As a life-long soccer fan, I’ve dreamed of the world cup coming to the US. But now, between the shame of being an American, the danger this country poses to visitors and FIFA’s corruption and shameless money grabs I want nothing to do with it and hope it gets boycotted.

concerned about the future of the US

Considering his business is in surveillance, he must be catching on that billionaires are rapidly approaching 18th-century french aristocracy-levels of popularity.

Lol, sure. Voluntarily alienate an ever-growing chunk of your customers. See how that goes for ya.

That drives me crazy, especially because it makes things more difficult/take longer for everybody involved. It’s not just about being polite it’s literally more efficient.

Being flagrantly disrespectful of basic public etiquette.

America can’t just go back to the way things were before Trump. Trump is a symptom of deeper systematic problems. If we try to pretend this all just goes away when he does, we’re going to find ourselves right back in the same shit in a few years when the base latches on to the next psychopath.

Because the economy would take a significant hit

And risk upsetting Israel? That’ll get you arrested on a good day, missiles shot at you on a bad one.

Great! I finally have an excuse to take that hiatus I’ve been meaning to do for the past several years. You’ve got my number when everything breaks! Oh, and when it does my rate is gonna be double what it is now.

Capitalism

I leased a Kona EV for the last couple years and I really liked it. Great city car, albeit a little cramped on the interior. The range was great but the charge time was pretty ass, making long road trips quite tedious.

I have the Ioniq 5 now and I like it almost as much. The range is a little better but the charge time is leagues ahead; more than twice as fast. It’s bigger and feels like a boat in comparison with the Kona but I just tend to prefer smaller vehicles. If you go with the Ioniq I’d recommend the AWD, it makes acceleration so much smoother.

As a US citizen myself, I can’t blame them. I also hate this country.

Too late, for me at least

I just installed Linux Mint last weekend. Working great so far!

My Linux journey over the last ~18 hours:

I followed a YouTube video on how to install Linux Mint on a flash drive last night around 11pm and got it to post before going to bed. This morning I woke up at 9am, made coffee, then spun up my new OS, configured my system settings, played around with some extensions, then downloaded Steam and a few games and had at it with no fuss.

I switched my retirement portfolio bond allocations into precious metal indexes last year in anticipation for something like this. It turned into my best performing asset.

IIRC they even tried putting it in a separate room without a toilet and it still got poop particles on it.

I never pre-order. I broke that rule exactly once and pre-ordered No Man’s Sky, boy did they make a fool out of me. Never again.

There are plenty of games I play that are on early access, the qualifier is whether the game is in a playable state and is fun to play (by account of online reviews or friend’s recommendations).

I couldn’t stomach the taste of whiskey for years but I had friends who were really into craft stuff and I felt like I was missing out so I found something that was basically vanilla extract and learned how to enjoy other whiskeys from there. Now I’m a big fan

I quit Reddit when it killed 3rd party apps to force people onto their shitty app and shove ads down our throats. I intentionally took a break from scrolling but eventually joined Lemmy 6-months later when I didn’t notice any profound differences in my relationship with my phone/the internet.