Holy shit

Or 375 billion/month, given the month scale in the above image

USians spent 4.5 TRILLION dollars on healthcare in 2022.

Personally, if the NAS is up and running, I’d migrate the home directory and anything else important from the desktop to that, and intend to network host those folders; set aside the 1TB, install the 2 TB, and do a fresh install and see if I can still get to everything happily.

Alternatively–if you want to preserve stuff locally–new drive in an enclosure, attach to desktop, boot from an install USB, fresh install to 2TB, reboot from 2TB, mount 1TB, migrate data, install 2TB. I don’t think there should be a UUID problem doing that, but even if there was you could still boot from the install stick and try manually fix it

As long as the compost is made safely. Gotta be, like, heated, industrial-scale composting. If you just throw a congress critter into the backyard mulch it’s still gonna be pretty risky.

TO COMMUNISTS, ANARCHISTS, OR ANYONE ELSE CALLING FOR THE OVERTHROW OF SOCIETY

THIS OBVIOUSLY ISN’T MEANT FOR YOU.

Ok boomer.

If that’s “no” to the first part, you’re simply not a leftist. If that’s “no” to the second part, welcome to team violence.

Do you wish to stop capitalism? Do you think the bourgeoisie will willingly give up their cushy lives and positions of power?

Embrace your potential as an angry leftist. Join us at Hexabear.

Oh, I forgot meaningful action on climate change; particularly relevant given the thread topic. That too. Though now with the supreme court’s new ruling, I’d probably define “meaningful action on climate change” as the summary execution of the heads and boards of every fossil fuel company.

That would be very legal and very cool.

So I guess that my vote is real, real easy to get. Huh.

If it’s my vote that will prevent the loss of democracy forever, and stopping Trump is the absolute most important issue we face, maybe Biden should just roll over on a few of those things.

But he won’t, because he’d rather bomb brown kids than actually stop Trump.

Anyway, bargain’s on the table, but I don’t think the democrats will go for it. It’s less painful for their capitalist backers to just use stooges like you to chastise the leftists than to ever throw them an easy bone to gain their vote. And I do mean easy. I manage to not bomb brown kids every day. You just, don’t bomb them. Simple.

Technically, not voting because we do care, and learned the lesson from that a ballot is like a bullet, and should not be cast until you have a target you want in your sights.

I would be arguing a democrat should be voted for if they ended US imperialism, protected abortion rights, legalized weed, provided universal healthcare, gave more than vocal support to LGBT+ rights, and–critically important–weren’t genocidal.

Coraline is pretty intense.

A quote from Neil Gaiman about his editor’s daughter, who served as the book’s first audience

I told her, “You know, we kind of have you to thank for all this, because you weren’t scared by it.” And she said, “Actually, I was terrified. But I wanted to know what happened next. I knew if I let anybody know I was scared, I wouldn’t find out.”

Because propaganda works

complains about capitalism

Is this communism?

Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!

-Julius Nyerere

It’s brutal. It also just kind of becomes normal, eventually. Do what you can to protect your hearing going forward to prevent it from getting worse. Good luck.

That’s super rad.

Makerspaces? Maybe just hang around at bars near your local conference/convention center?