Tarquinn2049

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[–] Tarquinn2049 14 points 1 month ago

Haha, he's so easy to play, even we can sway the president... man, this is gonna suck.

[–] Tarquinn2049 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can see an argument for how it can still be possible to work with that... filing system, but I still don't get what the upside is, just that it doesn't have as many downsides as it seems like it should.

[–] Tarquinn2049 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Half the people hate him cuz he is too far left, the other half hate him cuz he is too far right. So he probably did the best he could.

All the "family first" people put "Fuck" on all their vehicles for kids to see. So... they seem less likely to be correct.

[–] Tarquinn2049 26 points 1 month ago (15 children)

So, I have seen people do this, and I gotta ask... what is the plan?

Like you are saving the file, implying that you plan on using it again... why make it so hard to figure out which one it was? Especially in this case, where he has done it to enough files all in the same place that he eventually hit the same combo again.... like, are there hundreds or thousands of randomly named files in that same folder? Why save them if they will be impossible to find again anyway?

[–] Tarquinn2049 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was step one, not intended to be the entire end-goal. The goal is to make it obvious that profits aren't the way healthcare should be done, as it is directly at odds with the purpose. Almost every other country in the world has removed profit from healthcare, or never added it in the first place. Even if you want to keep the rest of capitalism, it doesn't go here.

He definitely got the conversation started. He got alot of people to say out loud that "they kind of agree with him". And that is how change happens, when alot of people realise they were already thinking the same thing but didn't want to be the first one to say it. He opened the flood gates.

[–] Tarquinn2049 3 points 1 month ago

I kind of do the opposite, I am big as fuck. But that just means they are more likely to see me as scary instead of gentle. Intruders that get scared are much worse than intruders you can talk to. They might get desperate and do something much worse than steal a bit of your stuff.

So before they see me, I let them know that I am very big but not a threat. So it is less of a surprise and more likely to lead to a conversation rather than a confrontation. You can keep my stuff, I just want to keep my life. I can get my stuff back, or new stuff, I only have the one life, and it is irreplaceable to me.

[–] Tarquinn2049 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, can always go back to school when you age out at 25...

[–] Tarquinn2049 67 points 1 month ago

They always want us to wake up, but they never want us to be woke...

[–] Tarquinn2049 27 points 1 month ago

"She left the barn but not before returning twice a day to take photos and a video, according to the Statesman."

I mean... probably before too.

[–] Tarquinn2049 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, having never had covid, I definitely notice a lot of friends and family around me seeming to struggle mentally with stuff they used to be good at. And some of them physically, too. It has had a pretty noticeable cost already with most of them only getting it 1-3 times so far. If it keeps being around and adding up and people keep thinking of it as not a big deal, I can't imagine how much more it's going to affect them in 5-10 years.

So far, none of them have even gotten the specific effects necessary for a "long covid" label, but it has clearly done something.

[–] Tarquinn2049 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Even knowing everything that has come before intimately doesn't make Trumps stuff make any sense. There is a reason all the professional historians, including the ones politically on his side, are up in arms about him and his plans. This is not "business as usual", he is as bad as literally everyone that has any idea about any of this stuff says he is.

He is way too easy to corrupt and sway. He has no idea what he is doing and trusts all the wrong people because they play him so easily. He's a "useful idiot", but useful to people who want to bring America down or just make more money for themselves. He still thinks all of his plans are his own ideas, or at least that he is doing them for his own reasons, but they are just tapping into his overblown self-confidence and ego.

The reason calling him "weird" actually worked is because he knows that word... schoolyard taunts bother him so much more than accurate assessments of the consequences of his actions. If he could follow along with that logic, he wouldn't be a problem in the first place. Deplorables doesn't get to him because he has no idea what that means and refuses to learn. He has an aversion to reading. Yes, that thing that is basically 90% of the presidents job.

[–] Tarquinn2049 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem with onedrive is now when you visit your parents for tech support, all their important stuff is on the "hard drive called one drive", since Windows now just makes it look the same as a hard drive on your computer. And once that hard drive fills up, which will be pretty fast with default settings, then it starts asking them to pay money, or their important files will be lost... at their level of technical skill, that is basically the legal version of those scams that encrypt your files and then extort you to unencrypt them.

For those of us who know what is going on, it's only a mild inconvenience. Just gotta put less agressive back up settings on and remove anything from onedrive that isn't needed. But think about what it's like for all the people who would get themselves into that situation and don't have someone that could fix it for them. They either pay onedrive the extortion money, lose those files, or take the computer to someone to fix it for a cost. Why make those the default settings? Why not even pop up like a selection of default settings with a short description of what to expect from each selection. But it would cost more money and generate less, so no matter how user-friendly it would be, the only way it'll happen is under court order.

Edit: also for any of us that use windows professional, alot of these problems will seem foreign to us. Of course, all the predatory stuff is exclusive to windows home edition. That's the one where they are agreeing to have a bad time because it made the computer they bought in the store look cheaper than the one next to it.

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