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  • Made it 15 minutes. Fucking waste of time. Also, there is a reason that it's score is in the 40% range where every single other episode is in the 80% range.

    I didn't sign up to watch Star Trek: the shitty ass musical.

  • This is Android aggressively killing apps, not Firefox.

  • Use a pihole with unbound so that you become your own DNS. It's waaaay better and it's easy as hell to set up. You don't even need a raspberry pi. It can be set up using in windows using wsl.

    https://github.com/DesktopECHO/Pi-Hole-for-WSL1

    If you have an old spare computer that can be left on all the time, you could set it up on that computer and point your router DNS at it so your entire network benefits from it.

  • There there, take your pills, grandpa.

  • It's the opinion section. Always check a news article to see if it's in the opinion section. If it is, it's drivel.

  • Food isn't taxed at all. We have great social programs. We have beautiful parks. We have tons of public land dedicated to being places where people can go and hang out and enjoy nature. We have absolutely tons of activities that cost $0 to enjoy. You couldn't fucking pay me to live in another state.

  • God I fucking hate musical throwaway episodes

  • Since it's abundantly clear that you've never actually read the 1st amendment, let me help you out:

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    As you can see, employment disputes are not part of the 1st amendment. As you can also see, it restricts establishing a state religion, exercising your religion, protects you from prosecution when peacefully assembling and when you are giving the government the finger.

    I suggest reading through the Constitution and it's amendments. It's not a long read.

  • This is a bad faith argument through and through. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this.

  • The first amendment only protects you from being prosecuted by the government for things you say (and it's even limited... You can't yell fire in a crowded theatre for instance).

    The first amendment doesn't apply here, at all.

  • I'm glad you got it sorted! I really wish we could have figured out what was going on but hopefully reinstalling solves any other issues that that one issue might have been causing in the background.

    Cheers!

  • article

    The Libertarian Party is arguing that calling for insulin—a life-sustaining medicine for millions of people—to be free is “equally offensive” as slavery. And who prompted them to make the comparison? Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, who is Black.

    On Tuesday, Turner tweeted, “Insulin should be free. Medicine should be free.” Certainly not a radical demand for lifesaving drugs, nor more broadly in the context of 73 other countries having free or universal health care. Nor when recalling that the average cost of insulin in the United States is nearly $100; the next closest is Chile, at a little over $20; the cost in the following 31 countries ranges from $2.64 to $16.48.

    But instead of even remotely engaging with any of those facts, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire tried something different.

    “Nina Turner picking crops should be free,” the state party tweeted.

     
            This is racist and anti-Black. Period.
    
        In no way is advocating for free insulin comparable to chattel slavery.
    
        Shameful & uneducated. pic.twitter.com/ad1jMJSdvw
        — Nina Turner (@ninaturner) July 19, 2023
    
    
      

    “‘Insulin should be free’ is equally offensive as calling for someone to be compelled to pick crops,” the party later added, after facing an initial wave of backlash. “They are the same moral statement, and we should react to them with identical moral abhorrence,” it continued, displaying the same intellectual rigor as a 15-year-old who just found a thesaurus and Jordan Peterson’s YouTube channel for the first time.

    But it wasn’t just a rogue social media employee pushing the line.

    “None of the things you advocate for are ‘free’. They require labor and materials which need to be compensated for,” the national Libertarian Party added. “Otherwise you are advocating for slavery. Hope this helps.”

    “Being black does not give you a free pass to advocate for modern slavery, just with more steps. You are not virtuous. You are covetous and evil under a veneer of respectability that would cause untold human dystopian misery,” tweeted Libertarian National Convention Secretary Caryn Ann Harlos. “Spare me your outrage.”

    Was there any dredge of an actual claim to be recovered beneath it all? Harlos, in another tweet, seemed to distill some of the argument that “coercively taking a portion of nearly everyone’s labor is just more respectable slavery.”

    Libertarianism tends toward a disbelief in the notion of a society, in the idea of individuals coming together to support each other in their shared, inexplicable journey on earth. But unless one proposes that everyone lives entirely separate lives, with no common bonds guaranteeing some solid standard of living—water or electricity access or transportation, for easy examples—a reasonable person ought to be able to engage in imagining what else might be part of a baseline standard of living. Like essential health care.

    But with such disregard not only for the reality we are a part of but for the one that we could help create, libertarians have deluded themselves enough to make the ridiculous comparison between enslaved people being kidnapped, raped, whipped, compelled to work in the heat for hours on end and … a society that believes taxpayer dollars going toward lifesaving medicine is a good thing.

  • You can just get the posidriv bit for it.

    I don't like the shorty torx bit that came with it so I took a regular bit and ground down the end with a bench grinder to make it a shorty bit. Worked well enough

    Edit: it doesn't appear that there is a posidriv shorty bit for it on lttsrore.com. But I believe wera sells 20mm bits and I'm certain they have a posi one

    Edit2: after some looking I found this:

    NordWolf 20-Piece Low Profile Offset 15° Angle Mini Reversible Ratchet Wrench and Screwdriver Bits Set, Includes 19mm Square Head/Phillips/Pozidrive/Torx Security/Hex/Slotted Bits in Storage Box

    https://a.co/d/fdOspm2

    Seems to be exactly what you needed.

  • As this commenter (https://lemmy.ml/comment/2274766) also said, an LTT Screwdriver from lttstore.com it is literally the best screwdriver on the market imo. I am a glazier. I work on glass, frames, screens, doors, security doors, patio doors... You name it, I'm all up in it. This screwdriver has been tortured for about 10 months I think, and it is solid as a rock. Nothing but great things to say about it.

    Other things you should have. A good portable tool bag. I highly recommend a veto bag. They are amazing. They are not cheap by any means, but it's the last one you'll ever buy.

    • Fastcap measuring tape
    • A small rubber mallet
    • Painters tool
    • Putty knife

    These two are very versatile and help in a ton of situations. I have never once used either of them for painting applications or drywall. But they work nicely for that stuff too.

    • A small 9 inch crowbar
    • Needle nose pliers with crimping, stripping, cutting, and paper thin holding accuracy
    • Lineman pliars
    • 6" blade utility knife (DeWalt and Milwaukee ones are really good). You can snap off the sections when you dull the edge and point.
    • Cobalt drill bit set
    • Cobalt countersink set

    Cobalt stuff will go through hardened steel

    • Speed square
    • Small level (torpedo levels are a decent idea)
    • Hardened steel chisel set
    • spring punch tool set
    • Metal file set

    There is a bunch more I could list off, but yeah, these are good things to have.

  • Okay next thing to try, go to portableapps.com and get Firefox from there and see how it runs.

  • Minor correction, boomers weren't the ones fighting for civil rights. Boomers would have been in kindergarten during the civil rights movement.

  • Abstract

    Recent studies show that many workers consider their jobs socially useless. Thus, several explanations for this phenomenon have been proposed. David Graeber’s ‘bullshit jobs theory’, for example, claims that some jobs are in fact objectively useless, and that these are found more often in certain occupations than in others. Quantitative research on Europe, however, finds little support for Graeber’s theory and claims that alienation may be better suited to explain why people consider their jobs socially useless. This study extends previous analyses by drawing on a rich, under-utilized dataset and provides new evidence for the United States specifically. Contrary to previous studies, it thus finds robust support for Graeber’s theory on bullshit jobs. At the same time, it also confirms existing evidence on the effects of various other factors, including alienation. Work perceived as socially useless is therefore a multifaceted issue that must be addressed from different angles.

  • Ctrl+shift+esc

    Performance tab

    Click on memory

    What speed is listed on that tab for your memory? Actually a screenshot of this would be way better.

    In the meantime, grab revo uninstaller and uninstall Firefox with it, making sure to nix all found files and registry keys associated with it.

    Are you running AV besides windows defender? If you are, uninstall that junk too and reenable windows defender.