The problem is that swing voters focus on only one issue, and it’s the issue that impacts them the most. It might be just the genocide in Gaza and how the current administration is handling it. Or might be just healthcare. Or just women’s rights. Or the economy. They don’t seem to look at the big picture and can’t weigh their personal feelings against all the issues as a whole. They can’t say "I’ll take a hit on the economy if women’s rights and abortions are better for the people as a whole ". It’s often what impacts them most. From what I’ve read, the economy is the biggest issue and as long a they think they might be better off with Trump, they’ll vote for him, regardless of the impact to everyone else.

I think it’s because of the lack of cheese and sausage.

The crazy conspiracies and misinformation coming out of this disaster are insane. I hate that people have nothing better to do than to straight up lie about things that can easily be debunked. The problem is that once people believe the lie, it’s hard to get them to realize it was a lie.

You’d be amazed at what seemingly intelligent people will do or say or believe.

Not where I was. There were paved roads everywhere, and the city I was in was like any decent sized American city with skyscrapers, malls, shopping centers, etc. The only difference is that the women walked behind their men and covered their faces.

They absolutely sucked at driving though. They literally have 4 and 5 lane highways (going in one direction) and they would turn them into 5 and 6 lanes. If a driver was in the far left lane and needed to take an exit, they would literally just go. It then became your responsibility to not hit them. When traffic got pretty thick, everyone drove with their flashers on. We avoided those types of highways as much as possible.

Cars in the Middle East had these like 20-30 years ago (source:me. I was there) and it was basically a constant buzzer that started when you went faster than like 88kph. It did absolutely nothing to deter speeding. Drivers just ignored it. What they did do was leave charred vehicle wreckage on the side of the roads and highways as reminders for people to slow down. That was pretty wild to see.

GOP motto.

Aren’t 75% of the users Russian bots? Lol

They’re going to release when the My Pillow guy releases his bombshell evidence of the 2020 election being stolen.

They need to just keep all the shit up all year round because that’s where we’re heading anyway.

But but muh coal mining towns!

I remember when there were programs to retrain coal miners to work with renewable resources, completely paid for by the renewable resources companies, but Big Coal and Big Oil threw a fit. I think Manchin ended up killing a lot of those things since his daughter or son is an exec in a coal company that he also invests in or some shit.

Man, you never worked for a large corporation that that had internal web based apps that only work on Internet Explorer and refused to update it.

I wonder how this affects people that setup Pi Hole and VPN and all that.

Lol Trump and the GOP always said he was too old and shouldn’t run, so he drops out and now they’re mad about it. The GOP is both infuriating and hilarious at the same time.

Lol sin taxes and the Vatican

I’m still annoyed that the US adopted In God We Trust as our national motto in the 1950’s. No idea how that got through and wasn’t deemed unconstitutional.

Sounds about right for HP.

He’s just butthurt that he can’t get xAI off the ground.

Tell me about gaming on Linux. Most if my gaming is via Steam and I have a Steamdeck which I know runs on a flavor of Linux so it can be done. Is it fair to say that any game that runs on the Steam runs on Steam Linux?

I just got a new prebuilt with Windows 11 Pro and I’ve been curious about Linux for the past few months. I know the variations have gotten better over the years but haven’t done too much research into it. I hear Mint and Arch quite a bit.

Not a programmer by any means (haven’t done any since college) but I’ve asked it for help in writing Jira queries or Excel mess and it’s been pretty solid with that stuff.