The crazy thing is millionaires have more on common with us normal workers than they do with billionaires.

Hasan Piker was listing all kinds of "a million _____ is _____ but a BILLION ______ is [some ufathomably larger thing].

People don’t understand multiplication very well…

Yes, but not right away.

We can see that during Trump 2.0 is taking longer but we are growing our opposition.

Remember the Muslim ban and the immediate reaction at airports in 2017? We’re seeing similar things now (farther into the term) with reactions to ICE.

I went to Linux Mint and it’s been painless. All my games I want to play run on it (through Steam).

My son is getting my old computer as a hand me down and I put Mint on it, too. I’ve installed Sober on it so he can play Roblox. I don’t know how it’ll go but we’ll see…

I hope she’s left wing in the “tax the fuck out of corps who’ve been using our Bonnie Island as a tax avoidance scheme” sense

nice, he’s successfully lowered food prices!

I wonder how much America needs to dismantle itself and plunge its people into hell to make up for its share of the net evil caused from the end of WWII…?

(“net evil” because there’s some good and bad, and “share” because a lot of other countries participated…)

now telegram is going to insert random information about South African White genocide to every conversation. or it will be in every recommended reply at least.

I’m not sure I follow.

I’m starting from the assumption that OP genuinely wants to talk to women without being creepy (for lack of a better term), presuming that comes from his intrinsic association between “talking to a woman” and “attempting to establish a romantic relationship with that woman.”

That’s a thought that’s undesirable and presumably persistent. Sort of the definition of “intrusive.”

I’m aware that the pop psych understanding of the phrase is specifically about violent or violence associated thoughts but those are the ones more people have and that probably are more disturbing than annoying.

When your parents say, “did you talk to any of them,” they mean did you strike up a conversation with a woman with no presumption of potential romantic outcome.

When you say it, it seems like you’re assuming there’s a potential for a romantic outcome in every conversation between heterosexual men and women.

Your goal should be to strike up a conversation with a woman about random topics of interest, including very shallow ones, with no expectation that you’re evaluating her as a potential mate, and she’s not evaluating you.

Yes, we’re all subject to intrusive thoughts so from time to time, you’ll fail at this goal and start thinking about a romantic path. That’s fine. Just acknowledge it to yourself and endeavor to do better.

It will probably take time and practice. Give yourself grace to try and fail and learn. You’ll know you’re succeeding when you realize you had a conversation with a woman without her gender being a consequential thought in your mind.

The same federal laws from Reconstruction applied across the whole country. Except there were “creative” legislators, executives, lawyers, and citizen organizations in the South that found loopholesto exploit. Most people in the North didn’t do that (obviously there were exceptions).

Add to that the violent, murderous rampages that occurred against successful black people and neighborhoods, and “Reconstruction” was very complex in its implementation.

We can go lower!!!

lots of rights get modified, curtailed, or eliminated by the larger society based on misuse or misbehavior or other transgressions.

(or positions of power, etc…)

Don’t think of it as a race, think of it as an opportunity to find kindred spirits

Dammit, Kevin

those are rookie numbers, we can do better!

everything ought to be transferred to Ukraine, but only the European stuff is likely to be in the near term.

that’s one thing Biden really should have done after the election.

with “hire more” you do run up against the “9 women can have a baby in 1 month” limit, but in this case it’s likely to help.

it’s been an honor serving with you

if this is machine learning and neural networks, I can believe it’s a good thing, maybe even meaningful for the potential of so called artificial intelligence.

if this is an LLM that’s alleged to have popped this “virus tail” theory out of… what exactly…? I’m not buying it.

this is a rift between MAGA and Ukraine.

or they could say between the US government and Ukraine.

I still support Ukraine and most Harris voters and many traditional Republicans (Eisenhower type) do, too.

I hope that the Biden admin did a good job of building them up and building Europe up to last through 2-4 years of a potential MAGA administration. Even if they were confident it wouldn’t happen. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst and all that.

the… remarkable… thing about this is the Trump administration probably thinks they’re winning this.