In Atlanta I had a choice of natural gas companies, even though it would have been cheaper if there were simply one single regulated monopoly.

Competing utilities are just a way to give out cash to rent-seeking middlemen.

Gentoo is more about the fun of building a Linux distro that is perfectly tailored to your hardware and personal preferences. Sometimes you’ll see a performance increase of 0.01%, sometimes 25%+. Just depends on a lot of different things.

The build times are really only a consideration on first or second install of the OS. And even with your first install, you’ll probably want to start with the pre-built options, and then gradually move away from that to compiling more and more of your own system.

There are a couple apps like Firefox that also have pre-compiled binaries available for Gentoo, so no waiting there. Of course, there’s also Flatpak for desktop-based apps.

Otherwise, you just compile what you want, when you want. And you can tell Portage how much in terms of cores/threads/resources it gets to use when compiling, so that it can just run in the background while you’re doing your normal thing (or scheduled for when You’re not using your machine).

Portage is also a phenomenal package manager, and can track and satisfy all dependencies for you as-needed. You can also specify what elements of your system to keep on stable, vs testing, etc. It’s not like Slackware.

Gentoo is what was used to build ChromeOS, along with many other distros. It’s as complex/simple, secure/insecure, private/un-private, latest-and-greatest/LTS as you tell it to be. You can choose to update things continuously in the background, or just once a week overnight, or on any other schedule that you want.

You’ll probably learn some new things in the course of installing it, but follow the handbook to the letter, avail yourself of the community, and be patient to start with. It works for me, and I like it, but there are plenty of excellent pre-cooked distros that are also great. I’m just a tinkerer by nature, and enjoy getting increasingly more out of my machines over time.

Almost all of the US states that have more cows than people share borders.

They should all be merged into one state.

This would solve many problems.

We need a Kickstarter.

American people can demand all they want, but he’s not resigning, and you’re never going to get 2/3 of the openly-corrupt Senate to vote to remove him.

Quoth George Carlin… Commandment #11:

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

Nationalize all of it, or let the unions purchase the companies.

When Conrail was up for sale, initially the only viable bid came from the employees’ union of Conrail. Liddy Dole rejected it out of hand for that reason. Years later it was sold to a group of proper capitalists.

Instead of “use anything” you could put in “Debian.”

We didn’t get involved in WW2 because of the Holocaust. There were plenty of newspaper articles about it all over the country well before Pearl Harbor, and nothing was done until we were attacked directly.

Mozart’s full baptismal name was

Johannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

But he went by a few different names, partially because there were so many different languages spoken by the aristocracy in 18th century Central Europe that he adapted his name to suit whatever language he was using at the moment. “Theophilus” is the Greek form of “Amadeus.” Sometimes you’ll see the German translation of “Gottlieb.” Day-to-day, he is reported to have gone by “Wolfgang Amadè.”

It wasn’t uncommon for people to translate their names freely like this. Beethoven went by “Luigi” in Italian texts, and “Louis” in French.

“Giuseppe Verdi” would today be translated to English as “Joe Green.”

You’ve got WebKit, and Chrome/Chromium. WebKit began as a fork of KDE KHTML, and Chromium then started as a fork of WebKit.

Firefox’s Gecko engine is the only other major alternative to those two.

Their bread is buttered by Google, so that seems unlikely.

With regard to a financial bailout, there are really only three options in the end here:

1. Bail them out, let them off the hook, everything goes on as normal.

2. Don’t bail them out, they take the costs out of the utility customers.

3. Don’t bail them out, they do a performative bankruptcy, then are sold and reincorporated in a new name by basically the same people who ran it before.

None of the options end up changing anything.

Instead, the people in charge need to be incarcerated.

It would also be nice if there were some metric for CapEx reinvestment that we could federally mandate for electric utility companies.

We should also mandate that all last-mile lines are covered, to mitigate fire risk. I live in a small SoCal city of 140k people with our own water and electric utility, and we’ve been using covered lines for 30 years. We haven’t had fires caused by our in-town utility in the time that I’ve lived here, which is a lot more than I can say for SoCal Edison. Our power also doesn’t ever go out (again, unlike Edison).

So when do we get to eat him?

Pretty expensive way to get free labor

Shit parents, shit grandmother. Hopefully they’re not past of your life anymore.

Your parents suck.

Stay off TikTok.

The question of jurisdiction was more complicated than where the crime had been committed.

So… The US did it.