Roopappy

Brown doesn't exist. I'm with you.

Yeah. I've been a part of two companies acquired by private equity, and the playbook is to cut all spending on employees through any means. Slow pay all vendors until they won't work with you. Kill product development. Raise prices in predatory fashion. And... while the books briefly look good and before it all falls apart in a few years... sell to someone.

Both times, it did not work. Well, I guess it worked for whoever sold the company to private equity. And I guess the private equity installed leadership of tall confident sounding idiots made big salaries and bonuses, which is nice. I'm just not sure where the money came from. If I understand capitalism, it probably came from our taxes somehow.

Is it just me, or is that cake made of ground ham?

Maybe that's just what I want it to be.

The primary 4 genres as I know them are

• Rock, Rap, Pop, and/or Singer/Songwriter
• New Age
• Roots Reggae
• Chamber Choir/Madrigals

I watch the YouTube channel "Company Man" that does a bunch of interesting business stories. 95% of the "Decline of (brand)" or "Rise and Fall of (brand)" videos are because of leveraged buyouts.

A group of idiots borrow billions of dollars, throw the unrecoverable debt onto the books, slowly killing the company, and then it's dead.

Who loans this money? How does that work? I understand the rest of it about being a bastard who collects millions in salary and bonuses while driving a company into the ground. I just don't understand where the money comes from, or why.

nasty, radicalized and hate our country

Man, wouldn't it be telling if that was a majority.

Kind of. This happened to me. My vision was noticeably bad when I was diagnosed with it, but once I started taking care of my eyes, they blood vessels shriveled and shrank, and my vision mostly improved to the point where I didn't notice it anymore.

100% recovered, no. But better.

Honestly, it wasn't that hard to get illegal marijuana. All this will do is cut tax revenue and increase crime.

Yeah, clearly. My similar answer has always been "Huh. It's not a choice for me... Are you actively choosing not to be gay right now?"

It's sad, but if you are constantly resisting the urge to be gay... you might be kinda gay. You might be happier if you stop fighting it.

As someone who deleted their posts... yes. The goal was to make Reddit worse, by removing my contributions to it because they forgot where their value came from.

My content had some small value to them. They didn't deserve it.

I recently got a new work laptop with Windows 11. It's just different enough from Windows 10 that it pisses me off to try to find the stuff I need. I end up hunting and grumbling and searching the web for answers to simple things.

If you're going to do that anyway, just try Linux. It's free and easy, and it doesn't steal all your private data, sell it, and use that money to corrupt your government to steal your rights and give them to corporations.

I've been running Bazzite OS on my living room big screen gaming PC since May. It's a really slick fedora-based distro that installs out of the box with Steam, proton, and graphics drivers ready-to-launch for gaming. It was really easy to use, and my games worked perfectly.

My high school age son got a new AMD proc/mb for his birthday, and I was surprised when he said he wanted to try dual booting Bazzite and Windows when we set it up. 2 weeks later, and he decided to kill the Windows boot and just use Bazzite full time. He has no linux experience and just figures it out.

Windows 11 is shit and Linux alternatives are prettier, easier to use, don't shove AI down your throat, and don't steal your data for profit. The time has come.