Its fine, I’m petty sure they were both implying that one could replace “despite” with “specifically because of” and it would sound just as believable given all this exile business going on

Can confirm, mine is touch-enabled. Forgot to mention that in my post. Model 20UD-003KUS

I just got a Lenovo T14 Gen 1 with a Ryzen 7 4750U (I think that’s around 11th gen on Intel?), 16GB soldered RAM as well as an open slot to add more, 14" screen (on the larger side of your wishlist, I know), and it was $300US on eBay. It’s been fine with Linux Mint running Cinnamon as my daily driver right now, and also fine with other related OSs like vanilla Debian and Ubuntu. Have not tried with Arch, btw, but these T-series machines have a pretty good reputation as far as I know in terms of Linux ease-of-use.

I’ll just toss that over here with the rest of the fascism

I love how she always waits as long as possible to judge how people might react to her taking a position on something. Way to lead from the back, as usual. At least she’s retiring, though. NH primaries in 2026 will be important to try and get a more progressive candidate on the ballot.

Now if only Hassan would heed my messages and resign for being just as weak and unprincipled.

This happened with my sister and I think it was for poetry. At least, the version of it my parents fell for was for poetry writing. They might have run this scam for any number of things for all I know

He was wrongly deported, in this case, at least as I understand it. He is from El Salvador. You have the right energy though, because most of the people they are saying they “deported” are supposedly Venezuelan nationals and have, to your point, been human trafficked.

Edit: this was a controversial take. I maybe wasn’t careful with my words enough, which is my bad, but also I think most people probably agree there is a difference between what happened to Abrego Garcia (while still very fucked up) and what happened to an even larger set of people that have been largely existing in the shadow of this and other higher profile cases. A whole slew of people got kidnapped and shipped to a country they had never even seen before (the same amount of fucked up as before, but then with extra sauce and seasoning of the worst kind) and will never leave. They’ll die on foreign dirt. They’ll get put in an unmarked mass grave, maybe. Or maybe not be given a burial at all. And that has emotional consequences, sometimes on a spiritual level, for loved ones. These folks are ALL being wronged in irreparable ways. I only meant to try and point out a still-important difference between the one case everyone posts about and the hundreds of others that have an extra element of cruelty baked into them.

Oh I made the stupid mistake and projected it outwards lol, my bad, I apologize and edited my post

Well I planned for 12 apparently, so I guess I demand a lot of vacation time. I call it the Job Creator schedule.

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Do not let this person split up a bill for your restaurant party, folks

(I’m only joking, but I think you did the math the wrong way, $500x12=$6k)

Edit: yep.I’m an idiot, thanks folks, my poor example will stand as a testament to others, don’t shame yourself publicly like this and pay attention in school!

Even after he insists on being allowed to go first, believe it or not

This is the way I’d go if it were me. Debian minimal, add in unattended-upgrades + rkhunter + fail2ban + ufw to keep it locked down, and then set it up as a kiosk for whatever I needed (something like here: https://github.com/PhilGoud/xfce-kiosk )

I took the buzzer off my dryer immediately once I heard it the first time. I don’t need that in my life. 10/10 would recommend to anyone that is even slightly annoyed with a laundry buzzer.

Propublica just continues to put out great journalism. It seems crazy, but there is a part of this article that is basically a side note and simultaneously is also illuminating about another issue on the public mind recently:

But there was also an Ohio OB-GYN on the national board of directors — he used to work for the Cleveland Clinic, I discovered, and now led a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. The doctor was joined at board meetings by a city prosecutor in Utah, an ex-city council member and, Williams was later told, a sergeant with an Illinois sheriff’s department. (The doctor did not respond to requests for comment. He has since left his post with the UnitedHealth subsidiary, a spokesperson for the company said.)

This is the calibre of doctors that UHC apparently relies on to inform them how to best “enhance profits” by denying “unnecessary care”, and it’s not remotely surprising at this point.

Oh sure, we pay a LOT compared to other places, but at least our telecom security is top notch… (Big ole /s, in case someone may not have heard about the SALT Typhoon stuff yet)

Soon, we may have camps full of them awaiting deportation with nothing else to do though! /s

Good. Now fucking resign.

Now prosecute him accordingly

Oh my. That was truly wild to read. He works soo hard at being a cartoon villain.