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Kbin does that sometimes

Yup. The traditional American middle class is essentially an endangered species

I know it’s kinda cheating to bring them up in this context, but the Swiss manage to run trains to very small towns just fine

Car bad, train good

I fucking hate stroads

Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she’d get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that’s the general gist.

EDIT:
So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.

It’s a feedback loop. A fairly small jump can get you trending, which makes people watch it, which makes it even more visible, rinse and repeat.

Combo of Aldi’s and a local store got me through college. Got cheap as fuck meat (bless $3/lbs ground pork) at the local store, everything else at Aldi’s

Hey we’re actually ahead of the EU in something!

Is Planet Earth cheating? Is David Attenborough in general cheating?

I don’t care how many times I watch it, it’s one of my comfort shows (miniseries?).

While dramatic, it echos a sentiment a lot of us have. I am on a good career path. I will never own a home. I likely won’t retire. Unless something drastic changes, I can’t see any of that slowing down, let alone getting better. That’s not even to speak of climate change, increasing world tension and aggressive postering, or any of the other shit plaguing the world right now.

I hope with all my heart we get to a place where I feel comfortable bringing a child into this world, with the promise of a better future for them. That’s not the world we currently live in.

Child rapists really test my principles regarding the death penalty and such, not going to lie.

In general life? Sure. Students? Absolutely not, at least not once you get to college. Sure you can get away with only using school computer labs, but trying to do homework without a computer is borderline impossible these days. Most online homework sites either outright don’t work on mobile or are such a pain in the ass that they may as well not.

I think I generally agree with all that. One good side effect is I think this will be the push that gets Linux a bit more mainstream*. It’s pretty easy to sideload Linux onto most Chromebooks, so I think a good chunk of kids that like tinkering with stuff are going to try it out, more so than the past. ChromeOS is a lot more restrictive than windows, so there’s a bigger incentive to get around it.

• emphasis on a bit. Frankly I don’t think I see a world where Linux has a proper foothold in the mainstream unfortunately.

As much as I don’t want to give LTT credit, I think Linus has a point with Chromebooks. Google is playing the long game with them. Students almost exclusively use them these days, and anecdotally, most of them are getting chromebooks and the like for college now that they’re getting to that age. That’s at least been the case for almost every family member I’ve had that’s started college in the last 5 years.

It’s only going to continue as the average Chromebook legitimately is becoming more powerful, and Steam compatibility is improving. You’re going to see a whole lot of people who see no need for a PC/mac.

Actual psychopath behavior. Bet she’s going to wonder why her kids despise her.

The target audience is kids who grew up watching Blues Clues. I’m pretty sure most the target audience would have gotten it.

You weren’t the target audience, that’s fine.

Funnily enough, taking my glasses off in a dream and still being able to see is how I’ve realized I was I a dream a couple times. Unfortunately I immediately get way too excited at the prospect and immediately wake up every time haha

I make use of that trick a lot, unfortunately it wasn’t a ton of help this time.

No, I frankly don’t have the slightest clue how I did it.