I don't care if anyone votes or not, it won't change anything, but a protest vote is better than no vote, in my opinion. Voting for a leftist is a chance to voice your dissent and not remain silent. If Harris loses Michigan because several thousand vote for third party leftists, then our message has been sent.

Linux gang here. I have no idea what you're talking about, but you make it sound pretty terrible, so glad I don't have to worry about it.

Windows is a pain in the ass to work with but at least it warns me before i format the boot sector.

This really isn't possible to do accidently with user focused distros. I have been using Linux Mint for about 14 years without issue. I suggest Linux Mint to everyone. One can install steam if you want to game, many games work seamlessly, also emulators, lutris, wine, etc.

I've never ran into an issue I couldn't solve with google and a few minutes of following a tutorial. Also, Linux Mint has the best back-up tool, called timeshift. You let it create back-ups automatically, or do your own manual back-ups, and no matter what you do, you can easily revert back to that back-up with no consequences--Sometimes, if you really bork up your system, you'd need to boot from the USB drive to run timeshift to fix the computer, but again, very easy to google and execute.

I suggest downloading linux mint to a USB drive, and then running it from the USB drive for a bit to see what it is like. I prefer the cinammon desktop environment.

Windows is a pain in the ass to work with but at least it warns me before i format the boot sector.

This whole brat thing has huge "How do you do, fellow kids" energy. I'm sure the 80 year olds who actually vote are really going to be swayed by it. :brat

No order:

Smoked Paprika

Allspice

Sichuan Chili

Mint Leaf

Citric Acid Powder

Easy to care for plants, like golden porthos, ZZ plants, etc. Or, even tasteful fake plants for those no light areas like bathrooms without windows.

I second buying thrift store art, keep in mind, you might buy a few that you end up not showing/displaying, ok to redonate.

Also, two huge things to help keep your place neat is to make sure every item has a home, and more cabinet/covered storage is good, for example, buy furniture that has drawers, like beside tables, coffee tables with drawers, couch side tables with drawers, etc.

I have large magnet marker board on my fridge that I use all the time, you could also get a nice wall corkboard, or even paint a wall with "black slate" paint so that you can write on it with chalk. Also good to have a filebox with hanging folders and use it to keep papers organized, and have a system for your mail so it isn't sitting around.

It could be from iron supplementation, if you recently took nutritional iron. Mostly these things are idiopathic. If you have a secondary symptom or it lasts, go to urgent care asap.

Planetary Genocide. Sisko did that.

What is playing the box flute considered? Hobby or pasttime

They certainly are losing them to China. These people making these policies like the China Initiative are just sofa king dumb and racist, they literally welcomed Nazis and pushed out loyal US scientists of Chinese ethnicity. It will be their undoing.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/13/chinese-scientists-united-states-research-tech-academia-china-initiative/

The US is either really fcuking dumb, or they are trying to create China as a enemy by building them up. They tried this shit in the 1930s-1950s with Chinese scientists and ended up driving out the COFOUNDER of JPL, a loyal US scientist, and he became the father of the Chinese Rocket Program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen

They are doing it again.

Reminder that China only pursued nukes after the US threatened to nuke Fujian province during the second Taiwan straight crises. So I guess the chickens came home to roost once again. Also, down with war mongers. China was first to make the no first use pledge 60 years ago, why won't the US to this day?

This wasn't an idle threat either by the US, they had Nike Hercules missiles, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, on the island of Taiwan.

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America only exists for capitalistic parasites to extract wealth from the working class. By 2050, everyone will recognize America as a second tier nation.

Congrats! LIfe is so much better without alcohol. Especially once you get past your college years. I can't recall the last time I had a drink, I think it's been about a year since my last single beer, and the last time I drank to the point of drunkeness was at a beer festival was in 2018.

I occasionally enjoy a non-alcoholic IPA, I like the taste.

Dang. My late GenXer brain can't remember that far back.

There was only one final fantasy game, a story about the Warriors of Light who must defeat the fiends who darkened the elemental crystals.

This Boeing Rocket Fiasco could end up being the Titan submersible disaster 2.0.

I played Skyrim up until the quest where you had to unite the leaders of the warring factions. I got bored, haven't picked it up since. This play through was this year in 2024, it was the anniversary edition, first time I had played it. The combat is boring, the armor got too good too fast, and it wasn't a challenge, so then go back to story, the story is not good either. Just not a fun game, no reason to keep playing.

They should have enforced a much more rigid class system, warrior, ranger (or thief), or spellcaster, and not allowed you to be anything you wanted. Elden Ring suffers the same, you can start as any class, but become anything you want. It defeats the purpose of class based systems. Also, there should have been much more armor and weapons choices for each of the classes.

Path of exile excels at class based choices and goes even further with ascendancy, so much more replay value.

A big part of all good fantasy games is the specialization and discovering new gear, abilities all the time, and fighting bad guys, not running around all the time doing boring quests, and then fighting boring dragons.

2001-2005. My computer lab in the school of math and natural sciences (including computer science), had windows 2000 (best windows of all time), Apple Power PCs, and all dual booted linux. All we used for comp sci was linux. Yellowdog on the Power PCs. Learned to program/develop in C++ and Java, mostly used e-macs, goal was to never lift hands from the keyboard or use the mouse, keeps you in the zone. Used Gnome as the desk top environment back then.

So pretty good :)

Today I use linux mint with cinamon for day to day computing, been using it for about 10 years now without issue.

I went back to college for a professional program, and used linux mint in 2022, it worked out just fine. As far as office software, I used word 365 online through the university web portal.

I think word sucks a lot and 2003 and 2007 are the best versions and little improvement since then (improvement is efficiency and easy of creating an end-product), but I'm not willing to re-learn how to master Libre Office, I just can't be bothered. So no input on that.