That’s what I actually said 2 comments up too. It would also eliminate over 500k EUR a month in MP salaries in my country, so we could just use that to fund science or culture or something. Or just have more buffer so there’s less need to raise taxes again.

Ah, doesn’t sound TOO bad. I was legitimately prohibited from using any vegetables in my sauces. Sauce had to be just the meat, cream, melted cheese to thicken it up and it had to be a store-bought mix for flavor. Like those Maggi ones, 4 cheese mix, carbonara mix, etc. No experimenting. Even tomatoes were a no-go.

Needless to say, I let her do the cooking because I found it depressing. When she was away, I’d make a nice curry or chilli… Or, like you, a steak, which I prefer medium rare (though sometimes rare is nice too).

Yeah, like anything containing onions, garlic, bell peppers or other ingredients with too much flavour.

I decided she can be not home permanently. I hope your situation is better lol

I’m not a USian, but I do know how their jury duty works. Yeah, it’s been over a decade since I last went to history class, I’d completely forgotten about this system and I guess I don’t think outside of the box enough to come up with it myself. There are some negatives I can think of, but some few positives too.

Here’s my biggest concern, and I’m hoping that maybe you have an answer: Outside of the US, MOST people who get into politics are at least decently educated. MOST voters prefer intelligent and well-educated candidates. Most of them, not all of course. If everyone is eligible and there’s no filtering happening, a bunch of honest to god dumbfucks might be chosen by random chance. You COULD give it an education requirement, but then a lot of otherwise intelligent and well-meaning people who didn’t finish school for one reason or another, are disqualified. IQ tests can have unwanted cultural, racial and socioeconomic biases. How do you make sure that there aren’t too many ridiculously unqualified people chosen, without outright imposing requirements that could be unfair?

Writing from a 7 year old Thinkpad I got this year as a backup computer. Could do with a RAM upgrade because I find it using swap often, but actually it’s still pretty fast. Best chassis quality I’ve seen outside of Macbooks - and I’ve touched thousands of laptops, I used to refurb them for a bulk refurb company. I intentionally got the first generation where Intel got their heads out of their asses and gave us 4 cores on i5 and i7 U-series, since it was a significant performance bump from the previous gen, but still very cheap compared to newer ones.

I use Arch NixOS btw.

And what’s the system where people are in power without elections?

Without elections you get to have kings and emperors. Unless you go full on direct democracy which actually is becoming more feasible thanks to the Internet I guess?

Different strokes for different folks. I liked talking to people at the office - but you don’t have to like it which is why it’s great if WFH is optional

I prefer the cat formerly known as Prince. He agrees with me on Mondays and lasagna.

But hardware ages and dies. Will you trust a pixel 3a for the next 10 years? I’d rather have a new device for this.

You’d first have to buy a phone that can run postmarketos and these are much rarer than I wish they were. Is there even anything new that can run it? Pine64 stopped making phones and said they’ll make a new one when they can make it RISC-V.

Fairphone maybe I guess. 4 is listed as a supported device, but someone has gotten it working on 6 too.

I thought it was E = mc^2 + AI

I do consider myself something that many on Lemmy would call a shitlib (I’m a socdem basically) and I concur. Would be nice if people stopped killing each other, regardless of who’s doing it to who.

I’m hoping that the original author of the image (likely a snap or snap story) was kidding. Perhaps they were already together a long time before this and it’s just an inside joke. Otherwise, the “…” at the end signals disappointment in what I must say seems like an awesome first date experience? Girl doesn’t want to go to a super expensive restaurant, is cute, and isn’t afraid of eating pizza without cutlery in front of her date? First impression: She seems awesome.

That is an oddity. Wish she’d filed a bug report. Unfortunately there will always be edge cases, but I’m glad to hear Kubuntu is working out. I disagree with Canonical on a lot of things, but I’d still rather see people using (K)Ubuntu than Windows.

Just count every sperm cell a man has as a future person, since eggs seem to almost count as people already.

They’re really not, but not everyone needs them.

If you’re bordering type 2 diabetes and carbs just make your blood sugar shoot up and crash down, reducing or eliminating carbs can get your shit back in check without medication, and make it much easier to reduce your calories (since you don’t feel compelled to stuff your face again because of shaky hands)

They’ve got AI on the brain, they’re insane in the membrane

The entire thing is fake sadly, however, I’d totally do that with my child if I felt the need to put parental controls on their devices. For now, though, it’s not even an issue (too young for any smart devices) and idk, I grew up without parental controls and I’m fine - I’d say everyone needs to play Runescape and get scammed of their most valuable belongings, it makes skepticism come more naturally.

I’d just recommend Pop!_OS then. NVidia drivers can come preinstalled if you need them (not that it’s super hard to install on Ubuntu) and no Snap bullshit - anything you install via apt uses a deb, instead of sneakily installing a snap. Flatpak still remains an option and you CAN install snaps if you want to. COSMIC as it is now, is GNOME reconfigured a bit to be a bit keyboard-friendlier and will soon be replaced by COSMIC the brand new desktop environment. Otherwise it’s fairly similar to Ubuntu.

Also, Kubuntu or Mint are Ubuntu with an UI that is more familiar to someone coming from Windows. They work more or less the same.