He has no earned income because, like all billionaires, he's arranged to have no income in order to dodge taxes.

I'm mad at the loopholes, but I'm also mad at the fuckers who exploit the loopholes, because just because being a selfish asshole is legal doesn't make it okay to be a selfish asshole.

until he starts paying taxes like everybody else.

Fuckhead billionaires...

What kind of performance hit did you notice? I'm considering giving it a try, as some older games are the only thing really keeping me on Windows at home. I've been steadily moving non-gaming family members to Linux Mint and Chrome OS Flex with the Win11 hardware apocalypse. I'm very interested in first hand reports on how well these games work in the real world with the translation layer factor. I'm assuming there has to be at least some kind of performance hit, so I'd like know your experiences with it.

LOL. How long have you been here? Because personal stalkers have been a tradition here as a long as Natalie Portman's hot grits, Stephen King dying, and Netcraft confirming that FreeBSD is dead.

Lmao, have you read the AC leftist trash that gets posted here daily, as well as the "you're a conservative, -1" mods that also happen daily? I am absolutely not afraid to stand up for what is right. Call me any names you like, mod me down, lie about me. Seen it all, still here standing up for the truth.

I didn't post (I never post AC) that but I fully 100% agree with it. I want my security team to be the best, not chosen based on their skin color or ethnicity.

And as far as melting pot goes, the idea was everyone is supposed to "melt" into the pot. Not turn into solid chunks of this race or that color or whatever racist bullshit is being pushed by the DEI crowd.

We're all supposed to be the same. DEI is the exact opposite of that. Hyphenated-American is bullshit. Is there any other country on the planet like that? Do people call themselves African-French after their family has been in France for generations? Do they call themselves Australian-Hispanics? Does that happen anywhere else? It's stupid. Be an American.

I know where my pre-USA ancestors were from. I don't give a shit nor identify with any of those places. I'm not white but I'm sure aa hell not a hyphenated-American. I am an American. My wife was born elsewhere and most of her family is still there. She got citizenship here. She's an American. My kid was born here. She was not raised as a hyphenated-American. She's American.

DEI is entirely and completely anti-American. It pits people against each other based on skin color and ethnic background often many generations forgotten.

We used to call it discrimination when we treated people differently based on their skin color and background. Now we applaud it as moral and good and call people who want us all to be the same and treated fairly racists. You just can't make this shit up.

DEI is a horrible racist concept that groups people based on meaningless traits they were born with, not anything about the content of their character. Treating people differently based on skin color is textbook racism.

Because shiftiness and dishonesty are built into the Chinese psyche. We have measured the Asiatic brainpan with calipers and found that it lacks the capacity of the white brain. Why is it the more socially progressive the account, the more viciously racist it is? Has anyone figured this out?

You haven't met any millenial/Gen X cops ... they refused to mask up and got (in one case in NYC) a nurse married to one of their colleagues to print up fake vaccine cards. They wouldn't protect themselves even if it killed them, and sometimes it did.

Fuck that ... just what we need, more stinking noise little surveillance copters hovering over our heads. I hope it fails spectacularly and clocks a few well-heeled pedestrians on their noggins, followed by hundreds of millions of litigation.

Indeed. One of my best friends was someone I met online on IRC in the early 90s but we didn't meet in person until 5 years in.

The first 10 minutes of in person when we finally met was worth more than the previous 5 years of online chat and gaming.

He lived in another part of the country but traveled a lot so we saw each other regularly for many years until he passed. I still talk to and visit with his sister now, years later.

If we had only met online then he just would've vanished off IRC/email and I'd never know why and probably wouldn't have cared that much and never would have known his sister at all. I have no idea what either of their politics are/were.

Great guy, died way too young.

Don't neglect lunch specials ... you can get a reasonable sized main and salad for $15 (about $20 with tax and 18% tip) in many places in NYC if you go before 3:30pm on a weekday.

One more reason why I don't use services, prefer to always tip (and pay) in cash ... no point in the useless chuds in DC getting a cut and using it to over-fund ICE even more. Support the cash economy, be part of the problem.

Spill some fish sauce or something else similarly stinky on the delivery person's bag by "accident." Also, don't tell them to fuck off ... just ignore them entirely and make them wait. Or keep forgetting their order and making them wait another hour.

The weird thing is that, in countries with much harsher lockdowns than the US (most of EU), in-person socialization, work, transit usage bounced back much quicker than the US. People just wanted the lockdowns to be over and go back to pre-COVID days. They didn't gradually come to accept a "new normal."

A few years ago, GrubHub ran the following scam ... they'd create a number that forwarded to the restaurant, then list that number on Google as the phone for that restaurant (and on their own site along with a menu). So calls to the restaurant got routed through their own number, and they'd charge the restaurant about $6 per call. If the restaurant didn't pay, they'd say "nice number we made you, shame if it were to be disconnected." They eventually got slapped down in court, but not before they screwed over a lot of restaurants. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/a...

Tell the dispatchwhore that whatever they're trying to order is unavailable and hang up. Rudeness is an option when dealing with people who don't take "fuck off" as an answer.