stinerman @ stinerman @midwest.social

I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wre

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Yes and it's likely that they will not be allowed to any longer after Google lost their anti-trust case.

Fair enough. I find, for better or worse, there are very few people I care about to that extent.

When I visit with family this upcoming holiday season, I will do the kind thing and ask how things are going of my extended family. Not because I care, but because this is what is expected. My cousin is going to welcome his first child in the next few months. I am happy for him, and will offer my support in any way I can, but I don't care about what he's doing to prepare or "how he feels about being a dad."

Edit: I still think your scenario falls under "you really care, you are not being nice" in this hypothetical.

I made it through. My degree is actually in math. 15 years ago, I used to know what an abelian group is!

The framing of this question is interesting. “…or are you just being nice?” Seems to assume that being nice is not a legitimate or authentic way of being, maybe unless it is a means of getting something you want.

What the OP is saying is "do you really care" or are you feigning interest because it is the socially acceptable thing to do? That's what "just being nice" means.

No, but I'm depressed most of the time so I don't really care about a lot.

We were on quarters, so we had calc 1-4. Makes sense that Calc 2 was rough if you were on semesters.

Where I'm from Calc 2 is integrals. That wasn't so terrible. It was Calc 3 (vectors and series) that was the hard one.

It can never collapse unless Congress votes to make it collapse. Even in the future once the trust fund is spent down, benefits will be reduced to what comes in from current workers. That's not the full amount but it will be something. I think something like 70%.

So it's not going to collapse unless you think that anything but full benefits is a collapse.

The Ohio General Assembly has a long history of ignoring the Supreme Court. See the DeRolph decisions.

Being on an SSRI helps.

They let the VP control the weather? I missed that part on the AP Government exam.

One thing that I think non-USians don't understand is that our elections are not ran by some non-partisan agency that has a goal of running an efficient, fair election. Our elections in general (although it varies by state) are ran by partisan actors who know which areas vote for their party and which ones don't. They intentionally try to make it easy for their supporters and hard for their detractors to vote.

I live in Ohio if you couldn't tell, and our chief elections officer (the Secretary of State) is not afraid to tell people that he wants Donald Trump to win the election. He is not neutral. That's just the way it is here.

It has, but there are some people who do not like the idea that everyone can vote.

Also it being a holiday doesn't mean everyone gets off work. There is no federal law that says your business can't be open 365 days per year, nor is there any law that mandates paid time off.

Someone who repackages/patches free software has different incentives than upstream. So generally speaking, derivative browsers are more privacy friendly, have better features, etc.

That's not to say that upstream isn't important. It absolutely is! It's just that derivatives are generally better.

I also have a Nebula subscription and recommend it as well. $60/yr or a $300 lifetime subscription.

I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of "man those people are constantly in the news."

TTFN

This was a reasonable thing to point out, but the title you used ends up blunting your point completely.

Going bankrupt due to medical bills.

It took me awhile to like Katy Perry's older stuff. This coming from a guy who likes Indie/Punk/New Wave. I haven't listened to her newer stuff.

Oh and same with Billie Eilish.