big-green-man

Simple desktop that works and isn't crazy: Linux mint with cinnamon desktop. Just use it, I promise you won't regret it.

I don't use that, because I don't need the simplest thing, I'm a more complicated person. But my wife does, and it's amazing. I set it up for her. I tried out a handful of desktop environments the other day to see which one is the easiest to use, cinnamon is the only one I tried that I'd recommend, which surprised me. KDE just gets in your way every chance it gets, others just deviate too much from the windows concept of a desktop for someone who isn't into Linux to start using, and the rest have quirky behaviors and bugs that just make life harder.

As far as the distro, you'll hear mint a lot, it's what Ubuntu used to be back when it was the easiest to use distro. I'll always recommend it to people that just need a desktop that works. Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop, your parents won't even notice except that they don't have forced updates and login to outlook and all the terrible cruft, they'll just have a computer that works for them again.

If he could get the small kinks out of the design and modify it for a manufacturing process these things would sell like hot cakes. They'd be expensive but worth it to a lot of peoe.

It's not the christian right. It's everybody.

I don't know a single american who thinks our public school system is functioning adequately. Not a student, not a teacher, not a congressman, not a parent, nobody. We all have different ideas of how we need to change it, but we all agree it is an abysmal failure.

Someone's trying something. That someone was duly elected, partly on the promise to do this. And elected with a Democratic mandate by a popular majority. Do you want a better school system? Let your opponents try something, if they fail, try something else. Public school in america is in shambles, maybe the problem is architectural.

I'm curious how you get an AI to give you the code you want rather than the code it thinks you want.

The fact that he campaigned on it, brought Musk along and put him on stage to make speeches about it, and even named the "department" before the election and then won seems pretty compelling to me. Open and shut case I'd say.

Don't listen and keep losing and pontificating as to why seems to be the chosen path for many people right now.

> the liberals were ruining our country

I think their grievances are more detailed than that.

They didn't pretend not to listen. They genuinely want what is currently happening and are very happy about it.

Not much substance in the interview, I'd like to actually understand his reasoning. He's right about the simple concept, if nobody buys the bonds, the government eventually defaults. And if the borrower of last resort, the central bank, buys them up, inflation.

And hes right about the concept that a trader bets on their own worldview. They learn quickly if they're right or wrong about their understanding of the world, they learn it in a very personal way, they don't eat if they don't understand the world pretty well.

I don't dismiss what hes saying, I just want the meat and potatoes.

It's obviously exactly that. Of course, it's not well thought out, its 100% legal from the language in the bill to jerk off with a condom, or pull out. Wouldn't want to tempt your opponents to actually make it the law to empregnate your wife every time you have sex. Also, it makes periods illegal.

The US government is modeled after Cromwell's parliament, almost exactly. The prominent difference is that instead of lords there are senators elected by states. The design has existed for a very, very long time, and evolved organically in England during and after the civil war. It might not seem like it is a good idea, but the US has been wildly successful. The design works.

There are a lot of powers the president has now that the office didn't have a long time ago, and the power of the executive has steadily creeped into everything and grown significantly. If the president were limited only to his powers articulated in the constitution it would be less consequential who the president was. Really, what makes it such a big change is all the executive departments that have regulatory and therefore de facto legislative authority.

Don't forget the power accumulated by Franklin Roosevelt, which probably did more to make the president a king than any single president since.

Well that's good to know, I was unaware.

> Google’s search results are telling us to eat rocks

I can ignore the summary chat bot. What makes google impossible to use for finding information is that all results are "official" sources, such as CNN. I wonder if CNN wants to comment on that part of the enshittification of the internet.