qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the person


when the pandemic hit I was a grad student, we didn't have kids, and our living situation was nice (tiny studio but it had a wonderful, if small, outdoor space). Scary times for sure, but life


at least the day to day


was...pretty good!

Now we have kids, and my god, I can't imagine.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Not sure if trolling or not, but googling around and it sounds like Sensory Processing Disorders can cause this level of passionate hatred towards bananas...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 8 months ago

On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

That's not true at all. You generally can't use your distribution's package manager to install or uninstall without elevated privileges. But you can download packages, or executables with their own installer, and unpack/install under your home directory. Or, you can compile from source, and if you ./configure'd it properly make install will put it under your home.

Standard Linux distributions don't place restrictions on what you can and cannot execute; if it needs permissions for device access of course you'll need to sort that out.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, without being a policy junkie I think a reasonable step would be to have Prop 13 only apply to primary residence


investment real estate would be subject to a "wealth tax," but folks wouldn't get priced out of their primary home due to gentrification.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Right, that's a huge downside for sure.

Property tax is on the one hand a wealth tax, which sounds like a great idea; but on the other hand, it's a wealth tax that disproportionately affects people with the bulk of their assets tied up in real estate


which often means middle class homeowners.

So while you can certainly look at prop 13 as "good" in that folks don't get priced out of their existing homes, it of course gets used to the advantage of rent seekers, etc.

It's...complicated.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

California disagrees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

Property tax is assessed when there's a sale, and otherwise changes very slowly. It's a controversial measure.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did the DNC's strategy work? No? Then the Democrats were wrong.

So you're saying that no matter what happens, it's never my fault. Yay!

(/s)

The voters faced a trolly problem. While Trump was busy tying more and more people to the track, the Democrats left a few on the track, and the voters decided that they couldn't stomach the choice, so they sat it out. And now we get this.

The Democrats have blood on their hands, sure, but so does every person who didn't vote yet bemoans the Trump presidency.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, it is the lowest-latency and highest-bandwidth communication method we have, when used appropriately.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but your wine futures would be worthless, what with his unlimited water-to-wine abilities.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

My usual:

  • Peanut butter and jam sandwich on multi grain.
  • Beans (garbanzo or a melange

start with dried and cook in instant pot or other pressure cooker)

  • Fruit (banana, strawberries, maybe other berries)
  • Veggies (carrot sticks, broccoli, cucumber)

Sometimes throw in some rice, a mandarin orange, or just leftovers from dinner. I'm vegetarian so the kiddo doesn't get meat in their packed lunch (they can eat whatever they want though, and do at restaurants).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I think the issue is that the other racist, xenophobic, antivax, generally incompetent policy choices are actually kind of what he campaigned on.

The tarrifs


even though he campaigned on them


are antithetical to his promise of lowering cost of living expenses.

That said, it's the WSJ editorial page


their coverage of the Second Coming of Jesus would be its impact on your 401(k), so this type of coverage (and not e.g., social justice) is their bread and butter.

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