If I were making $133k/yr, while living in my rural NY area, I'd be one of the wealthiest people in town. For a while, I worked in Tarrytown, NY, and later, Chicago, IL, while living in my rural NY home, and life was good. The money rolled in nicely, while my living expenses were reasonable.

I fkn hate that pretentious asshole gweihir, but in this case, he's entirely correct: MAGA are assholes who lie about everything.

And we always seem to have an overabundance of assholes like you.

I haven't touched a Windows system in years, so are you saying it would be easier to just install new, bypassing the intervening versions, instead of upgrading from version to version?

You're still not getting it: I don't even have to say, "Chocolate is a shitty flavor"; I don't have say chocolate is anything. It's not binary in the extremes, with an automatic predisposition for the opposite of what you don't like: it's a scale centered around 0, where 0 is "meh," and all aspects are considered separately.

You can dislike one without being explicitly for another. If I don't like chocolate ice cream, it doesn't automatically mean I like any other flavor. I can dislike all ice cream flavors. (In reality, I like a lot of flavors, but that's not the point.)

The US is the biggest bully on the block, and barely constrained in its atrocities. All we needed to drop the mask was an abject asshole like Trump, and the feckless Republicans in Congress that enable him.

Was this just the final nail in the coffin of something that started earlier? It seems like Bell Labs started heading downhill long before 2017. I worked for AT&T when they split off Lucent, and even back then, Bell Labs didn't carry the R&D weight it used to.

What's your issue with BSD's license, if I may ask?

The Pixel 10 Fold looks pretty cool, but it takes me back to, geez, late '80s / early '90s?, when Casio came out with a folding "B.O.S.S" data bank, a precursor of the PDA. I still have it floating around somewhere, and I'd have used it for much longer, except the ribbon cable between the screen half, and the keyboard half split, at some point, from the frequent flexing. How do you feel the Pixel's gonna hold up?

I did exactly this for a while as an on-call admin, and found the iPad to be a better fit. It was slimmer and easier to pack, if only by degrees, and if I couldn't use a keyboard because of the location - like literally standing in the foyer of a Broadway play house fixing a problem before heading in to see the show - I could at least peck at the on-screen keys with my thumbs while holding the iPad. Of course, ymmv, but for remote work, the iPad was the better option for me.

I see it more as exasperation at the fact that it doesn't matter if the rest of us have solid, fact-based arguments: we're still not going to win in this rigged system.

Carrier pigeons would probably be faster.

We already have *so much* fucking space in this country that it appears largely empty, if you get out of the cities. Drive on I-90 or I-80 west of the Mississippi, and you'll wonder why white people had to have all of that land, instead of leaving it to the Natives. We're not doing shit with it. Nobody's there. There's no reason we couldn't leave the Natives to hunt buffalo, as they had for generations, short of outright racism. Fk off with your "lebensraum," you deluded Nazi.

The Haudenosaunee - formerly known as Iroquois, but that was a pejorative term given to them by their enemies, the Algonquin - call themselves Ong-we-honek-weh, or The People. The Haudenosaunee is comprised of six separate nations - from east to west: Mohawks, Oneida, Onondaga, Cuyuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora - and the Senecas do, in fact, call themselves the Seneca Nation of Indians on their official documents. The Senecas I know typically don't make a big fuss over "Indian"; it's such a small factor in their day-to-day existence. If I'm referring to them, collectively, I use Natives, and they seem Ok with that, too.