suburban_hillbilly

'Please don't go looking for other chats.'

Dude, no. The 90s were better than now because the ball was closer to the top of the hill and hadn't been rolling back down as long. The strong worker protections, economic regulations, and tax policy that built the middle class during the 50s and 60s started to be dismantled in the 70s because of compromising with economic extremists. They started blaming everything that made a strong middle class possible for high inflation and have been doing it for every economic woe since.

On the other end, the only reason many of those laws were able to be passed in the first place is because FDR and company dragged us there over the objections of the same group.

The best times this country has had economically were never because the neoliberals and their predecessors back through the robber barons were less extreme and more reasonable, but because we had politicians who were up to the task of kicking the shit out of them and overcoming their influence.

Every time Republicans advance a plan that reduces to 'do nothing and the problem will solve itself' I hear FDR warning us again from beyond the grave

It's both in terms of fault. California is a comparative fault state. So if the guy's injuries are worth 50 mil and he and Starbucks are each found equally at fault, them for giving overheated water and him for negligently handling a cup of potentially dangerously hot liquid then they're each responsible for half the 50 mil. Or 70:30. Or 100:0. Whatever the jury decides.

This is a response to viral regressive propaganda from a couple years ago about primary students being allowed to 'identify' as animals as well as use litter boxes, etc in school classrooms that was pressed again during the recent US election season.

OK democratic leadership, you win; I'll quit voting for your party.

https://www.freedombox.org/apps/

Whatever you end up doing immediately after you finish setting it up, throw some files on it you don't care about and practice breaking and reassembling your RAID a few times before you put anything important on it. You want to understand the basic process before things fail.

Good chance this is illegal. Though it varies wildly, many jurisdictions have implied warranties of habitability that require your landlord fix stuff while giving you a legal path to withhold rent or pay for repairs in lieu of rent when they don't.

Yeah some folks in here are clearly out of touch with the capabilities of the average consumer.

I knew this day would come [gently pats 15 year old mumble server].

....they just make you do manual registration if you use third party toner

Man, if only we had a word for disabling critical features in this way.

Powerpoint, obviously.