GreyEyedGhost

I have a Win11 laptop for work, and they changed the Start menu. Now it's recent apps and recommendations for your starting point, and you have to click an option to see installed apps. Every. Time. There is a setting with 3 options - more recently used apps, more recommendations, or an even split of both, but the option to go straight to installed apps is mysteriously missing...

I will never install Win11 directly onto my hardware. If I have to use it, it will go into a VM of one flavor or another.

Those are pretty nice numbers. I was going to post that, given the time difference for refueling, you would need a lot more chargers than gas pumps for an equivalent number of vehicles, but they're already there.

From Wikipedia: The leader of the Puppeteers is known as the Hindmost. Since Pierson's Puppeteers are foremost concerned with their own safety and the survival of their species, the most important Puppeteer is considered to be behind, or protected by, every other member of the species. It is a shortening from the more literal the one who leads from behind.

This is one reason we need to get rid of FPTP. It makes it harder for the extremes to gain a foothold. It would also lead to enough "teams" having a say that working together would be necessary to get anything done, which would be a novel state in North America.

I've called myself a fiscal conservative, and I have a lengthy comment in my history about it. I'm not finding a link.

Most of the proposals by people who call themselves fiscal conservatives don't want to spend money now, and don't want to think of spending money later. This doesn't solve the current issues and does nothing to prevent those issues from recurring in the future. They also seem to think that policing and incarceration are free, and that poor people have no interest in eating or shelter, which means they obviously won't break the law to achieve those goals. They also ignore that a good education for everyone, not just their kids, is one of the best predictors for a financially successful future (and that financially successful people are less of a financial burden to society), and that hungry kids don't learn as well. In spite of that, they don't want to pay for public education. They also don't want to pay for school lunch programs in spite of all the studies showing that wherever they are implemented they provide a net economic benefit of at least 6 to 1.

The only conclusion I can come to is that most people who call themselves fiscal conservatives don't want to spend money, not even wisely, and fail to recognize that the costs will still be there - you just get to choose whether you want to spend it on education and social services or policing and prisons.

I heard there was one about him being an advisor to Trudeau, so why would you trust him to make anything different happen?

Well, he was also in charge of the Bank of Canada for most of the time that Stephen Harper was the PM, and I have a suspicion the governor of the Bank of Canada did some advising to the PM during those years, so you'd think they would be okay with him, right?

He's done it before? Remember the Squirrel? And the crazy fucker who said out loud that it talked to him?

I'm not sure what compels these people to walk up to John and basically say, "Please embarrass me in front of the nation for a whole season, and toss in some lawyer fees while you're at it." But they do.

This is pretty much me. Used RIF, when it stopped working, I stopped going there regularly. Took a couple weeks to completely kick the habit, and a year of occasional use via search engines, never even bothering to log in. Now I almost never go there. I'll head there as a last resort if a search engine can't find me a useful alternative for what I'm looking for.

Breaking betteridge's law!

I ran across some Sovreign clown in my area. White van, big flags/shields, lots of text. I haven't taken the time to get all the detail because I'm worried it would cause brain damage.