The MAGA types used to talk about an education when it was a way to insult people who make the minimum wage and make it their fault that they were underpaid. They didn’t actually want peoples’ lives to be better, but rather to find a way to look down on entire classes of humans.

I have experienced some recent schadenfreude with farmers who no longer have workers to harvest because ICE scared them away.

You’ve made a potential error in underestimating just how horrible some peoples’ lives are and how filled with hatred they are over that fact. This is really what drives so much of politics in the world–disgruntled people with no future who choose to hate others who have nothing to do with it.

I love the quote about how it is putting federal agents in danger…and I sort of think that they are doing that themselves.

The real problem becomes when bad or non scientific advice gets regurgitated to people over and over.

Therapy is just littered with bad therapists, that do more harm than good and give the practice a bad name.

This has long been my experience. Although I believe that great therapists are out there, I have yet to encounter someone who didn’t blame me for the problems and cause me to feel rejected. The last person I went to looked over the intake testing and told me that nobody would want me as a client. No joke. I convinced him to let me stay but nothing happened and I burned out after 3 months or so and stopped going.

Part of me is ok with this in that any avenue to get mental health resources can be better than nothing. What worries me is that people will use ChatGPT for this sort of thing and these models will not be good help.

Back in the day, you scanned the disk. Folder by folder, file by file. If what you were looking for appeared early in your search, you were golden. It turns out, though, that scanning a filesystem is computationally very complex and takes a long time. Not something you might notice so much on a PC, but something that you would notice on a server. So, instead, you want to index the disk, slowly and over time, and then you search against the index. This works well in a server, but no so much on a workstation. Well there’s really no difference between Windows 11 and Windows Server 2024 except for some fine tuning of resource allocation. Essentially, you get the very (for desktops) ineffective server version.

Guess we’ll cut food stamps but tell people who can afford to to get a watch

Your compatibility layers can be 64b, however, and support those 32b games that don’t even run natively on that hardware anyway.

Helpful to know that the country was markedly different before and after each of these events. Think of things before and after WWII, for instance. We will experience similar over the next 20 - 40 years.

We had a section of comptuers that would not properly image. Come to find out that there were actual cat 3 cables mixed in randomly across the floor. That was the year that I bought several hundred new ethernet cables and we replaced every last one of them to be sure.

I’ve used one of those before!

lol you just spouted terminology at me

People who argue both sides do not have a genuine opinion, they are just parroting what others have said.

This is something important that a lot of people don’t understand. Trump genuinely represents roughly 50% of the US public; they all want to be him.

That thread was a mess but exactly what is expected from the sort of people enabled by spez.

This is specifically why I always click on the comments before opening an article. If the first root comment or two are interesting, then I will read the article.

It turns out that anyone can be a conservative idiot who votes against their own self interest.

Before he was more widely known for his shenanigans.