Perhaps they should start a gofundme or something.

My car insurance went up $1200 this year, which blows my mind. No reason given.

Kind of like jobs. If you stay with the same company for more than a couple years, you’re probably doing yourself a disservice.

Squeeze a third of the bottle into the trash, replace missing portion with Underwood ranches Sriracha, shake well and squirt on anything edible.

Same here. Everything worked pretty much right out of the box with Nobara. And my total linux experience in the last decade is running Mint on my work laptop the last 3 months. I tried to switch over to linux gaming in the late 00s, but it was far too much work then. I spent more time getting X3 to work then I ever did playing it. Completely different experience these days.

Or buying/building a milling machine. Or a lathe. Or a drill, a hacksaw, and some files.

15 day waiting periods for Home Depot trips. You better plan those plumbing projects in advance.

Overly simplistic and assuming you are talking about the US: So you spent 80M making a movie but for whatever reason it never makes it out of production, you never see any return on this investment. But overall this year you made 100M from something else. When you do your taxes, you can “write off” this 80M spent as a loss, so you only have to pay taxes on the remaining 20 million. It doesn’t deduct 80M from taxes owed.

Usenet is a decentralized network that works very much like the fediverse here. Anything uploaded to one server gets sent out to all the servers; that’s why you can log onto lemmy.world and see posts made on say lemm.ee. Likewise something posted to one usenet server gets sent out to all the others. And these servers are being operated by individual entities (again, much like lemmy). Whoever owns the server you’re downloading from is having to pay for everything it sends out. Which is why most of the free ones will let you access the text portions but not the file downloads.

A VPN isn’t necessary. But you do need a special program to connect to usenet. It’s built into a lot of older email clients (thunderbird is a good option).

There’s no one single usenet company for the same reason there’s no one single lemmy instance. (I’m sure someone has explained it better somewhere else in this post).

in the era of free services, why do you still have to pay for Usenet access?

Bandwidth costs money. And usenet isn’t collecting and selling your info to recoup those costs like most “free” services. A lot of ISPs do offer free usenet access to customers, albeit somewhat neutered. You can browse the bulletin boards but most of the file downloads are going to be filtered out. That’s the part you have to pay for.

Is this how Don Jr finds out who his real dad is?

Once they get so crusty they can stand on their own. That’s about 8 hours in shoes, or a week next to the bed.

3rding possible botfly. The wound looks a lot like the one my cat had.

Warning: gross botfly wound

!remindme 3 months: Is anyone still using this thing?

You mean hockey? I also clicked the article wondering how many Stanley cup trophies you could get for $2500.

I enjoy them, especially the surrealist stuff.

It’s under Settings -> Blocks -> then down at the bottom is the block instances option.

You can on instances running .19 or newer. Settings -> Blocks -> then at the bottom is an option for blocking instances.

Reminds me of The Love Toilet from SNL.

Why skirt the law like this? It’s $500/year for a Class 1 SOT that lets you import and own all the machine guns you want. That sounds much cheaper than getting caught.

For Vickers, the felony conviction means that one of the nation’s leading gun gurus can no longer own or possess firearms. He must forfeit his gun collection to the U.S. government.

Oof, that’s gotta sting.

My cat wipes the condensation off windows so she can look out.

Legalize all the drugs. Stop providing them a market.