The speaker killed his own career by not reaching across the aisle. The only reason gaetz and the magats had any say at that point was because the speaker refused to work with anyone but Republicans.
That wing of the party gets neutered with a handful of Dem votes. You get those by working with the other party.
So gaetz didn't ruin anyone's career. The former speaker ruined it himself. Gaetz ain't that "powerful".
I've heard it described as "a drunk British sailor trying to speak German".
Lol that what my first reaction too. They summed him up perfectly.
Kaola family by Blippi.
It was demanded of me.
I'd never really thought about this, but I know felons can't vote, but what about if you are in jail awaiting charges? How does that work?
Just getting access to a ballot seems like a challenge. Don't you have to request an absentee ballot in advance? If you are in jail, you don't go to the polls obviously.
Did this guy just screw himself out of a vote?
I've heard someone call it billionaire brain rot. I think at some point you end up with so much money and not enough people telling you no, that it literally changes your brain.
Seems likely.
I literally couldn't pass one for something I needed to access.
I had to switch to the audio thing eventually and it took me multiple tries with that. I should just write a script that uses a fucking bot next time.
This article was all over the god damned map.
You aren't wrong but...
Can you imagine the spectacle of an ancient senator literally taking a stand for something he/she believes in?
That'd be pretty powerful.
I somewhat disagree.
Music seems like it's followed a similar trajectory of most things where it's become more centralized and mass marketed. Music has to appeal to the masses for studios to pick it up. So there is an incentive to find music that appeals to the most people and turns off the fewest.
Similarly, you have a handful of studios telling you what is "good" and pushing it. Even if it isn't great, it's good enough that people listen and then they can create the hype behind it where it might not organically exist.
Some music bubbles up organically from independent artists but quite a bit is mass marketed and produced by big studios. And they have the money so they can choke out smaller artists.
The issue with the filibuster,now, is that it's too easy. It needs to be hard like the old days.
Ironically, because it's so easy we actually don't even see filibusters often anymore. It's usually the threat of a filibuster that stops legislation in its tracks. If it was harder, where you stood for days, then it might not actually stop legislation. At least it would be brought to force the issue.
You should have to earn it.
I'm sure the geriatric core of our Congress will thrilled to have to stand for hours to prove their points.
And that seems entirely reasonable to me. Unless I am missing something
Maybe I'm just tired or being dense but I have no idea what you are referring to in the post.
I was interested in hearing his/her opinion because I enjoyed reading his comment and it sounded like theyd thought about this a decent amount.
In your opinion what are those uncomfortable truths?
I wonder how much we could get if we sold it back to France?
We could keep nawleans though.
Oh umm. I would never make my password this...
I think if you do allow 8 character passwords the only stipulation is that you check it against known compromised password lists. Again, pretty reasonable.
School is usually cancelled because the schools are often polling locations.
It makes it all the more dumb to not have it as a national holiday.
There are campgain signs out that say "Law and Order Matters"
.... sponsored by the local Republicans.
I assumed it was a Dem sign then I saw who sponsored it, then I assumed it was a joke, then I realized that no, it's real and they are just that deluded.
People get annoyed that "people hire their friends", but the reality is, when you have a sea of random people all lying in various forms on resumes, HR on job postings, etc it's so much easier and usually better for a company to have 'vetted' candidates proposed by current employees. Ie networking.
It's still the best way to get a job even with all of this fancy HR algorithm bs.
Anyone else having issues with Apex Legends the last few weeks?
Apex has been running smooth as butter (well, as smooth as apex can run :) ) for the last year or so on my PopOS machine. I haven't had to log into windows to game in about 18 months.
I noticed a few months ago that I would get errors / crashes, seeimingly randomly where 'pak' files wouldn't load. I'd get a wine-looking pop up with the message. I could fix it by Validating Game Files. Inevitably it would find corrupt or invalid files and redownload them and it would work again.
Something happened about ~4 weeks ago where it became much more frequent to the point where its now unplayable on PopOS.
I've done everything I can think of:
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completely removed steam and all my games from my system and retried with the deb package in the store. (no luck)
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completely removed that and my games and tried with the flatpak (same issues)
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I even, thinking my ssd might be failing, bought a new one, cloned my stuff over to that, etc (no luck, same issues).
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I just uninstalled the game again and am trying to redownload as I am typing this and it gets to the end, fails (corrupt update files), then puts me in a loop of validating, downloading, pausing download, etc.
All of my other games seem to work fine and update fine.
Apex works on my steamdeck. Apex works fine on this same machine on Windows 10.
I used inotify-tools to see if something was editing the files in between gaming sessions when it worked and when it didn't and nothing seems to be accessing let alone updating/writing to those files. So the corruption or whatever happens during use.
I have tried Proton experimental and literally every version back until it wouldn't even make sense to run. I tried the last 5 or so ProtonGE versions as well.
The thing is: Is this a Pop issue? Is it an Apex issues? Is it a proton issue? Is it a steam issue?
I don't even know where to post this 'issue' too.
For what its worth, I am happy to try and run this down and provide whatever logs may help. I could learn some auditd!
HALP!
<in the mean time I am going to tuck my tail and boot back into Windows so I can game for a bit>
Someone created a tool to screw with telemarketers using ChatGPT
Fighting fire with fire
Technology at its finest.