My bet is that Truth Social buys Twitter in an all-share deal, simultaneously enriching Trump and providing liquidity to Musk.

It would have cost you nothing to never share this thought, and yet here we are.

I, as a child, did a music class presentation on “my favourite song of the year” on this little ditty.

Whoops!

Edit: To clarify, then, much like now, I listened to the music and not the lyrics. I don’t know if that’s common at all, but the singing is basically another instrument to me, and I hardly ever pay attention to the actual words.

OMFG that’s WAY better

Is “Starter” referring to who was the initial projected winner at…the beginning of whatever period US elections start? Which to an outsider just looks like “always”?

So, I would like to know how to use mastodon better. I’ve just been having trouble finding content that I care about. Is it just that the discover feature isn’t great? Or is there a better app for Android I can use that would make things feel more intuitive?

Awww man, is James Woods a brain-dead MAGA cultist now?

Detailed release notes for a URL change? You’re a saint and a scholar both.

Suggestions for best LED bulbs that are not a waste of money because they were designed to break would be enormously appreciated.

Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians was wonderful, and Augusta Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh was dystopian nightmare fuel. Both absolutely excellent books.

Wait, you can’t give people food or water if they’re standing in the line? Why the hell not?

And hours in line?? What? Why!

Gooooddddammit, I actually didn’t mind the PRIME electrolyte powder for when I’m sweating like mad (brought it to Burning Man this year), but Logan goddamn Paul owns it? Fuck I hate that guy

Is there a good walkthrough of how to set up Jellyfin on Linux? If I’m breaking away from a shit OS, I may as well try breaking away from an increasingly crummy Plex

Oh that looks great, thank you!

Finally my Radeon works better out of the box than Nvidia? Amazing.

Glad to hear Mint is the way to go! That’s the one I already have some very basic experience with.

Is Steam necessary? I also use GOG because I prefer no DRM, but maybe that’s not possible in the same way? I’ll Google this one too.

Thank you for your help! And for the confidence boost to think this might be more intuitive than I fear…

Can you suggest a good write-up / walkthrough for how to shift to gaming on Linux? I’ve installed and run it before so I understand the basics, but that was basically just to keep an old laptop alive to watch YouTube.

Fucking Windows…just purchasing one big DIY spyware package these days.

Oh, HPPD is definitely a thing, but extraordinarily rare.

I may have misspoke about the brown acid - this was a legit warning resulting from “home-brew chemists” attempting to make their own LSD and failing to create it properly. Most of the supplies back then were direct from Sandoz (Novartis) and basically were being given away to the scientific community for novel testing. Fun stuff.

I’m talking about the hyperbole of “acid flashbacks” which was a narrative introduced to discourage and demonize LSD usage by the political and intellectual opponents of the Nixon administration. “Rots your brain permanently” and all that other garbage.

Turns out regular LSD usage by the “hippie” community and by many people involved in high-level education (particularly college and university professors) was making people feel more connected and empathetic towards one another, and that just didn’t do for the Republicans who needed everyone to fear “the other”.

What they also did with marijuana and heroin, and subsequently with crack cocaine, was truly abhorrent.

The information in the hallucinogenic section about acid flashbacks is incorrect. This was a false rumour spread in the 70s to demonize the political opponents of Nixon.

Hating people never leads to logical outcomes. I’d rather accept that they’ve been somewhat brainwashed and battle against it, than hate my neighbour.

Just so it’s not lost on anyone why they were arrested:

“We as American Jews will not be used, we will not be complicit and we will not be silent. Judaism is a beautiful, thousands-year-old tradition, and Israel is a 76-year-old colonial apartheid state,” Morgan Bassichis, an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, told the crowd.

“This is the Passover that we take our exodus from Zionism. Not in our name. Let Gaza live.”