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  • I’m on Win11 and see almost none of the issues people like you are talking about. No doubt they exist! Maybe it’s because I’m on a plain vanilla ISO and I stripped the crap out early on? Same SSD I had 4 computers ago on Win10, just get moving it over. Talk like yours makes me afraid of a fresh install!

    If it’s as bad as people say, I’ll give up and go Debian. I was largely staying Windows so I could be familiar and support my coworkers. Unemployed now. Who cares?



  • Mostly agreed! The interstate highway system is one of America’s greatest achievements, and sorely underrated. And yes, we could do the same with passenger rail. I’d shit to hop a train, burn down the track to the French Quarter (New Orleans), get hammered, party down, sleep all the way back to Florida.

    But as to my other comment, I got questions.

    A cultural point you may be missing, if you’re not American, not all of us want to live in big cities. I know, far more efficient, no arguments there, but I refuse to live my only life packed in like rats.

    I’ve lived in Chicago, my current suburb of 9,000, my camp in a town of 900, and everywhere in between. I’m no misandrist, love people in general, but I’m not living that close to them. I get a little freaked out going to Pensacola! (54,000 souls) Been there, done that, need space and forests and waters.

    I can walk out my door and in 20 minutes disappear into hundreds of acres of forests, creeks and swamps. That is how I want to live the only life I got.

    We can talk park-and-ride systems?


  • Today my wife and I traveled 1.5 hours to the east, barely covered any distance through the Florida panhandle. That was nothing, we weren’t halfway to Tallahassee, the state capitol. Go that far? About halfway through the panhandle, not remotely close to the Atlantic. That little dip in the middle of the panhandle? 5-hour drive.

    How would America solve this trip by rail? Love to see it, but damn, this was one small town to an even smaller town. Most people in this state haven’t heard of either destination. Also, we had loads of outdoor gear and a 40-quart cooler. How am I move all that on a train? Will they stop at Dollar General and let me pick up a 12-pack? Also, I want to come and go as I please. Would have brought 3 or 4 kayaks, but that particular state park doesn’t allow them. (it’s tiny)

    Maybe it’s the American in me, but I can’t see how rail works unless you’re going city to city, with what you can wear on your back. And how am I to carry my AR-15, Colt .45, backup ankle pistol and pocket derringer? And spare mags for all that?! (Kinda joking, mostly, kinda… Hey, we’re a fascist state now and I have a brown, immigrant wife. 🤷🏻)


  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world"I back the blue!"
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    Uh, liberals say the same thing about random bullets whizzing around. You can see it here on lemmy every day.

    Take the suicides and gang violence out (racist code for brown people killing each other, but most of us have a choice not to engage in that scene), take out white trash shooting each other over meth disputes and other family issues, gun violence ain’t so random. Most people murdered and raped knew the aggressor. Doesn’t make it right, but it ain’t random.

    Want scary, random violence and death? Get in your car, take a drive. 'Bout the same numbers, per the CDC, give or take, 50,000 a year, gun vs. vehicular deaths. I’m more afraid to drive 700-miles to get my kids 4 times a year. I can’t stay away from bad people and places when I drive.

    Why is no one screaming about this?! We don’t see it on the news, because it’s normal. What you see on the news is reported because it’s not normal.

    Y’all have no sense of what is truly dangerous in this world.


  • Excel is the fucking backbone of Microsoft Office. It’s solid and backwards compatible for a couple of decades. Excel is the one reason business sticks with Office. It never fails, everyone knows it, nothing can replace it. You cannot trust any other spreadsheet to perfectly translate if you move away from Excel. The world runs on Excel.

    I never imagined Microsoft would fuck with Excel. Ever. There’s a fairy tale about killing the golden goose, can’t remember how it goes.



  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHas this ever happened to you?
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    Fuck all that. If you’re too afraid to meet a strange man in a public place, that’s on you, and god only knows what other unreasonable fears you have.

    EDIT: Y’all are socially retarded. No wonder you don’t get laid till you’re in your 20s.

    PUBLIC PLACE. I saw women in public today. Many had bathing suits on, some with bikinis. Should they have hidden? Perhaps worn a burka? One time, and this was wild, I went off the trail without my wife and saw other women. I was all I could handle holding back from raping them. But, being a public place and all, I had to hold back.








  • Thank you! Someone around here gets it. Look at these comments. People seem to think he’s actually holding that much cash.

    People are only buying Tesla stock because it keeps going up, nothing to do with their perceived value of future earnings. It’s fucking insane, reminds me of Wall Street, 1929. Fittingly enough, the world is making the same mistakes of 100 years ago because all the people who learned from those mistakes are dead.