>People will buy a Steam Machine who would not buy a Linux desktop.
I have a Linux desktop and a mental block around playing games on a computer. The computer is supposed to be where I work or write code, etc. If I have leisure time, I "should" do something away from the computer.
Getting a steam deck let me shake some of that. I'd be very tempted by a box that is a Linux computer, but for fun use only.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the sloppy/lazy redacting going on here?
> ______ and husband, NASCAR driver Brian Vickers, arrive on the red carpet at the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
Gee, I wonder who that could be without a difficult investigation.
Note that this particular document was made public before the 2016 election, much less the 2020 election.
As usual with Trump, nobody who cared had any power, and nobody who had any power cared. I expect that's how it'll play out this time... just another missed swing at the mad king.
Eh I disagree. This is breaking through to more and more MAGA.
It doesn’t feel like it because with each fracturing off of the moderate end of MAGA (insofar as that exists), the core gets more committed, more extreme, and therefore more vocal.
This is on its way to being a very small but extreme group of citizens and a fairly large and extreme group of politicians (since backing up isn’t as easy as removing a yard sign and avoiding the topic in social engagements).
Even having so much clear evidence why this is so absent from national discourse (namely, so many people from such a wide swath of society have been named, even if not in a directly incriminating manner), I'm shocked that there hasn't been more if a push to discuss the potential implications. The kind of money that could be made just speculating outside of partisan discourse is.... jaw-dropping.
But it's really just independent people here and there, and mostly framed around some (typically partisan) polemic. Really leaves me scratching my head.
The chilling effect of the executive. The current admin leverages government agencies against the corporation who will report on this if not to their liking.
Those moderate Trump voters are a big deal, regardless of their numbers. If two out of a hundred Trump voters had gone the other way, we'd have a different president right now.
Hopefully you're right. Assuming that the rift that just opened up between Trump and MTG isn't just a bunch of kayfabe, it may actually hurt Trump more than Greene. It'll make it easy for others to break with him.
I also wouldn't be surprised if Trump's order to open an investigation into Democrats named in the documents, in a blatantly-transparent attempt to get them back under seal, turns out to be a bridge too far. At some point, maybe even the most diehard MAGAs will realize that he's insulting their intelligence.
Meanwhile, reports say that he has been cowering in the White House all day, blasting show tunes at high volume, as he is apparently wont to do when stressed.
That's from 2016 and it's widely accepted as being a hoax. She may or may not even exist as she's never been seen publicly or by reporters trying to verify the claim.
The court documents referencing Johnson were filed in California and New York but were dismissed or withdrawn due to lack of credibility and proper legal standing. The plaintiff provided false contact information, including the address of a foreclosed home, and repeatedly failed to appear for scheduled press conferences despite promises to do so.
The claims were tied to Norm Lubow, a former producer for "The Jerry Springer Show," who used the pseudonym Al Taylor to promote the allegations.
Lubow admitted to Snopes in 2024 that he was behind the Al Taylor persona and had helped draft the initial lawsuit and publicize the claims, though he maintained the story was true.
It’s pretty demoralizing to see how many people accept at face value a totally anonymous lawsuit backed by Norm Lubow. The plaintiff never made any court appearances and the suit was withdrawn or dismissed each time, in the first case because nobody even lived at the address “she” gave.
Ultimately Lubow recruited a patent lawyer to run the case who also apparently never met her. Then a real lawyer set up a press conference for her. This was the first time any journalist got to meet her in person - and it was the Daily Mail. They reported it was all made up and the case and “Katie Johnson” disappeared forever.
But still it keeps coming up again and again, because people really want to believe their political enemies are evil. I guess it’s no different than the conspiracy theories Clinton was killing people. I just hope we as a country get better.
Cooks and similar supporting roles are often preformed by civilians without firearm training. Preforming background checks on people beforehand makes sense, but there’s little point in firearms training if they aren’t expected to carry a weapon.
LinkedIn lists will tell you they contain one new element, but you have to click on a link and scroll through their suggested new elements to see what it is
For me personally, the latter, but there's definitely people out there that just love driving.
Either way, these silly reductionist games aren't addressing the point: if I just want to get from A to B then I definitely want the absolute minimum of unpredictability in how I do it.
I wonder now, if everything is always different and suddenly every day would be the same. How many times as terrifying would that be compared to the opposite?
Only because you think the driving is what you want. The point is that what you want is determined by our brain chemicals. Many steps could be skipped if we could just give you the chemicals in your brain that you craved.
I interpreted it like "why don't we simply eat the orphans"? It kind of works but it's absurd, so it's funny. I didn't think about it too hard though, because I'm on a computer.
>kind of person that treated Design Patterns as a Bible
I have a vague idea of what the Bible says, but I have my favorite parts that I sometimes get loud about. Specifically, please think really hard before making a Singleton, and then don't do it.
Singletons are so useful in single threaded node land. Configuration objects, DB connection objects that have connection pooling behind them, even my LLM connection is accessed via a Singleton.
OK yeah that's a pretty good general principle. You think you only need one of these? Are you absolutely certain? You SURE? Wrong, you now need two. Or three.
A singleton is more than just, "I only need one of these," it is more of a pattern of "I need there to be only one of these," which is subtly different and much more annoying.
I have a Linux desktop and a mental block around playing games on a computer. The computer is supposed to be where I work or write code, etc. If I have leisure time, I "should" do something away from the computer.
Getting a steam deck let me shake some of that. I'd be very tempted by a box that is a Linux computer, but for fun use only.