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I bet I can guess which option it is…

That is 10,000% people who don’t do creative work especially professionally. I am fine with gimp and darktable versus anything Adobe/paid but I also barely use them lol. I would be back off Linux in a heartbeat if I honestly couldn’t use something I needed even though I prefer it.

To add on to this, it’s also why liberal talking points tend to really highlight savings from programs. As another easy example of good spending: if it costs $50k to send someone to drug rehab versus $75k to house them in prison for a year, with respective rehabilitation rates for 65 and 48 percent, you save and make money twice. Not only is it cheaper up front to send them to rehab, but the lack of a criminal record leaves that person more free when searching for jobs later which can make them a much more productive taxpayer from an input to the economy standard.

Is there a specific item you’re looking at? The issue here is in a few different areas but largely breaks down to

1. It’s not one person but multiple
2. A checkbook is a terrible analogy that at least in the US is just used as a way to make political points.

To 1, imagine you and someone else who disagrees with you on basically every financial aspect has to decide how to spend income together. That is likely not going to be a short or fun process.

For 2, a lot of what they are actually talking about here is debt. Debt gets trickier at a nation-state level as it’s not as simple as how much can I repay. Economies all use at least some debt and that debt comes with economic complications. For instance, let’s say we take on debt that pays for roads that will improve shipping times by 25% while reducing vehicle deaths by 5%. Both of those are economic boons, reduced shipping times means potentially more money from in country sales and exports and removed the economic losses of both the death itself and the loss of future economic gains from that individual. This kind of debt quite literally brings in more money than it costs to service that debt.

On the other hand debt that say gets wasted say reopening Alcatraz is debt that won’t go towards any meaningful economic gain and we lose money on it.

Basically (for the US at least), any time someone mentions the term checkbook when referring to the government they are either purposefully trying to mislead you, or are not appreciating the full range of government spending in a way that is a massive detriment to the way we choose to run our government.

Wonder how much of a bonus the sick fuck who pitched that got for the idea?

Personal experience it is either extreme hate or extreme respect for the institution with no in between. The idea of not caring about them isn’t possible out here from a religious perspective

“People are worried, even some people who voted for you, saying ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’ So how do you address those concerns?” ABC host Terry Moran asked Trump.

“They did sign up for it, actually, and this is what I campaigned on,” Trump replied. He added, when questioned about price increases on electronics, clothing and homebuilding, that “China probably will eat those tariffs.”

Man I hope democrats use that ammunition he left sitting there for the next 80 years.

I’m not sure if it’s plastics alone or if there’s also something with the pesticides or some other contaminant, I generally cook everything from scratch here and still felt like a million bucks eating like shit in the UK…

That is already a rule on the books. This EO is just a dog whistle for racist idiots.

From what I’ve found reading terms on some of these it’s fees baked into them that are pretty dang steep compared to interest if you pay them off immediately. Many then balloon once you get past some arbitrary point between 30-90 days. Might take a look at this to get an idea. I’ve seen these guys recently at a mattress store and googled a cost estimator to see how they worked.

Shit make it a daily double fam you got this

The court records and driving histories reveal a state so concerned with people having access to motor vehicles for work and life that it allows deadly drivers to share our roads despite the cost. Officials may call driving a privilege, but they treat it as a right — often failing to take drivers’ licenses even after they kill someone on the road.

With little to no mass transit in most of the country these people would often become impoverished and or essentially wards of the state so this is not surprising.

We found nearly 40% of the drivers charged with vehicular manslaughter since 2019 have a valid license.

I honestly figured this would be higher. I don’t expect anything to change as long as this country is intensely car focused for transportation though.

That’s awful generous to assume they don’t dump dead bodies in the closest large ditch out there…

Plus they don’t want a martyr

It would be worth a try since this seems to be mostly performance related glitches

Offhand anecdotes here as I only have Ubuntu on a 2012 MacBook.

That said the error post update is likely just a service that didn’t restart properly. Many of these are not necessarily critical, does it say what program crashed? A reboot would guarantee a fix here.

Unfortunately the issues with apps might be the snap packaging, this does slow apps down a bit which could cause pretty much all the remaining issues. I haven’t personally used it but might look up flatpak as a replacement and see if that helps. If others don’t explain how to do this I will try to come edit this later with an explainer or link or something to help.

We still had treasuries and bonds to help finance that stuff even when we had a more progressive tax structure

Is this a conscious bet or just a man-child literally unable to admit he’s wrong?

Usually ours to account for things like good behavior/parole I think? I always assumed they used that upper range as the stick part of the incentive to not fuck up again once you’re out of prison since getting sent back would make you serve the longest possible sentence.

This is good but why was this not already the case Georgia??

Don’t forget that asshole filed an amicus brief supporting the Supreme Court decision that you can arrest homeless people even if they’re only camping outside because there’s no shelter space