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  • For practical stuff like that, I find directly searching on YouTube to be the most useful. The wealth of free practical instruction available on YouTube is staggering. Unfortunately, that doesn't help for those who want the information in written form, and a not insignificant proportion of it is by amateurs who have no idea what they're doing nor know what the word "safety" means.

  • Is this even doable on Microsoft/Mojang's side, given that the server runs a rather old version? Does the game client not directly connect to the server, or does it phone home to check against a blacklist first? Did that feature exist on the older server/client version?

  • Theoretically, how hard would it be to port Android apps to a Linux phone distro (disregarding that closed source apps simply wouldn't get ported without a meaningful market share)? Or to make a sort of Android compatibility layer for Linux phone?

  • That occurred to me too. Having an awful, public crime to blame on "the left" is awfully convenient, and Trump and his ilk immediately came out blaming Democrats and calling for political violence. What if Trump or one of his circle is behind this because they wanted a distraction from the Epstein situation and literally everything Trump does being unpopular? People who are okay with raping kids clearly have no moral compunctions preventing them from such an act.

    But I'm not one to profer conspiracies without any kind of actual evidence, and I doubt Kirk is really considered enough of a somebody for them to believe he'd be enough of a distraction (although that may be because I just ignore anything to do with him because of his being a bigoted dumbfuck). Having something to blame on Democrats and "the left" just happened to be good fortune for them. I do think it more likely that the shooter was someone like a parent of a kid who was a victim of a school shooting or who was queer and died by suicide.

  • The political leanings and goals of the shooter, who is not in custody, are not yet known.

    So ... We don't actually know if this was a politically-motivated shooting. I mean, I'd be willing to bet money that it was, but for all we know it could have been a jealous husband, an enraged parent, a jilted ex lover, or someone with delusions.

    In any case, political violence is not a new thing here.

  • The worst part is: the wealthiest few of them could each, individually, if they wanted to, end world hunger permanently with their current wealth. Estimates I've read range $40b per year or something like $250-300b just once to set up sustainable long-term solutions globally.

    Musk, Zuckerberg, or Bezos could end hunger globally and permanently. Any one of them, individually, could do it. If the richest 10 billionaires all pitched in a portion, they'd all recoup everything they spent within a couple years at worst. If the richest 100 did, many of them wouldn't even notice the expenditure.

    But it would only take 1 of them.

  • Wiktionary suggests both "fixing to" and "fitting to" are used synonymously. Fwiw, in Tennessee, I only ever hear "fixing to". As someone who learned English outside of the southern US, it makes little sense to me also. But what makes even less sense to me is people saying "trying to" to mean "want to".

  • Also consider a healthcare career. As a teenager, I wanted to do computer science/engineering, and sometimes I do wish I had stayed on that track. But now, as a nurse, I could get a job in any state in the US by tomorrow. I dare you to try to find a hospital that doesn't have open nursing positions. Even when the economy goes down, people still get sick. Even if society collapses, the knowledge/skills will be useful.

    And if you don't want to change diapers or deal with blood, there are still options; I'm in psychiatry and rarely have to deal with either.