exemption won’t really matter in the end. for sites and services that ‘rely’ on these bullshit verifications–linux will be a non-conforming, non-participant. and you won’t be able to access those things from linux… not unlike how rooted & 3rd party firmware phones are treated now by many financial and streaming apps.

due south, corner gas, and my niece’s (who trains horses) current favorite, heartland (which at 19 years and still running, is literally older than she is)

in an s&p500 index fund, a hell of a lot more.

financials are pretty good. it’s their share price that is going down the shitter.

i don’t think i even need to post the image.

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‘lost’ in this context would normally mean ‘destroyed’

if the orange shithead wants to set a precedent where leaders and administrators of a nation are criminally liable for their actions… he needs to be first in line to submit to whatever charges any nation or state wants to bring-up against him.

batch multiple orders together… waiting up to 15 minutes to do so? increased delivery times? disappointed customers?

sounds like doordash is doing an exemplary job replacing restaurant-employed drivers.

this is just reclassifying ‘digital’ software as taxable. the same as software on physical media already is in california. some states have a similar tax status for these products.

many states already did the same with digital video and streaming.

i don’t really see a problem with it.

“why didn’t you say so sooner, we would have made it bigger!”

my 1st gen is still going. it’s i7 and 32gb ram so still plenty good for what i need it to do (hell, so is the older athlon next to it, ftm), even with the unsupported ‘upgrade’ and ancient hdd for boot and storage. i have a spare identical mb and cpu, just in case. i have better systems, i just like that one. we have a long history together and everything is right where i want, and expect, it to be.

you ain’t gonna convince any of the majority of people who don’t want the ballroom in the first place, to approve of a different use of the same fucking space as a facility to keep an ailing moron-in-chief alive.

i think the stroke he suffered before his election really messed him up. he has not been the same since.

voting against their own best interests. it’s what they do.

there’s a backdoor built right into bitlocker in the form of ‘recovery keys’–and for most users, microsoft knows what they are.

the closed-source version of the internet.