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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Perhaps they only ever interact with other republicans cause surely if they hated the democrats that much then there would be shootings in Walmart everyday.

    I’m told there were about 500 mass shootings (4 or more people) last year. So we’re pretty close.

    And I don’t think it’s 52%. A lot of people don’t vote or update their voter records. But there does seem to be a frothy core that’s getting high on hating people.

    I think conservatives are more insular, too. If you live in a city and actually see and interact with other kinds of people, its harder to hate them as monsters.








  • Stuff I use the phone for in rough order of importance:

    • maps and GPS
    • messaging (signal)
    • emulators and other quality games (none of that candy crush slop)
    • ebook reading
    • Wikipedia / quick research
    • Lemmy

    I could drop lemmy from mobile because it’s just a time waster and news source.

    Wikipedia is important because too often people are interminably arguing something that can be settled with a 30 second search. Like, you don’t need to spend 5 minutes arguing about the population of NJ just look it up.

    Games are nice. I don’t want to go back to carrying around a second device for games like it’s 2001. I could bring a steam deck everywhere but that doesn’t fit in my pocket.

    I don’t have any notifications turned on except like direct messages, so I don’t find it much of a distraction.





  • Switched to PopOS on my desktop and Mint on the ancient laptop my gf had laying around. No real complaints. Games run fine. Browser runs fine. I had some trouble getting mint installed on the old laptop, but the internet had a solution.

    I think the install process is kind of daunting for many users, but once it’s going I think the average user won’t have any problems. Windows, by contrast, is kind of aggressive with its “GOING TO UPDATE NOW” and “don’t you want to use one drive???”