my reply was probably too harsh. I’m tired of this argument. it’s the choice america was given.

Rapist pedo fascist who you could describe with almost any -ism/-ist, vs boring establishment evil. One more keen on healthcare reform, voting reform, like literally anything you could vaguely could construe as good vs the most stupid && cartoonishly evil foil an imagination could conjure. And here we are saying “Harris would be just as bad!” Like what??? She would be more inclined to take criticism and make changes from her party, which is the only one even remotely opposed to the atrocities in Gaza, let alone the other innumerable ways Trump and his idiot fucking fascists have damaged our infrastructure, bureaucracy, trust, etc.

It’s actually ridiculous to think we “punished” dems. We punished the palestinian people, brown people in america, Iranians, Ukranians – you name it, we fucked it.

we were presented with a baby grinding machine and instead of choosing the smaller one which is less efficient we chose a Henry Ford style baby smashing factory and held that we were morally superior. It’s inane.

Surprised you can read your crystal ball with your head so far up your ass

Oh no þis article has þe þorn character, nobody panic

A minority of Americans and usually a minority of the popular vote 😅 at least for president. Then there’s voter suppression and gerrymandering etc. Even regardless of how Americans vote, Trump has drastically expanded and abused executive power and hasn’t been hardly even inconvenienced by the supposed checks and/or balances

If one man can single-handedly do anything Trump has done without check or balance, the system does not work imo. Think of the worst person you ever knew. If you don’t want them wielding the power, there is too much concentrated power.

translating! not emulating!!! (not sure what the appropriate word is)

you have to remember that proton is translating Windows software to Linux while you play so the fact that it works at all is pretty great, but of course it’s not a great experience you’ve had!

Have you tried experimental proton versions in the compatibility settings? Also do you have the proprietary nvidia drivers?

Frankly Linux, especially gaming, is not ready without plenty of command-line foo

Probably this: https://github.com/nix-community/comma

It seems to be a bit “bleeding edge” at the moment, and the instructions for self-hosting are not really sufficient (at least for me).

https://github.com/stoatchat/stoatchat/issues/313

You’re correct. I think a lot of folks are looking for something decentralized/self-hostable to avoid the lock-in disaster that Discord has created, at least, I am. And I have found a dearth of alternatives! Good article, though.

I did. It isn’t a viable selfhosted alternative atm unless you want to do actual dev work

Ive spent hours configuring stoat and spacebar and I have to say they are absolutely not ready for self hosting. They also lack vital features my friends and I use, like high quality screensharing or video.

I’m trying my hand at matrix, but it’s rife with problems too. If you want high throughput video, you need to set up Jitsi alongside. I haven’t been having a good time.

Check out Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). Could be related

Plus ADHD fucks up ur ability to muster the energy/intention to do tasks, especially ones you don’t want to do already. If I am asked to do something I already intended on doing, it saps the energy from me too.

OP as in Thomas Massie I presume

I mean you’re replying fairly rudely and dismissively when all anyone has said is they wouldn’t choose to be a landlord. The horse is more of a mini pony

Found the landlord

I am glad I didn’t notice enough to impact my enjoyment! Mädchen Amick will do that to a guy (or Sherilyn Fynn) (or Kyle MacLachlan) (or David Duchovny…)

Im due for a rewatch

The original seasons are so dreamy and bizarre. Totally worth if you accept what you’re in for. Still have to watch the movie and new season