Your taxes already go to various public programs, like infrastructure (roads and highways), Israel, public education, police, public services, paying off national debt, Israel again, social security, Medicare, veteran benefits, the salaries of public officials, Israel... Oh yeah, and food programs.

So, like, what's the problem?

I thought some platforms (particularly Facebook/Instagram) will parse images for "bad" words and throttle the engagement of those posts, so people have taken to censoring themselves to avoid that.

I'm convinced those people have to be elaborate trolls. Like the flat earthers.

Hello neighbor! NC will welcome you. It's purple here. Rural areas are not so great but closer to the bigger cities (Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville, Greensboro/Winston) are nice.

Sorry about your sanity.

I did one of those Hey girls, did you know that um memes (and continued to make them) back in the day. Netted me niche internet micro celebrity status. I won't tell you which one, though.

I had a similar experience on my laptop. I tried Ubuntu which broke after trying to throw on Nvidia drivers (using the official docs). I tried Mint and Debian, both of which couldn't detect my laptop's wifi card (after hours of trying to fix - apparently a common issue but the fixes did not work for me!). I landed on Fedora, worked great. I'm now on EndeavourOS, but Fedora was the stepping stone I needed.

My desktop I built recently is Bazzite, which is Fedora based and I love it.

I made it say "brick shithouse" lmao

There are active KKK chapters in NC. There is also a Proud Boys presence here (they're known to wear masks).

I wonder, will they be exempt from this? (I know the answer, of course. Republicans will protect their own.)

According to my friend who works there, it was red drink.

One of my favorite examples of this is Charles Martinet, longtime voice of Mario (and Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi), is also the voice of the legendary dragon Paarthurnax in Skyrim.

You should be offended, and PETA has been doing this forever to make people think eating animal or animal products is bad. But their assertion also implies autism is a negative thing, which is untrue.

If they don't like it, they can just leave. That's what they've been saying for decades, right?

Me lately trying to figure out how to do anything on Linux

There is a long-standing history of using fried chicken and watermelon (among other foods) to negatively depict Black People in the United States. I agree that both foods are excellent (watermelon even being a popular summertime fruit that can feed a lot of people), but having them together on Juneteenth (a day of celebration for the freedom of Black People) is pretty on the nose.

At my old job, they had an HR person that was not qualified to be an HR person, and she "accidentally" sent an Excel spreadsheet of everyone's wages and salaries to the entire company email distro.

1. She was not fired, but put on a suspension.
2. Don't know why she had an unsecured Excel file of important information like that.
3. Everyone was pissed lol

Please explain how Biden controls the gas prices, and how him controlling the gas prices constitutes a dictatorship.

Last year I got really into freshwater aquarium keeping as a hobby. So I find myself buying little plants, decor, tools, etc for my aquariums (of which I have 5 now...). It's fun, a bit expensive but it's therapeutic.

I also smoke hella weed.

I am interested. Sounds like classic reddit.

Hell, I wish my downloads took money directly from him. He sucks.

I get intimidated by the fact that usually these folks have established communities with regular known chatters with in jokes and whatnot and now some new weirdo is trying to come in

One of my all time favorite games from a wonderful developer. Haley, my beloved.

What are the consequences of having a computer? Wouldn't the Butlerian Jihad have outlawed things like calculators? 😉

I agree that Yuzu did things like sell piracy, which put them squarely on Nintendo's Ninja Radar. It's unfortunate that they're so litigious, even for projects not intended to make money.

But, like, calm down man.

You know what? I appreciate this reference. And if I don't laugh, I'll scream. So thanks!

Here's the voicemail log that I mentioned. It's just insane.

Back in the early days I found Firefox to be clunkier and slower than Chrome, which was the reason for my using Chrome for well over a decade. But since Chrome became Google's My Little Spyware, I've moved back to Firefox and it's so much better. More stable, better customization, and way more privacy focused.

Someone else said it but yeah, this feels like astroturfing.

I used to be a big hater of Crocs. Ugly, rubbery, cheap looking things that anyone should be ashamed of wearing.

I needed a new pair of shoes for a new little garden patio we did up. On a whim, I tried a pair of Crocs (with semi-ironic weed leaf print), and honestly? They're pretty good shoes. I wear em when I do other various chores that might have me going outside.

I do love the idea of wasting their time! I've done it a couple of times, but nothing quite so extensive as what you do. Usually when I call robo call numbers back, I get "this number is disconnected," so I can't even annoy the hell out of them like they do to me. :/

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Okay, Rozauhtuno, it's time for you to leave.

I'm building a new PC soon and today I'm trying some psychedelic mushrooms for the first time.

That's Alvin, of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

I anticipate switching to a full Linux setup once I build my new PC, hopefully later this year. I can't see myself even unwillingly buying pirating buying Windows.

Any tips for when that day comes?

He must have forgotten that ripping words from other people is plagiarism, too.

I design and quote Wi-Fi solutions for the hospitality industry, so probably not. I have a rough enough time describing it to my grandmother...

Your ISP has bigger things to worry about than trace a user through a VPN service and stalk their fediverse comments for piracy confessions. :)

"works without amp or outlet"

Silly question, but where in settings is this? I feel like I've had it set up but can't remember.

Super Battle Droids - get down!

I have no clue why you're being downvoted so much. I understood exactly what you were trying to convey and I agree with you.

I don't mean to start an argument about it, but hating Nazis and hating Israel are not mutually exclusive. Hating Israel is antizionism, not antisemitism.