Could ask if she and her son wants to get dinner sometime with you and your son. As long as it's a pretty inoffensive family restaurant, that shouldn't be too forward. From there you can get a better understanding of her situation.

If not fluent, yes you'll have a hard time. I've been there and outside of the tourist areas, people either can't or won't speak English.

I do recommend the USVI if the language barrier is a problem.

I had a disc-based MP3 player. The looks on my friends faces when I had 150 songs on my discman and they had 12.

The concept of rewatching a movie is almost foreign to me now given that I have access to a library of tens of thousands of movies. It would have to be very good and something that whoever I'm with hasn't seen.

Of course I used to watch the same movie about every month or so back when I was growing up in the 90s.

Yeah I think Arch is fine, but I'd never recommend it to a new Linux user.

The code has always been the easy part. The hard part is getting requirements that make sense. It will continue to be the case with bots doing the coding.

There was a guy who was in tech support who talked to a customer about who was hot or not in the company. It was actually the customer who started the conversation, but the rep ran with it and used all kinds of unprofessional and disparaging language when describing his female co-workers.

That call happened to have a supervisor listening in, so he was fired immediately after he got off the call. The thing is found out who called in, and the women on the team had to assist him when he called for support.

I'm shocked he doesn't have an IRA (unless that doesn't count). Given his previous jobs, it passes the smell test that he doesn't have a 401k.

I'm sure his pensions are invested in a wide range of stocks and bonds, but he doesn't directly hold them.

he planned to carry out a mass shooting — a random attack common in the U.S. these days

Well they're not wrong, but it's kind of surreal to see it plainly said like that.

She would seem to have a lot of experience in the matter though.

I could only imagine if each record label had their own streaming service. People would go nuts.

Now if only I could get my employer to stop supporting obsolete platforms...

This lazy doctor earns more than double my salary. It’s depressing.

Wait until you find out how lazy people with inherited wealth are...and they make way more than double your salary in passive gains.

Maybe it's just me but I don't think he'd make a good James Bond.

It's not crazy. You should get one every so often just in case. Better to find a small problem now than a big problem later.

I'm more shocked that you could buy the house without an inspection. My bank required one to give me a loan.

This is how it works, but only Republican presidents have this power.

We had an IT person quit this year because we transitioned to fully remote after they closed down the office in December 2020. He couldn't handle working from home.

The way I feel about it is that I don't want Lemmy to grow for growth's sake. I want people to understand how important it is to use open protocols and free software to communicate with others and that is what will lead Lemmy and other Fediverse applications to grow.

I run Debian and I regularly look at the Arch wiki.

Ahh the halcyon days of downloading one song from a private FTP server with upload ratios, found by Lycos FTP search. Over a modem, natch, so it took about 50 minutes...and that's when your mom didn't kick you off the internet so she could make a call.

It's a fine picture of various platforms, but I'd have trouble calling Twitch, Discord, and YouTube "social media." Discord is basically IRC with more bells and whistles and no one ever called IRC "social media."

He's a billionaire the same way I'm a $10k-naire if I get a $10k cash advance from my credit card and put it in the bank.

No, he can just order members of Congress to be executed until they pass the law he wants.

Maybe on the weekends. I work during the week. Depends on if I could get flexible scheduling and HQ had Wi-Fi.

Agreed. I highly doubt these people really believe the shit they're trying to sell. They just know if you're going to grift, the best way to do it is on the right.

I want to hear answers from men who really detest men who sit to pee.

I fear that you will not many of these kinds of people on Lemmy. If you really want a good answer, you'd have to post it somewhere like Twitter or Truth Social.

You've understated how much the RNC will simply become a Trump-family slush fund. Otherwise I think you're spot on.

This will help you a bit to answer your own question: https://www.270towin.com/ You can play with scenarios there.

how much does she have to win by to flip the electoral college to her side?

This misunderstands how our elections work. If you win a state by one vote (offer not valid in Nebraska and Maine), you get all that state's electoral votes. If you flip several thousand votes in a few states, Trump wins the 2020 election even though Biden had around 7,000,000 more in the popular vote total. Also, if you're from the UK, Americans are a little idiosyncratic in their voting. A good deal of people do the equivalent of voting for a Tory even if they wanted Labour in power. It's called vote splitting, and it's generally a terrible idea.

This. If you're a meme stock (Tesla), you have to keep it that way or else everyone is losing their shirts.

It can never collapse unless Congress votes to make it collapse. Even in the future once the trust fund is spent down, benefits will be reduced to what comes in from current workers. That's not the full amount but it will be something. I think something like 70%.

So it's not going to collapse unless you think that anything but full benefits is a collapse.

I have root on this phone I'm using to post. I'm also running LineageOS 21.

The reason I do this is because this is my phone and I'll be in control of it. Also I want to keep my phone running as long as possible. I'm still using a Pixel 2 XL.

I don't (and I'm not Jewish), but I can see how it might.

The way I see it, if it was a joke to poke fun and it was good-natured, it shouldn't be offensive. I mean the Zucker brothers who were writers on the movie are themselves Jewish, so they thought it was hilarious. All that being said, I don't get to speak for Jews as to what they find offensive.

It does seem like the TL;DR of right wing Israelis is "Hitler was right, but his only problem was that he was killing us."

I'm sorry officer. Looks like I only bought 3 gallons. I guess you'll have to...punish...me.

This is definitely a dril subtweet.

I think this is not quite correct. You're absolutely right that 6 weeks is basically the same thing as a full ban, but it's based on last period rather than from conception. Which is even worse. They assume that women conceived the day after their period.

A woman could become pregnant late in her menstrual cycle, but the 6 weeks counts from the previous period. So she could really be only a few weeks from conception but closer to 5-6 weeks based on the ban math.

"Donald Trump makes me, a white christian, feel like I'm important."

Oh that's my birthday. What a good present to have if Letitia James starts selling his shit then.

Dead Kennedys

The Clash

Bad Religion

Minor Threat

Refused

we were attacking a country for the president’s personal vendetta

This had nothing to do with 9/11. Invading Iraq was much later. You're conflating the two.

"Bush did 9/11" is crazy talk. "Bush invaded Iraq because he wanted to get back at Saddam Hussein and make money for Halliburton" is not.