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This meme, but with the scouring of the shire

This inn is heavily featured in the film “An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn”. Great movie, and incredibly difficult to recommend because of how incredibly weird it is.

It depends, since all states manage their taxes differently. Usually it’s done via determining ties from the foreign resident to the state in question (e.g. is the resident receiving mail, operating a business, or residing x days of the year in the state?), and taxing on that accordingly. My state doesn’t collect income taxes, so I’m not well suited to speak on this topic.

The taxation part of this is a bit of an unfair point. The US allows for an exclusion of ~$150k in foreign earned income if the US citizen qualifies as a bonafide resident of a foreign nation. On top of that, the IRS lets you deduct any taxes paid to a foreign government dollar for dollar against owed US taxes, and since most other developed nations have a higher tax rate, this essentially wipes out your US tax obligations (federal only, some states will still apply taxes separately). The only people actually double paying taxes are the ultra rich, but they obviously don’t pay taxes at all since that’s for the poors 🫩

Obviously, the system is still stupid and overly complicated (why should I even file a return with the IRS when I don’t owe anything?), but it’s not as egregious as this video makes it out to be

sigh I’ll just put this here instead of writing it all over again: https://piefed.social/comment/10585049

I have a similar use case with my PC and TV. My PC is across the house from the TV and is connected via an HDMI over Ethernet KVM for when I want to use my PC as a gaming console.

What I ended up doing was creating an automation in Home Assistant to turn on my KVM via a smart plug, then wake-on-lan my PC, and intiate a Steam Big Picture mode gamescope session. This was pretty tedious to get working all together, and startup time is pretty abysmal (around 1 minute to get fully into Steam), but it does actually work consistently.

In case anyone is interested in replicating my setup: I’m running NixOS 25.11 with the Jovian flake installed, and launching my session via the systemd service run_gamescope. If you’re not on NixOS, you should still be able to build your own solution by emulating the Steam Deck startup services (honestly, it’s not that complicated), or looking into projects like ChimeraOS.

Tom Bombadil is (probably) the avatar of Arda itself, which makes him far stronger than a Balrog, but not omnipotent. Theoretically if Tom Bombadil had to solo the entirety of Morgoth’s forces in Dagor Dagorath, then he’d probably die, but who knows what would happen to the planet after that ¯\(ツ)/¯

One correction: Morgoth didn’t “create” any Balrogs. He merely corrupted Maia to his will

If your kids are only going to be using big picture mode in steam, then one system account will work. The steam deck only has one system user with the ability to have multiple steam accounts and that works great for multiple users, from my experience.

For anyone interested in a great dual use system for regular desktop use and a console-like experience, I recommend checking out nixos and jovian-nix: https://jovian-experiments.github.io/Jovian-NixOS/

I’m using it on my main PC and it works incredibly well to mimic the steam deck experience using a full desktop on nixos 25.11

It looks like the QT 6 version isn’t available in nixpkgs yet, but the QT 5 version is. You’d need to explicitly install plasma 5 though, since nixos uses plasma 6 by default.

Plus, Andy Serkis narrates one version!

This is in the hobbit. Gandalf and crew find Glamdring, Orcrist, and Sting in the troll hoard, and Elrond tells them the names of the blades. Sting was named by Bilbo since the knife didn’t have an elvish name

Completely unrelated to OP, but I just discovered this and I feel a need to broadcast it from the rooftops:

If you play any jam music or find yourself needing chord or lead charts constantly, then you should absolutely get iReal Pro. It’s pricey for an app, and I have no idea if the creators are ethical people or not, but the product is incredible: https://www.irealpro.com/

This has been such a game changer for playing with new people or jamming on tunes

Nope, she’s Power Girl. While still Superman’s cousin, in this specific continuity (injustice), she’s from an alternate timeline. So it’s like half incest

You dropped this -> /s

This meme is entirely false. Tolkien stole from the Red Book of Westmarch, not the Hobbit!

That’s a very good point. Sam’s achievement shouldn’t be understated, as he is the first and last mention of any harm coming to Shelob. Beren did pass through Shelob’s birthplace in the first age as he traveled through Ered Gorgoroth (he was the only one of the children of Ilúvatar to do so), and I wonder if he crossed paths with her, as she was the final and mightiest of Ungoliant’s spawn and therefore must have had a place of dominance amongst the other great spiders there.

Imagine being a creature born of an ever yawning abyss, living for eons; and possibly the second mortal to evade your maw is not Beren, greatest of men, but rather Samwise, the humblest of the children of Ilúvatar, and not only did he evade her grasp, he wounded her and stole her finest meal in what was probably hundreds of years. Sam was truly one of the most valiant souls to ever walk Arda

There’s a couple of things wrong here

• Shelob wasn’t killed by Sam (as stated by another user). She was wounded greatly, but definitely not mortally, and she retreated back into her caves to heal
• Ungoliant (the mother of all spiders, including Shelob) did not eat “the original sun and moon”. She drank the light of the two trees which provided light to Arda before the sun and moon, causing them to rot and die.
• The two trees weren’t the original sun and moon. Before the two trees, there were the two lamps which stood on or near the poles of Arda and were the original lights of the world. I don’t think it’s fair to call either the lamps or the trees iterations of the sun and moon since the idea of a day-night cycle didn’t exist prior to the sun and moon, at least in how we think of it. During the age of the two lamps (the Spring of Arda), both lamps shone constantly (no transition for time of day). During the age of the two trees, the trees would bloom throughout the day on a cycle, alternating which one was in full bloom. This is closer to day and night, but the trees shone so brightly that dark night never existed. Plus, the trees blooms mingled twice a day, essentially creating two “noons” per day

I haven’t found any, but it’s also been a while since I’ve checked (or even played VR).

I’d recommend giving the oculus app a try via wine experimental though. Just report back here and let me know if it works 😎