Don’t these two countries have nukes? 2025 is a shitshow

8 currently in my 40’s. When I’m 70 I can’t even imagine

Which makes the debt ceiling fight that’s coming up even more interesting. (article from March 24th)

The U.S. is most likely to default on its $36 trillion national debt sometime between mid-July and early October if Congress doesn’t act, the Bipartisan Policy Center predicted Monday.

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Debt limit forecasters are expected to release a narrower X-date prediction after most tax receipts have landed at the IRS in April. While it’s “quite unlikely,” there is still a possibility that the U.S. could run out of borrowing power in early June if that gush of tax revenue comes in far below projections, the Bipartisan Policy Center cautioned.

The cost-cutting efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency effort headed by Elon Musk could also affect cash flow enough to change the X-date prediction, along with the strength of the economy, tariffs and any new spending or cuts Congress approves, the center said.

Given how DOGE is inflating it’s cost cutting savings by over $140 Billion, the tariff trade war, and congress’ habit of pushing things to the brink when their luck is going to run out sooner or later – this could get ugly quick.

Correct, from the Asahi Linux website:

Is this a Linux distribution?

Asahi Linux is an overall project to develop support for these Macs. The majority of the work resides in hardware support, drivers, and tools, and it will be upstreamed to the relevant projects. Our flagship distro is Fedora Asahi Remix, which is a collaboration between Asahi Linux and the Fedora Project, and serves as both a polished end-user distribution and a reference for other distributions who wish to incorporate our work.

Other distributions are already working on implementing support for these platforms, and we expect to have more options officially available in the future. Check out our Alternative Distros page for a list of ongoing distro integration projects.

I only know this because I’ve been seriously looking into running Linux on my M2 MacBook Air and trying to peel myself out of the Apple ecosystem but found there isn’t many options right now where everything works – especially TouchID. I’m not new to Linux, I just needed dependability and stability that I always seemed to mess up in my Linux days in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s and got sick of Windows.

I’m on the northern east coast. I have friends in California that try to get me to move there but I have no interest in experiencing an earthquake first hand – blizzards and ice storms are traumatic enough.

If this is done on the east coast and we start experiencing California-level earthquakes…

U.S. Gen Xer here about to give up on doctors again. In my 20’s it was pill pushers, 20 years later I had physical and mental health issues that are complicated and that I had ignored because I didn’t want to just have another pill shoved on me and decided to put trust in doctors.

At first, it was pretty good because I was seeing a NP who took time to listen to me and it felt like I was in on the decision of MY health. A couple of years later the hospital system decided in their interest of not making enough money to stop using NP’s in that location.

I tried…I really did. I’ve given it a couple of years and we’re not to the point of pill pushing (although with all the docs I have I’m on 8 different meds now 🤦🏻) but I’ve lost the ability to advocate for myself because either he’s too quick and I don’t think that fast or I do think that fast and he dismisses me. Testing that might be helpful in figuring out what none of the other doctors or him can figure out is denied by him, most likely because he doesn’t have the time to fight with insurance (in my case Medicaid/Medicare) rather than doesn’t see any value in a test. But instead of being honest with me he just says it’s not helpful, at least that’s what my cynical ass sees.

I’m getting my physical soon, they made a mistake with the bloodwork dates and I had to send them a message to get that corrected. I decided to advocate for a test that I thought could be useful that was just drawing more blood and he flat out denied it as helpful. Once I get my physical I’m going to try changing doctors, with the expectation that either none of them are taking new patients or have a year or longer waiting list. Oh and the message back was also just short of blaming me for their mistake.

Doctors (at least in the U.S.) are overworked, understaffed, and if you don’t fit neatly in a box they can check they throw their hands up and say who knows rather than working with you to figure out what’s going on. Better yet, they blame symptoms on mental health to deflect – only to have therapists (unless they are trained in addiction and trauma-informed) disagree and refer you back to the doctor. And the cycle repeats over and over again until you are worn down enough to stop caring.

Agreed.

says the adult who enjoys Looney Toons, LEGO, and finger paints due to hand pain

I am terrified this is going to happen to me being on SSDI and in HUD housing. Glad to know my fears are justified now 🤨

EDIT: Uhhhhhhh…11 million out of 73 million purged? 🫣

Anything demeaning another human in an effort to make them less than everyone else is pure hatred and is hate speech.

This is fucked up. This government are the real terrorists

Wait….so we’re just going to ignore the separation of church and state, never mind spouting off sexist bullshit?

Left, right, center, up, down……I don’t give a shit — we all need more Mr. Rogers and learn how to love and not hate each other and our differences

This whole discussion has been a fascinating read in the comments.

But does anyone really think we’re going to have another election? Much less a non-rigged election?

In 2023, United States exported a total of $1.86T, making it the number 2 exporter in the world.

🤯

Jesus Karens cross age, race, and gender gaps with ease but it’s often in my experience been older ladies.

The sad thing is that these are also the type who usually spread hate more than they spread love via racism, sexism, generationism, looking down on anyone not believing the same way they believe, and just generally being assholes except for one hour a week.

Yes, I was being genuine with my question (but reading it again I can see how I was a tad snarky). I’m totally ignorant when it comes to this stuff, obviously.

I also genuinely wonder if other countries couldn’t figure out how to source that stuff from countries other than the U.S. if they really wanted to. Again, I am ignorant when it comes to this stuff.

Does the U.S. make anything of value as an export compared to what we import from other countries? Almost everything today has a microchip inside it (except food…I hope) and I’m pretty sure we import most of the microchips we use in stuff. I think the trade war is going to make our economy MUCH worse pretty quick because we are in an even more global economy than we were when Hitler was in power.

There’s a better chance of me getting put on the SSA’s Death Master File so I’ll no longer be a “parasite” on SSDI, Medicaid, and HUD housing. No…that’s most likely going to happen…

Ok then, there’s a better chance that Pantera would reform. No…wait…that already happened with good replacements for Vinnie and Dime despite how icky I feel about the whole thing.

Ok, fine…there’s a better chance that pigs will fly. No…wait…Mythbusters kind of did that numerous times in a way.

There’s a better chance we find intelligent life on another planet and make contact with them that is peaceful.

Point is, it ain’t happening.

I worked in retail for 7 years. Every damn Sunday we would get at least one customer in their Sunday best turn into an impatient, vile, insulting human being towards us because of something in the weekly ad or whatever. I wasn’t particularly religious despite attending Catholic school for every grade until high school graduation, but this solidified my loss of faith even more.

Oh, and it was a tiny bit of an influence on me becoming an alcoholic too! Yay!

So let’s say…somehow…every Democrat gets on board finally with impeaching the Orange King. Do we really think enough Republicans are going to get on board with this to go through with impeaching and removing him?

Call me cynical, but after the crap that went down with the CR, I’m not seeing it and have zero faith in Congress as a whole to do anything of value to stop this hostile takeover and is/will be violating basic human rights for anyone who isn’t a white male.