That’s a problem no matter how government officials are elected, and therefore irrelevant.

They’ve been falling for loonies for decades, sure, but that is tangential.

The GOP fell to the MAGA crowd a lot quicker than a decade.

Take over the democratic party with actual leftists. If the fascists can do it with the GOP, we can do it with leftists/the DNC.

Because cars are well regulated to make them as safe as possible.

While this is debatable, the regulation of cars is still a useful allegory for gun regulation.

Right, and trickle down economics works. /s

And Geordi would probably canonically agree, at least with the second bit. Just finished reading Picard the Last Best Hope, and Geordi had no problem taking over the ship yards of Mars to build a fleet to save Romulans.

Even a small percentage is good. The situation is desperate.

The fewer first time home owners that get out bid by corps the better. Doesn’t matter if it is a drop in the bucket.

And that’s even before considering how it would help stop housing from being an investment vehicle.

I guess, no one NEEDS a video streaming platform.

Nobody NEEDS social media, but when a social media does something harmful, they need to be regulated.

That’d be well and good if they didn’t have a monopoly.

many of which wirh anti cheat, it’s not worth making the switch just yet.

I get that. Shit like that is the only reason I stick with a dual boot.

Also, I got a NAS recently with OpenMediaVault and I only have the time to tinker with one thing at a time :P

I also get that. My self hosted gaming server can be a bit of work sometimes.

Any advice on the switch though, or tools you use lmk!

Two things, I’d go with Linux Mint Debian Edition if I we’re you. I’ve found it to be the most compatible with my games, (like 9 out of 10 or so), and have had zero major issues/glitches with it. Plus it avoids the drauam surrounding ubuntu.

The second thing is to keep a separate “home” partition for your documents/pictures/game saves/etc. Mine is [Name]_STC, with the acronym being a nod to wh40k’s Standard Template Constructs. The idea being it isn’t named something generic like “home”, or worse using the home folder.

And anytime I need to back up shit, I just zip the whole partition and put it on a separate drive. If something happens, I copy my standard template construct.

Why wait?

Life on earth sruvived the permian-triassic extinction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_event

Basically every volcano on earth lit up and choked the entire planet with toxic air, acid rain, continental fires, etc. Life survived that, it’ll survive humanity’s death throes.

Space is big, any civilization analyzing the composition of exo planet atmosphereres wouldn’t know for quite a while. It’s for more likely that they wouldn’t discover it until after several decades of passed, at which point it will have been too late.

That, and there’s the fact that first contact almost universally goes bad for the group with less technology, which is us in this case.

So you may as well just start playing the lottery.

“I didn’t read the article, so I’m gonna make shit up”

Good. Now make it work for everyone’s tax situation.

You could try reading the article:

Barrett, a social media strategist who lives in Chicago, said her life was chronicled so much online that a man once sent her a private message on Facebook when she was 12. The message said he’d followed her home as she rode her bike and knew where she lived. The incident increased her anxiety and made her feel like strangers were watching her every move, she said.

McCarty said family vloggers should be regulated like the film industry, citing as an example a California law that mandates 15% of all child performers’ earnings be set aside in an interest-earning trust.

This is way too little in my opinion. It shouldn’t be allowed in the first place. Any amount of earnings that relies on your children necessarily creates a conflict of interest and safety hazard. If you monetize your platform, no part of it should include minors, especially minors for which you are a guardian.

What a terrible age to have eyes.

Agreed. I have zero regret.