MrVilliam

Oh good, that's me. 9/11 in middle school, wars through high school, '08 housing crash in the middle of college which pushed me to pivot to an AA instead of bachelor's, COVID wedding at 31, insane inflation through now. We finally bought our first house a few months ago and I turned 36 a few days ago. Things were starting to seem like they might turn out okay after all. Serves me right for having a whisper of optimism in my brain for once.

Pensions in this country are nearly non-existent. Without social security either, only the wealthy can retire. Thankfully, I've had retirement accounts for years, but they'll be wiped out by the first late life medical emergency I experience. Without social security to look forward to, I think a lot of people would rather live through total societal collapse than give their everything just to prop up this system that gives nothing back. It's a bad fucking deal.

8 year olds still have a lot of potential to grow. This piece of shit has shown a track record of about 70 years of non growth. Imagine getting rewarded for a behavior for 70 years straight. Even if he had the humility and intelligence to do it, he doesn't have the time left it would take to rewire his brain against that kind of conditioning.

To be clear, I'm not excusing him. I'm explaining that his brain is irreversibly fucking broken. Anybody holding on to hope that he changes in any meaningful way, don't you think that getting shot at would've been a humbling moment if ever there were to be one? By being a disgusting, hateful, stupid predator asshole consistently for his whole life, he's gotten absurd wealth, a model wife, an army of cultist followers, and he got to be president. Twice. When was he supposed to have learned that he should really take the time and energy necessary to do some growing?

I took my now wife window shopping for rings when we were getting close to engagement time so that I'd know what she would want. It was clear that the answer was gonna be yes no matter what, but I knew she'd have a ring preference anyway. She saw prices and explicitly said that she'd like white sapphire on sterling silver. I found a bridal set that she adores which very much did not cost a month or two of salary.

Because we didn't blow a ton of money on engagement/wedding shit, we've had much more resources to support the marriage itself. I've heard of regular everyday people spending $3-4k on a fucking ring. We spent 9 days in a few different places in Spain for about that cost instead lol.

I for one believe that the question of whether a food service establishment has rats is very relevant to the business.

The character of the staff and clientele as well as the financial state of the staff as a direct result of how stingy their employer is can also be very relevant. Do you want to eat somewhere if the people preparing your food there will sell their morals and decency? Kinda seems likely that I could pay somebody there $100 to put their pubes into your quarter pounder.

I don't think they want the identity of the rat getting out. I'm willing to bet that there are plenty of people who really want to publicly remind everybody that snitches get stitches. Word on the street is that this rat can suddenly afford a $60k hospital bill, unlike UHC customers whose claims get denied every day.

Their opinion on your opinion is more interesting than your opinion. Ratio, my dude.

Why is CNN's CEO Sir Mark John Thompson looking to draw attention to himself? Could he be hoping for a new trend to develop where people surprise CEOs named Thompson in the streets? Seems weird, but maybe he's optimistically hoping that his surprise might be cake or something.

Breaking news! Conservatives are bad at media literacy!

Guys, are you all just now realizing this? You never noticed a lot of people liking RoboCop and Starship Troopers for all the wrong reasons? Are you just now noticing how many shitty douches were fans of Rick and Morty, and it never occurred to you that they didn't recognize the toxicity of the characters and that they legitimately thought that they were brilliant people who need not show any amount of patience or respect to others because of the invincibility awarded to them by their sheer incomprehensible genius? But really they're just cringey, frustrated losers looking to bully a world that has always bullied them, and they want to drown their dino nuggets in their goddamn Szechuan sauce while bellowing "PICKLE RICK!" into the corners of their smelly studio apartment from the comfort of their used futon bed. Things aren't getting better for them, and things were allegedly better before, so in a fit of frustrated desperation, they vote Republican to try to live a life like they saw in those older movies and sitcoms.

They want to be Ferris Bueller so badly, but they're nostalgic for a time that never really existed. They completely miss the point of fiction. These stories they love were written with intention to deliver a purpose, and that purpose is rarely just surface level entertainment. The audience is supposed to learn something. It's like reading The Fox and the Grapes and thinking "yeah, grapes suck."

Now we know the answer to "why is Gamora?"

Oh no.

Anyway...

Dope! I appreciate you taking the time! So it sounds like a slightly less bloated version of 10 that gets more support, but it may not be exactly legal and breezy to obtain for my personal home use.

With the possible exception of finding drivers for a device or two, it sounds like I'll be better off just pivoting to a Linux distro mid 2025. I have been happy with SteamOS on my docked steam deck with m+kb and controller, so I'm sure I won't be missing much by picking a popular distro that I can find troubleshooting guidance for when I hit inevitable snags.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but if a wrong today prevents millions of wrongs tomorrow, I think that's a little different. The directive of that man was for the insurance company he led to deny lifesaving care to people which is effectively a death sentence to them. This isn't one life versus another, it's one life versus a fucking swath of others.

Executing a man in the street is evil, but let's not pretend that it's more evil than the white collar mass murder that he was ordering.