I dunno, I highly doubt anything involving Elon was consentual.

Gonna have to disagree with you on Popeyes. They’re generally good for the first few months they’re open, the nosedive. The fries are good, the chicken is dry and extremely thin for what you pay.

No.

Existence had grown exponentially more expensive in my lifetime, well outpacing what a 401k or pension will realistically ever be able to achieve. At best, it might buy me 5-10 years after I am physically unable to work; if I mentally decline too soon due to age (quite likely in my family), I will die in poverty.

That isn’t even touching on the possibility of a habitable climate or war, and assumes the survival of the current economic system.

A US news echo chamber at the whims of whatever they think will appease trump is going to be horrifying…

Try Linux in a VM (virtual machine) for a while.

• Low hassle compared to dual booting,
• no risk of Microsoft randomly doing something to windows that breaks your Linux install.
• low/No system downtime if you decide you don’t like one distro or another and want to switch,
• no loss of game data for your son (I’ve lost so many saves because of games putting them in nonsensical places in windows; why is appdata still the default for minecraft saves!?)

I’ve said it before on this; with this location, it’s much harder to accidently shut off your computer. The number of times I’ve accidently shut off my work laptop just by holding down the dock to plug in or unplug a cable is absurd…

I should clarify: i hope they try to go for people who shoot back.

I’d much rather they just leave people the fuck alone.

May they accidentally raid a Mob-owned business.

Florida has had Do Not Travel advisories for at least a year for anyone trans (and frankly anyone LGBTQ+ in general).

Ew, TERFs.

Florida is going to be absolutely overwhelmed with MAGA during that time-frame.

Why would they lower the age of consent for people who (in their eyes) don’t have rights to begin with?

People as things, that’s where it starts.

IT support everywhere sigh in satisfaction

I would hedge my bets for now. Alternative scenario: The Saudis throw another party for Trump, make some business deals in exchange for reigning in Israel. The House of Al Saud of course doesn’t care about Palestinians but their people do and a party and some business is a low price to pay to be celebrated by your subjects.

Blech… this honestly seems more likely to me now, plus it can be used as propaganda to “prove” that he did something about genocide, to keep people voting red…

They don’t even have to do anything beyond publishing the guys home address.

This has been in the works for a long time now.

I would not be surprised if this was repealed (if only as an effort to further purge government employees):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Employee_Fair_Treatment_Act_of_2019

Prior to this, my understanding is that back pay was given in good faith, not by actual requirements.

The first Trump presidency is known for the longest government shutdown in US history.

Job stability is not a given for federal employment anymore.

Other than that, I would say non-defense jobs are certainly worth maintaining institutional knowledge.

Mark it with a litterbox for the cat that lives in the gardening section (there’s always one)

4K 60hz, i don’t play competitive games for refresh rate does very little for me. All about that high res immersion.

I push buttons on computers and wait for things to be done. Sometimes I have to look and find out why the button push didn’t do the thing.

In other words, IT.