How does he do Sleepy Joe and yet be so powerful? It’s unpossible!

That’s because the President has no control over gas price changes. Even when he bombs the shit out of a small country.

Andor. I realize that it doesn’t fall under obsure really, but people might not watch it because it’s Star Wars.

Andor is a great story that happens to be in the Star Wars universe. You don’t even have to know SW or like scifi to get what’s happening.

Seems most things are. Just being realistic.

Less total carbon. It’s morbid, but burning ourselves out faster ends up with a smaller number than if we persist in this. If you go with some assumption that economic collapse allows us to survive… well I guess you have a point.

True enough. But even if we had gotten a magic benevolent dictator decades ago, the damage was already done. We’re just piling it on at this point. In some aspects, maybe a speed run into hell will work out better than a long braking. Better overall, but still a disaster.

I’ll bet Republicans are far better at holding the line than Democrats. Right, Chuck?

But don’t pray to it. Pray to Joe Pesci. He gets things done.

That’s old, but how many here recall the old car radios where you manually set a station preset by pulling the selector out, then pushing it back in? I can’t even find a picture of one because of the age and trying to find the right search words.

I wouldn’t classify how it worked as simple though, still seemed like magic.

Is the environment that a launcher like Lutris creates for Wine exclusive, or could I move to a different type, such as Bottles, and still find the installed program I use and its data? I got the impression it just set up Wine for specific needs, and it’s actual Wine doing the work, right?

I’m using it for Scrivener, btw.

I had tried to just use Wine alone and fix the settings myself, but it took me running across Lutris to get things functional. I don’t want do that trial and error again.

Don’t Look Up is more fitting as a documentary of our times. In lots of ways.

Was going to make some Titanic analogy jokes, but in trying to do so it’s just depressing.

A number of weeks ago I noted that one app I use through Lutris for the various settings needed had stopped loading. So I did a lot of looking around to figure out what was going on (didn’t know it was Lutris, I searched mention of issues with the app, with Wine, etc.)

Finally ran across a bug report in the Lutris github that sounded like my problem. And part of it was how slow some updates filter out, so I ended up doing an uninstall from the manager and manually forcing an update. And all is good now.

I wonder if the bug was AI driven (don’t even recall what it was, it was a small update that broke things for some people).

Great to know I should probably expect more fires later. I probably need to see if I can make this app run on my own in Wine. A shame, it’s working fine as is. But I need to be ready.

This winning kinda sucks, not going to lie.

Imagine what anything could have been done constructively, domestically or internationally, with this money. But hey, we got to blow things up. Yay.

Money.

Can’t risk sending military equipment into places where it might be attacked.

Can’t make this up.

Why DID is the correct phrasing? And there were reasons then. More bad than good, but that’s the advantage of being first, then biggest.

Why trust them now? It’s not trust when it’s what’s embedded everywhere, required by most large companies. The licensing that was Microsoft’s key into everything became dependency. And dependencies can be broken, but that takes time and effort. There’s been movement…

If they keep doing this Co-pilot shit, they’ll be helping the cause.

I feel the pain anytime I look at a video outside of my browser. So if it becomes where I can’t find a workaround, then I’ll just have to go elsewhere. And there will be other places. There are other places, it’s just hard to get people to not go to or be on the big one. Push people hard enough, they’ll leave.

What’s old is new again. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard some recent baby names that I would place more in the turn of the 20th century. Reusing older, creating totally new, or taking known names and spelling them oddly. They’ll all have critics.

Aside from the several good twists, what gets me about this story is thinking about the scale of time. If a normal person likely can’t remember what meal they ate last year on this date, imagine that x1000 (and more). Such a great concept.