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I saw the pieces of the wall outside of Berlin where they were moved just after the wall came down. I was in high school.

Christ.

I guess I need to contact my pharmacy and find out where my check is for the drugs. According to Trump they owe me a lot of money.

I kind of excused some of that due to societal PTSD from 9/11 but in retrospect around half of Americans just fucking suck.

Oh, I also get a pill pocket (which doesn't work on its own) and tear it in half to make a tasty coating for the pill then down the throat it goes. I think most pills are chalky and get stuck in the back of their mouth or at the top of their throat and they cough them back up.

I have never gotten one of these to work. I just shove my finger down their throat. I usually don't get bit, but occasionally I catch my thumb or forefinger on a fang. They gets treats right after and a ton of love, so after a month or so they get excited at medicine time.

He really tries not to bother me, but the screaming gets my attention and when he's about to physically destroy the computer I feel I have to step in and fix it. That being said, he is not comfortable installing it himself so I want something that provokes the minimal amount of hand-holding. Honestly, the biggest issue with me not putting Garuda on his system is that he needs Davinci Resolve for his work and it doesn't install directly off the AUR, you have to download the application separately from Black Magic Design's site and edit the build file. He is not going to understand how to do that.

I am very happy working in Linux as my daily driver, while my husband is bugging me to switch his desktop and laptop over since he is frustrated at how awful the UI in Windows 11 is. But I know he has a low tolerance for frustration and while he has decent technical skills, he tends to accumulate the absolutely most peculiar technical problems I've ever seen. I mean, I'm rather savvy with Windows and he comes up with problems that take me a long time to figure out - issues that would be difficult to cause even if you were intentionally trying to break Windows.

So I don't really know what to do here. He likes my Garuda setup because I've shown him how customizable KDE Plasma is, but the amount of weird shit dealing with the AUR that I have run into, stuff that I can solve fairly easily but a layperson would likely not be able to handle, makes me want to put Mint on his system even if he'll find it less suitable.

The harder you gerrymander the more fragile it gets because you make your super safe seats less safe by spreading them out to increase the disproportional representation. A wave election against your party could end up wiping you out if you aren't careful.

Texas thinks they can pass laws binding the legal actions of people who don't live in Texas. If the SCOTUS upholds this, it opens a huge can of worms where every state can effectively legislate behavior in any other state. For example, California could prosecute gun sellers in other states who sell guns without performing background checks to California residents who travel there. It would be a mess. The right should not want the court to decide in Paxton's favor here.

I get that is what he is saying, but there's no reason to bring it up except to poison the well.

I don't think any country in the anglosphere has a monopoly on exporting shitty people, but I'm hardly going to throw stones what with this glass house I live in.

This isn't surprising. The DNC is run by high-dollar consultants who only care about raking in donations. If the Democrats want votes they need policies that support working families. And yeah, Trump is the worst and I would still vote for a Democrat over a fascist, but most Americans never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis and now we are headed into another one. If the Democrats manage to take control in 2028 will they retain the policies that funneled the recovery into the top 1% again?