Yeah it’s the logic of “soft” xenophobia (we don’t hate foreigners, we just treat them different!)
Tax-evading PR holders are a small percentage of a small population (so not a big problem). But, for unreasonable reasons, perfection is demanded of outsiders that is not required of insiders, and the entire problem is blown out of proportion.
There are already laws against evading taxes that could be enforced without applying a special, nuclear-level punishment to PR holders.
It's really sad that music has been dead for decades because of all that home taping we did. I really miss music. We should have listened to the recording industry. We'd still have music today if we did.
Stolen from the British, via the Imperial Navy from its training exercises with the Royal Navy in the time around the Russo-Japanese war, who themselves stole it from India.
I honestly can't believe this album was 2022 and not... 2002. You know what you're getting here, it's Avril Lavigne. But, like, if that's what you want... There you go.
Better than I don't remember. Equipment and quality matters, it's like a first listen.
Sk8ter Boi is the worst song. Nobody's Fool rap parts are a dishonorable mention.
Best songs: I'm With You, Tomorrow, Anything But Ordinary
Greater range of styles than Love Sux, and Love Sux comes off as "What did I expect? Not this shit again" and Let Go comes off as "What do I expect? Do I know?" That alone tells you the age/life stage of each... More about this...
Today I learned FamilyMart has a limit of 30 coins to pay for anything. This is incredibly annoying as I only ever pay in cash for bills that require it, and over years I have attained a bag of coins I need to dispense with.
Legal tender is legal tender, and either it should be accepted or the government should eliminate it.
Best New Mexican food is best triangulated this way:
New Mexico
Southern New Mexico
Doña Ana County
Las Cruces
Missouri Avenue
Little hole in the wall called El Jacalito (The Small Adobe House) with the best gorditas on the planet. The place is a greasy spoon, heavy on the grease, limited number of spoons.
I absolutely survived on those as a latchkey kid living in the overtly Mid-Century Modern neighborhood.
Explains a helluva lot about me does it not? Ain't no Modern like Desert Modern.
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Ah well I attended Westlake HS and I'm pretty sure it has so much of a reputation that you'll have heard of it if you lived in Austin your schooling years.
@FlockOfCats and since they will need to be bought separately and that window is not to scale at all, here is what I will be using for the upper cabinets, so just imagine two above each side of the L:
Starting to use Homebrew for backporting Linux apps to macOS, further ensuring that when the day comes I must give up macOS forever, except for MS 365 Desktop (because Microsoft), I'll have the same suite of apps on both platforms.
Although Linux has come a long way in the 25 years since I started using it with Red Hat 5.2 or whatever, there are still those squirrelly things that means if you install X, it breaks Y, and even when X is removed, Y remains broken, and you just have to bypass it.
I borked my keyboard layout and it seemed the layout applet (the Japanese flag in my previous screenshot) and the full screen app dashboard I installed did not play nice. In the end, I had to remove both.
I'm officially done with macOS on my personal machine.
Given the age of my MacBook Pro (2015) and the demands of running Ventura or Sonoma via OpenCore Legacy, it's time to move on. The errors on macOS given the hacked nature are impossible to deal with.
Linux Mint XFCE runs well enough these days to eke out one last year on this thing--and then I go with a custom Tuxedo laptop.
Okay, given the expressed interest, I'm looking at launching a D&D Campaign through Foundry starting maybe late January.
The party will be limited to Famichiki participants for a couple of reasons: keeping party numbers manageable and providing some assurances the party members know each other or at least know of each other.
Please let me know your interest by the end of the year.
@FlockOfCats@jezebelkat Roll20 is great because the content is all built in, but I love Foundry because you actually control it and can add plugins and stuff. I ended up buying content on Roll20, exporting it to Foundry, and running everything there.