Eh… Even better to tax wealth or increase income taxes at higher tax brackets.
It’s a shame that the Liberals backed off increasing capital gains inclusion above $10K (iirc?) to ⅔ instead of ½. That would have made a big difference on its own, and the cost to implement that change would be very low, presumably—people are already responsible for calculating their capital gains; this would just make it a 3-step calculation instead of a 2-step calculation.
There’s no contradiction there. This broke over the summer: Microsoft Admits: US Law Supersedes Canadian Sovereignty — Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country’s sovereignty.
CachyOS is what I installed a couple of months ago and it’s been great. The only major challenge I’ve had so far have been with my Windows 11 VM which I need for work. For anyone who doesn’t need Windows-exclusive software to work (Excel 2024, in my case), Linux is easier to use than Windows… But it does have a bit of a learning curve if you need to install specific things.
Another example: Omada Controller is needed for my wifi mesh network. Took me a while to figure out that I need to use Podman or Docker for it (after several failed attempts at installing different versions from AUR.) But once I figured that out, it was easier to get running than the official software was on Windows. I think 1 app to install from Cachy Hello (Podman) and 2 commands in the terminal to get and run the container in Podman. (I even ignored the instructions to use Docker and it worked 100% smoothly on Podman on the first try.)
All my hardware just works without manually installing drivers. Updating almost everything on the system took 1 GUI command a few minutes to run, then less than a minute to reboot. It mounts my old Windows drive no problem.
And it’s so fast. No random slowdowns for Windows search indexing, antimalware executable, “System”. No hours spent needing to debloat and reconfigure Windows 11 to hide all the bullshit… It took me longer to configure Windows 11 in my VM than it did to set up everything in CachyOS.
That said, I’d only suggest CachyOS to someone who can tinker and wants/needs cutting edge (gaming stability/performance improvements, in my case). I’m leaning towards an immutable distro for my wife’s laptop—old hardware, and won’t be used for gaming. Maybe Fedora Kinoite? Windows 10 runs like shit on it, now, even though it used to be plenty fast.
It’s appropriate to say that.
Absolutely, unequivocally not. No. By doing so, you are trivializing their experience.
You’re doing it again, mate. What is being heard by your audience is that your sound sensitivity is as important as (or more important than) this woman being fired at and grabbed by secret police in front of her children.
There are orders of magnitude separation between those levels of trauma. Those children will never be the same, nor will the mother.
Frankly, fuck your sound sensitivity. Contextually wildly inappropriate to complain about, compared to the severity of the situation.
ikr? Can we start labeling this as a Republican choice, not just Trump?
This is a Republican administration operating with support from a Republican-controlled Senate and House and by Republican judges and other appointees.
Project 2025 isn’t Trump’s plan, it’s a Republican plan. Let’s start talking about the party that’s doing this to America so they can’t just claim it was “all Trump” and be believed when it all comes tumbling down around them.
Absolutely. Why bother with the test?
My wife and I both did before having kiddos. It was extra protection for them, especially when they’re most vulnerable as infants, but also for us. It was super easy to book and get done and, of course, free.
Even if you still have immunity, a booster will make it more effective anyway.
Can’t believe I had to scroll down this far to find this:
Here’s the gut-punch for the typical living room, however. If you’re sitting the average 2.5 meters away from a 44-inch set, a simple Quad HD (QHD) display already packs more detail than your eye can possibly distinguish. The scientists made it crystal clear: once your setup hits that threshold, any further increase in pixel count, like moving from 4K to an 8K model of the same size and distance, hits the law of diminishing returns because your eye simply can’t detect the added detail.
On a computer monitor, it’s easily apparent because you’re not sitting 2+ m away, and in a living room, 44" is tiny, by recent standards.
Sure, but there are also lots of other ways around it. Non-chrome browsers (or Chromium-based browsers) still allow for good extensions that can block YouTube ads.
Firefox + uBlock Origin still works great, even when all the front-ends are broken.
Pipepipe has been more reliable for me, lately.
But who knows how long these alternative front-ends will last? It’s a constant cat and mouse game between volunteers and Google.
lol, high school.
Their donuts were great until around 25 years ago (?) when they switched away from baking them in house. Their sandwiches were pretty good when they were first introduced, too. Then they were bought out by Burger King and started degrading the quality of their ingredients—when they switched from cheddar to processed cheese was the last time I ordered one of their sandwiches.
I don’t understand why they’re still so popular. Who the hell is buying enough crappy coffee and food from then to keep them open? You can get far better coffee and food from almost any of their competitors, for the same price or less even.
Are national guard trained in protestor rights? They aren’t police, aren’t trained as police, and have no business policing unless it’s a state of emergency.
Unless I’m totally off base. I don’t know anything about the American national guard. I’m not even American.
I sure as hell didn’t know what it was when I was 20. I think I only learned about all this shit when I was teaching a student who had a confederate flag phone wallpaper (not in the US, btw), and I did a “crash course” in other to look for that are subtle symbols, like 1488 and lesser-known Nazi/white supremacy logos.
Some of them are super generic, too, like the one that looks like two parallel square-ish lighting bolts, or the square-looking ankh thing. (Someone linked a list above, of symbols banned in Germany).
Seems more likely that the establishment is trying to smear a progressive candidate than that a progressive candidate is secretly a neo Nazi.
Now that November is around the corner is the best time to book shots, too. You’ll hit peak immunity before the winter holidays, when everyone and their dear plague rats children travel all over the world at the same time.
Maybe, for “rec league” or whatever, but school teams are usually meant to be competitive, and non-gendered sports would mean girls wouldn’t have equitable access to athletics.
But even for non-competitive teams, girls are unlikely to be able to access shared sports to the same level as boys. At a party high school I worked at, there was a major challenge with girls being willing to access open gym time, feeling uncomfortable advocating for access to basketball nets for practice—even girls who were on the competitive team felt they couldn’t use open gym time.
TL;DR: Sexism runs deep. We need policies that recognize that and build equity, not just offer “equality” that perpetuates, or even magnifies, the problem.
Dwarf Fortress, so much. But I agree; I don’t think that type of play is unintended. It’s a fantasy world simulator first and game second (if at all). There are absolutely no objectives in the game at all; it’s entirely self generated.
Like, what’s more fun than chopping down all the trees, getting the elves raging mad at you, then holing up in your giant underground+inverted pyramid “hourglass” base while completely ignoring the siege going on above/below you while digging deep to get magma pumps set up all the way to the inverted pyramid so you can flood the surface with magma and kiil all the elves with fire, without having a single military dwarf the entire time because you can’t be bothered to figure out the military menus/training when it’s not as much !!!FUN!!! as mechanical defense options (lava traps.)
Is that a game, or just a sandbox? idk, but I love it. I haven’t played in a while b/c of life commitments (kids, mostly), but I look forward to playing again.
Apparently military is a lot simpler, now, but I can’t be bothered. Traps are so much more !!!FUN!!! and I totally haven’t drowned my complete base with a failed water trap design killing all my dwarves. Not recently. (Mostly because I haven’t played recently.)
The challenge, as always, is to never underestimate a bubble’s capacity to outlast your solvency. I personally know people who have been heading against the housing “bubble” in Canada bursting since 1999. They’ve spent a lot of money with nothing to show for it, yet, and missed out on housing prices, like, quadrupling? Quintupling?
So, good luck. Buying out-of-market puts might be a safer bet, since you’re most likely to “just” lose all your money, with a small chance of a massive payout of it “properly” crashes.
How does someone beating a game on “story” mode reduce your enjoyment of beating it on “nightmare”? I don’t get it. We can have both in the same game; isn’t that just better?
(Assuming we’re talking about single player, obv.)