Interestingly this is how it started out here. You bought fire insurance and were protected by a fire company. I want to say it was one of Franklin’s things that established the first public fire company in Philadelphia, but this is a forum so if I’m wrong I know I’ll be corrected!

We still have a lot of groups, at least in the northeast, that refer to themselves as companies, though it’s used more like an army company or battalion and less like a for-profit endeavor.

Where else? Fascist hats are tariff free, BTW.

I had a friend back in the day that was a big Linux geek. He got me hooked when he showed me this crazy system that let me just type in a command and within a few minutes or an hour (internet wasn’t super fast in my house in 2002), I could have something installed without having to search the internet for some potentially cooked installer.

That’s the long way around to say I started with Gentoo, installed over the course of 3 long Saturdays with my friend over my shoulder and the install guide printed out on a stack of papers because neither of us had a laptop to look at.

I moved to Debian after a few months, but man portage was life changing.

Oh I actually know how to beat this one. “I do not recall.” “Fifth.” “What is that? This is the first I’m hearing of it.”

Am I doing it right, Shitler?

A reminder that a boycott is for the company as a whole. Even if a specific product isn’t made or labeled as made in El Salvador, if you buy from the company they won’t care because they still got your money. If they put money into that economy, they don’t deserve yours.

This also goes for any and all American companies that fed or are feeding the Nazis here.

I’ve had good luck with Bamboo Cool the last few months. Before that I was wearing Shinesty but switched when I dropped a ton a weight and didn’t get as much ball sweat.

DistroTube has a similar project going as well, DTOS. I’m not sure if it’s actually up and available but it looks promising for a similar target audience. https://youtu.be/FA__ScVhGQA

I’m not actually confident he does know that, to be honest.

Only if it’s a REALID. And even as a DoD ID and valid passport holder, I don’t have a REALID yet because I haven’t ever brought enough proof that I am who I am to the DMV when I renew my license.

You’d think that two forms of ID that required me to provide my birth certificate (and one my SSID card) would be sufficient. I don’t live in the same state where I’m licensed (I keep an open primary state for voting until I have to switch when I retire next year), so it’s a 3-hour drive each way to my DMV, that I have to make on a workday, plus 2+ hours in line there. Add in the cost of fuel and that could be a very expensive day if I wasn’t as privileged as I am.

I’m a white guy with a salaried position and the flexibility to give up a day’s work to get my ID renewed, if I were someone who had to decide between voting and having the money to feed my kids this week, sadly I wouldn’t be voting. And that’s their goal.

The cynic in me knows that since it would be only D’s going down there, the fascists would use their absence to cram some shit through. The smart play would be to send only congresspeople and keep the senators here to make sure that nothing Mike LovesJohnson slides up can pass filibuster and get to the Diet Coke Desk.

And water

But was also the most UnFAir trade Deal EvURrrR

ETA: according to Shitler himself

More than happy to help! Let me know if I can answer any other questions for you

Same. I wish I had better choices available but we’ve got to work with what we’ve got.

I like Lemmy better. There’s a lot more effort to have value when you post and have conversations rather than arguments.

But the porn collection over here isn’t great yet.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any dumber. Is there no bottom they won’t race to?

Same. And my bank account is better off without them. Gods know we’ll need whatever help we can get.

My daughter has a gymnastics class one night a week and there’s nowhere for parents inside the building so we’re expected to sit in our cars. Instead of using the gas to keep the heat on, I go to Target to take a dump and walk laps. Even my wife, one of the whitest women I know, has stopped shopping there.

Yes, but also to sue one must be able to prove injury. I don’t know much about this group, but it is possible they hadn’t been injured yet. Or that, knowing this was coming, they built their case months ago and have been waiting until this drops to do anything.

Not saying they’re at all worthy of trust, anyone on that side of the aisle isn’t, but the case would be tossed immediately if they sued before he took this action.

I’ve been wrong before, but once realized, I don’t hesitate to correct that behavior or belief out of some selfish fear of losing face.

That’s a level of introspection that most MAGAs are incapable of, and those who are tend to be narcissistic enough to not care. It’s truly a set of mental health issues, and it runs deeper than their outward hatred implies.

I read a while back about how there’s really strong correlation between people who are capable of certain levels of thoughts and where they fall on the political spectrum. The argument was that people with lower neuroplasticity tend to be more conservative, which can be explained by the fact that lower neuroplasticity makes learning and maturing, or overcoming any level of cognitive dissonance, is difficult to the point that it can cause them discomfort or even pain. This makes them more likely to be attracted to politics and policies which confirm their preconceptions rather than challenge them. It also makes them much less likely to accept any kind of fault in cases like this. It’s a lot to do with why cults are almost always religiously conservative - - someone else has the duty of thinking for me, and I can go on hatin’ the gays! Even the woo-woo cults always prop up some “enlightened” leader, and the followers get agitated or violent when that enlightenment is challenged by anyone.

The other end of the idealogical spectrum have people who are capable of that introspection and are able to identify when there are deficiencies in their emotional maturity or understanding of something. They’re physiologically more able to recognize these situations and effect a change within themselves, and it’s why we on the left tend to be less outwardly angry, more respectful, and more willing to grow.

tl;dr: empathy makes MAGA brains hurt, and they need therapy.