Creating wealth is not building value

I vote for the candidate that would do the least harm for the most people, just like I always do, nearly always the Dem

I believe there is a mandate Since the largest group of voters did not vote, they apparently thought everything was fine the way it was They passively voted for the Status Quo There is a clear Mandate for the Status Quo! Winning by less than 1% & losing seats in the house is no mandate to become a Monarchy, to be ruled by Royal decree

Making it all seem like shyt is the GOPux brand
Proving government incompetent by their actions

The Dems keep running on We Suck Less!

In general we would rather critique the bad faith arguments of conservatives than talk about policy, which is mind numbingly boring…

As long as the donor class calls the tune it’s gonna continue Third Way, Neo Liberal…

Qrs don’t seem safe to me
Scanning a Qr allows the installation of malware apps so I can look at a restaurant menu, & ding my card for recurring charges?

https://the-boys.fandom.com/wiki/Vought_International

I got an email from Meta a couple of days ago about an account I had been locked out of for a several years, after logging out, trying to recover my password, which they wouldn’t allow without me providing a copy of my drivers license, which wasn’t going to be possible, since I made up all the details other than the throw away gmail account
I had been restricted & banned for posting meme’s or trolling magats on several occasions prior…

I’m guessing, there was a mass unlocking of previously blocked accounts

No We have several systems find waste, fraud & abuse
Inspector General
Government Accounting Office Office of Management & Budget
All of which are routinely ignored by both houses of Congress
If a mandate actually existed the Congress would have no problem actually doing their job & writing some law
It’s no coincidence that every system Elmo is hacking is investigating illegal activity within his companies/government contracts
Another tell tale sign is that DoD, the traditional home of waste, fraud & abuse isn’t the primary target

Womens sports is an accommodation so men don’t have to compete & lose to women
Gender is an imprecise way to classify athletes
Weight & skill level are more sensible

Moderation for adults is gonna be tough
Who is going to submit to being under someone else’s control
There are lots of tools available
All require discipline to use consistently

I have my own organizational scheme to reduce distractions
No notifications on the desktop, Three hidden panels: Time/calendar/weather, Launchers, Virtual desktops/window switcher/system tray Different browser & email for different tasks
Virtual desktops Money, doctors, work
Music, books, games [no email or browser] News, critique of peoples opinions,
Forums & sites I’m testing, repair info, linux stuff

All the tabs on the different browsers relate to the purpose of the VD
If I miss, I move whatever it is to where it “belongs”
Keeps me from being stuck doing one thing too long or ignoring things I should spend time on

When the Ends Justify the Means
Anything is Possible

There is only Corporate media

Very early we started allowing the parties to administer the the primaries to avoid having to raise taxes to pay for elections
We outsourced elections to the Fan(atic)s because they cost less, They still get paid in proximity to power
Having the occasional binary popularity contest to decide who should be in charge may not be the best method

It been all over since the guy[shrub] who lied us into two 20 year wars & brought us the Patriot act, got re elected
Haliburton won, the DoD who can’t pass an audit continues to have an open checkbook & ever increasing budget

Then we moved to Hope & Change, that turned out to be great for banks & insurance companies

Every cycle is portrayed as vitally important with a platform of
We Suck Less
The Donor Class calls the tune

Allowing money to overtly be speech removed the pretense of representation for the rest of us
The expectations have changed
Avoiding the appearance of impropriety
Degraded to Maintain Plausible Deniability
Eroded to
Prove it in a Rigged Court of Law Beyond any Conceivable Doubt no Matter How Absurd

Enabling all this is a solid 1/3rd of the population that have reduced empathy
Energized by the various corporate media that have been consolidated into unanimous support for our not so benevolent overlords

My wrist will not tolerate using a mouse for more than a few hours
You use a mouse on your phone?

What’s a mouse?
I use a trackpad
The lenovo version of trackpad on my thinkpad has buttons on the top & bottom along with trackpoint that works when nothing else will…
I even have a usb keyboard with a trackpad

I bought a gaming mouse [not logitech] to set up a distro that wouldn’t install by trackpad for $12 once the install finished, it sits on a shelf

A forever mouse is a solution in search of a problem

The customer base of people who use mice is shrinking, most people use their phones or pads a majority of the time

Plasma/Dolphin/Gwenview
Offers me 15 recent files through application menu
Clipboard a bunch transactions

Ancient
I had an AM radio I listened to while delivering papers

A Magnevox tv/radio/record player, with glowing tubes. You could stack up a few records

8 track tapes were an infinite loop abomination. 4 loops of 2 channels = 8 tracks. I had a friend with a quad 8 track, 2 loops of 4 channels. the tapes started to drag after some plays, requiring various gymnastics to keep them playing. Recording at home was rare. Cost more than vinyl, lower sound quality. Let the enshittification of music begin

Cassettes Had their own weirdness, pre recorded cassettes had crap tape, crap shells & higher costs. Pre recorded tapes shed the magnetic coating & dirtied up the player which would eat your tapes.
Quality blank tapes cost about 1/4 of what an LP cost.

Moving into the cd age I stuck with cassettes, as that’s what worked in my car/trucks. cd’s got recorded. my favorite technique was 3 albums on a 90 minute tape, cutting out the annoying songs.

I got a computer in 2005 started making LP’s & cassettes into mp3’s. I pretty much try to keep the files under 5 minutes
I still have a bunch of files without proper song titles as I got bored after artist, album, year. Itunes was my go to importing cd’s. Later I found out any of the metadata I changed was in a changlog or some shyt, not the actual files, there was very little rejoicing…