As many have said, our National Parks are incredible, and even outside of them most of the western US is pretty awe-inspiring. I live in a place where, within an hour or two, I can go to desert badlands, alpine forests, coastal tide pools, and even skiing resorts for decent chunks of the year. I was recently up at 11k ft altitude in the Sierras and at -250 ft in Death Valley a few hours apart. The US is HUGE and big parts of it are still very wild. It's something worth fighting to preserve.

Edit: Also we can't read, I am American. Look, I didn't say the education system was good.

Kokomo. It's just the worst.

Hey I'm both an annoying Rust user and I also don't understand the borrow checker. I just put & and * in front of things until it works.

Still a bit. The hairs will recede and the buds will bulk up a lot when it's near done. Looking nice and healthy so far though!

An experimental energy storage device exploded down the street, and a couple big chunks of shrapnel came down through the ceiling, smashed the shit out of an empty cube. We were lucky no one sat there.

Cats are obligate carnivores. They need meat. A vegan cat is a dead cat.

Why are they looking at his word bubble?

I am white looking, but my parents are Jewish and Japanese. Basically every time I tell someone I'm Jewish (culturally, I am an atheist nowadays) it completely changes how people interact with me. The best I can hope for is being the "token Jewish friend" most of the time, but I've been treated to racial slurs and even physical violence. In middle school, the rich son of the local pastor called me a kike and I broke his nose for it. I was suspended from school and he was treated like a victim. Looking back on it, that might have been the beginning of my radicalization.

This is a stupid take. You're tired of the people who own and use a platform controlling that platform to represent their morals? If you want a platform to host bigotry, you should make one. They often do so well. Just because someone has something to stupid say doesn't mean others have to tolerate it in their home or place of business.

Look at this guy and his bootstraps, everyone!

Oh here's another fun one, I had a friend in high school whose mother was Taiwanese, and I wasn't allowed to go into their house because I was Japanese. Like, I know the history, lady, but I'm 15 and both my parents were born in California. Luckily my buddy also agreed his mom was a racist.

I think you overestimate how much they care about doing illegal things. They will try it, and if someone can prove it's illegal, they'll pay a minor fine and stop, maybe. Otherwise they'll get away with it. That's how corps look at laws.

Isn't PewDiePie a Nazi?

I mean, they stole an election in 2000 and we just let that happen with no consequences. Nixon tried to cheat and was caught, and we let that happen with no consequences. They haven't liked democracy for a while now.

I was a sophomore in high school, from a military (though pretty progressive) family. Both my grandfathers were sailors and my father went to West Point. I was in NJROTC and had every intention of going to Annapolis. I wanted to be an astronaut, so navy pilot seemed the path, and I would be making my family proud. I happened to be the one to put up the flag at school that morning. All of this is to say that I was very proud to be an American, and was looking forward to serving my country. The terror and confusion of that day hit me as hard as anyone else, but in the following weeks I was appalled to see how my fellow countrymen reacted. The way we reacted, with fear and hatred and overwhelming violence, both within and without, fundamentally changed how I saw my nation. I eventually dropped out of ROTC and started studying history and politics. I found punk music and took theater classes. I identified as social Democrat until the BLM riots of 2020, when I was radicalized. I now consider myself an anarchist.

I've been exclusively using dry herb vape for a few years now. My favorite devices are my TinyMight 2 and various configurations of Dynavaps, but I also own or have owned lots of others, butane and desktop vapes, you name it. Welcome to the club! What device are you using?

My top tips:

• keep your herb hydrated with a Boveda pack. Dry weed vapes worse.
• Temp can change the high. Different chemicals vaporize at different temperatures.
• Save your vape poo. You can eat it for sleepytime fun.

Bong rip

Yes, this is my go to nowadays for all my family and friends. Atomic makes it harder for them to break it and everything just works out of the box.

Gaming on Linux is pretty good nowadays. I've only run into one or two games I couldn't get working. The vast majority of games work with Proton right out of the box

I'd work on my car and my computer/gamedev stuff, and teach others to do the same. Also more gardening.

"With great power, there must come great responsibility." Spider-Man comes up in a lot of my political arguments and it's an incredibly useful tool to get to some people.

Yeah Hyprland is great and very easy. Just make sure you have kitty installed or change the default config to use your preferred terminal and getting set up shouldn't take long. The Hyprland docs also have tons of recommendations for other good software.

I would pay good money to watch Orcs learn about self-determination and the rights of sentient beings and become a UFP member, rejecting Sauron's authority and overthrowing him. Also Orcs and Klingons!

They are a fascist. source: all of my neighbors

That's actually a pretty good reason. Currently I own my work environments but that won't always be the case, I'm sure.

When the corners are very, very tight, and there's hardly any straights, it's often beneficial to maintain entry speed and get the car rotated in the right direction quickly, assuming you're capable of recovering the slide at the appropriate time. Look at how rally drivers take tight hairpins even on tarmac. Imo big showy drifts aren't fast but they do serve as good practice for understanding the car at the limit and reacting in low-grip situations.

Pretty sure Hyprland will do this. I have seen it make some stupid small windows

I love The Replacements. The series on the No Dogs In Space podcast is great too.

Real talk, I want to try Guix but I have not successfully installed it on any hardware, including VMs. This includes with nonguix for proprietary drivers and stuff. I can never get past install, it always just craps out on some substitution thing. Am I just stupid?

Yeah, I prefer a direct and honest approach. If it ends up that you lose friends over it, those friends may not be worth keeping.

Getting my Pinephone Pro up and running, and getting away from Google forever, finally. Also I'm gonna make the jump from Arch to either Gentoo and/or Guix, I think.

Check out Bazzite, it's basically that. I've been using it on my desktop for gaming and development for a month or so now and it's been great.

Similarly, Fender Precision Bass. Hard to go wrong with a classic.

Oh, also, drink water. Vaping dehydrates you a lot more than smoking.

miata.net!

I am also a person with ADHD who uses sim racing as a form of meditation. I think motorsport requires processing a lot of information very quickly, so its one of the few things that can fully occupy my overly busy mind.

• Spout Lore - the best real play RPG podcast
• Last Podcast on the Left - True Crime, aliens, and cryptids.
• Marvel By The Month - every Marvel comic, one month at a time
• Blank Check - The best movie podcast
• The Flop House - the best bad movie podcast
• Depresh Mode - Mental health, also the best named podcast in history
• No Dogs In Space - alternative music history
• Sawbones - Medical history, also relationship goals
• Till Death Do Us Blart - the eternal podcast
• Improvised Star Trek - Sadly ended but still hilarious

I run Bazzite, which is Fedora Atomic, that hibernates just fine. In fact, so far it's the only one that does. Arch and Mint both would never come back from sleep.

My favorite game of all time. Second is Portal 2.

What games are you playing? I have not encountered anything so far that has needed more than proton-ge, and even then it's only a couple of games that don't just work out of the box. I guess I primarily play indie games though, nothing that would have like anti-cheat which I understand is a hurdle.