Chipping in a bit (30CAD quarterly). I really owe it to your and dessalines’ work, having been here for over 2 years now.

Stand clear of the closing doors, please!

It’s funny how the Trump administration has “facilitated” the enforcement of Trump’s Executive Order edicts through numerous attempts to withhold funding, but have not got around to even mentioning the funding of Garcia’s internment, when it comes to following the court’s orders.

This is assuming you are expected by your council to clean it “thoroughly enough”.

After you eat/drink the contents, a very quick rinse is all that’s needed. Little stains aren’t going to be bad for recycling.

If you’ve left it for a while and are worried, a simple but surefire way to clean out any significant gunk would be these steps:

• Make sure you have a strainer on your sink drain if your plumbing system is fragile.
• Fill every can or jar with water to near the top
• Wait 15 minutes
• pour out a can into the sink
• fill the can with a bit of water and shake the last bits out
• pour and lightly rinse the rest of the cans in the same way
• bin the gunk caught by the strainer.

Don’t forget criminals will include those charged with anti-Trump “thoughtcrime” when the day comes.

I make mistakes because my replies are often my stream-of-consciousness, and the primary review is mainly to make sure I even want to reply to the comment at all. I don’t use autocorrect so my fingers slip frequently.

If you look through my comment history, a good chunk are edited because I catch more grammatical errors in my comment after I post. I suppose most others don’t bother.

ICE pledges to keep free speech out of the USA.

The question they are answering is the first one they read.

(/s)

Who knows, they might be weighing their options and might shift the delivery hub to BC which would take time, delaying pre-order operations. It might be worth for some hoser to tie a bow on the box for Nintendo and send it to the US for lower tariffs.

what’s Ron Vara’s take on this?

From Canada: I get legit calls from private numbers. Usually it is based on something I have inquired previously about, by phone, text message, webform or email.

Random non-scam cold calls have been largely: surveys (a federal election is coming), requests to donate places from places I’ve donated to before, telecom companies I have ditched begging me to come back. But anything that begins with an automated sounding message I just hang up immediately.

Power = Energy ÷ time, and conversely, Energy = Power × time. Even though in English, people use the two colloquially.

Are you going to retire in the next four years? Or take all your cash out into gold, quit your job, and go into hiding for the next four years?

If neither apply to you, you can leave your money in your 401k. Selling index funds right now is ultimately up to you, but in the long term time in the market tends to beat timing the market.

What I’ve read in books is: Building up savings itself is more important than whether the returns are +10% or -10%, early in your career, since it will fluctuate but tends to average up.

And remember if your national index funds, bonds or whatever market and government backed investments lose half its value, you have bigger problems on your hand of the state of your country at that point which having cash on hand may or may not help anyway.

Canadians won’t forget (sometimes).

JBL sounds like your audio gear, depends on what. Bluetooth, USB audio ot 3.5mm jack connections generally work fine without issue. (Installing PulseAudio Volume Control will help you with finer grained volume control). Some DACs that require custom Windows drivers might not work.

Gaming stuff, Steam will have you covered, Lutris, Heroic, or itch.io for non-Steam stuff. The one unintuitive thing you have to do once you log in is to go to Steam Settings and check the “Use Steam Play for All Titles”. Just like that, 75% of your library that only have a Windows version will suddenly be playable and you’ll hardly notice a difference: just Download then click Play, that’s it (maybe a bit slower launch time).

I would recommend Firefox or Librewolf over Chrome as you have done already, but you should know that Chrome and Chromium do work on Linux FYI.

Hey… You want to make a bit of money…? You should do what I did, get into Farming…

If you want to read the story of someone’s experience trying to block all the big tech companies from their life back in 2019. Their first week was trying to block Amazon.

Edit: A big challenge would be if you wanted to avoid connecting to sites that run off of or have content served by AmazonWebServices. To do that for example, you’d have to click these archive links for Gizmodo instead of the direct links I did above.

archive ver for link 1

archive ver for link 2

• Hello, Bye
• Thank you
• Excuse me
• Sorry
• Do you speak [your native language]? [Native Language] please?
• Where is …
• Check in?
• The bill?
• How do I get to…?
• I am from… [your country’s name in the foreign language]
• Yes/No
• How do you say [word] in [foreign language]?
• The bathroom?
• the hospital?
• the hotel?
• Help me!
• Emergency!
• Payphone? Portable charger? ATM?
• Taxi stand, Bus stop, Train Station?
• Restaurant/Eatery?
• Water, Food, [Your dietary restrictions]
• More/Less, High, Low, Left, Right, Up, Down

Okay. How about this? For a moment, Dems should pretend they are the govenrning majority of the House, prepare a sensible budget. Then wait for either Repubs to magically come up with many of the proposals for themselves. Or bargain for them to control Congress.

Do anything other than give in and give up.

Elon Musk sucks the government teat at level of 525 000 average welfare receipients (6.3B/yr divided by $1000/mo for an average welfare recipient). Hey Republicans, the King of Welfare Queens is right in front of you!

Welfare statistic source