Remider that voting in a Democracy is the bare minimum.

Everday citizens can protest, attend town halls, call their elected officials (or their opponents) and make their views heard. You can donate money, and if you can't donate money, you can donate time, and if you can't donate time, you can bring attention to issues that you want to change in your everyday life.

Voting is the most important thing you can do right now, but don't forget the other stuff. Behind every politician is a team, behind that team are supporters, and behind the supporters are voters. You get to choose your level of engagement.

No shame on people that only vote. That's better than 4 out 5 other Americans this year.

Like those morons who thought the Pentagon didn't get hit because there wasn't an airplane shaped hole in building like some kind of looney-tunes gag?

NGL. I've seen other ways to die. Instant obliteration isn't a bad way to go. Beats drowning by a long shot.

Solar panels and rechargable batteries (when you consider the production/storage, and not just the cost of a panel or battery)

I'm not saying the commentary on inflation is wrong, but I think it is interesting where we are seeing price increases, vs price decreases.

I pay for 100% renewable generation. Sometimes the supplier makes so much electricity that the price occasionally goes negative. The consumer will never see the benefits of that while the coal plant subsidies exist. 100% solar is priced the same as coal, since that is the competitor/alternative to get electricity (free market baby! What is a utility but a legalized monopoly anyway?), plus a subsidy to keep the coal plant in operation. Without the need to pay the subsidy, the pricing factors change, green energy is now competing against each other, instead of carrying the load of outdated, inefficient and toxic coal plants.

Up until trump's tariffs, the distraction war, and the DoJ being favorable to tech bros.... I would have said RAM.

He's always been fine with it.

The rich already have money, they want stuff now. Sure, spend a few million more afford their lifestyles, but they're fucking billionaires. Meanwhile, everyday people are selling their houses and going back to renting to get by, or their farm goes under and they have to sell. We sell our shit to survive, and the rich buy it up because they are the only people with expendable income. Trump and his cronies found out during the pandemic that harsh times are really good for the ultra-wealthy. The affordability crisis is a bonus feature of his Epstein-files-distraction war.

You can only see a few words at a time, very hard to read what you have typed out. The interface and software to get them to work was a pain in the ass. The file system they had was less than stellar, my shit kept getting overwritten or would not save correctly. Total junk.

Microsoft likes to reuse names for things that are unrelated. I think the new "Windows" will be called either "Windows OS" or "CoPilot".

Pretty much every one in tech at my company has switched from a Windows OS to Linux or Mac in the last year. Almost no one who knows that there is a working alternative is choosing to use Windows in their personal life.

I switched after 30+years on Windows/DOS. I got my mom to switch, one (or two) of my brothers have switched, my little niece's first computer is running Linux. In the span of a year, my family went from 100% windows machines to about 70%. Hell I got my friend in another state to switch to linux, and he's really running with it. Microsoft has a lot of momentum, they can endure these losses by relying on their business platform, but unless they commit to making a clean, light, privacy-focused, secure and stable OS, we will probably see the last Windows in the next decade.

Fuck, I hated those things. I would rather hand-write and then retype than use one of those.

Here, "Enjoy" more exposure.

https://youtu.be/qxBuly8Vblc

Fair warning, this ran on public TV in France allegedly. Technically SFW, but it's pushing it.