Please set your cell phones to vibrate mode, and your vibrators to cell phone mode.

But the leopard promised so many great things. I mean, sure, the leopard DID say outright that he would eat my face, but I thought surely he’d never eat MY face.

Honestly I’ve daily-driven Fedora, Mint, and Ubuntu and I can’t say I saw a fraction of the problems that you did.

I will say that I struggled with PopOS – despite claiming to be the most Nvidia and gaming friendly distro, it gave me endless trouble with the Nvidia graphics in my gaming laptop. Mint and Ubuntu, though, never had a whiff of trouble. I’m on Ubuntu now with no complaints.

The odd details have me thinking this is AI slop

Small steps are how engineering gets done. It’s a rare technology that proves its value overnight.

Anybody can do whatever they want with their Teslas. But, Musk isn’t even a majority shareholder. Far from it, he owns 13% of the company.

Teslas were (and are) breakthrough electric vehicles that have set a high standard for the industry, thanks to the work of many, many thousands of talented engineers and workers. Most of them are not Elon Musk.

For real, go to a library and ask a librarian for help.

They’ll have various books aimed at different levels of maturity and reading levels. Get a book, read it yourself, then ask him to read it and talk about what you learned.

Google Maps right now:

Absolutely.

I hate to say it, but the only solution to bullying (and it’s not much of a solution) is to escalate the issue to administrators and parents. Over and over and over again, until the administration realizes that allowing these kids to be near each other is exposing the school to risk.

Sounds like the friend is absolutely “negging” your sister, trying to convince her that she’s defective and can’t expect better treatment.

Of course, you can explain this dynamic to your sister – that her friend is trying to build herself up by convincing your sister that she’s terrible. But sadly many people subjected to such behavior internalize it and are unable to fight it.

Tim Walz is just some guy.

MIT administrator dusts off their hands…

“Problem solved!”

Don’t unroll your windows 'cause those monkeys seem confused and irritable.

I think the real answer is that we end up kind of like the UK – going from the worlds ultra-dominant superpower to a sort of slow regression to the mean, as China, India and others take the spotlight.

When you look at what China is doing with their Belt and Road Initiative, and their move to dominate the transportation infrastructure of developing nations – the US isn’t anywhere near equipped to counter that. We’re still in a cold war mentality thinking that we will dominate as the world’s police force.

Meanwhile, all the actual economies will be run by Chinese companies operating with state support.

The difference between “ethically” and “ethnically” was never more stark.

<licks lips>

Ah, excellent point, thank you.

Check the label before you drink it, especially if you’re watching your sugar intake for medical reasons.

Umm. How would checking the label help? If the drinks were labelled correctly, there would be no reason for a recall.

Ah, Wikipedia makes it really easy to list by per capita representation.

The top 10 in “lowest population per electoral vote”:

 Wyoming
 Vermont
 District of Columbia
 Alaska
 North Dakota
 Montana
 Rhode Island
 South Dakota
 Delaware
 Maine