So the issue is having two leopards. We live in a zoo.

They would have to be baggy jeans. There is very little value in a deep pocket that doesn’t have space to move things in and out of that pocket. Women’s jeans, with exceptions, tend to hug.

Israel. And they don’t want the war to stop. So the second there is peace they will tear it up. If the US wants peace, and we should, we need to decouple our negotiation from Israel. But we can’t do that while we fund their military because Iran would be reasonable to think that if we stop fighting per our deals that we are then using Israel as a proxy to get around the deal.

It is a very dangerous thing that we’ve given these people money. Now we can’t negotiate deals independently. We can’t be decoupled from their actions since we’ve funded those actions. So the US can’t have peace as long as we fund people who are dead set on maintaining conflict. We can’t cancel funding to Israel fast enough.

Trump needs to learn what a frenimy is. When you have a friend that fucks up everything you do, they aren’t your friend. It is safer to turn your back on an enemy than a false friend.

You missed an important one.

Put blind trust into an ally that takes advantage of you every chance they get

One more

Go to war against a country that has a higher favorability with your people than either yourself or the country they were fighting.

Thanks for catching that. I also need to get the relative time rounding instead of rounding down. When it’s 1d 18h away, it makes it read like it’s happening on Friday.

My top one is writing my own project management software, and maintaining it for over a decade as its only user, because without it I would be 100% dysfunctional. It could be argued that the software isn’t even that good. But it involves ranking the tasks against each other so at the end you have to pick something concrete.

How is it dumb? It would be very effective PR with the American people. Punishing Trump politically is an effective whip of a stick to say, hey, don’t put your hands on me. It’s exactly why they closed the Strait of Hormuz. And it’s been effective. Now, Trump’s current war objective is fixing the problem that didn’t exist before he started the war. But invoking the Epstein list doesn’t even cost American citizens anything, making it a cost-free way to do the same thing (the cost being the number of people who will blame Iran instead of Trump). This hurts Trump a lot when the “enemy” is more popular with the people than their own president. And this hurt may encourage distance between the US and Israel when Trump may blame Israel for pushing him into a bad move. He’s not going to blame himself.

Just calling something dumb and appealing to a consensus that doesn’t exist isn’t an argument.

This whole war BTW was really caused by Iran being the only country brave enough to punish genocide. And when we punish them for that we are putting our own force behind genocide. Iran has their flaws. But I rank every moral consideration behind genocide and the willingness to punish genocide. Everything else is a secondary morality. So they are the good guys here. They may be bad guys in some other layers of morality. But so is Israel and the US. The most current genocide to have occurred supercedes any other issue or false obligation to national loyalty.

If Trump wants to save political points, he should just admit he’s wrong. Seeing how he’s never done that ever, he would genuinely win points by doing that. At least a few American people would be impressed by that. No one is going to be impressed by him digging us deeper into a war that we all know will last 30 years if we keep going.

If we want to avoid giving into age verification we’ll still need to be selective about the Linux. But we have a chart.

https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

I will gladly lose a California market. Users can use a VPN anyway.

What a sour thing to say.

Very nice of the bank to teach me how to dodge investigations like that. Without those tips I’d never know.

All presidents are evil. Bill Clinton embargoed Iraq to shift the news cycle off of his blowjob, and it killed a million children who had dependence on imported medical supplies.

Trump isn’t special. Just one more cunt.

Sweet. It’s one of the few at the top of our poll I haven’t seen. And I’m pretty excited for it.

Also, since I wrote that, it’s now a new season entirely. So that’s another worthy excuse to do some reflection.

This is why I’m going to argue for pure Arch or Artix. Ultimately, what a lot of these distros bring to the table is artwork. But they bite off a lot more than artwork when doing so. And in time they can start to suck at that administration.

It’s not very hard to set up your system with a vanilla DE and adjust it into something good. You don’t need to get fancy. And to the extent someone else’s art work can be good and accelerate getting to a nice system, there are other ways to distribute that.

You should want your distro to be 95% administration and 5% art because in the long run that’s whats going to keep your system stable and avoid future headaches. But some artists are overly ambitious and envision creating an entire version of an operating system, including the parts they aren’t passionate about. And some people buy in on this premise and install these projects. …instead of just releasing dot files.

For it to go well requires that both the leadership and the contributors are passionate about all of the parts and passionate about them forever. Not very likely. If you want a distro that is administered well, get a distro where administration is all they do, and then get your artwork as a separate selection.

Now you can get your art from artists who put 95% of their effort into art. And your package stability by people who put 95% of their effort into package stability.

Everyone has romantic feelings toward a system that is integrated. But what they should realize is that integrated and modular are opposites. And modular is what they should want, with effective roll separation.

If they fork Majaro that is good. If when they fork it they scope down to just distribute a dot file set, and maybe create their own easy installer for Arch that isn’t a seperate whole distro, that is better.

Macaroons are so expensive. I’m spending how much for a bad and tiny cookie?

I think the one flaw in that is if someone say, “uh, I’m not sure.” That’s a way of saying no to tea, and you shouldn’t make them tea. In other words, even that makes it way fuzzier than it should be.

For Israel.

Well… with Arch it’s unsafe to install new software to a system that isn’t up to date at least semi-recently. But you really only need to update as often as you install new things. Or more often if you want to.

A related thing I’ve done is I’ve made it so pacman can’t run outside of Tmux. At least not in that shell profile. One of the reasons is I got so fed up with Ubuntu server that I decided I’d experiment with a few servers being Arch. Some might consider that crazy but it’s what experiments are for.

I can’t afford to have an ssh disconnect break a system and forcing Tmux prevents me from doing something lazy. Side benefit… it also means it’s easier to not babysit it.