Carl [he/him]

In the US it’s not so much about lyme disease being denied as it is about chronic lyme disease being denied. People who catch the disease sometimes experience long term symptoms that don’t go away after the initial treatment which can be debilitating.

That said the “denial” doesn’t come from the medical establishment (our CDC has a page talking about it that’s pretty informative), it comes from insurers who refuse to cover long term treatments and doctors who aren’t up to date.

The joke is that America is the child with the fake steering wheel.

hel yea my thinkpad t480 is a little younger than that but it’s top tier, had to reimage a bunch of windows laptops today and got reminded just how slooooooooooooow corporate hardware can be i can’t believe people work with that and just accept it as the way that computers are

Physical stuff. Electrician, plumber, HVAC. I do IT and networking primarily on the physical side which is an option. I wouldn’t suggest buying fully into the “trades make lots of money” propaganda but once you’re established you’ll be comfortable and they’re all jobs that can’t be automated or offshored.

Be realistic about the pay drop though if you decide to go this route. I would kill to be a slop dev because it would pay like twice what I’m getting right now, but I’m still pretty junior in my field.

I haven’t tried in a while but I could not get DCS + VR to work on Linux the last time I tried. For a while I was dual-booting Windows just for that one particular game.

Sometimes steam tinker launch works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Sometimes bottles works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Sometimes lutris works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Sometimes extracting the mods directly into the game folder works, sometimes it doesn’t.

Sometimes a game has a bespoke github project with a script that you can run, and sometimes that script hasn’t been updated in years but it still works, and sometimes it doesn’t.

would love to do something but my rent is due tomorrow and i got a lot of ground to cover so

It’s a slippery slope. Soon you’ll be using Vim and ordering thighsocks on the Internet.

We should split the difference and make the slogan “Death to Amerikkka” that way nobody will be confused about what we’re referring to.

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retvrn to teamspeak

This sucks now. I quit. Fuck you.

He was a communist, Elmo. (positive)

damn it peaked at 125k last time.

Every time this happens I hope it’s the final one, and so far every time I’ve been disappointed.

This actually exists, although the most you can do with it is fly around and take measurements, no near-space stations.

Nationalize your ports to prevent private foreign companies from buying them.

Okay Russia is understandable cuz they’re in a war, USA understandable cuz they’re saber rattling, but genuinely what is China doing besides minding their own business?

A few years back there was a news cycle where a bunch of western outlets reported on this image of Xi Jinping being served two cups of tea at a Communist Party meeting, generally casting it as some kind of power move, “look at me and how much more important I am than all of you”, type thing. Very similar to the reporting around Donald Trump getting two scoops of ice cream at a White House dinner while demanding that everyone else get one.

Further investigation revealed that this image was taken at the start of a very long Party meeting, which likely explains why Xi felt the need for two drinks, and that furthermore that it has been expected for Party members in China to pay for their own drinks at these meetings since the days of Mao, so the story was a fairly ridiculous mix of projection, Orientalism, sinophobia, and anti-Chinese propaganda, which the OP is invoking for comedic purposes by comparing it with an image of Zelenskyy with two glasses of water in front of him.

With Trayvon it was a random crank who got explicitly told by the 911 operator to stop following him who then went on to change his story about what happened multiple times. Now it’s just standard procedure.

I worry about this shit because my younger siblings are mixed race and about this age. If ICE targeted my city like they’re doing Minneapolis I would tell our parents not to let them go anywhere alone because this could 100% happen to them even though they’re all citizens.

The joker would never.