if white men couldn’t vote, we’d see a lot of advances I’d like – but I don’t want anyone disenfranchised.

hang on, hang on, let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good here.

It’ll go the same way it went for abortion. Red states will get worse while blue states stay more or less the same, which will prevent libs in the blue areas from mobilizing effectively to protect minorities in the red ones.

cost effective

I’m not so sure. A used Thinkpad comes with everything you need, whereas a PS3 or PS4 also needs a screen and a controller at bare minimum. The Thinkpad also has access to a game library of (checks notes) almost every single game ever made excluding mainly AAA titles from the 2010s onward. The PS3/4 is only the better value proposition if you specifically want to play those kinds of games, or if you highly value plug-and-play ease of use.

you can buy a piece of crap laptop for $250 but it won’t be able to play ANYTHING

a thinkpad t490 can’t play anything new but it can play quite a bit. I play emulators on mine.

Electricity definitely spent a generation or two in the “requires technical knowledge from the user” zone before all the standardization and safety requirements got figured out.

Hopefully, if the information gets out and enough people walk away, it would severely limit the ability of those who remain to do awful things.

The same thing happened to me on Pop OS.

Buuuut I’ve been on Debian for the past year with absolutely no issues. I think that, for 99% of computer users, the whole “rolling release” design for an OS is more trouble than its worth. Give me a stable release that I can get used to for a couple years, then one big update at a time - little updates every day that unexpectedly change and sometimes break things just make the experience of doing things more finnicky and unpredictable.

That was also the final straw that made me leave Windows, for the record.

According to this document from 2021, most of them are “assistants” and “aides” of various types, although it seems there are a few thousand registered nurses and other licensed healthcare providers and technicians. Maybe they get licensed on a visa and then overstay the visa?

where did the free Palestine protestors go

Well a bunch of them got expelled, deported, blacklisted, arrested, and more. Many of their organizations were forcibly disbanded, and the campuses where they were active have been thoroughly militarized.

This pretty much. The IRS already knows how much you’ve paid them and can easily calculate how much you probably owe - they could easily switch to a system where they just send you a check/bill at the end of the year depending on the balance and that you only would have to file if you have a special tax situation, but they won’t as long as tax filing is an industry.

Used free file myself and it works great, if you haven’t filed your taxes yet this year better do it fast before the site gets taken down!

When it comes to presidential assassinations, there’s really no replacing the efficacy of Marine Corps marksmanship training.

Hell, even in The Matrix they were going to have Switch be an explicitly trans character but got blocked by a producer.

I really want to try a bunch of slurs out

This is surely the most rational reaction to being slightly inconvenienced by a word filter.

Hey, I’ve seen this one

your misuse of the word literally in this post figuratively gave me an aneurysm.

Americans have the most individualist “fuck you I got mine” ladder-pulling-upist culture in the entire world. Maybe someday we’ll have a cultural revolution and come out the other side less anti-social, but in the meantime if you want anything done in this country you’ve got to convince people that there’s something in it for them.

politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.

Every single time Dems have won since Carter, we have been baby stepping towards something worse. The victories for gay rights under Obama were a brief outlier in our country’s otherwise uninterrupted march towards fascism.

If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park.

Welcome to America!

If they have a shred of civil responsibility

lmao