The only viable path is ballot measures to amend state constitutions. Any other route is either reversible via the legislature or courts.

Absolutely. He’s a compromised, AIPAC stooge. He’s not going to lead the Democratic Party anywhere but a holding pattern to await the next loss of congressional majority.

I can’t even imagine what the atmosphere’s gonna be like there. Probably see a lot of people driving around celebrating.

Hell yeah! Flipping Texas is huge. Here’s hoping the Dems use this opportunity to make some waves, politically.

It took too long to make, and Summer set.

I’m sure minimizing the concerns people have with the Democratic centrists by writing it off as the AIPAC-funded will-endorse-a-republican-if-a-Muslim-is-the-alternative ones just having “had a weird laugh” will totally make them see you as a worthwhile and trustworthy ally!

Even anti-capitalists have to survive in our capitalist hellscape, and if you can get paid to spread the message that capitalism is bad, all the better.

No, just no corporate-owned users-as-a-product site. Millions of people are willing (and already do) host downloaded files from AO3 on their phones and computers. That’s redundancy.

My partner is planning to start using the Grimmory (ebook reader) instance I set up on our home network, when AO3 is back up. I suspect this has been a wake up call for a lot of fans that media is not safe in one centralized place.

Server Room != Data Center

sed ‘s/left/center/’

The Alec Baldwin defense!

I mean it’s sort of been over for Microsoft for a long time now, though to many non-IT folks it may not be so apparent.

I remember when 90% of web servers were IIS. And MS Exchange was every corporate email server, running on the 90% of servers that were Windows Server. And every laptop was a domain-joined Windows NT Toshiba or Dell.

Now even Microsoft runs their web services on Linux servers. No dev who is not forced to at gunpoint uses a Windows laptop. You’d be hard-pressed to find an SRE or DevOps hire who could confidently explain how to stand up and manage containers on a Windows Server host. And they’d probably walk out of the interview if you even mention Powershell or WMI.

The article is a bit late to the game, because Linux already won.

https://commandlinux.com/statistics/server-os-market-share-windows-vs-linux-vs-bsd/

I think the Expedition 33-style use of parry is more down to people wanting to appeal to the Souls-like demo. It was fine in E33, but it’s massively overused.

I think you’re thinking too extreme on this; we’re not talking Mad Max desert planet survival, we’re talking “can afford to buy oranges when they’re $30 a dozen”, “can afford gas at $20 per gallon”. Or even $100. Taylor Swift spends more on aviation gas in a year than most people earn in their entire lifetimes in aggregate. She can afford to keep buying stuff when you or I plain can’t anymore.

A lot of people will just break under the financial burden that dwindling supplies driving prices up will impose, waaaay before the supply chains themselves get close to collapsing, because the prices are trending upwards (in part) in order to maintain the supply chain.

The point is that the people rich enough to influence global climate trends aren’t going to feel the pressure in their lifetimes (unless they’re made to), because they have the money to handle the effects of it.

No one wants to sacrifice their lifestyles, and no one wants to be holding the bag, so they’ll pretend it’s not happening, and when it comes to their door they’ll use their resources to be the last ones it affects.

It used to be a fairly strong representation of the American Heartland; farming, manufacturing, mining, etc. Then manufacturing collapsed, the steel towns died, the jobs moved elsewhere, and it’s basically a very rundown shell of a state.

And because of that, the people who still live there hate everyone else (especially ‘libruls’, who Fox News tells them are the ones responsible) and are miserable to be around (I have family there).

This year suuuuucks.

If Anthropic ever goes under, Nexon gonna be comin’ for me…