decline of about one-third of a percent

something that can be easily offset by switching that in-person meeting into an email or cutting a useless middle-management position.

the poorest are cutting back their expenses

those people have nothing else left to cut back on.

hey now. there was that three-year window, jan 2020 to jan 2023, where win8.1 was the best.

and when the hot water heater is two floors down and the pipe from there runs up unheated parts of the building, it takes a very long time to get even a hint of warmth out of the hot water faucets.

i’ve lived 3 minutes away from hot water for nearly thirty years now. it sucks. if i ever get money enough to own a house, or choose where i live with little regard to cost, it will have instant hot water (tankless water heaters).

the greedy landlords can sniff it out too.

get a raise… or even just a tax refund check or one-time ‘credit’ (like the ‘stimulus’ shit), rent goes up at home.

business has decent quarter, rent goes up there, too.

it’s basically a guarantee. if you have money, they want it all

fuck those clowns. “paying” for your raise by reducing the employer share of the premium.

they were one of my favourites.

people got lazy about plugging them in

always have been, here. the old cdma flip phone went about a month between charges, even when it was 5+ years old. the new volte one sucks. with a higher power draw and the shitty 4g signal here, i have to plug it in every few days. the only ‘plus’ is that i always know where a charger cable is now, because it’s usb-c and i use that for other things, too.

i don’t think she has an ‘office budget’ yet. she hasn’t been sworn-in and seated because tiny mike johnson refuses to allow it since she represents the vote needed to force a house vote on the pedo files.

i think gnome is actually pretty good… for a desktop with limited duties. like launching a browser and email–perhaps a word processor, and not much else. think a chromebook alternative that could actually do more if you wanted. a lot of things are ‘hidden’ to the user by default, what a user does need to be able to access (wifi, etc) is relatively easy to find, nice big icons that you can put front-and-center while relegating system-related things to a folder. i’ve set up a number of systems like that.

for my own uses though, gnome does need a half-dozen extensions for me to consider it ‘usable’… but i would still prefer a ‘traditional’ desktop experience such as cinnamon

i haven’t watched a finale (that i knew going-in was the last episode) since seinfeld in 1998.

i don’t mind watching that kind of stuff with the little ones. heck, even when they aren’t around and the tv is just ‘on’ for noise, it’s most likely tuned to or playing “their” shows and movies.

whether the cart return kid had to return their personal cart along with the 200 other carts.

putting them in the corral, as illustrated in the comic is one thing… leaving them scattered in random spaces is another

Not sure how it works in USA but can’t you elect to not have your employer withhold your taxes for you and then have to pay your annual tax in a lump sum at the end of the fiscal year?

you can. they will get add penalties and interest to your tax bill if you owe too much at the end of the year, though, even if you did pay-in every check or every quarter but just not enough.

Otherwise midterms will decimate their control of Congress.

you are overestimating the reasoning skills and common sense of the average american voter. we’ll be lucky to flip even one chamber by a razor-thin margin.

when i was in high school, back in the 1980s. mayo is what all the “cool” kids ordered with their fries. i was not. i just ate 'em plain.

that salty oil is what makes 'em so good. i don’t need extra poured over the top, though, just dump the fries in the bin and scoop 'em right up. there’s enough salt in the bin already.

i actually miss the days when you could walk up to the counter at mcdonalds, see what was already made, and order that if you were in a hurry.

the ‘nice local places’ around me just raise their prices, too. two or more can eat at a chain fast-food place for the price of one basic lunch at a ‘local’ restaurant.

if you’re being paid to run windows software… that’s a little different.