I haven't installed Linux on my desktop yet, but I was leaving toward CachyOS and this tool suggested Arch. So pretty close to what I was thinking, I think, considering this took doesn't seem to include CachyOS as an option.
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A lot of those same students would vote responsibly, if given the chance.
As a former high school teacher, I was very impressed with the political engagement of Gen Z. They are aware of issues and largely feel hopeless and ignored. If students could vote, schools would be an excellent place to teach students how to make an informed vote, and then take a field trip to voting centres to show them how easy it is to vote, too.
As it is, you're partly correct that 16 y.o.s largely don't pay close attention to party platforms, despite generally good awareness about local and global issues, but it's because it seems useless to them since they can't vote.
There's also research supporting that people who vote when they are first eligible to vote are likely to become lifelong voters, and those who don't will likely not. One of the biggest issues in Canadian politics is the demographic mismatch between voters, so "old people issues" are grossly over represented on party platforms—and fair enough that they are! They're the only ones who consistently vote.
Lowering the voting age to 16 would be a statistical artifact on most election results, in how few ridings would actually change hands, but the knock-on effect of building civic engagement for life would be an amazing change for Canadian politics. You would be surprised with how mature 16 year olds can be when it matters.
Wow. How ignorant do you have to be to move to Russia to avoid your children being taught about acceptance and inclusion (LGBTQ+).
But I doubt Fox News is picking up this story, so the people who need to hear this the most never will.
I meant medical school debt, yeah. I forget medical debt is a thing, as a non-American.
Good. Let them drown in their medical (edit: school) debt.
If there were consequences for refusing care, then fewer hateful bigots would apply, and more of the highly competitive spots in medical training programs would go to better prospective doctors.
There can be no tolerance for intolerance in a just society.
The first game to legitimately scare me. I went in completely blind to beat the game in one sitting in an overnight play session in complete darkness, with good headphones.
My only stumbling point was early on, I incorrectly thought the way to advance was to stack things to climb higher in a sort of rudimentary physics puzzle (that's never a solution in the game) when I was supposed to just push a button that was pretty much in plain sight.
You can cheese your way out of any scariness by ignoring the game mechanics (looking at certain things reduces your "sanity", but looking closely at the scary stuff takes away a lot of the fear of the thing), but if you go into it with the intent to play it straight, it's a fantastic game.
Completely agreed. Nothing was added by this blog post, for anyone who wasn't following it, but it was a decent enough summary. Then that last paragraph comes out of left field.
Ross has championed this for all our benefit, at great personal cost.
This is made up, right?
This is what I came to recommend. Spruce pellets are cheap and locally sourced, and they disintegrate to sawdust when wet. (They're compacted sawdust to begin with, so that makes sense.) You get a litter box with a tray full of holes over a bin, then when you school the poop, you just jostle it around a bit extra to encourage any lingering sawdust to fall through the holes.
We use puppy pads underneath to catch the sawdust, so the clean up takes no time. We empty and refill it every week or so, with 2 small cats.
Not all cats are happy to switch, apparently, but we didn't run into that. Our cats were rescues, and they only use wood pellets at the SPCA to reduce costs and because it's healthier for cats (they breathe in less dust).
Some wood pellets are treated with chemicals of some kind to affect how they burn, so we get ours from a horse supply shop since they only get animal-safe pellets.
The Wii U is fantastic. Lots of great games that run smooth as butter on the Steam Deck without any fancy setup required.
Oh, that's not how it was marketed? Weird. That's the first I heard of it...
/s but not really.
CD-Rs were more expensive than DVDRs because of RIAA lobbying to get a cut of every CDR sale since they were "only/mostly used for music piracy". DVDRs did not have this tax on them.
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Bluetooth headphones do this, too. It's infuriating. Let me turn off battery saver mode, god damn it! (I assume this is on the headphones, not on Android, though?)
For some reason, TalkBack triggers this, too, so most Bluetooth headphones are useless for that purpose. Something in a recent update broke TalkBack in the Kindle app so it won't read continuously the "old way" (that worked) and instead uses "continuous reading mode" that pauses just long enough to put Bluetooth headphones to sleep every sentence. And I don't think Google cares because Amazon has implemented their own TTS system in the Kindle app that's slow as fuck for anyone used to speed reading with TTS, but it's the way everyone is recommending now for Kindle. I've switched to pirating books so I can read them in Moon+ Reader instead, since it works.