That’s closer to it. The local permitting jurisdictions get nothing out of approving or denying applications. They get held up for two reasons: the proposal is incomplete/unapprovable by law; and political intervention from an outside entity. Maybe the mayor or a commissioner, sometimes a director of an agency or organization. That’s where any bribery or other such shenanigans would take place. Not the permitting office.

It’ll be taken care of by the new Microsoft CEO: Miguel Sanchez.

Windows can automount USB drives, so a flash drive can get inadvertently formatted, (or something to do with the bootloader, i don’t know the technical details that well.) Point is the automounting can break a flash drive that isn’t formatted for windows.

Switched everything to Bazzite as a start. Easiest switch after figuring out Windows sabotages boot drives.

I may have pirated all my Windows but man it feels good to be off that ride. Spoofing corporate licenses for the authenticator was such a hassle.

Every rural community is a temporarily embarassed metropolis.

Yep. It’s the only real option in my opinion. My spouse’s student loans weren’t fixed and they’d fluctuate so much in payments and started accruing balance randomly. Our homeownership allowed us to leverage another fixed loan to pay off her variable loans. Now it’s just a steady small payment for 15 years.

That’s also looking at just pure numbers.

I was forced to move every year I was a tenant. I hated it. And the fees and expenses of moving weren’t insignificant, not to mention the time. Some places I lived I never unpacked.

But now I have kids. Things like school districts matter.

Stability matters beyond the strict dollar amount sometimes, if not most times.

I did the math. I bought in 2019 and all those costs and expenses were nothing compared to ballooning rent. My monthly housing expenses went down across the board. The equivalent cost of rent since purchasing dwarfs closing costs and even all the maintenance that’s gone into the place. Rent (in America) is calculated to cover all possible homeownership costs so I’m paying for the new fridge or hot water heater one way or another.

Plus I haven’t had to move legislative districts since.

Homeowning and paying a mortgage, especially now, is the single most important thing maintaining my quality of life.

A neighbor recently sold and it is now a rental. Paying that rent would effectively raise my housing costs about $20k a year.

It’s almost exactly the same house and lot. It’s insane.

Mexican and Chinese.

But like the american type chinese takeout with a seventeen page menu of sushi and bubble teas I will never once get. And the mexican restaurants that also serve americanized tacos, so you know everything else has extra cheese and sauce.

Become younger and get money? Sure.

That’s great. I could see it was a 3 but I couldn’t explain how I knew until I scrolled.

The pattern that the 7 above was also clipped revealing the edge of the 3 also was missed made it click.

Neat!

I wouldn’t have caught the 6 over there was clipped though. That’s some analysis right there. Thorough.

Not quite the same thing, but the song Corridors of Time have gotten me misty eyed from the nostalgia alone.

True though Bush administration got the 9/11 response, which was mostly the legal implementation of fascist tools.

A few of them I recognized from the one Sam Seder did. They’re social media influencers from what I gather. So lunatics with followings. Audiences.

Celsius energy drinks.

I had a coworker evangelize about them so I decided to try them out. Every time I got one and tried it some complete random would come up ‘Hey! You like Celsius? Have you tried the [whatever] flavors? [Other flavor] is my favorite!’

I found them all gross.

See your brain went immediately to a solution based on knowing how something works. That’s not in the AI wheelhouse.

Zohran keeps things on policy, which is the only arena the personality cult and party faithful can’t go.

Fake or not, they too buy the line of "If you vote for us and get us total control you’ll get everything you want.’ despite there being a precedent of getting the opposite under the current system. They’ll say their party just hasn’t gotten all or enough of the power yet and that’s why there’s problems. And those people continue to vote for party because ‘that’s what you do’ in their community.

There was this whole phase of Lemmy where it was looking like an alternative instead of a clone.

So maybe Lemmy was almost like a clone of Schwartz-era reddit, before becoming more of a transplant of post-2014 or even Spez era reddit.