FIash Mob #5678

I’m shocked that the guy who has handlers to make sure he doesn’t wander off had a sub-par debate. /s

These two candidates are there because they’re useful idiots for the billionaire class. Neither of them give a damn about anyone, and it’s probably past time to stop pretending Trump 2.0 isn’t happening and have an exit strategy.

Meh.

John Roberts is worth $25,000,000.

That’s all he cares about. We’re really going to find out how awful all of these people are after November, I imagine.

Henry Neff, author of the Tapestry series, Impyrium, and as of this week, Witchstone.

Awesome writer. Awesome illustrator, and in 2020, he made my year. I DM’d him on Twitter asking if he had a physical copy of his 5th book in the Tapestry series that I could buy, because at that time you could only get it in e-book format. He sent me an inscribed and signed special edition as a Christmas present with a bunch of neat swag. That book is my prized possession.

www.henryhneff.com

(Honorable mentions: Christopher Farnsworth and Christopher Buehlman)

I dunno, man. I keep telling people to stop voting capitalist, and every election it’s 99% Democrat and Republican, so this is what happens.

Not awesome.

Dad’s in the hospital for the umpteenth time.

Kid brother died yesterday morning, and even better, may have inadvertently hung himself during autoerotic asphyxiation. (Though, objectively, that seems like a decent way to go, truly.)

Israel keeps pounding murdering people in Gaza as Palestinian death toll in hostage rescue raid rises to 274.

That feels a tad more honest.

If I’m understanding you correctly, Brave Browser does that.

I love that half of my feed is Israel stories, all of them negative, and both presumptive US presidential candidates support Israeli genocide 100%.

I work out six days a week, haha.

Once you get to a point where it’s like brushing your teeth, it’s easy.

It’s friday.

I made it to the gym and feel glorious. I’m on Day 4 of being a primary Linux user and it feels nice to know that I’m digitally flipping Microsoft the bird.

The US is fascist now. Lots of inappropriate stuff us making a comeback.

That is exceedingly helpful. Thank you.

I’m tentatively planning to ditch Windows completely in a few months. I just want to use Linux daily for a while until I’m comfortable with it and certain I’m good to go on the gaming side.

I should add that I kept Windows as well, due to my extensive video game library. You can have both and just use Linux for most things in order to upgrade your security and efficiency, and just switch to your Windows boot in order to play games that aren’t on Linux.

On the distro I chose, Linux Mint, Steam is easily available via the Software Manager, and roughly half of my games are Steam-compatible out of the box. Steam actually has a toggle in your game library that indicates your games that are Linux-compatible. For those that aren’t, there’s https://www.protondb.com/, where you can check the database to see if particular games are compatible and get installation tips to help with compatibility.

Installation was very easy with info available on Youtube and the Linux Mint website.

All it cost me was $7 for a USB drive in order to create the ISO file.

Pretty good!

After reading about Windows Recall last week I decided I’m making the change to Linux. (Dual boot for now, since I’m an avid gamer and don’t want to lose my games, so I need a few months to make sure nothing will break.)

Currently typing this from my fresh installation of Brave on my fresh installation of Linux Mint.

Feels good to say “!@#$ you, Microsoft”.

Ya love to see it.

If you’re not a fascist.

And bonus points to Israel for trotting out the old tried and true: “If you’re not with us you’re with the terrorists” bullshit.

Both in Iran and the US, it is indeed.

This is just silly on the part of Iran.

All they need to do is just let the health care system and poverty slaughter the people for him, like we do in America. It’s much more civilized.

I hope you’re right.

I had a similar feeling when the 2010 census showed a 28% increased in mixed-race families nationwide, and now a mere 14 years later we’re months away from becoming an openly fascist country. (I’d argue we’re already a closet fascist country)

The bummer here is that, until the US stops protecting them (which is never, ever going to happen), it doesn’t matter a whole lot in the end.

But I’d still like to see the US cut Israel off.