You said the same thing three times…

There’s nothing wrong with life-long politicians, but we need more variety and less concern for getting reelected over doing what’s right.

Congress has 535 members, you’re off by 100. It should be 43 members with food service experience.

In theory that should work, but you forgot that logic is not their strong point.

“Fuck your principles; suck it up and use it anyway” is pragmatic but not really a great answer.

Especially for students, where there is a lot more room for flexibility, and the teachers incompetence shouldn’t enter into that.

Sometimes it puts a target on your back, but change can only happen when people recognize that there’s a problem with the status quo.

For me that list is pretty short and I am unlikely to actually be in a situation to sit back and enjoy.

“Right for the wrong reasons”

Yeah… that’s not a teaspoon.

Edit: here’s another angle of the object in question.

And no, “what is this object?” is not one of my questions.

raise power bills and threaten grid stability

So we’ll also be cancelling these fucking LLM datacenters right? Right??

She did, but that seems to be unrelated to the statue or the photo.

The dude she was hitting deserved worse.

Seppo Seluska, a militant from the Nordic Realm Party later convicted for the torture and murder of a gay Jew.

Saving a click: “the same landlord” is Asif Aziz, some billionaire asshole in the Middle East.

I am disturbed by the lack of Great Lakes.

“Driving around on them” is different from “driving around them”

I think that should be “baby highland cow”

Ummm… I have questions.

They’re a mixed bag. Some are good, others less so. My family spent a summer taste testing and rating apple varieties. Fuck [Diesel] Sweeties and their horrible chemical flavor.

I also hate the artificial corporatized naming/branding of these apple varieties. Apples should never have a fucking registered trademark.

I think that’s it: simply blurring the background instead of just disappearing, it makes it feel like it’s not “gone”; just not the current focus, so to speak.

I also was on Ubuntu for a lot of the time while they were fooling around with “Unity” so I’m sure my experience is skewed compared to a clean pure gnome setup.

Of course you’re entitled to your preference, no debating that.

I found the happily short-lived windows “metro” interface similarly jarring like you describe, but the gnome equivalent has never caused me any difficulty for some reason.

Are you just talking about the way the app launcher uses the whole screen? That seems like the silliest thing to care about… it’s there for 2 seconds while you type the name of the app you want, and letting you focus on that task. It’s not like I’m browsing the web in the background while I wait for the start-menu-equivalent.

I think as a [edit: former] GNU project, Gnome is an exception. That might be a bit of a hypercorrection though.

Which one’s the hard g? If that’s the one that sounds like j or “g as in giraffe”, then I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it like that. Jnome? Doesn’t really roll off the tongue very well.