Isn’t the solution obvious? You need more money, so increase the tax revenue. The easiest way is to end the limit on social security taxable income. Right now it’s like $200,000. Any money above that isn’t taxed by social security. So it’s a totally regressive tax. Make it a flat tax, with all income taxed equally, or make it a progressive tax, with larger income taxed more.

Second most obvious solution: make dividends, capital gains, and unrealized capital gains taxable by social security.

Nobody’s at zero. It’s been said that the average American commits 3 felonies per day. The law is so long that you couldn’t read it in a lifetime. There are more criminalized actions than you can imagine.

xdotool

They just make up shit. They probably knew they didn’t have a warrant for this person.

There are always at least some warrants. ICE will pick one at random and say “I thought it was them.”

I feel like it’s reached its conclusion. They were supposed to release more files, and redact less, and refused. They were found to be in violation. Their failure to release them is as damning as the worst you can imagine being in the files. The only recourse now is impeachment, and that won’t happen. So it’s basically done until congress changes.

You were never tutored in analogue calculations. Analog doesn’t mean “everything that’s not digital”.

My gaming PC dual boots Debian and Ubuntu

From the same develeoper: https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/

See the game’s manual: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2515197025

I was getting marked as “away” in Microsoft Teams every day, even though I was working. I just wasn’t using Microsoft Teams, so it marked me as idle.

I wrote this Autohotkey script after my boss started complaining. It clicks on Teams every 2 minutes:

global running := 0

^+1::
{
	global running := 1
	while running == 1
	{
        CoordMode("Mouse", "Screen")
        oldx := 0
        oldy := 0
        MouseGetPos(&oldx, &oldy)
        prev_active := WinActive("A")

        Try
        {
            WinActivate("ahk_class TeamsWebView")
        }
        Catch TargetError as e
        {
        }
        CoordMode("Mouse", "Window")
        Send("{Click 80 40 Left}")

        Try
        {
            WinActivate("ahk_id " prev_active)
        }
        Catch TargetError as e
        {
        }
        CoordMode("Mouse", "Screen")
        MouseMove(oldx, oldy, 0)

        sleep(115000)
	}
}

^+2::
{
	global running := 0
}

It has the side effect of preventing my computer from entering screensaver/lock screen when I really am away.

You cited slop that you didn’t even read

The OS itself, Debian. If I have to pick a component, Mate Panel. Compared to the Windows 11 start menu, it’s useful, customizableand has no ads. My IT department at work can’t even figure out how to remove the Windows 11 start menu ads from my computer.

even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion

It definitely was. Even the Catholics will agree it was an abortion. So now both sides hate you.

Benjamein has my sympathy. No person should have to watch a commercial.

When you buy software on a DVD, you own the software, at least until you install it and agree to the clickwrap agreement that revokes your ownership.

In the olden days, we installed software by copying it off floppy disks onto our hard drives. There was no clickwrap agreement, because there was no installer. We owned that software.

GOG advertises that purchasers own the software they buy. https://www.gog.com/en/news/welcome_to_gog

Lots of open source software can be owned. You have to do something that grants you ownership in the first place, like buying it on a disc. Downloading it for free might or might not, I don’t know. But no FOSS license I know of has any clause that revokes ownership. The GPLv2 has a specific clause that says

You are not required to accept this License

so you can always choose to reject the whole GPL, and revert back to the implicit rules of commerce, “Pay money, receive thing” which confers ownership.

Did Steam shut down games people bought?

There’s no minimum wage in my state (other than federal minimum wage) but even semi-rural Taco Bell advertises $15/hr starting wage.

Mods go crazy over one weird trick: change “israel” to “zionists”.

Rule 1.3:

Title must match the article headline

The president of Algae:

chmod can do 95% of everything I’ve ever needed, just with the “user” and “other” category. Private files, public-readable files, public read-write files, programs I compile but anyone can run… all that is just in the “user” and “other” category of chmod.

It gets 99% if you add the sticky bit (used on /tmp) and the “group” category. Serial ports are owned by root:dialout, and mode 660. To get serial port access, just add the user to the dialout group. For group assignments in college, each partner pairing had their own group they could use. Group work files were mode 660 so groups could edit each others’ work, but other groups couldn’t peek.

For the last 1%, use setfacl. It does everything that explorer.exe’s security tab can do.

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