I think it’s less that young white men actively supported Trump because the Dems didn’t pander to them, and more that young, upper-middle class, suburban white men were altogether uninspired to vote because in either scenario, they wagered they’d be okay.

The lesson seems to be a very clear and unfortunate rebuke of women as presidential candidates, but very specifically black women, as Harris seems to have gotten even less support in this demographic than Clinton did. It’s shameful, but I believe that if Newsom had been the nominee and ran a near identical campaign, Israel and all, that he’d likely be president elect today.

But how do you get the average user, for whom the cost of licensing the OS is completely opaque, to even think about cost at all? The computer they bought comes with Windows or MacOS on it already. Neither of which currently has any additional recurring monetary cost to the user.

You’d need mass-market laptops and desktops coming with a Linux distribution tuned well enough to run Microsoft Office and Adobe products without any more work for the user than running them on Windows. It needs to come pre installed and work so well at the “prosumer” use cases that they aren’t constantly thinking about how much easier it was to run Windows. Doing that means the OEM has to do much more unit testing and compatibility checks to ensure that when the customer opens the box and goes to install Steam and Apex or whatever that it just works without any terminal work necessary. Add to that that the OEM will want support from the company that manages the OS, and suddenly the cost to license tried and true Windows vs almost any Linux distribution for end user workstations is nearly moot.

And to make a dent in gaming, there is still an ocean to cross in terms of driver readiness and ease of use. It’s coming along, no doubt, and Valve investing as heavily as they are in Linux gaming is sure to move the needle, but it will still be an area of difficulty for some time because the user experience needs to accommodate completely custom builds with unexpected hardware configurations and box-built gaming PCs that can be OE tested and configured and everything in between.

This is fair. But at that point the same could be said of a Chromebook for her needs, which I’d venture is true for most people’s computing needs given entire swaths of the world do everything on a phone or tablet.

The Linux vs Windows debate is peculiar, because it really only applies to users who are more advanced than the average, arguing about problems that only arise when you want to do more demanding things with your machine like development and gaming. Your average user doesn’t care about any of the anti-monopolistic / FOSS reasons to use Linux, which makes the argument for them essentially “you should use this operating system that takes more work to use because it’s better for you for reasons you don’t care about.”

In order for Linux to become more mainstream, it needs to be able to exceed Windows’ performance and ease of use for gaming and productivity - which is challenging since when most users think of productivity apps, they only think of Microsoft products. It’s not enough to be equal in order to compel people to switch from what they’re accustomed to.

Gets downvoted for decrying bad people and wishing for peace. Damn.

I interpreted her point about scholarly rigor to be referring to allegations of plagiarism. She’s vehemently denying those allegations, but she does address them. Otherwise, I agree that it’s likely other prejudices had a part to play in her dismissal.

Then he should pay 100% of his worth and live penniless as a pauper for the rest of his days. Any and all assets and earnings above minimum wage should be garnished for the rest of his life. Let him be an indentured servant.

He looked like Arab Steve Harvey.

I don’t disagree from a purely American standpoint, but I’d caution against calling a war where Ukrainians are being so heavily impacted daily and Ukrainian soldiers are fighting and dying “cheap”. It’s an inexpensive investment in the security of the region and the world on the US’s part, but no war is cheap.

At this point he is in too deep. His only hope is that by continuing to deny any wrongdoing and continued efforts to delay things will work long enough that Donny can reclaim the white house and pardon him. If he recants now, he’s assuredly going to prison. That said - I suspect if he flipped and offered to testify against Trump, ‘ol Rudy might be able to secure a sweetheart deal. He’s far and away the closest person other than Trump himself who could best detail the extent of their criminal activities.

Axis? Really? That’s the word? 🤦🏻‍♂️

I think that Netanyahu’s rhetoric has been clear that the hostages are not the his primary concern. His focus is on eliminating Hamas entirely. I don’t disagree that releasing the hostages needs to happen if there’s to be any hope of a deescalation, but I think it’s a longer road to the conflict ceasing than Hamas doing what they should’ve done as soon as Israel retaliated.

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But all of those things contribute to inflation of home values. Not sure if I’m just agreeing with your point or not, but a reduction in buyers doesn’t mean nobody is trying to buy right now, but if conditions are such that sellers aren’t incentivized to make moves, those who are can charge a premium when they do.

It’s bullshit, not because it’s factually incorrect, but because it’s a completely made-up scarcity given how much vacant property exists in the US and worldwide. In the US, we’ve regulated property development to protect existing homeowners and limit high occupancy housing to “less desirable” neighborhoods. Until those areas become desirable - at which point we evict all the low income families, turn entire floors of apartments into single condos, and charge millions of dollars for them.

Further, evidence that the inflation rates are indeed slowing as the Fed makes borrowing more expensive signals real estate investors to just weather the storm, because the return of rock bottom rates is, in the scheme of things, just around the corner.

I don’t think we’ll ever see coastal real estate markets truly bottom out or even meaningfully correct without a complete economic collapse of the US, which would really be a complete global economic collapse.

Basically it works like this:

Instances A, B, and C are federated initially. When a user posts on Instance A, users on Instances B & C can see and interact with the post directly. Any comments they make will be sent back to Instance A as the “home” instance for that content.

Now let’s say Instance A decides they don’t care for the type of interaction they’re getting from Instance C’s users and decides to block - or defederate - Instance C.

To users on instance A, nothing changes other than new posts and comments from users on Instance C will no longer show up. To users on Instance B, nothing changes other than new comments from users on Instance C won’t appear in posts they interact with on Instance A. However, for Instance C, things are suddenly branched.

On Instance C, any posts that were created prior to defederation still exist in Instance C’s record. However, any comments that users on Instance C commit to those posts will no longer be distributed to users on Instances A or B, because Instance A maintains the “primary” record of the post. Similarly, Instance C’s users will not receive updated comments from users on Instance A OR Instance B, because again, Instance A is what determines which comments appear in federated instances. Furthermore, new posts created on Instance A will no longer show up in users’ feeds on Instance C. From the moment of defederation, Instance C’s copies of all posts on Instance A are now distinct, and the only new comments or updates they will receive will be from local users on Instance C.